Comments on: Recommend me 3

By: Dave Stacey

Dave Stacey — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:39:20 +0000

Like Steve, I'd like to applaud the idea. I'm conscious of the fact that much of what it is my reader at the moment isn't relevant to me, or the same post recycled half a dozen times.

My current way of dealing with it has been to get away from the idea that my reader has to be at zero. It's been bubbling along at between 100-200 unread items for the last few weeks, and I've been dipping in and out when I have time. I'm no longer obsessed with getting my comments in 'now', after all the posts aren't going anywhere, and Twitter alerts me to anything I want to get involved in 'real time', if I happen to have a spare few minutes.

Anyway, three blogs. I think Dy/Dan (http://blog.mrmeyer.com) would be at the top of that list. I know you don't always agree with Dan, but I always go away from his blog rethinking something I'd been taking for granted.
I'd also add Ewan (http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/) as someone who is both UK focussed and good at pointing out key posts on other blogs.
For your third, if you want to keep education focused, then I'd go for Jeff (http://www.thethinkingstick.com/) as someone who says something relevant, thought provoking or practical in pretty much every post. However, I'm increasingly adding non-edublogs to my feed reader, of which my current favourite is Seth Godin 9http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/)

No offense intended to anyone whose blog I haven't listed! (I wonder if that's why noone else has risen to your challenge?!)

The one thing I really do recommend though, is using the 'friends shared items' feature in Google Reader. It means I get the very best of the posts from blogs I don't subscribe to from people I trust to have similar interests to me. Sometimes I'll go on and subscribe to the shared bog, but very often I simply rely on my friends to serve up the best of the best, straight to my feed reader!

By: RustyBadger

RustyBadger — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:21:39 +0000

Argh. I came here all hoping I could score some more sweet ed-tech blogs from the comments! I’ll have to go back and trawl through Steve’s list again, I guess.

By: Jo Rhys-Jones

Jo Rhys-Jones — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:34:12 +0000

Look it’s taken me this long to catch up with just your blog again! You are right of course, quality wins over quantity and there are only 24 hours in a day…
Moreover family life wins over virtual life any day – you can’t catch up with them days/weeks/later – that time is gone forever ;0)

By: Totally blogless - Teach42

Totally blogless - Teach42 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:43:58 +0000

[...] Recommend me three I unsubscribed from every blog I subscribed to via Google Reader. [...]

By: JackieB

JackieB — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:10:10 +0000

I’m struggling with this question now – trying to decide how much I actually read of what I subscribe to. Going to my Reader shouldn’t be an “ugh – 300 unread items” inducing experience.

By: Daniel Stucke

Daniel Stucke — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:15:12 +0000

Looking at your old trends I'd be tempted to go back to Lifehacker and also DownloadSquad. You could try filtering them for key phrases using Yahoo pipes if you get too much coming through?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:46:59 +0000

I’m always impressed when someone dumps everything and starts fresh. It’s seems worthwhile, but I can’t make the leap.

dy/dan and think:lab are two of my favorite education blogs. Slouching Past 40 is one of my favorite parenting blogs.

By: Steve Dembo

Steve Dembo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:29:20 +0000

I’m not going to recommend three. Instead, I’m going to applaud the endeavor and follow suit. I don’t read my aggregator very often anymore. I think it’s time to clean house and start again.

Very good call…