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There’s sea of information and knowledge out there. I do the best I can, strapping together several planks by way of information channels into a raft to stay afloat. I thought I’d share those here – both online and offline sources – and I’m definitely open to suggestions and comments!

Books

• Sunday Times Culture section

Fun Stuff

• Boing Boing
• The Dilbert Blog

Latest Technology

• Original Signal
• PaulStamatiou.com
• popurls
• TechCrunch
• Techmeme

Mac Stuff

• The Unoffical Apple Weblog

Music

• AllofMP3.com
• Last.fm
• The Word magazine

News/Current Affairs

• BBC News
• popurls
• Time magazine

Productivity tips

• Creating Passionate Users
• Lifehacker

If I had to choose one of these it would be popurls.com. It’s just an aggregator of the RSS feeds from the most popular URLs on the Internet, but what a site! There’s always something linked to there that’s worth reading! I don’t read much in the way of printed matter any more. Gone are the days when I’d subscribe to 6 or 7 magazines. In fact, I was thinking the other day that many of the books on my bookshelves are just gathering dust: my first port of call when I need to know something is the Internet. It’s quicker, more fun, and I can cross-reference a lot more easily (especially with tools like Diigo, which I’ve only just started using…)

There are other blogs, etc. which I look at semi-regularly, of course, but the above constitute those sources I really wouldn’t be without! Has anyone any suggestions of must-visit websites that I’ve missed?

(image = modified version of Boatman @ Flickr)

Posted: February 11th, 2007
Categories: Productivity
Tags: information, Internet, knowledge, reading, RSS