I've recently renewed my internet addiction with Google Reader. I knew that great sites like Digg existed, but I visited them infrequently enough to not call myself an addict. Now I find myself constantly steering myself away from Google Reader while I'm at work, and working late after feeling guilty about catching up on Reader during lunch.
If you don't know about Google Reader, it's one of many ways that you can have the internet come to you instead of you surfing the internet, via RSS feeds. For a nice intro to RSS, see the Common Craft video RSS in Plain English.
The reason I'm falling in love with the internet all over again is that I've found my niche of blogs and news sites that keep me informed up to the minute on what's happening in the world of the internet. I never knew the extent of social bookmarking or social shopping sites available, and these RSS feeds are only whetting my appetite for more.
I would recommend that everyone get an RSS feed reader, but beware of putting too much appealing information at your fingertips at once, it's quite addicting. Begin with the sites you frequently visit anyway and opt for discovering more once you've conquered that load.
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You never update this blog anymore.
Speaking of Google Reader, the other neat thing is the "Shared" list, so you can re-syndicate your interesting links to others.
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