My Google Reader is unequivocally my #1 time waster. Facebook is probably a close second, but at least there I actually interact with people, so it’s somewhat productive. For the most part, with blog feeds it’s a one way thing, we me reading the articles, and very rarely taking any immediate action. I can sometimes spend hours just reading. I...

One thing we don’t really have a lack of over here is reading material. We can go to the library, the rec center, or we even have a couple of shelves full of books at work. People send over boxes of books. I’ve read a whole bunch since I’ve been here (choosing not to have a tv in my room contributed). Anyhow, about 4 or 5 days ago, I picked...

Wow, I can foresee these weekly link love lists becoming way long at some point But I promised to spread the “good stuff” I’ve been reading, so below you will find my list of shared items from google reader for the week ending December 11th, 2009. First a quick aside … One thing I have noticed upon compiling this weeks picks, is that...

I recently wrote about how I intend to become a more well known blogger by having greater interaction with my online friends (and soon to be friends) … mainly thru doing a better job of sharing some of their good stuff … or pay it forward SEO as SY has called (lol, I wish I had thought of that, much better keyword blog title than my original post). After...

Image by alohateam via FlickrWhen I decided to start over with a brand new blog, one of my goals was to streamline the amount and type of wordpress plugins that I have installed and activated on my site. Just like with wordpress themes, there are so many cool plugins out there (with more coming out every day), that’s it’s tempting to use...

Ok, I’m almost embarrased to say this; but up until a couple of days ago, if I found a blog that I liked reading, I was saving it in my favorites and then opening it up later in an individual browser window (when I remembered). Then a couple of days ago, I finally decided to explore my Google Reader. I simply typed http://reader.google.com into my browser,...