Being informed of new technologies and innovation on the web not only makes you a complete geek but also helps you think of problems in different ways. Seeing how new ideas explode onto the scene and watching their influence forces you to approach problem solving from “outside the box” (one of the most overused terms to which few know the origin). Here’s a list of sites I use to keep current with new technologies:

Digg
Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted by users.

Del.icio.us
A social bookmarking tool that lets you see what are the most popular things being bookmarked. Also if you use the networking feature you can tap into your friends and family to share new cool sites.

Bloglines – Really any news reader will do but it’s a great way to ingest loads of content with very little commitment to reading absolutely everything. I equate it to reading the headlines of the paper and only taking a deeper look at those articles which interest you.

Below are a list of blogs which are in my account which I find particularly timely with new ideas:

Boston Business Journal (I live in the Boston area)
Techcrunch
The official Google blog