I have blogged for many years and I follow many bloggers. I have a sense that social media is replacing blogs for many, but I still find great value in finding bloggers who provide content that interests me and following them using an RSS reader (more on RSS later).
I decided to write this post after reading a post from Control Alt Achieve offering a list of 75 education blogs to follow. I admit that in going through the list I found several that were new to me and I did not find mine. Such is life in the blogosphere.
If you are looking to explore education blogs, here is a little different approach you might try. In reviewing many of the blogs on the Control Alt Achieve list, I found many that had not been updated lately and some focusing on topics that did not interest me. I use a specialized RSS reader I can host myself and for those interested in exploring blogs to see what might interest them, I offer access to this feed reader to scan recent posts (day by day) from many different education bloggers.
The reader I operate is called FreshRSS and it can be accessed by anyone from my site. Because others cannot sign in, reviewing recent posts does not cause these posts to disappear which is the way a typical RSS reader works. The reader is to discover new content and as you scroll through the list of posts once read items on the list disappear. If you take a look at my reader, note the two icons I have enclosed in a red box that appear at the top of the screen. The “book” icon provides full access to the content from the blogs I follow. Reviewing topics and what the authors have to say is the way I would recommend finding blogs you want to follow. The “rewind” icon updates the feed if newer content is not displayed at the top of the feed.
I recommend Feedly if you want to use RSS to follow blogs.
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