ELL Thing #6 Finding Feeds

I've used Google's blog search and Technorati to look for blogs, but I've found that the best way to find blogs of interest to me is through other blogs.

For example, a few years ago I started following librarian.net and Tame the Web. These led me to the Librarian in Black and the Shifted Librarian, which in turn led me to Library Bytes and so on, and so on. With work-related blogs, I am a pretty harsh critic. If a blog doesn't have posts of interest to me for 2 or 3 weeks in a row, I usually delete them from my feed. There are about 10-15 I've followed for a long time and a rotating cast of 10-15 others.

Right now, here's a snapshot of my Reader (the number in the parentheses is the number of posts that I haven't looked at yet):
David Lee King (2)
librarian.net
LibrarianInBlack (8)
Librarians Matter (1)
Library Garden (1)
Library Link of the Day (3)
Library web chic
LibraryBytes
LISNews.org (42)
ResourceShelf (45)
Tame The Web: Librari... (21)
The Shifted Librarian (1)
walking paper
What I learned today
Catch and Release
Digital Reference (2)
Free Range Librarian (1)
myliblog (5)
Superpatron - Friends... (1)
Swiss army librarian

ELL Thing #5 RSS and Newsreaders

I've had a Google Reader account for about a year now and I find it super helpful. My feeds are organized into 4 categories: friends, work, ELL and other.
A lot of my friends don't update their blogs very often. Google Reader lets me quickly see if they have any new posts, without wasting time visiting each blog over-and-over. Without a reader, I'd probably not bother with these blogs.
The largest of my categories is work, where I have all the librarian and library-related feeds that I try to follow. Right now I follow about 25 work-related blogs, and there are 145 new posts in that category since I last checked it on Friday. Obviously, I don't read every one of these posts. But I do scan their titles and mark things I want to go back to later.
From the way I use my Google Reader, I've learned that it's really important to give your blog posts a descriptive title. If there is no title or a generic title like "Something New," I just ignore that post.