RSS feeds and podcasts

I have had a Bloglines account for quite a while I set it up for the 23 2.0 Web learning things, but you know I never once checked it out after finishing the project. I have revisited my feeds today, scanned a few for relevant feeds and ended up deleting quite a few. I have added a few new feeds and you never know I might actually get around to viewing them now I've added some of them to my blog. I never know how people have the time to view RSS feeds, if I'm interested in a site and have the time I just view a few of the old entries. altogether easier to use and more convienent is Google reader. I quite like the idea of subscribing to some RSS feeds for podcasts. It would be great to download them regularly and listen to them while in the bus or walking.
I find Technorati's adds very distracting it makes the whole site look like something viral UGH! It's not very professional looking and I find it a bit dissapointing. I would have expected a search of blogs returning sites with the word libraries in it to return something, but at least a search of posts was quite successful. Technorati looks like a site on the way out but I did add my blog to it. Syndic8.com looks cleaner seems to take a keep it simple approach but working slowly today.