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Just read Mike Gunderloy’s post Times: Looks Aren’t Everything. One thing he said really stuck out for me…

Times is worth looking at, though, if you’re trying to gently introduce someone new to a few RSS feeds.

He’s talking about me, I thought, as I read that line. He knows my secret. And now you will know it, too.

I am terrified of RSS feed readers.

You think I’m kidding, but I’m not. I have no problem saving feeds to my reader of choice - Google Reader - but have no idea how to get started with actually reading any of them. And using Google Reader is nothing more than a knee jerk choice based on using several other Google applications and finding them to be useful. But actually reading something in Google Reader?

(Cue the horror movie music - you know, the one that plays when the mutant serial killer is coming up behind the heroine.) Read the rest of this entry »