To be profitable you need to know a bit about what is going on in the blogosphere.  You can keep track of what is going on by reading blogs in your niche.  A good way to keep track of blogs you like is by using a feed reader.

I first learned about blogs when a friend called me on the phone and told me about one she read.  I bookmarked it in my favorites and fell into the routine of checking it every day.  That blog linked to other blogs, and soon I had a folder full of blogs that I checked fairly often.  It soon got annoying when I would click through and there was no new content.

Then I discovered feed readers and life has been so much better.  I could open one page and easily see which blogs had new content and which did not. [Read more...]