The Drawback of...

Google Reader.

Blogs are wonderful things. I started reading political blogs years ago, I enjoy reading opinions that match my own in regards to my conservative views on the world. I delved into other topics from links given in various blog posts and built quite the favorites list.

While researching some talent specs for my warlock in World of Warcraft I stumbled across Yet Another Warlock Nerf blog and realized I found a treasure-trove of warlock information to help me better my game. From that blog, I started exploring more and a whole new world of blog-reading opened it's doors for me.

A few more I found turned out to become regular reading, whether for the PVP aspect, learning other classes, or exploring roleplaying and humor, my blog count continued to rise and there was no way to get to all of them efficiently.

That's where Google Reader comes in. One stop shopping for blog reading. It's easy to set up a reader account and start subscribing to sites that support RSS feeds.

"RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually. You ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each site's email newsletter. The number of sites offering RSS feeds is growing rapidly and includes big names like Yahoo News."

I chose Google Reader for ease of use.

Here's the reason for the post subject; I now have 137 sites with several different topics that I follow. World of Warcraft, Mountain Biking, Computer News, Politics, and various and sundry other topics that no one is interested in reading.

I took a hiatus from web-surfing to concentrate on leveling my priest and neglected my Google Reader for 4 days. I came back to 479 posts to read. I've knocked them down to less than 200 but there are at least 50 new posts per day, and with the new expansion coming out in less than 2 days, sometimes more than 100 per day.

I've actually knocked down a few of the blogs I follow:

Computers?
Only one, now that I'm an exclusive Mac user at home.

Politics?
My current favorite

Mountain Biking?
Maintenance and other subjects
Because I can relate
For all the news

But the blogs I read most are about World of Warcraft. Because there's too many to list, I will say that I read all types of WoW blogs, about all different classes and subjects. Out of the 137 blogs I subscribe to, at least 100 are WoW blogs. I plan to import my subscriptions from Google Reader to my Blog Roll, so check there for any WoW Blogs you might find interesting.

And the list continues to grow... I'm never going get all of these read...