Someone told me last week, “You always find the neatest stuff!” Then I’m asked how I find these things. My response was something along the lines of a laugh and, “I have neat friends.”
Usually when I get something neat — a site, story, video, etc. — I bookmark it. Most often, I run across stuff by emails from friends or my feeds. Sometimes I surf and will just meander from one site to the next, bookmarking stuff as I go. Occasionally I will tweet something I find, or post it to my blog, but most often than not, it just sits in my bookmarks file. For a while I’ve thought about how to most effectively go about sharing the wealth. I’ve looked into a few things and have started sharing, little by little.
I’ve most recently started sharing items via Google Reader. I’ve also switched to a very awesome Twitter client, Twhirl, which makes make re-tweeting much easier. Something that I’ve seen done before, but haven’t attempted yet, perhaps start posting re-tweets on my blog.
Now, I’m left with the 500+ bookmarks I have right now. I may go the route of del.icio.us or something along those lines (Lord knows there are a million different franchises of bookmarking services out there), but I haven’t decided yet. I’m most familiar with del.icio.us, and if I’m able to seamlessly integrate it into one of my personal bookmarking services, I may start posting things there.
Time will tell … but for now, Google Reader and Twitter are my current carriers of goodies. :)
EDIT: Oh! I almost forgot about Friend Feed … this pretty much covers anything/anyone I’ve bookmarked, friended, shared, favorited, etc. recently. It rocks. :)
Uncle Monster
I need to do some sort of centralized bookmarking scheme. I’m
using a dozen different machines and operating systems and I
would like to have access to one bookmark repository. I’ve come
across several applications but I’ve been my typical lazy self and
have not taken the time to implemented any of them. My latest
OS is PC-BSD which is a really cool bullet proof OS which I haven’t
been able to crash. I can crash Ubuntu but so far not BSD. Oh well,
I’ll keep trying.
[8~{} Uncle Monster
Devilish Southern Belle
I LOVE your shared items on Google Reader! I only wish I had the time to properly explore them.
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