Back when I first looked around Ravelry I found the page where your friends’ most recent blog entries are listed and I thought this was a neat idea. I’d tried signing up to Bloglines, but found it didn’t find most of the blogs I read. The Rav feature showed all of them, but was always a day or three late in showing new blog entries and I was too much of a blog reading junkie, so I stuck to listing blogs in my sidebar.

Now Rav seems to update faster, and switching to reading blogs there appeals because I don’t need to go to the blog to find there are no new entries. This morning I compared my blog’s blog list to my Rav friends list, hunted down a few of the bloggers I hadn’t found on Rav yet, and separated my blog’s blog list into two categories so I can keep visiting bloggers that don’t appear to be Rav members.

Though this will make blog reading faster and less frustrating, I can see it’s of limited usefulness. I read more than just knitting and crocheting blogs, and it makes sense that some of the weaving bloggers I read aren’t on Rav.

Ironically, this move was spurred by the new Blogger ‘following’ feature, which I started using only to find that it was a bit buggy and I had to install a whole new stylesheet or something in order to get the full benefits. Forget that! Then I remembered the Rav feature and decided to check it out again.