Google Reader

This post is not so much about how to fancy up your blog- but instead how to manage and quickly read all the many different blogs you want to keep up with. Enter Google Reader. Now there are many different types of blog readers out there- I just happen to love Google Reader so that's the one I am going to share with you here. (Plus it's always nice to not have to sign in to another site- so if you're already using a google blog, email, or the google group you might as well use reader!)
Basically with reader you "subscribe" to your favorite blogs and then when those blogs are updated they show up in your reader like a new email would. You can also create folders to organize your different blogs so that you can just see your friends blogs or if you want to just check out what cooking blogs have been updated you can do that. The other best feature of reader is you can SEARCH the different blogs. Now it's only going to search the posts that have actually come into reader (so it wont be able to search any posts from before you started using reader) but this is an awesome feature and I use it all the time. Don't you hate it when you know you have seen that perfect recipe for chocolate cake but you can't remember which of the 10 cooking blogs you go to - you saw it on? Now you can just search for it. So don't wait- go start using reader now!
*Oh yeah one thing- if any of your friends have their blogs set to private (which you should to by the way) you wont be able to see their blog through and blog reader.