TOP 100 TOOLS
Bloglines

Bloglines is a free web-based RSS reader and aggregator.  If you want to keep up to date with news and blog postings, you can subscribe to them in Bloglines and read them all in one place.  There is also a handy desktop notifier that lets you know when new postings have come in.

Comments from those who selected Bloglines as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2009

• at least once a day I open this channel  Jochen Robes

Comments from those who selected Bloglines as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2008

• "My RSS reader of choice - I learn through reading and participating in the blogsphere..bloglines makes accessing my blogs easy..from anywhere!" Debora Gallo
• "Bloglines continues to be an important tool for me to keep up to date with what is happening in the e-learning world.  It is open on my desk all day so I can see the news as it happens!"  Jane Hart
• "Bloglines helps me sort through the mass of information I try to keep up with."  John Schaffer
• " at least once a day I open this channel"  Jochen Robes
• "An aggregator to receive notifications and alerts via RSS or ATOM from heterogenous sources"  Jose Carlos del Arco
• "This allows me to follow many educational blogs and learn about WYSIWYG applications that might be useful for my own learning or for my teaching. My Bloglines account is under the name, "SemioticExplorer" and my blogroll is on this blog of mine -webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/ "   Joan Vinall-Cox
• "Powerful RSS reader, the new beta version is excellent. Simple and easy to use."  Phil Bradley
• "for personal research and productivity"  Rebecca Jones
• "I've got back into using Bloglines, and find it an invaluable to keep in touch every morning"Don Taylor
• "My first RSS aggregator was Bloglines and I still use it today. I like how I can create folders for all of the ed tech blogs I read. Here are my folders: personal, ed tech bloggers, under consideration and last chance. When I stumble across a blog I might be interested in I add the feed in the under consideration folder. When I find that I enjoy the blog and read it often it moved up in rank to the ed tech bloggers folder while some of those are demoted to last chance before I decide to do away with the feed."  Colette Cassinelli
• "my trusty Feed Reader - where would I be without it? The original and still with me after all this time, making it a favourite still"  Judy O'Connell

Comments from those who selected Bloglines as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007

• "I use Bloglines to aggregate and read the hundreds of different blogs and news feeds that I go through every day to keep up with what is happening in the learning technologies world.  I have the notifier running on my desktop so I can easily see when and how many new postings have arrived.  I find it indispensable in my work."  Jane Hart
• "subscribe to your favorite blogs and this sits in the taskbar, ready to notify you when a blog has been updated. Easily categorise and manage blogs" Wendy Phillips
• "I like it a little better than Google Reader, but that may be because I'm just too lazy to change" Larry Ferlazzo
• "it just brings everything that people are saying together very neatly" Patrick Dunn
• "My other window onto the web, this time for tracking blogs and news mainly. Read a huge volume via this" David Wilson
• "This is the first aggregator I ever tried and, to be honest, I've stuck with them due to lethargy: if it ain't broke... This is how I keep up to date with the 40-odd feeds I read each day. I try to keep the number of feeds manageable, or I find it becomes meaningless."  Karyn Romeis
• "I use Google Reader for my learning blogs and Bloglines for my non-learning blog. This way when I am devoting time to see what topics my peers are addressing I'm not lured to a non-learning blog" Dennis Coxe
• "I've been using Bloglines as my web RSS feed reader for several years and I still like it, in spite of the dozens of other options. It's simple and easy to view the +/- 150 feeds that I read." Harold Jarche
• "This allows me to follow many educational blogs and learn about WYSIWYG applications that might be useful for my own learning or for my teaching." Joan Vinall-Cox
• "An aggregator to receive notifications and alerts via RSS or ATOM from heteregoneus sources"  Jose Carlos del Arco
• "I open Bloglines every morning to read my RSS feeds. I’ve tried Google Reader but I returned to Bloglines. I love the “Keep New” and “Clip This” features."  Jorge Goncalves
• "My first RSS aggregator was Bloglines and I still use it today. I like how I can create folders for all of the ed tech blogs I read. Here are my folders: personal, ed tech bloggers, under consideration and last chance. When I stumble across a blog I might be interested in I add the feed in the under consideration folder. When I find that I enjoy the blog and read it often it moved up in rank to the ed tech bloggers folder while some of those are demoted to last chance before I decide to do away with the feed."  Colette Cassinelli
• "this is my preferred feed reader, which I both promote for use with students (especially when blogs are involved, as learning logs, etc) and which I use for my own CPD"  Nicole Cargill-Kipar
• "This is my feedreader of choice, so far. I regularly monitor hundreds of blogs and this is the tool to keep me organized. If I want to find new blogs on a topic or theme then Technorati is the place for me"  Michael McVey
• "it makes subscribing to and reading RSS feeds easy. I particularly like the Notification window that tells me when Blogs I have subscribed to have been updated"  Doris Edwards