Following a blog, maybe even this one

You might guess that, having started this blog, I also like to follow a few myself. I think it's a pretty cool technology and an easy way to keep an eye on a wide range of topics and opinions. I've set up my home web browser to open to iGoogle, a neat web tool that the 21st century's reincarnate of General Motors offers.

In Google's words:

Google offers the ability to create a personalized iGoogle page that gives you at-a-glance access to information from Google and across the web. On this self-designed page, you can choose and organize content such as the following:

• Your latest Gmail messages
• Headlines from Google News and other top news sources
• Weather forecasts, stock quotes, and movie showtimes
• Bookmarks for quick access to your favorite sites from any computer
• Your own section with content you find from across the web
  

On my page, I follow the NYTimes, my gmail inbox, a few Health IT blogs, the NEJM along with a few other medical entries, and a couple of book lover blogs. I tend to surf for new ones periodically, x-ing out the old and adding the newly found.

It's easy to follow a site from iGoogle, be it blog, newspaper or other website that changes content frequently. For most blogs, including this one, look for the "Subscribe To Posts" and choose where you would like updates to be presented. In my case, I choose "Google Homepage", though there are a number of other "feed" readers on the web. Oftentimes, you will see an icon in the www address bar (see the Subscribe To Posts orange icon below) that you can then click in order to get the updates.

Play around and you'll get the gist. To find iGoogle, go to any Google page and look under "More". It's pretty straightforward, and a bit addictive, once you get the hang of it.