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I don’t know about other bloggers, but let me tell you, I read a lot of blogs, and I love it! Reading blogs of all shapes and sizes was actually the primary reason I started this blog – I realized ‘Hey, I have a voice and creative ideas, too! Let’s do this!’
I used to be able to manage my list of daily reads pretty well, but I’m now at the point where all the space on my bookmarks toolbars in Mozilla, Internet Explorer, AND Chrome, are completely maxed out! I never cared or understood how to use Google Reader, and I didn’t think to research other reader alternatives, I was pretty satisfied with my morning routine clicking straight to the blogs I wanted to read in the same order, every single day. Talk about a creature of habit!
I don’t even know how I stumbled on it, it must have been a re-marketing campaign while perusing the internet, but I landed myself on NetVibes reading about their awarded personalized dashboard and thought ‘what the heck, let’s give this whole reader thing a try’. About two weeks ago I signed up for a free account I can’t tell you how much my life has changed. Having a real time feed of all the blogs I read in a day makes me feel like I have the entire internet all in one place. It’s more than amazing!
NetVibes has been around for a while, but it’s completely brand new to me. I’m still learning how to use it, but so far I’ve used 3 different views to read my daily blogs – the classic widget view (below), which is laid out in a tile board similar to Pinterest, and each tile lists the most recent 7 or so posts from each site.
I also like the current activity view, you can see all the posts that were published today
My new favorite view is the image tile view for all posts most currently published. I’m totally into this visual method of reading a feed!
OK, OK, so I’m fully aware that utilizing a reader is a no-brainer for most of you folks, which makes me wonder, how does everyone else read their favorite blogs? What readers do you use? Or do you prefer to click directly to sites? Do you keep a list of your favorite blogs? I’m so interested!
PS: if you’re curious about what blogs I read on a daily basis, I created this page dedicated to them for easy access. You can find the link to this page is on my right sidebar.
I never heard of NetVibes but will have to check it out. I sign up for blogs per email. I like getting the emails on my phone, so I can make sure not to miss anything. Now my mail browser is overloaded.
Thanks so much for including me on your reader list. I read yours too ever since we found each other on Vine ;) I remember your sneaky Target Vine ;)
I’ve been using BlogLovin’ for about a month and really like it. I came from Google Reader too…and I’m still going through the 12 Steps because I know they’re shutting it down. :( I’m excited to try NetVibes though!
I’ve been pretty happy with Bloglovin’. All my blogs in one place :) I added yours, so I don’t miss it! xo Kristin
I am still really old school and I literally go to the blogs everyday. I have folders at the top of my browser for each type of blog (home, beauty, food, etc.) and then I usually have all my must reads at the top of each one. I read my blogs at work throughout the day so I usually just go through one folder at a time. I think the biggest thing for me is still sorting them by content. I might have to check out NetVibes though! I also have heard good things about Flipboard.
So interesting!! I have this problem too. I used to use Google Reader but it got way too overloaded so I quit. Now I visit my top 5 faves first thing in the morning, I do some of my stuff, and I visit my other 15-20 faves throughout the day. I’ve been trying out Feedly but haven’t gotten the hang of it yet… Maybe I’ll try NetVibes!