I find FriendFeed to be a valuable resource. If you don't have actual friends to follow, try following some folks who's blogs you read. You'll often get lots of

I find FriendFeed to be a valuable resource. If you don't have actual friends to follow, try following some folks who's blogs you read. You'll often get lots of good stuff to look at and read. EDIT: oh, and FriendFeed also has "virtual" friends, for people like you who have actual friends that don't seem to keep up with all of these services.