One of the benefits of blogs is the ability to publish the blog and it's categories (at least for Blogware blogs) as RSS feeds. These feeds can be used in software commonly called either a news aggregator, feed aggregator or RSS aggregator. This allows you to track mulitple blogs (or any RSS feed such as those found at news sites) and read them in one place. Here's how you can do this:

First, download a news aggregator if you don't have one already. For Windows, I suggest FeedDemon; for OSX, NetNewsWire.

Next, browse to the blog or news site you want to track using a browser or your news aggregator. Look for a link or icon for the RSS/XML feed. Typically, it is denoted by the following icon:  For Blogware blogs, it is a text link named: 'Syndicate' or 'Syndicate this category'. Depending on your aggregator software, you may be able to alternate-click on the link to pull up a context menu to add that feed to your list. Otherwise, you can copy that link to the clipboard and use the aggregator's feature to add a new feed and use that link as the RSS/XML location.

After you've saved your feed you can use your aggregator to see if there have been new articles published to the site and view them all in one place.

Chris Scott
Adaptive Hosting Solutions, Inc.