Thing #3 RSS feeds

Okay, i admit it, i do things the old way and check my favorite blogs one-by-one for updates. and some blogs don't update very regularly, so that's a bummer. i set up a few rss feeds but i stayed away from news blogs that update constantly like the nyt or cnn. i can see that using the reader is much more efficient. i'll just have to remember to stop at google reader. one of the blogs didn't seem to have an rss feed, but i'll go back and try again. i didn't immediately see that the rss symbol is up in the url box. i also like the idea that google reader is separate from google mail, so the rss feeds won't be clogging my in box. i would like to have an icon for the reader on my toolbar, i'll look and see if i can figure that out.