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May 07, 2008
Google Reader . . . I think . . . I . . . I love you.
As a large part of my job consists of paying attention to what blogs are talking about, I've long been a big fan of Google Reader. Not only does is make it pretty easy to skim a whole bunch of active blogs every day, it also helps me keep an eye on fantastic blogs that aren't updated nearly often enough.
I've also really enjoyed the Share This feature, which allows me to see the articles that my fellow Reader using friends think are worth passing along.
So imagine my joy when Google announced a whole new world of Google Reader goodness. Basically, the system now just slaps your shared pages into a chronological list and allows you to add comments to the top. Behold -- a blog!
Since I already have this blog here, I'm not sure exactly what to do with this nifty new tool -- I'm thinking maybe I can make it into a sideblog on this page.
More importantly, I recently read Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody, and one of the points he makes quite elegantly is how lowering the cost of production can radically change the ecosystem of information. And as someone who has been known to blog now and again, I think, well, I just think they're really cool. Sharing ideas is so fascinating and wonderful. It's exciting to see Google lower the cost of entry to almost nothing.
Posted by Drew at May 7, 2008 09:30 PM