I recently spent a few hours going through my bookmarks, verifying they were still good, checking if it’s something I still wanted to bookmark, and then adding tags to get them organized.

While sorting through the folders that I had my bookmarks in, I came across some sites that I had forgotten about, sites that are of a blog style, where they get updated on a fairly regular basis. A couple were actual blogs, like a the LiveJournal site of a friend, others were informational sites that used blog software as their core content management system.

When these sites had first been bookmarked, I was not using an RSS feed reader like I do now, so it got me thinking about how a reader and bookmarks need to work together - I already feel like I have a bit of information overload at times, and my bookmarks were so cluttered, keeping up with those sites would have … well was about impossible.

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I am fairly new to the world of RSS and reading feeds. I started maybe a year ago using SAGE extension in Firefox. When I started to use Sync and Sort to keep my bookmarks sync’d tween home and work, it kinda screwed up my RSS folder stuff, so I started looking for an alternative.

I read some good stuff about Bloglines, so figured I would try it out. I decided to go the online route so I have my reading list available no matter when I am. Having it available offline was not an issue for me. I’ve been using their beta version and rather like it.

My list of feeds I check on a regular basis has grown tremendously in the last couple months, and I figured just for kicks I would share it with you all here… and using Bloglines makes it rather easy. Eventually I’ll add a link on the sidebar, but for now, here is my feed list.

I have a number of blogs I follow using Bloglines, and as I come across things I sometimes IM them to friends and such. I figure I could do my own sort of “roundup” of links. I don’t know how often I’ll do this… it may even be quicker to use Twitter for something like this, but for now… here goes.

Ever wonder what burning mousse looks like? [Gizmodo]
An iPod add-on I could never use - even if I had an iPod. [Gizmodo]
Something for the budding Mitch Rapp’s out there [DVice]
One number to call them all… one ring-tone to bind them? [Consumerist]
Going paperless (sorry, couldn’t come up with a catchy intro for this one) [Unclutterer]