Quest 4: RSS Feeds,Newsreaders, and Bloglines

It wasn't too hard subscribing to the feeds once I understood the screen. A staff member showed me how to do a "quick" feed subscription and once I really understood how to select the subject and then actually click on the subscription button I was on my way. That's what I get for being so overly zealous and trying to "jump into" things before taking the time to actually read and comprehend what I have read. I was actually checking subjects from one side of the quick subscription chart and checking feeds on the other side of the chart. When I tried to execute the transaction, it didn't work. It wasn't until I selected one subject and clicked the subscribe button that it actually worked. Clicking on a subject yields several feeds that fall under that topic. There was some further confusion when I went under "blog settings"; that is, not understanding if the public should be able to see certain things under my bloglines or should I have only made the "feeds" accessible to the public?. I opted for the latter and decided to provide a link to my feeds only. I hope that I am completing these tasks correctly. Some feedback from the Techtreks 2.0 committee is needed. I can still see the "end in sight"; however, "using the technology available to me to get there" is sometimes like waddling through muddy-colored water.