Bloglines: a fantastic blog-reading web tool

If you've already heard about this wonderful little service, no need to continue reading.

Since over 50 brave souls now subscribe to the AP syndicated feed using the (completely free) Bloglines service, I thought I'd take a quick moment to explain its handly time-saving features to everyone else (especially to anyone who uses bookmarks or types-out the blog address everytime they want to visit their favorite blogs!).

The Bloglines features that I enjoy:

• You can subscribe to the syndicated feed of any blog you enjoy reading and it will keep track of which posts you've already read. It also handles "updated" or "multiple" revision posts and remembers to re-mark them as "unread" so you don't miss anything important.
• No matter what computer you are using - at home, at work, at school - it remembers what posts you've read already and only shows the new ones (while keeping the old ones archived). This is perfect for me since I normally read blogs from 2-3 locations a day (including public portals) - this way I don't waste as much time re-reading old news ... as long as the computer can access the internet, I'm set.
• It even handles displaying embedded pictures in posts - important for enjoying PPOTDs!
• You can also subscribe to the local weather (with a couple clicks), as well as news feeds from popular media portals (Google News, Washington Post, Zenit, etc...). Essentially allowing you to keep track of all your blog and news headlines in one portable web location.
• Finally, you can subscribe to the comments feeds of blogs (providing you know how to find them) and keep track of those more easily as well. The link for my comments feed is right here.

Bloglines has many more features that I haven't explored yet. I only use the "My Feeds" tab on the far left of the mainpage. If you decide to register a free account with them, feel free to come back to this post and click here - it will automatically add the AP syndicated feed to your subscriptions. :-)