What I am Reading

Chris over at Blog-op recently pinged me to ask what I am reading in the way of blogs these days.

That is a tough question, because I am trying hard to expand my reading habits to pop by the blogs of the readers I know about a little more.

One way of looking at my reading habits is to look at my MyBlogLog communities , which theoretically are displayed in some kind of order depending on which you visit most often, although I am not sure how far back the history goes.

Also I didn’t join such a huge number of communities because there currently isn’t a way to grab these in a usable form such as an OPML file.

Also a fair number of the blogs I visit have switched to Bumpzee only, and there are a number I visit that are Blogcatalog only, or can only be found in my feed reader or Technorati favorites.

I would say my primary haunts are:-

No Nofollow Community on Bumpzee – I spend time there every day checking admissions and browsing a few blogs. I spend much less time in the other communities.
Megite – to keep abreast of SEO / SEM news
Techmeme – to keep up with Tech developments
Blogcatalog – I spend time browsing around seeing the changes being made – OPML is now available so they could soon be an alternative to what I was planning to do with Technorati.
PlugIM – they have just hit 1000 members
Technorati – I have 800+ favorites and I click through frequently to those that link to me in more than just a list from a meme.

After you get past the first page of my MyBlogLog Communities, I don’t think the numbers are a fair representation of where I spend most time, and I would even question some on the first page.
Some of the feeds I read are of blogs I haven’t visited more than 10 times, and the autojoin feature of MyBlogLog has only recently been switched back on.
I was actually autojoined to Micro Persuasion today, yet I am sure I haven’t visited Steve 10 times, despite being in my feed reader, and I am sure I have only visited Winksite once, despite appearing high on my list.