Google Reader is a feed reader (I used to say “aggregator”, but nobody ever knew what I was talking about) for blogs and stuff. Every time I see a blog post I like, I have three actions available:

• Email it to specific people who I think will like it
• Star it for future use in my own blog post
• Share it with people who are friends with me in Google’s social networking universe

(I wish I also had the option of posting it to peoples’ Facebook walls.) If an item is light or I just don’t have anything to say about it, I’ll share it instead of star it. For me, MentalPolyphonics is not a collection of “this neat thing I just saw” but instead “this cool idea I just had”; I don’t want my intensely cool ideas lost in a sea of throw-away macros.

But I worry that sometimes I share stuff just because I’m too lazy to wrap it in a blog post. And I know I’m providing a valuable service by filtering sites like PunditKitchen that shouldn’t be wasted on just my friends. So I’m going to try wrapping up my shared content for each week into a single post, let me know what you think.