Wiki backup: information environment
Last year, my wiki went down at dougbelshaw.com/wiki. For reasons too boring to go into, I was unable to resurrect it. This made me sad, particularly because there was some stuff on there that didn’t exist anywhere else.
After a brief period of mourning, I got on with my life. Noel De Martin, however, decided to do some digging via the Wayback Machine, and found several pages, which I’m copying-and-pasting to my blog for posterity.
What follows is a snapshot of my ‘Daily reading’ page from July 2017.
This page helps list out the sites and services that constitute my digital information environment. It’s too difficult to decide, especially in this day an age, where ‘entertainment’ starts, and ‘information’ begins, so I’ve included everything I look at regularly.
Newspaper
- The i (print subscription)
- The Guardian (digital subscription)
Aggregators
- Alltop
- Arts & Literature Daily
- Hacker News (although I tend to use hckr news)
- Nuzzel
- popurls
- Product Hunt
- Skimfeed
- Spigot
- Techmeme
Newsletters
I try out other ones, but these are my favourites:
- Austin Kleon
- Benedict Evans
- Crossed Lines
- Dialogic Learning Weekly
- Documentally
- EdTech Factotum
- Education Design Lab
- EFFector
- Farnam Street Brain Food
- Freshly Brewed Thoughts
- Go Weekly
- Hack Education Weekly News
- Jocelyn K. Glei
- The Journal
- Nesta
- Offscreen Dispatch
- OLDaily
- Orbital Operations
- Product Hunt Daily Digest
- Read Write Respond
- Recomendo
- Remotive
- Ryan Holiday’s Reading Newsletter
- The School of Life
- Seth Godin
- Sunday Dispatches
- The Sprint
- TL;DR
- Traces
- Visual Thinkery
- We Seek
Podcasts
As with the newsletters, I subscribe to other podcasts on a regular basis, but here are my go-to ones that I wouldn’t want to miss:
- 99% Invisible
- The Adam Buxton Podcast
- The Contrafabulists
- Hardcore History
- Freakonomics Radio
- Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
- From Our Own Correspondent (BBC)
- In Our Time (BBC)
- Invisibilia
- Philosophy Bites
- Song Exploder
- Team Human
- Thinking Allowed (BBC)
