Read or Die May 28, 2007
In this industry stagnation == death.
If you’re not staying on top if new technology you may as well quit because your
skills will become obsolete and your job
with them. Feed aggregators are a godsend for people like us. There’s no way I
could keep up with
my
310 (and counting) subscriptions if I had to go to their sites manually.
Now, to be honest, a fair number of them are purely entertainment, and some just
help me keep up with my friends lives. But, the vast majority are programming
related. I even went so far as to write my own feed reader with Bayesian
filtering to highlight the “interesting” posts for me, something I’d LOVE to see
in a commercial product. It makes SUCH a difference, and unlike spam, there are
ways of doing positive filtering that never involve having to specifically tell
the application what you do and don’t like.
All of which, is a really long winded way of putting up a link to what I’m
currently reading for those who actually care. Although at 310 subscriptions I
think the list has probably exceeded anything resembling a size that’s useful to
others. You can’t import it because you’ll flood your feed reader with crap you
don’t care about and 770 lines of XML is a bit much to try and read…
Popularity: 4% [?]
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