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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:

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.