Sharing cool stuff you find on the web

Cool stuff. The web is choc full of it. And we, as a team, should be sharing any cool stuff we find with each other.

The problem is how; email is great and instantaneous, but not always convenient and often gets ignored. A better solution would be to leverage some of the news aggregators' sharing functionality and have someone else do the hard work for you.

Google Reader is my first choice - I can share stories and append my own notes, even when I am not currently logged into the app, through using a handy shortcut in my shortcuts bar. This creates a web page that is dynamically updated with all the items I choose to share from my feeds.

If I add you as friends to my account, then I can view all your shared items when I log into Reader, so we can all share in the goodness (and the badness) of the web.

There are some other options that I haven't explored in any depth yet: del.icio.us, Twine; which introduces tagging and a pseudo-semantic element into the mix.

So, don't be shy: set yourselve up with Google Reader and add 'richard.fort@carlson-europe.com' to your buddies (you have to do this by adding me as a contact in GMail or in Google Chat), and I'll start sharing my favourite LOLCATs and FAILs...