Inspiration and Google Reader
When looking for ideas related to my thesis search, I’ve found that the best inspiration happens when you aren’t really looking for any.
This, I suspect, is true of most things. It happens most frequently to me during my sessions with Google Reader.
I’ve said before that Google Reader is my favorite web application. There is so much to love, but the best thing about using an RSS reader has to be the macroscopic way in which things are presented. If you are subscribed to enough blogs, the same story will be reported by multiple people, each in their own way.
That sort of thing has been happening with BERG’s latest thing. And clicking though, it’s not hard to see why. But clicking though can lead you to other things you didn’t suspect you’d spend your Sunday night doing, like clicking along to a 45-minute narration of a talk given by Matt Webb.
But that clicking-though activity is the bedrock of the Web and is only amplified by Google Reader, by Twitter, by a friend’s email. It’s the part of the Web that reminds you how long, wide, tall, and deep it all goes, and it’s the best part.
