Managing Blogs?

There is no good way to manage blog readings! Especially when the people who's blogs you read post on a variety of websites.

What needs to be created is a program that sorts new blog entries similar to new e-mail entries so once an entry is read it can be marked as such so if you get behind in your readings you know where you are when you log back into the program.

It should be smart enough to acknowledge there is a date and that the post under it belongs to that date as does the title and give you an interface similar to Outlook Express where along the side you have all your blog title and then when you click on them, similar to an inbox, they have a list of all the entries in there by date & title. Once you've read an entry you can then move it to the trash or file it or simply mark it as read.

There are programs that do something similar to this using RSS feeds, but the problem is not all blog sites support RSS feeds automatically and some that do, dod not have a reliable RSS feed so that when you download all the RSS feeds you are missing a bunch of entries.

This RSS feed getter is pretty good, but far from perfect:

http://www.bloglines.com/

Some blogs offer a nice service, like Livejournal & Xanga where you can subscribe to your friends blogs and then they are delivered to your inbox, or at least your friend's page, but this is far from perfect as often if an entry is posted after the send time for the day you will never see it except for manually going into their blog. Also it doesn't help people like me who have friend's posting on a variety of blog sites.