Feeling a bit better today - still not quite able to manage solid foods, but I've got my little bottle of water to carry around with me, so we're doing good. (I still owe Miss Annette some birthday buckeyes, though - hopefully I'll feel up to facing a bit of peanut butter tonight!) Just a little while ago I was bragging about how much sick time I have saved up - I think I jinxed myself, because I've had to call in on two sick days since then. (Or it could just be the standard hazards of working with the public are catching up to me...)
At any rate, let's get moving and knock out the Week 4 Learning 2.0 checklist! Now, once again, I've had my bloglines account for a while, and since I don't check it often as it is, I've never really felt a pressing need to go out and look for more feeds. Still, the whole point of Learning 2.0 is to try technology-related things we wouldn't normally try, so I used the links from the Learning 2.0 blog and set off on a feed hunt.
First stop: Feedster. Pretty easy to use, but most of the stuff I found wasn't what I was looking for. Most of the feed links I got were for personal blogs...and introvert that I am, reading about the daily lives of people I've never met and know nothing about doesn't hold much interest for me.
Next up: Topix.net. Like it says on the Learning 2.0 blog, this one's focused more news and media outlets for feed links...but I prefer to get my daily news from over at the Washington Post news site. Eh, good site if you want to get all your news through feeds, though. Moving right along...
Number three: Syndic8.com. Probably my favorite site out of the four listed, I even found a feed for Anime News Network to subscribe to. (Since when does ANN has an newsfeed? Five-star niftiness!) This one seems geared more towards feeds from websites, rather than personal blogs or news sites, which makes it a good one for those of us who like to surf, and want to use RSS feeds as a way of knowing when a page has updated.
And finally, last...and, well, least of the four, Technorati. Another site for personal blogs, but the search engine wasn't quite as user-friendly as Feedster's. Tecnorati searches in three categories: keyword in blog post, keyword in tags, and keyword in blog directory. Searching for things in a blog directory seems to give the best results, but even then they're still generally half relevant, half random. I suppose if you were just surfing around for neat things to look at, this could be a fun site, but if you're looking for a specific type of feed you're pretty much out of luck.

In conclusion, I suppose I'd have to say that my favorite way of finding newsfeeds is still to go to my favorite sites and see if they have an RSS feed of their own...and then use the feeds as a way of knowing when to check the original site for updates. What can I say, I'm a (web) surfer girl at heart, and the idea of getting all my info from a single site every day is no fun. Now if you'll excuse me...according to my new newsfeed, ANN has an update on their main site that I should go check out.:P