watching expired appliances align

I'm not the sort to write some long wrap-up about the year that was (unless you count my annual film list – look for the collection of 2003 movie lists coming soon). I'm not going to mention any New Year's resolutions that I might have accidentally created. That kind of thing just isn't me. Or maybe it is. Maybe I really want to write a year end list about all the good and not so good things in my life. But I'm afraid of being too personal.

Let's just say the year went by quickly. And I missed a lot of things. I’m at a point in my life where I'm afraid of missing anything, or at least missing reading about everything. That makes no sense, but it's a gorgeously awkward transition into my mentioning of the Fimoculous Blogs of the Year List. I could easily spend days reading through all these blogs that I've heard about peripherally but never actually checked out. My resolution for 2004 is to do a better job keeping an eye on a lot of the sites mentioned on that list. My new favorite way of doing that? RSS feeds. A few weeks ago (mostly due to an article in Salon) I signed up for a free account at Bloglines.

Bloglines a "web based news aggregator." During the past year I’ve read various blog entries by authors who have recently discovered reading blogs via RSS or XML feeds, and all I can say is that I feel that same sense of excitement. I’m able to read (or at least scan) a dozen blogs in three minutes. It’s a time saving device, but it will also allow me to read a lot more blogs as I try to learn everything about all the topics I love.

Thanks to the Fimoculous list and some other recent searching on my part I’ve added the following blogs to my list of regular reading:

GreenCine Daily
Bookslut
Adrants