Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Staying Updated With Blogs

By Ricardo d Argence


Local news just isn't enough for many of us who regularly access the internet. We are looking for deep personal stories that local news stations generally will not cover. Perhaps you want to be aware of everything that is going on locally, but you want to do it on your own time. You must listen to 40 minutes of negative accounts that you have seen before, in order to hear the news story.

We are fortunate to have online blogs so we can stay on top of all the most recent information. All of the TV stations that you watch have internet sites. News blogs are ideal for those interested in learning more about certain topics because posts are generally categorized by topic. Political pundits and voiced their opinions fiercly thanks to blogging on the internet. American politics are currently influenced by blogs and political opinion.

Blogs are not just useful in the political arena. You will also see comments regarding recent events that have been posted by bloggers. Blogs from citizens of Iraq were popular during the American bombing campaign there. In this location the blogs truly let readers known the accurate information based on a witnesses first-hand experience. Big business obviously controls media in the traditiona sense, like televised news broadcasts. Before you receive the content, it has been filtered. I, for one, do not like anyone filtering my news.

Blog RSS feeds are available so you can stay current on posts and happenings. Also, Google Reader is a free and useful utility that will keep you up to date with your favorite blogs, organizing them all in one convenient location.

People who have set up an account at google have access to their favorite RSS feeds on their personalized google home page. This same service is offered by Yahoo. This is probably the most convenient way to get your favorites blogs. Viewers that provide a variety of options to show and filter what you have selected to view can be downloaded and installed on your computer.

If you prefer you can receive your feed by email too. Most blogs offer this kind of service and you will get an update daily (or as often as the author updates it) on your inbox. This is too a good way to stay at the top of the news of the themes that most interest you. Personally this is my favorite way to receive updates, since I always check my email several times during the day.

You can contact the blogger to request that he supply some of these options on his blog, if they're not already there. This type of service is normally generously offered to their readers. However, you just need to activate these options since most blog software have these as defaults.

Blogs offer commercial free information, a must in our hurried society.

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