By nature I am quite inquisitive. I like to know what people are thinking or saying especially when it is something I am either passionately for or against, which makes finding RSS feeds very easy for me! There are very few subjects that I am either wishy washy or complacent about. I have strong opinions and usually can put things people say into one of the two categories I mentioned; for or against.
In the case of these blog search engines, I have to say I don't like them. The easiest to use by far was Google. I could type in the material I wanted and for the most part it delivered in a nice, neat, little list. Most of the time the list didn't quite give me what I was looking for but it always included the subjects I searched for. I will assume that the program didn't understand what I wanted because it couldn't have been a problem with me placing the right words in the search bar. ;)
Moving on... The other blog search sites seemed a bit more limited in what you could look for. The topix site was kind of cool because it gave you local information based on the zip code you punched in. It was kind of neat to see what was happening in my hick town but there was a severe limit to finding anything I wanted to read. There also seems to be an overabundance of political feeds right now, I can't put my finger on why.... ;)
To be honest, I already follow quite a few feeds. Most of the new ones I find to follow come from the blogs I already follow. It seems that Bloggers are very quick to tell their readers who they are watching and where they like to visit. There is also usually a list on the side of most blog sites that shows who is following who. This is where I normally find other people I want to read daily. Also it is quite easy to search on Twitter for certain subjects and usually those you find also have blogs.
Anyway, I figured I would give you some of my favorites. I enjoy of course Cool Cat Teacher http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/.
Another I have found I enjoy (probably because my high school English teacher was a grammar nazi) is Grammarly Blog, http://www.grammarly.com/blog/
And last, I enjoy reading Internet4classrooms, http://i4c-internet4classrooms.blogspot.com/.
Those are just a few of my educational favorites. Enjoy searching everyone, and let me know if find anything interesting!
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