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of feeds, you might ind that the dashboard display is easier to review and
absorb quickly. If you have lots of feeds, you might want the simple, one-at-
a-time option of a stream.
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you may have realized that the layouts on these RSS feed readers 
are very similar, with feed lists located on the left, and feed entries 
on the right. in the same way that browsers' look and feel have 
become more similar over time, RSS feed readers, too, have stabi-
lized. once you've played with Bloglines and these other readers 
for a bit, you can easily learn your way around other feed readers. 
My Yahoo
Yahoo has been a major supporter of RSS feeds in the past, so it's no sur-
prise that the My Yahoo page supports RSS feeds (my.yahoo.com/s/about/rss/
index.html). My Yahoo is a little awkward to use if you want to look at a lot of
RSS feeds, but if you already use the site anyway and you're not planning to
subscribe to more than a dozen RSS feeds, it's hands-down the best choice. If
you don't already use My Yahoo, you can register at my.yahoo.com for free.
My Yahoo has many more formatting options than the other readers we've
discussed so far. You can set up your personalized page to show your local
weather forecast. You can display the comic strips you want to read every
day. You can set the “theme” for your page (but be careful—you want to
choose the one that makes the text easiest to read). You can play around for
a while until your page looks the way you want it to—ater all, if everything
goes well you'll be visiting your page oten to check your traps.
Once you've inished setting up your page, you can add some RSS feeds to
the page by clicking the Add Content tab ( Figure 2.21 ). You can search for
feeds by keyword, add feeds by URL, or check out the most popular feeds
and add those. My Yahoo makes this extremely easy—just go to the RSS add
page, paste in the URL of the RSS feed you want, click the Add button, and
the feed is added to your page.
For the most part, My Yahoo uses a stream layout (vertical lists), and as you
add feeds the representation of the page on your let gets longer and longer.
Ater throwing a few dozen feeds at My Yahoo, I was unable to discover a
limit to the number of feeds it can handle. If you don't mind a really long
page (or a long load time), you can stack up lots of RSS feeds here.
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