I can’t believe that I never hear anyone talking about sharing interesting news links via Google Reader. It is such an easy thing to do and it doesn’t add that much overhead to your news reading regimen. Google Reader is an online RSS aggregation site. That means that through Google Reader, you can subscribe to sites that you go to and get notification when new content is produced. Cool stuff.

I have subscribed to a number of sites, some news, some sports, but mostly tech related. As I scroll through the stories, I look for interesting content. When I find something that piques my interest enough to read it, I share it. That creates an RSS stream of news that I find interesting. That has value. I go through the news and cull out the boring stories.

I will admit that my choices are highly biased by my tastes and what I think is important, but I would find it interesting to subscribe to friends news feeds just to get a glimpse into what they think is important.

Google Reader makes this so easy that I am stupefied that this isn’t something that more people do. We share our thoughts on blogs. We share our thoughts and location on twitter. Heck, we share everything. Why hasn’t news sharing taken off more.

I know Del.icio.us, the bookmarking website has been around for a long time, but I could never get into how it works. It has always seemed like an extra step. Besides, it was created before the explosion of RSS-ified content.

I went to Del.icio.us earlier today to see if there was a way to combine my RSS feed of news in Del.icio.us and couldn’t find it. It would be great if I could wire my Google reader feed to create Del.icio.us links, but I can’t make that happen.

Right now I am only following one news feed, and that’s Steve Gillmor. He shares news in fits and starts, but it is incredibly interesting to see what he finds interesting.

I am looking for more news feeds to read.
Robert Scoble?
Jason Calacanis?
Veronica Belmont?

There are a ton of feeds I and others would read. Why hasn’t this blown up?

One of the most cryptic yet entertaining podcast webcast is back (I am posting a link to facebook where it is posted for now, I am sure that you can subscribe to it using iTunes by now). It used to be called The Gillmor Gang, and now it apparently is called simply the Gang… whatever you call it or more importantly, whatever Dan Steve is deciding to call it this week, it is back.

It is a collection of web curmudgeons who talk about the web landscape in an all but incoherent way. Most of the time I can’t make heads or tails of it and yet I listen to it religiously.

Dan (I am a moron for getting Steve mixed up with his brother…) Steve Gillmor killed the podcast for some reason a year ago, and now thankfully brought it back.

One of the best parts about the show is Jason Calacanis, the man behind weblogs inc. and more recently, the human powered search engine Mahalo who is one of the most enjoyable personalities blogosphere. He is a divisive force in the web-world who is either hated or loved. There are very few who know anything about him that are indifferent about him.

Calacanis was one of the most-hated guests on Leo LaPorte’s TWIT webcast. I thought he was great. I find his unabashed honesty incredibly entertaining.

I don’t know who would listen to this train wreck, but I can’t tear myself away. Catch it before it is prematurely canceled again.