New fun way to follow blogs…

October 26th, 2009 by Heidi

It’s call spectives and it allows you to create a collection (i.e. list) of blogs.  It then pulls in IMAGES from the blog feeds.  This is a great graphical way to view your blogs.  Since digital scrapbooking blogs are so visual, this could be really slick & fun for us.

I started one here with 15 feeds.  Some of my favorite plus the top 10 digi blogs (at the time I did it:)  

http://www.spectives.com/digital-scrapbooking

Create an account and you can start your own collection or add someone else’s collection to your tabs.

To add a blog to your collection, find the Add a feed to this collection and enter the rss feed of the blog:

When adding, it will pull in the first image for the last 3 blog posts.  After you a collection of blog lists, you will just see them updating whenever someone posts.

This is a new service that was just created in October, 2009 so it quite young yet.  But even its young state it worth trying out!

I am hoping over time they keep adding features..I would like to see:

• An option/setting to pull all images from a post instead of the first one.
• Multiple ways/options to view the collection of images:  
  • More on each page instead of 12 (or an option to set how many on each page)
  • Cooliris functionality
  • Quick link to share your collection
  • Ways to sort the collection