Time is an issue, and although I do have quite a few blogs in my RSS reader, I don’t “read” them all — I scan for interest and then move deeper.

I’ve talked to other teachers about this and we have wondered if this kind of reading is different from our traditional perceptions of reading. The web and its use of short, detailed information, with links to deeper resources, seems to encourage a sort of power-reading in students.

Whether this is a good skill, or not, is up for debate, I suppose.

Peace,
Kevin Hodgson

I second Sue’s advice to add the blog posts that you tag in del.icio.us to your shared Google Reader (if you use GR). One of my favorite (and first) things to do when I open up my reader is check out the posts others have shared.

Not only does it take the pressure off having to sift through the 200 (too many, but still less than Sue, I’m sure) blogs I have in my reader, but those shared feeds are usually both the most interesting posts and often written by bloggers I don’t subscribe to myself. This way I get the best of the best, already pre-filtered by my network.

I have to admit, I was tracking my comments about a year and a half ago, then gave up, and am now back on. Although sometimes the RSS feature for the tracking isn’t quite as intuitive as I’d like it to be, it’s so much easier to be part of the conversation when it’s coming to you, rather than you having to go out and find it.

Thank you so much for your fantastic start to the Comment Challenge!

Well done on doing your first task (I’m already behind).

Here are some of my thoughts:
“Of those, I typically open up the post and tag to delicious around twenty each week that I either want to save for myself or highlight to my network”. I’m not tagging many posts to delicious because I have them sitting in GReader and can easily locate them using Search if I want to. If I want to share with my network I click on share and then they can read via GReader or my shared reader. I’m probably being a bad delicious citizen so would be interested with your thoughts? It’s just with the number of subscriptions I need to be time effect.

With commenting level I do think we need to fit in what we have time for – we all still need to have a life but comment tracking makes it easier to have that life.

I recommend that you add the technorati tag for the challenge to your Google Reader. When you do the daily tasks check out other peoples posts to see how they change your thoughts. Here is the technorati tag to use http://technorati.com/tag/comment08 .