Reid Dossinger

The social sharing world has seemed bleak for those of us who found the shared items in Google Reader to be the single best place to read and discuss the news. But I've found a little light lately in turning to Tumblr as a way to share links and pictures and allow discussion on said articles. It's easy to set up. Get a Tumblr in shape and then: Add Tumblr to the Send To button (Reader Settings > Send To). This will take the place of the "Share with note" functionality. Go get the "Share on Tumblr" bookmarklet at the Tumblr Goodies page . This will let you share any article you find.  To get the commenting experience, sign up for Disqus , create a new site and then enter the shortcode into your Tumblr. Those things will let you share to Tumblr as easily as you did to Reader.  Of course, Tumblr still pales in comparison to Reader, if only because Reader allowed you to have all shared articles AND comments in the same place where you were readi...

You may have seen a few things around today telling you that you should help stop censorship and that there's a law in congress that might pass, and if you heard blah blah blah, let me just tell you now that it's absolutely worth your time if you believe that you should be able to post freely on sites like Google, Tumblr and Facebook. Go to americancensorship.org  to get the facts and send a letter to your representative. Hell, I did it, and my representative doesn't even get to vote (related: DC VOTING RIGHTS NOW!). Is there a possibility that the bleak outlook that internet companies are putting forward where content is shut down at a whim possibly huge overstatement? Yeah, it's a possibility. But at the very least, I'm not willing to take the risk of a world where ISPs and copyright owners are dictating the content of the internet. That said...as many times as I've been on the side of illegal downloader (or even provider) of copyrighted material, I'...