Week 4, Thing 9 Merlin and other sundry sites

I played around on Merlin and looked at the recommended reading and then created a Yahoo and a Meez avatar. I also added Merlin to my Bloglines list of feeds. I looked at the other sites and was puzzled why despite putting in my zip code in Topix.net it had Virgina news stories. It was interesting to discover different ways of finding feeds, but if you already know the site it is much easier just to go directly to that site and pick up the feed.