Read blogs? Use an RSS reader?

Do yourself a favor: subscribe to NetVibes
This is a totally mature system for integrating different functions.
I have ?what? 5 different tabs, with 4 of them carrying different collections of blogs, and one for general stuff ... it even monitors my POP3 mail server!

This morning I went into their dev blog and WOWWW ... added a FaceBook widget, so I can keep an eye on that account without going there, and a really slick WebRadio player.

NV really shows what can be done with Web2.0 ... you owe it to yourself.