Monday, October 6, 2008

eleven is a palindrome

I definitely liked topix the best.  I use them to get all my news on Afghanistan, which is surprisingly limited.  Topix will gather it from all over the globe (because Poland writes more about it than the U.S.).  I also liked that they gave you tiny peeks at each feed, it showed a bunch of categories at once, it was crazy easy to use.  To me google was strait forward, but I didn't like that I had to switch between topics, and all you can find in politics is Sarah Palin.  Of course, the election is important and interesting, but I still want to know about other bits and pieces too!  And, honestly, the categories of all the search engines weren't anything I was ridiculously crazy about.  The blogs I love to follow are ones I have found the hard way- boredom, a random word, and google.  Which is how I stumbled on stuff white people like Which is fantastic.  It's also how I found the story about the toddler.  If I know that I need to find a blog on education, or a blog specifically on politics, or if I want to stay up to date on Bagram, Afghanistan I will use something like topics.  But for my every day entertaining reading, I think I like my old fashioned method.  It doesn't really feel like a waste of time- not when I've been 100% satisfied.  Or if I really want to roll the dice, I use stumble upon.

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