The Gleeson Bloglomerate has always consisted of three blogs: Sean’s, Phoebe’s, and the homeschool blog. Back in the first incarnation of blog.gleeson.us, the one that up and died, the home page served as an aggregator of the three blogs, showing all of the posts from any of those three. So in effect, the home page was like a fourth blog, but with no actual content of its own.

This time around, we’re doing it a bit differently. Blog.gleeson.us will still be a gateway to the constituent blogs, but now it will also be a proper blog in its own right, with content of its own. For instance, take this post I’m writing now. It’s a post on blog.gleeson.us, without being a post on the other blogs.

“But Sean,” you’re worrying, “with all your posts split up among four blogs, is there no way I can see the latest Gleeson blogging all on one page?”

There is a way! It’s a brand new little gizmo we call the Bloglomerator, and it now lives in the right-hand sidebar of every page on this site. The Bloglomerator is a Flash-powered RSS reader which shows the most recent posts from all the Gleeson blogs. It’s like having a tiny web browser that only goes to four sites! Click on the little square icons to diplay the content of a particular blog. Click on the text links to be transported to a particular post. Or click on the site title at the top to go to that blog.

Since it’s reading the RSS feeds, I’m afraid the Bloglomerator won’t show the pictures in a post, and the text usually isn’t the entire post, just a brief introduction. But it’s more than ample to see if there are any new posts, and if so, if they are something you might enjoy reading.

The Bloglomerator is version 0.1. It requires the Flash Player plug-in, version 6 or higher. More improvements are planned, but please comment here with compliments, questions, or error reports.