From the technical point of the reader there are four kinds of weblogs I know of:

1. The basic outfit: An internet page which doesn't tell anybody when it is updated or it tells everybody that it is updated all the time. There are not so many of these. Often the problem is that there is pseudo-dynamic content on the page like banners which makes it impossible for the reader to know if the page has been updated or not. In this case I use my Quickbrowse collections (subscription $12.95 for 3 months) which I visit on a regular base. An example is this music collection which I check every two or three days.

2. The middle class variant: Weblogs which behave like normal pages and have a correct update status (can be found out with the page freshness bookmarklet from here). Most of the music weblogs I read belong into this group. I read those weblogs using this fresblogs page. It is ordered by last update, the freshest fruits are on top. Right now there are about 130 music sites in there. For some of those sites freshblogs shows several updates per day when they have only been updated once. Therefore I usually open the list only on a daily base. To open the links in a new page I hold down the shift key when clicking on them.

3. The upper class model: Weblogs pinging weblogs.com or blo.gs. Those weblogs can be read via a page like blo.gs where you register and add the weblogs you read. Afterwards you get a page with the latest updated weblogs on top and the lazy webloggers on the bottom like in 2). The advantage to 2) is that this method is more reliable. As freshblogs supports pings I use it here as well.

4. The luxury version: Weblogs supporting RSS (XML) feeds which can be read in a newsreader similar to an e-mail program like Outlook. The program I started to use is the freeware feedreader. Up to now I have thirty weblogs in there of which most are from antville. Unfortunately I have yet only found one music blog supporting RSS, it is monkey puzzle.

If your weblog supports RSS feeds and is about music I would be very thankful if you told me so that I can add you to my news feeds.