Re: [PANMA] Keeping Up

Originally posed to the PANMA community:

To take Ken’s comment as a leaping off point: “it would seem that no one cares about other people’s bookmarks any more than people care what others have in their cd collections”
Let’s suppose we want our collections to be nicely organized, and highly presentable, whether or not many of our friends will ever end up perusing them…

I’d love to hear everyone’s suggestions for publishing links, aggregating feeds, and compiling items.

For example, I’ve been “keeping up” using Google Reader (to answer the original question), and clicking “share” on all items that I want to appear on my personal aggregate page. Typically, if I come across a page outside of Reader that I want to share, I post it to my Facebook account. Since I have Google Reader tracking my Facebook shared items, I can share it via Google once it shows up in the feed (which I think violates Facebook’s Terms of Use).

I wonder what is the most efficient way to filter the vast info-flow through my particular lens of interest and then have some degree of control over the presentation of the resulting content. If Google let you add css to your shared items page, that would be a heck of a start… Actually, Tumblr looks promising, but I haven’t played with it much yet.

…additional thought: on these posted items pages from Google and Facebook (btw, can you see my Facebook feed if you are not a logged-in user?), the images displayed are still hosted by the source site. Isn’t that bandwidth hijackery?

Internet life’s burning questions… :-)