I like to somehow mark interesting things I read. Whether it’s via del.icio.us or a Google Reader star, I save interesting/helpful posts, thinking I might need or want it some day. The problem I have with starring feeds is I’ve starred so many that, in the event I should need something, it becomes somewhat overwhelming to find. Devoting stars to one concept cuts the benefit down to about 5%, so that doesn’t work, either. I know this is the exact idea behind tags, but I find I sometimes tag inconsistently (‘photography’ vs. ‘photos’ vs. ‘photo’ vs. ‘flickr’).
Google Reader has this nice little feature known as “sharing” that I’ve yet to use. Actually, I never had a reason to use it. And maybe I still don’t have a reason, but it’s stupidly simple, so why not. As you may know, photography is increasingly taking over my interests. Sharing items may be a reasonable way to keep track of all the interesting/helpful posts related to photography.
If you’re at all interested in photography, you can catch all of what I consider to be “golden nugget photography posts” via my shared items page. Oh, and there’s a feed for my shared items as well (shared items RSS). The site itself is somewhat useless, as you can’t search it or easily access older posts, so the feed is probably the way to go. But it’s a place for me to see valuable photography posts inside of Google Reader, which is kind of nice.