My friend and former roommate (and accidental god of thunder) Thor has finally joined the RSS “revolution” by using Google Reader for keeping up-to-date with at various websites including this one. In a way, he has increased the amount of attention he is pledging to “Modern Bizzle” by subscribing to the site’s feed. It’s akin to subscribing to a mailing list but less annoying and with more end user control. My LiveJournal friends are already participating in this way.

In order to better balance this attention-deficit on my behalf, I want to share something that I think might be of direct interest to Thor. One of Thor’s reservations about using a feed reader was losing the various unique experience each individual site may offer.

One way to keep this experience while still leveraging the benefit of RSS is the “Next Bookmark” offered in Google Reader. Just click the custom bookmark link and it will take you directly to the website of the next unread item from your Google Reader list marking it read in the process. Find the link for yours under “settings” and then “goodies.”

I imagine you could even share your “next” button. Here’s mine: drag this NEXT>> link to your bookmark bar and surf my small corner of the web.
Update: no, you can’t share your “next” button after all. Makes sense from a security perspective:  you are what you read.