As the quantity of tech information (of very disparate quality) available on internet is becoming unmanageable, we need to find improved ways to keep track of news in the areas important to us. MSN, Yahoo, google news, CNET news, pcmag or other established websites are clearly not enough to report all the latest news and point of views regarding the latest tech issues… So what is the solution? Well , it's a mix of RSS, blogs and appropriate tools: Let's start y one of the most interesting tech site to appear recently, tech.memeorandum
- tech.memeorandum is ctually using a software / bot which will crawl the web to look for latest tech info. It will then display the link to the info (web page / blog) on the main page as well as the link / discussions related to it. This is really the perfect place to have several point of views on a specific tech related news or issue.
After using tech.memorandum for a while, you will start to see recurrent names of bloggers and sites based on which information you are interested in. This is the moment to start using RSS and subscribe to the feeds of the sites you are interested in. I personnaly use the RSS client integrated with firefox because of it's quick and easy. Just browse to a page, watch for the firefox orange RSS icon to light up , click on it and that's it! IE 7 (now in beta 2) also have the same feature so the RSS subscribing via browser will be available to most users very soon. If your number of feeds start to grow exponentially , you can have a look at more advanced online RSS readers like Blogline (my favorite so far) or Rojo. Another good way o keep track of your own (and others) browsing so of the information you see is to use del.ico.us.
- del.ico.us is a bookmarking and tagging system that will help you keep track of the sites you visit. Thans to some handy buttons that integrate to your browser, you are able to bookmark sites as you browse. The URL of the site will be stored under your account on del.ico.us server so you will be able to access it from any computer connected to internet. Nice, no need to have all your favorites / bookmarks wherever you go! The other compeling feature of del.ico.us is the possibility to give tags to the URL / sites you visited.
Thanks to these tags you will be ale to retrieve information easily months after the site was bookmarked. Due to the growing number of bookmarks you tend to get, the tagging feature is most welcome to search through your bookmarks.. and others! Yep, you will also be able to search through other users tags with the search available on the del.ico.us site, anoter handy feature to get the sites related to your interest bookmarked by others. Also, as del.ico.us has recently been bought by yahoo (for around 40 million US $) , the integration of tag search with the main yaho search engine seems imminent though there is only speculation on how it will eventually be integrated. Ok, so that's a good start on the common sites and handy tools fot the moment. I will go into more details about del.ico.us and the favourite bloggers very soon! In the meantime start using tech.memeorandum.com, an RSS client together with a bit of del.ico.us and you should see a good improvement in your awareness of latest trends and issues related to the tech world. The combination of the same tools will obviously serve you well for any field you are interested in. For those interested in politic news, there is a version of tech.memeorandum, the original memeorandum, available at http://www.memeorandum.com/
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