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What Are Your Five Feeds?

Started by manalang · 9 months ago

Paul asked me a while back which feeds I would keep if I could only have five. Or something like that, the exercise was basically, pick five and only five.
If you’re like me, you cull your feeds every so often. Every three to six months, I get overwhelmed with unread items and ... Continue reading »

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  • ontarioemperor

    10 months ago

    OK, I'll play. Note that some of these are more like categories of feeds, rather than individual feeds.

    1. Items from my FriendFeed friends. Jake pegged me. Over the last few months, FriendFeed has become my de facto home page. I certainly don't read everything that passes by; my approach to FriendFeed (similar to my approach to Twitter, and other things) is to dip my toe into the rapidly-rushing stream every once in a while and see how the water feels.

    2. Vanity feeds. These range from Google searches to Disqus comment feeds (this comment will show up there at some point) to LinkedIn colleague activity feeds.

    3. Eclecticism. Michael Hanscom was the person who was fired from a temp job at Microsoft after he took pictures of Macs on the loading dock. While his 15 minutes of fame have passed, he still writes an interesting blog - one for which I read most of the posts.

    4. The feeds from findbiometrics.com. An excellent aggregation of material affecting the biometric industry.

    5. All the other stuff that shows up in my Google Reader feed. This includes Oracle items, social media items, general business items, political items, sports items (I'm working on adding more Washington Redskins feeds, now that the NFL U.S. football season is about to begin), music items, items from numerous variants of Christianity, items relating to the Inland Empire of southern California, and items relating to NTN/Buzztime trivia games.
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  • Jake

    10 months ago

    As usual with you, I wonder how it is you consume all this. Thanks for playing.
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  • Paul Pedrazzi

    10 months ago

    How could you miss FAIL blog?
    FAIL
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  • Jake

    10 months ago

    Ha, I thought about I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? That would be number 6. I like the FAIL blog too, just not as much as you.
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  • Misha Vaughan

    10 months ago

    • MSNBC.com’s US News – Watching where the economy goes let’s us see trends relevant to enterprise applications. What are the emerging sectors? What sectors are in slow-growth modes?
    • Techcrunch.com – For the geek in me.
    • UXmatters.com – Jim Nieters – now at Yahoo – writes pieces for this one. That’s how I found it. Now I just like it.
    • User-experience-design.com – I’m still waiting to see if I stick with this one.
    • Richard Anderson’s Blog ‘Riander Blog’ – I like Richard’s blog because he layers on design management conversations.
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  • Jake

    10 months ago

    Why not Techmeme? Each and every TC post ends up there, plus you get other stuff too. I would have included TC, except for that bit.
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  • steveballmer

    10 months ago

    #1 - The Secret Diary of Steve Ballmer

    http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
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  • turoczy

    10 months ago

    Wow. Still in shock to be mentioned among those great sites. Thank you. Now I have to think about an appropriate response for my top 5. ;)
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  • Jake

    10 months ago

    I have to keep up with local tech news. What else would I read?
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  • joel garry

    10 months ago

    "In purely technological terms, who wants to be reminded of a time before the iPhone or TiVo or network music players? Who wants to be reminded of a time before in-dash GPS or YouTube or Roomba or Facebook? All of these things have become fully intertwined with our lives now, and now that we have them, do you want to go back to 1998 and not have them?"

    Well, I don't use feeds, don't have a TiVo, wonder why I wasted time on YouTube, don't use Roomba or Facebook or have an in-dash GPS or an iPhone. The above quote is from techmeme which I only bothered with because I realized I had forgotten about it for years. It could all be cool. But I'm already maxxed-out. I seem to get enough stuff by letting actual people filter things for me, works a lot better than bots.

    On the radio this morning I heard a funnier-than-hell Seinfeld-doing-Windows imitation, wish I could have grabbed _that_. (The above quote was concerning the $10M Seinfeld/MS deal).

    There is funny stuff out there, but the popular voting type stuff rarely works unless there is a fairly homogenous audience. And firehose imbibing is fun only for a very short while.
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  • Jake

    10 months ago

    Well, I guess if you have people to filter things for you, this is a moot exercise. Lucky for you though.
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