This is a post from last night’s ReadBurner Weekly Live guest host (jeff)isageek [FriendFeed/Twitter]

Last night I was a guest on ReadBurner Weekly Live with Drew, Adam, and myself talking on the subject of using shared feeds to get your news from around the blogosphere as well as material for sharing with friends and such.

Thats when I shared with the guys how I took all my feeds, wiped them out, and then built my new system from the ground up. This is what I came up with and what I use today :

This is what I built my foundation with using the great group of people I get shared items from daily via Google Reader. I think the key is to have a large group and have people who have a large base of interests. I have podcasters, social media guru’s, developers, hacker types, geeks in general, and friends. Having such a diverse group to pluck stories from has helped me hit all the different areas out there on the web and has really been a huge success.

The more friends you have on twitter the larger base of information and links are gonna come your way. With twitter I can find out breaking news as it happens again having a wide base of twitter followers to pull information from…with twitter I can get breaking news from around the world, politics, sports, and of course tech. I can get announcements about a service that just launched in real time, people attending conferences or meetups are throwing the hot topics out there or just getting updates that my friends have a new post on their blog.

I know these days twitter has had its moments but overall in the large picture I find it to be a valuable tool for keeping up with those I really wanna have a real time pulse with.

ReadBurner is really a catch all for me to find stories that maybe others outside of my shared items community are finding interesting out there. grabbing the feeds for New, Upcoming, and Top allow me another place to skim for that story, new service, link or whatever be the case.

FriendFeed is the newest tool in my box but in some ways its the most powerful….in fact using FriendFeed I am able to combine the others by getting shared items, Twitter posts, Feedburner items, new Flickr pics, Disqus discussions that are going on, the latest YouTube videos, and even Google Reader FriendFeed page. Some of these are default features or service of FriendFeed while others are enhancements allowed by using scripts using greasemonkey or plugins.

Throw in the recent additions of embedded audio which allows me to monitor my podcasts and rooms which allow me to even dig deeper into certain subjects and FriendFeed has become a powerful tool that I use daily, hourly, and sometimes by the minute.

Closing Thoughts

To tie everything together I feel like I took all my feeds scattered through out my Google Reader and brought them together. I took my shared items and twitter posts from my friends, I added ReadBurner feeds to the mix, topped it off with everything that is shared with my fellow FriendFeeder’s add the ability to integrate Google Reader and ReadBurner right in the service and throw that on a big serving dish.

You have a nice way to feed your information hunger in a clean/organized/relaxing way.