I've been starting to read a few blogs about Public Service Renewal. I guess because these are new and relatively young public servants they have tended to focus on the emergence of new technologies.
I also participated in a conference about this issue as well and so I've started exploring these technologies a bit more. I will never be a technofile, and I'm usually a bit conservative about trying new things, though I would say I'm open to at least trying things.
I started using google reader and it's been interesting. I think overall it's a positive way to organize all the blogs you follow. I miss the surfing and checking out pages, without knowing that it's been updated, and looking at articles through the reader isn't quite the same experience.
I think overall it'll allow me to follow more blogs, and also to track more issues and follow them more easily. Especially if there are blogs that aren't updated all the time, you can keep track through the RSS feed, and make sure you don't miss a new article.
I also tried two other social media, and I don't think they work nearly as well for me. One was Digg, which links up with facebook, and lets you highlight an interesting site or article. I don't really get much out of participating, but I suppose collectively it gives you a sense of what people are reading.
The other interesting possibility was yahoo! pipes. Lets you throw feeds and filter them to try and limit how many articles actually get through. Interesting idea, but I'm not a programmer and it gets pretty complicated. Interesting idea, but I'm not too sure how to use it yet.
I enjoy reading all my feeds, and so to a certain extent I don't need that kind of throttling system.
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