Bored? Want more out of the Internet?

The astutest/most bored of my readers may have noticed that I've included my Google Reader Shared Items in the linkbar to your right. Why is that awesome, you ask? Well, as you may or may not know, posting a blog is at the bottom of my boredom chain while surfing the Internet. Reading items from RSS feeds is way higher - and something I do often. So I'm using my shared items as a way of approving the post or saying it's amusing - and it takes me just one click.

So basically, if you're bored or ever wished that I updated my blog often, try reading my shared items, as I update them regularly through the working week. I tried to incorporate shared item snippets into my blog's sidebar, but despite Blogger claiming their new features are pure unadulterated sex, most of them don't work if you don't host your blog on Blogger (which I don't - courtesy of Brad's generosity). Even more encouragingly, the Blogger team say that their "Layouts" features are "unlikely to be supported soon if ever". Honesty is great, but it's not so nice to alienate the more technical users after you've forced them to upgrade.

Back to the shared posts thing: you can subscribe to the RSS feed of my shared items if you'd prefer to be notified when I've shared new stuff. So essentially you can "feed" off my feeds, and only what I consider the best of what I've read. It's not sloppy seconds, it's just recycling.

I'm going to stop typing before all these degrees of abstraction start to get to me.