Staying Current
Here are things I do to stay current with ICT, gadgetry, etc. Many of the sites have RSS feeds.
Things to do:
- Browser environment: use a tabbed browser, with multiple home pages.
- And/or, use a "digital dashboard." I use netvibes.
- RSS feeds or elists. Here's my feed list (as of November 11, 2007).
- Web/news alerts.
- Associations and conferences.
- Publications.
What are my tabs?
- digg.
RSS feeds or elists
In addition to the above...
- Ray Kurzweil.
- Peter Scott.
- Reuters (great for internation coverage).
- Search Engine Watch.
- Meredith Farkas.
- Wired.
- CNet--anything from CNet, including http://crave.cnet.com/ (great for gadgetry) and David Coursey.
- Tim O'Reilly.
- http://www.techweb.com.
- Librarians' Internet Index.
- http://techessence.info.
- Gizmodo (also great for gadgetry).
- Engadget (ditto).
- ACM TechNews (available to members of the Association of Computing Machinery).
- Marylaine Block's "Neat New Stuf."
- Steve Bell's "Kept-Upt Academic Librarain."
- ACRL's ACRLog.
- Medical librarianship-- http://davidrothman.net/.
Web/news alerts
- Google Alerts. Pick your topics, people, or institutions.
Associations and conferences
- Association for Computing Machinery.
Publications
- The New York Times (David Pogue on Thursdays).
- The Wall Street Journal (Walt Mossberg on Thursdays).
- Wired.
- PC Magazine.
- MIT's Technology Review.
- Business 2.0.
- Fast Company.
- Conde Nast's Portfolio.