I just started a tumblr that posts stuff directly from my starred items in Google Reader. It's a heroically lazy (≈ efficient) way of showing how smart and cultured I am.
It's called I know stuff you don't.
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Geek note:
I am using a site called If This, Then That to pull this off. I heard about it from Oliver Burkeman, who described it this way:
Recently, I've become preoccupied with the website If This, Then That (ifttt.com, supposedly pronounced "ifttt"), which is either a remarkably handy new tool or a portent of the end of humanity.
The insight behind it is that much of what we want to do online follows predictable sequences, where one event triggers another; Ifttt acts as "digital duct tape" for joining together these events. If that leaves you as baffled as I was when I first heard it, some examples may help. You could use Ifttt to send yourself a text in the morning – "Remember your umbrella!" – if, say, a weather website forecasts rain that day. You could have it post every photo you upload to Flickr to Facebook. Or email your stockbroker – for the purposes of this example, I'm pretending I have a stockbroker – if a share falls below a certain value. Other services exist to perform individual tasks like this, but Ifttt aspires to duct-tape the whole web. It's brilliant yet unsettling, evoking visions of the day when our online lives might run themselves without outside intervention, so that digital me could browse online, forward items of interest to friends, manage my money and answer emails while I dozed in a hammock. From there, it's surely only a short hop to digital me achieving independent consciousness and plotting my destruction. You mock, but I heard two latest-generation iPhones discussing such a scenario between themselves just the other day.
