Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Bloglines Plumber Has No Idea ...

I read a lot of feeds for a lot of different projects.  I use two different readers - Google Reader and Bloglines - and have multiple accounts on each to manage projects.  There are a couple of reasons for that --

• Easy to manage multiple projects with lots of feeds - and I don't get distracted.  If I had better discipline, I might be able to do with folder organization.
• I train people on both RSS readers, so I like to keep my fluency on both.

I keep all my NpTech feeds (there's like 200 of them) in a bloglines account.   Bloglines experienced a major outage over the weekend according to TechCrunch which explains why I have chunks of my NpTech feeds missing and otherwise screwed up.  Ugh, it's time for me to come up with a new tool or switch everything to Google Reader, and perhaps rethink my work flow.

Anyone else out there read 500-1,000 feeds for different projects?  What tools/workflow do you use?  Well, off to export my OPML files from bloglines.

The NpTech Tag Summary will be coming shortly -- blame the plumber.

Greasemonkey User Script Question

I've been avoiding tools like Greasemonkey only because I thought it might be too technical/geeky for me.  But I was motivated to install because I came across a tweak that would really improve my blogging efficiency (integrating delicious and bloglines).   It's this one.

Okay, so I installed the greasemonkey and downloaded the script.  But when I go in bloglines the script is not working.  I have no idea how to even begin to troubleshoot this .... is there some step that wasn't mentioned that I didn't know to do because I'm not a natural born geek?  Is the script crap or broken?   What am I missing?