I'm a firm believer that technology should make things streamlined and easier, rather than creating more steps and hassles. I recently discovered online RSS readers on the web. If you don't have one, you should get one.
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What the heck is a RSS reader?
It's basically an aggregator service that puts all the sites you are following onto one website. Basically, I think of the various websites as your favorite TV channels and the Reader as a Tivo which has recorded everything for you to browse through or delete at your leisure.
There are various free RSS "readers" available on the Internet. I use Google Reader - which has been pretty user friendly. FYI, I have no financial affiliation with Google (I wish!). You will need a gmail account (free) if you want to use this free service: http://reader.google.com
You basically search and subscribe to "feeds". In my case above, I subscribe to my own blog, Education PR blog, Annals of EM, Academic EM, JAMA, in addition to a multitude of others. Whenever I log-in to Google Reader, it lets me know of the most recent posts from each of the sites. Pretty cool, right?!
What sites do you read regularly?