Google Reader, My New Surfboard
Last month I wrote about how difficult it is to ride the information wave and keep up on all the information I find relevant, funny, and interesting on the web. I related it to riding a wave in the ocean and trying to swim to keep up with it. Well a good friend Bags introduce Google Reader to me and it has become my surfboard for surfing the net. Google Reader is an RSS feed reader. I first tried it out on a few of the blogs I check daily and within a few weeks I found myself able to subscribe to more blogs. Here is a trend of my last 30 days, I’m able to look at around 150 posts a day to find the stuff that is interesting, fun, and share-worthy.
Google has done a great job of being able to sift through a lot of information and keep the information you want and then share it with a click of a button. I can share it on my Google Reader feed or I can send it to my Facebook or Twitter account (this is new functionality they released this week). People then can subscribe to my Google reader feed and see what I thought was cool or interesting as I searched the web that day or my friends can see the stuff I shared on Facebook or Twitter. Also as I’m wandering around the web and I find something I like, I can click a bookmarklet and share it on my feed. My new surfboard has made discovering, consuming, and sharing information fun and easy. I would recommend you give it a try, just start following me and you will start to feel the need to feed!
So now I don’t have to use my blog to share stuff and will dedicate my blog posts to my life and my ideas. If you are interested in following my reader here is the link.