Back to the blogosphere

Here I am again, trying to blog once more.

I started a blog about two months ago, only to abandon it after one post. It was too much work! But the lazy girl (me) now has to start a blog for my new course, Journalism 2.0.

This is the assignment.

I also have to say what RSS feed I have subscribed to.

Since I've never actually subscribed to an RSS feed, this was a new experience for me.

I usually go to the sites I want to read or visit, daily or weekly or monthly or whatever, as I need to.

However, as I have to do this for my assignment...

I went to iGoogle and put up a few tabs for RSS feed. They are NYTimes.com (old fav), Economist (new), BBC News (old fav), New Scientist (new), Time (old fav, new format), and Google News (old fav) and CNN.com.

As an aside, I've also put in a pretty window with the phases of the moon, and a Bible quote of the day. And Wikipedia. Coz you never know when you're going to have to look something up.

I chose to use the iGoogle reader because I use my Gmail account all the time, it's pretty much my homepage if anything, and it was easy enough to use. I am lazy. This is a fact.

The RSS feeds I chose were based on familiarity and trust. I rarely surf the Internet for "fun" as I find it tedious and nasty a lot of the time, so I mainly use it for work and research. Then it's my right arm! Apart from Reuters and AP the sites I go to for news tend to be NYTimes, WashPost and BBCNews. And, er, Trinidad Guardian, of course. ;-)