Where are you reading this?

Example responses:
“On my livejournal friends page”
“In Google Reader”
“In Mozilla Thunderbird”
“On your journal directly” (e.g. http://mattcasey.livejournal.com/)
“I print out the internet each morning”

I’m wondering because I’m considering a few other blogging options, and I want to estimate how it could fit in with people who already read. Thanks in advance!

For the Nth time in my life, I’m considering leaving livejournal to blog elsewhere. I’m not sure where.. I could use Blogger or I could use wordpress on magicspatula.

This new desire comes from setting up FriendFeed tonight, as well as starting to update my Google Reader Shared Items. I’m using this journal as a manual aggregator for things I find notable: “here’s an article I found interesting”, “here are some pictures I took”, etc. Reader’s shared items has some javascript you can embed on your page to make them show up with your blog, but I can’t put that into livejournal, because they strip out javascript. I want more control, and I want to be able to integrate all of my stuff into one place.

Anyway, FriendFeed is worth a look… it’s sorta like the news feed in Facebook, but for actual sites, so I can see someone’s photos, blog posts, gtalk status messages, etc, in one stream. It’s a lot like beacon, except it’s completely opt-in for everyone and you get a feed you can read (instead of being forced to visit the site all the time). It’ll be interesting to see where they go with it.

Facebook mega-rant coming within one week, get ready.

My favorite blog post headline so far this year: Scientists to make cows fart like kangaroos.

It’s not as absurd as it seems, though… cow digestion produces methane, which is a significant greenhouse gas (mostly through burps, though). Methane is more detrimental to the environment than CO2, but it’s also less common (and perhaps more difficult to reduce).

According to a Slate article:

About 60 percent of global methane emissions stem from human activity—aside from landfills, the chief anthropogenic culprits are natural gas production and use, coal mines, and “enteric fermentation” (the polite term for the burps of livestock).

How long until carbon-neutral burgers are in the supermarket?

New York Times 2007 Year in Photos is worth a look. They made short montages of the best photos organized vaguely by subject. Additionally, there’s an audio track with a photographer discussing what it was like to be there.