reader input: daily websites
February 25, 2008 by Cash
Toothpaste For Dinner
Although I briefly went on a ‘low information diet’ from all things news/non-essential on the web (per Tim Ferriss’ excellent suggestion in 4HWW), I’ve found my addiction harder to beat than I thought.
In my defense, I have set up a pretty effective way of getting my fix; devoting the first 20 minutes or so of each work day to devouring everything I can from a few select websites I deem daily essentials.
They are (in order of morning perusual):
Later in the day, around lunch, I’ll give 10 minutes or so to:
UM readers; what websites are daily must-reads for you? Comment away, please.
Obviously using a feed reader helps a lot to manage, I have a seperate folder for my daily fix.
A total break and holiday is a good way of getting over it, the world does not stop and you don’t actually miss that much. At least that’s what i found.
Gavin Allinson
Gavin, you’re right on about the world not stopping. What surprised me most was how little I cared about all the current events I was behind on once I came back.
Exactly it’s what Tim says in the book that if it gets bad enough that you need to know someone will tell you.
I remember hearing that way back in the day when I was in Amway LOL.
Gavin
So checking out your site, it looks like you’re pretty productivity-centric. What sites do you check out daily?
I obviously read UM every day. What else does a growing boy need? ;D
Others on my teir-1 blogroll:
BoingBoing
Consumerist
Lifehacker
Valleywag
Engadget
WebWare
TUAW
Original Signal
ZeFrank
and temporarily while we’re in election season, MSNBC’s Decision 2008 feed.
Looks like a lot, and our buddy Tim would no doubt cringe at my use of time. In my defense, Im ravenous when it comes to information such as found in the above feeds and I do that kind of nerdy tech stuff for a living.
I have about 50 others in secondary folders I’ll browse for specific information when curiosity strikes or when I have downtime waiting for something.
Eventually I’m hoping The Rogue Estate will end up on the daily read lists of others.
-bp
Lately, I’ve been getting my fix from
Stuff White People Like
Fun stuff
Daily fix, eh?
Here are the feeds I try to keep tackled on a daily (weekday) basis:
Urban Monarch (
Oops, seems like someone doesn’t sanitize input characters! (in this case, lessthan symbol).
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Daily fix, eh?
Here are the feeds I try to keep tackled on a daily (weekday) basis:
Urban Monarch (lessthan3)
Woot
Woot.shirt
Woot.wine
Slickdeals
Cute Overload (shut up.)
Urban word of the day
Mentalfloss Word of the Day
Productivity501
Get Rich Slowly
Tim Ferriss’ blog
SANS Internet Storm Center (network security stuff)
US-CERT Current Activity (ditto)
eEye Zero-Day Tracker (also ditto)
topleftpixel (”daily dose of imagery”)
The Cellar - Image of the Day
Comics that I try to read daily:
A Softer World
Penny-Arcade
What the Duck Comic (photography comic)
Wondermark
xkcd
I’ve also got an arseload of other feeds that I usually let build up for a few weeks and then clear out. I don’t so much care about actual news, but I like learning stuff. Winelibrary TV, Candy Blog/Chocablog/chocolate obsession/Cooking for Engineers/Cooking for One/MattBites/Slashfood/The Budget Wino/The Chocolate Nerd, lifehack.org, Lifehacker, Riran project, Digital Photography School, Strobist, a metric f-ton of security blogs, Digg / Gaming, Ars Technica and the much beloved WWTDD.
Yeah, it’s a lot, but when you’re on that occasional overnight you have a lot of time to kill
I’ve been looking at
http://www.freelinereport.com it’s a round up of whats going on in the internet world wiht a bit of a focus on marketing.
I also ‘hang out for Tim Ferriss’s post’s online copywriter Ray Edwards and I keep an eye on Rich Schefren and Frank Kern internet marketing guru types.
Gavin
I must second Jess on xkcd. That comic fucking rocks. Everyone go register for it right now. Don’t forget to read the alt tags on all the comics, sometimes the funniest part of the joke is hidden in there.
Aside from xkcd which is published exactly at midnight MWF, I also read
Doc Searls (Identity Management thought leader)
Fake Steve Jobs (Hilarious) http://fakesteve.blogspot.com Its like a “Daily Show” for what happens in the Valley. Good for people into news about Apple, MSFT, Facebook, Google, etc..
Bill Simmons “The Sports Guy” on ESPN.com page 2
The rest of my google reader stuff doesn’t publish daily so I read as stuff comes out. I got rid of all the useless productivity and finance shit, after awhile its all the same crap and becomes a time waster.