How I keep Informed Without My RSS Reader Killing Me
I got this question today from Lars Pind, who is a brilliant former developer now coaching other software developers:
6. Which blogs or websites do you read to keep up-to-date at work?
And i realized that i have just had more than 6 months of RSS reader boycot (inspired by Peter Krantz). Until recently, my reader statistics looked like this:
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Here is my answer to Lars’ question:
6. Which blogs or websites do you read to keep up-to-date at work?
Some Rails related, some usability related, some webstandards related. I stopped reading everything and put my RSS reader on ice for 6 months (it has almost 300 feeds). Instead i subscribe to 5 “popularity” feeds on my netvibes page that tell me what most people read:
http://del.icio.us/popular/rails
http://del.icio.us/popular/webstandards
http://del.icio.us/popular/usability
http://del.icio.us/popular/accessibility
http://del.icio.us/popular/ajax
http://del.icio.us/popular/web2.0
http://del.icio.us/popular/
The tip works like this for me: I spend less time navigating in my reader, and the most relevant stuff will eventually show up because the collective intelligence of crowds bring the most interesting stuff to my attention.
More info:
- Peter Krantz: Self imposed RSS reading ban
- Lars Pind: coaching
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This entry was posted by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on Friday, February 15th, 2008 at 11:54 (GMT-1) and is filed under Productivity. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
7 Responses to “How I keep Informed Without My RSS Reader Killing Me”
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ghoppr Says:
February 16th, 2008 at 14:58 (GMT-1)That’s a really good tip – just added those delicious feeds to my netvibes.
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@net » “ciekawe” wpisy czyli jak sobie radzić z zalewem informacji Says:
February 26th, 2008 at 13:25 (GMT-1)[…] ostatniego czyszczenia skorzystałem z metody, którą zaproponował mi Arek […]
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P.Arora Says:
February 26th, 2008 at 22:23 (GMT-1)If your reader is looking to stay on top of usability articles/news she/he can read http://www.usabilitymagazine.com – it aggregates various blogs, including yours.
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now » The tip works like this for me: I spend less time navigating in my... Says:
March 7th, 2008 at 16:13 (GMT-1)[…] of crowds bring the most interesting stuff to my attention. — Jesper Rønn-Jensen – How I keep Informed Without My RSS Reader Killing Me March 7th, 2008 / 0 Comments / […]
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Seonewbie Says:
November 23rd, 2008 at 17:10 (GMT-1)I use yahoo pipes to aggregate interesting blogs into a single feed :)
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Travel Blog Says:
December 12th, 2008 at 16:50 (GMT-1)Thanks for the tip – I am getting swamped. It still doesn’t make me feel that I am not missing something though!