Inaugural post: Hello 23 Things

NB23 Week 1
This is my first ever blog! I have been reading blogs for years, although honestly, I have been following blogs less and less over the past couple of years. I used to have a list of blogs that I read regularly, but I have transitioned to browsing more magazine-style websites, and landing on blogs mostly via links from other sites such as twitter, facebook, and scoop.it (some of which I know we will get into later in the 23 things).

Getting started with blogger is an interesting experience. I already had a google account, so adding blogger to that was relatively easy. The first thing I did on blogger was to resurrect my list of blogs to follow. I logged into my old bloglines account (an rss feed aggregator), and grabbed the URLs for some blogs I enjoyed following in the past. In the process, I noticed that several of the blogs I used to follow are no longer regularly updated anyway....so I guess I hadn't been missing much! Nonetheless, once I created my blogger "reading list," it was interesting to catch up on a few posts!

Then I was ready to tackle Thing 1 by starting my own blog. I picked one of the basic templates, which I may try to personalize it a bit later. At this point, I am not sure what the ultimate destination of this blog will be. Perhaps just a document of the 23 things...or perhaps I will get inspired to take it elsewhere.

For now, I am simply completing Thing 2 by writing this post. 21 things left to go!