Individually checking each blog on the growing list of blogs that I follow was becoming tedious. So I thought I would use RSS feeds to get notified when new articles appeared. Within days of that epiphany, as I'm looking for a means to implement a solution, fellow [CALUG](http://calug.org) member Chuck Frain posted about TT-RSS as a potential solution to Google's announced closure of Google Reader. So I thought I would give TT-RSS a try.