I read a lot of blogs and graphically, I have no idea what most of them look like. Like many people, I read blogs via RSS feeds dumped into my Google Reader. I love Google Reader because it aggregates and organizes all the information I want to read. I can usually save posts to del.ici.ous right from the reader or e-mail a post to someone if I think they’d be interested.

But in most cases, I can’t read comments or make a comment directly from Google Reader. I have to click on the article to be taken to the blog’s site and then make a comment. And I rarely do this. It’s not that I never have any opinions on what I read or anything further to share, it’s just that I’m usually blasting through posts at work and never take the time to visit and comment. If there was an “add comment” functionality in my Google Reader at the bottom of each post, I’d probably be all over it. Maybe there’s a better feed reader out there that has this type of functionality. If so, I’d love to hear about it!

Now, I know that you can often get RSS feeds of a blog’s comments, but I already feel overwhelmed just trying to make it through all the blog posts I subscribe to, let alone the comments! I understand that often some of the best gems come out of the comments, and I know I’m missing out by just passively observing the blogosphere and not actively participating.

So, I’m hoping the fact that I have my own blog now will push me to click-through and add my pair of pennies to posts I enjoy. It’s a month into 2009 and I haven’t made any resolutions yet, so here’s one: I resolve to click through and comment on at least three blog posts per week.

There. Let’s see how I do. I suppose it wouldn’t be half-bad to see what some of these blogs actually look like.