Click to see the photo sequence that culiminated in the cute photo above. Even better, read the comments below the photo sequence. The photo was good enough, but the comments are priceless. A volcano of internet debate erupts. Passionate attempts are made at convincing each other through reasoning that large dogs should or should not be allowed near small babies. Amidst the reasoning there is a hysterically funny flame war in which people accuse each other of potential manslaughter, call others pansies and sign off with “I killed Nazis with my bare hands.” Rich stuff.

I currently follow 140+ blogs, by which I mean that I am aware when these blogs have new content and I decide whether that new content is something I want to read or skip. Following that many blogs would be impossible the traditional way, which is to go to the website for each blog and check for any new content since your last visit. Enter: the more up-to-date way of following blogs: subscribing to blog feeds (sometimes called rss feeds) and then checking for updates to those feeds in one consolidated place, a feed reader. If you are interested in following the blogosphere, this really is a must way of doing things. And it’s also a gigantic time-saver. If you’ve never done this, consider watching this very helpful and simple how-to video, which will help you get started.

One additional note: if you decide to end up using Google Reader as your feed subscription reader, you can use Google’s subscribe bookmark to subscribe to any blog you are currently visiting. Simply drag the link below to your bookmark toolbar (this works in Firefox, I don’t know about other browsers, although it should work in others). This will create a “Subscribe” button on your toolbar. Then, when you are visiting a blog and decide you want to subscribe to it in Google Reader (make sure you have already signed up for a Google reader account before you do all of this), you simply click the “Subscribe” button on the toolbar.

Here’s the link you can drag to your toolbar:

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