Keep them bloggies rolling

About a year ago, I added value to this site by adding the "I'm reading this" section to the side. As said at the time:

This is the feed from the shared section of my Google Reader account.

I was a bit wary of Google Reader at first, but I am finding that it is a handy tool for someone like me who keeps on subscribing to feeds willy-nilly (my current count is 152. And I've only been using this for about three weeks.)

One of the things that I don't like is that if I want to share a feed on a separate page (like the shared post page I have here), I can't rename it. So the page is loaded down with the title "Xenius' shared items." As I tinker, other pages might be forthcoming.

The tinkering has continued, but in a different direction. I now have a different sort of list. I have taken a list of feeds that I want to own up to reading (the list is currently far from complete - at the moment I can only add about five at a time, so there are quite a few that I have left to add). The widget dealy will then list the ten blogs from my list that have been updated most recently. (Or more accurately, that it believes have been updated most recently. I notice quite a variance between actual time posted and the time that a feed reader will realize something has been posted.)

Let's see how this works.