Blogs are all the rage because they provide a constantly updated source of information on thousands of different topics, and people love fresh info. Keeping up with your favorite blogs can waste hours every day, though.

You can stay more informed (or entertained) by reading more blogs. To do it without wasting your life in front of a computer, use an RSS reader than aggregates your blogs. This is built into Internet Explorer and most browsers, but I wouldn’t recommend that–I find it slow and clumsy, and I don’t know the point of reading one blog at a time.

I use Google Reader to view dozens of blogs at once. It keeps track of which entries I’ve looked at, and only shows me the new stuff. I can flip through hundreds of entries in just a few minutes to find the ones that really interest me (I always use the All items link in the upper-left corner). Pictures and instructions after the break…

If you use Firefox, adding a blog to Google Reader is easy. Just visit the website, and click the orange RSS button:

Then, just follow the prompts to add the page to Google Reader. You can use Internet Explorer, too, you’ll just need to use the Add subscription link in Google Reader.

If you have an RSS reader that you prefer, please let me know. I’m open to options.