new love

I finished my first project last week and don't yet have a new assignment, which (leaving aside my worries about being bored tomorrow) means something awesome: this morning I slept in on daylight savings time and am now cozied up with some cats and Google Reader.

Reader is pretty great. I played with other readers a couple of years ago without really enjoying them, and ended up just creating categories of "friends" on Livejournal for my various blogs and such. That's handy: I can read everything, actual friends and blogs and fandom stuff, but LJ's RSS feature breaks. Like, a lot. And it's not designed to be export/import friendly, so it took an hour or so of manual work to convert to the new tool.

Anyhow. I came here not to bury LJ, but to praise Reader. Reader is a reasonable compromise, available as one stream or several like LJ, except consistently working. It's also easy to share random stuff I like (although this is also easy to do on Facebook, where I already have a network of friends, so...).

These tools, for me, say a lot about how I interact with the world. This got me curious. What social stuff are you using on the internets?