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Helping Others
Sep. 5th, 2002 09:19 amI keep being tempted to spend time doing volunteer work with computers. This kind of thing is a great way to give something to the community.
Sep. 5th, 2002
When I reach a computer with web access (preferably within 5 minutes of waking up, ideally before actually waking up), these are the sites I reach for:
BBC News for (fairly) unbiased news reporting.
blogdex because it tells me what todays big memes are.
IMDB to see what the days film news is.
LJ with a 'people' filter, to see what my lJ cronies have been up to
LJ with a 'news' filter, because LJ's RSS import allows me to check headlines for kuro5hin, plastic, slashdot and the register. And as soon as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
avva implements it I'll have a shitload of other RSS feeds in place too.
Oh, and the comics. I'm an addict of Dilbert (gone downhill but still sporadically funny) Goats (also sporadically funny), PVP (reliably funny) and Penny Arcade (always funny and the columns are always worth reading too).
I occasionally read Blues News for gaming news, but as Gamespy happily dump their daily newsletter into my inbox every day, that's Fine. Yahoo are happy to do the same with their newspostings (Science & Oddly Enough) too.
I used to read more than that (a load of newsgroups, for a start, plsu about 12 mailing lists), but I've been slowly cutting down my information intake for the last year or two. I still find the Foxpro newsgroups invaluable when I'm stuck with a problem, but they aren't required reading now my work doesn't center around them.
Oh, and I skipread. A lot. I look down a list of 60 headlines each morning and pick out maybe 6 or 7 to read, and only a third of those articles actually get read in detail. I like to keep up with the news, but I really don't need to keep up that much.
If anyone else has any news sources they recommend, I'd be glad to hear them.
BBC News for (fairly) unbiased news reporting.
blogdex because it tells me what todays big memes are.
IMDB to see what the days film news is.
LJ with a 'people' filter, to see what my lJ cronies have been up to
LJ with a 'news' filter, because LJ's RSS import allows me to check headlines for kuro5hin, plastic, slashdot and the register. And as soon as
avva implements it I'll have a shitload of other RSS feeds in place too.Oh, and the comics. I'm an addict of Dilbert (gone downhill but still sporadically funny) Goats (also sporadically funny), PVP (reliably funny) and Penny Arcade (always funny and the columns are always worth reading too).
I occasionally read Blues News for gaming news, but as Gamespy happily dump their daily newsletter into my inbox every day, that's Fine. Yahoo are happy to do the same with their newspostings (Science & Oddly Enough) too.
I used to read more than that (a load of newsgroups, for a start, plsu about 12 mailing lists), but I've been slowly cutting down my information intake for the last year or two. I still find the Foxpro newsgroups invaluable when I'm stuck with a problem, but they aren't required reading now my work doesn't center around them.
Oh, and I skipread. A lot. I look down a list of 60 headlines each morning and pick out maybe 6 or 7 to read, and only a third of those articles actually get read in detail. I like to keep up with the news, but I really don't need to keep up that much.
If anyone else has any news sources they recommend, I'd be glad to hear them.