RSS and Newsfeeds

Well I'm pretty frustrated with Bloglines because I couldn't get it to work properly. The instructions given in the Bloglines tutorial didn't work for cutting and pasting in IE, and I also had a problem with Bloglines never confirming my email so that I could't add additional feeds. (I sent them an email about this problem). I'm not totally unfamiliar with RSS feeds--Microsoft has its own and I subscribe to several on Yahoo. Some locations are much more convenient to access them than others, and accessing them with email seems logical. I also found the search engine frustrating. I did, however, find a way to add RSS to Bloglines, not covered in any of the tutorials listed or spelled out clearly on the Bloglines website, so even though my account is not confirmed, by going directly to the site I want (or searching for it with a blog search engine like Google) I can then type in the exact RSS feed address into the Bloglines "add" under the "feeds" tab and add under "subscribe." Only rarely can I do it directly from the site itself which is a definite negative.