People (well, journalists) keep telling me that Twitter is their news feed.  

"I wake to Twitter and get everything I need," one said last week.  And several more really smart people echoed those remarks last night at #wjchatPHX, an in real life gathering during the online #wjchat Twitter chat about web journalism. 

Surely that can't be enough.  If you rely on links that other people shoot to you, aren't you still getting pretty old news? Do you follow people on Twitter for their ability to read news sites and create tiny urls?  

I do get a lot from Twitter, but I need more.  And that's why I love google reader.  There are a lot of readers out there.  I've been playing with Pulse, which is fun and cool to look at.  But I keep going back to my google reader .. on the phone and desktop, on the bus or in a car, with a fox, in a ....  .   

I still get the thrill of a cub reporter as I "discover" something just posted .. news, analysis, a funny photo or cool graphic .. and am able to shoot that out and get it in the info stream or, sometimes, share it with just one person.  

I curate my reader as I curate Twitter.  I add and subtract feeds and analyze my use frequently. I engage with the people I follow there and hit the "add to reader" button with them in mind.