rss feeding frenzy??? (thing 3)

I am not being very successful here. I signed up for Google reader. I have signed up for some RSS feeds.

Very confused on how Google reader displays things and it seems like going to an RSS reader is just another thing one needs to look at. (I admit, I have had RSS reluctance for a while.) I set up some folders in Google reader and now am wondering if I can move them around. Tired of having 8 windows open on my computer (with help windows and target urls and Blogger and Google reader etc) when I do this.

One BIG discovery: Known Issues for Blogger: http://knownissues.blogspot.com/2006/09/microsoft-internet-explorer-6.html

"Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 attempts to download links to site feeds, rather than display them in the browser. You can right click the link to copy the location into your feed reader."

THIS accounts for the fact that when I clicked on subscribe to another blog's posts, that the computer gave me a message saying that it was trying to open or save a file of a type it wasn't sure of. GUESS WHAT though.... in at least one other instance, it happened on Firefox too.

Also, I went to a blog and the only subscribe link was to do it in Bloglines. Well, thought I, this can't be right...one must be able to subscribe no matter what reader one uses. So, I searched for that blog using the search button in Google reader (the image to subscribe on said blog, when right-clicked upon was a .gif image) and was able to do it that way.

So, what I want to do...when I come back to this another day in a more refreshed frame of mind

1. look at the help some more. I saw something about adding something so that your RSS feed would be a regular RSS 2.0 feed rather than an "atom" feed, whatever that is
2. try to figure out where to get a nice RSS button for anyone who wants to subscribe to this blog and just make sure it is easier for someone else to subscribe than it was for me to subscribe to other Blogger blogs.
3. try to figure out more about Google reader and moving around in it. If I can't stand it, I guess I will switch to Bloglines.

While I am ranting, I also am getting overwhelmed by the number of things needing sign-ins and passwords to work in Web 2.0. If my brain stops working, I will never ever be able to log in to my email accounts, open any computer, check voicemail, teach online, you name it. It might be time for me to try to do a count of all my ids, passwords, etc. I do know that I am at TILT and am raving.