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tl;dr: Stop visiting hacker news, reddit and other blogs; stop interacting with people; get books from the library for free. My opinion: seriously, blogs shoul

• krmmalik 17y ago
  I dont know if this was meant as a quasi-sarcastic comment or not, but i have to say, i seriously agree with you. For me, blogs are micro books. And i have daily "aha" moments, that i cant get from books at this frequency. And if you start including video, (If the speech was converted to text), then lets just say my number is close to 2 or 300 if not more. Ultimately it's about having many "i am smarter" moments
  • jacobolus 17y ago
    > daily "aha" moments, that i cant get from books at this frequency. You’re reading the wrong books.
• tome 17y ago
  Hang on: you read about 100 "particularly good and in depth blog"s per day?
  • krmmalik 17y ago
    No, what i'm saying is. If you sum up the amount of text i read (incl speech converted to text) from blogs and video etc, then it would come to about 2 to 300 books at the end of the year.(in my estimation).
  • badave 17y ago
    Not necessarily just blogs, but I'd say around 100 articles easily. I'd also include tutorials and discussions that are substantial as part of reading those articles.
    • revorad 17y ago
      Examples please? I still find that number hard to believe.
      • badave 17y ago
        Ok, for example, this morning I've gone through: http://zef.me/2913/javascript-oop-style-performance http://zef.me/2913/javascript-oop-style-performance http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2010/02/28/search-trees-are-e.. http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2010/02/28/search-trees-are-e.... http://norvig.com/sudoku.html http://norvig.com/sudoku.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_Algorithm_X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_Algorithm_X http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static&d1=tutorials.. http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static&d1=tutorials... http://www.extjs.tv/index.php/2010/javascript-debugging-tech.. http://www.extjs.tv/index.php/2010/javascript-debugging-tech.... I suggest reddit.com/r/programming, Hacker News obviously, and YourVersion.com for finding new stuff to read based on your interests, and then you can usually find more to read without too much trouble. There is always more!
        • akkartik 17y ago
          Offtopic: badave, I used to work on MeeHive, which is similar to yourversion. I'm now off on my own building a tool to help me read more widely. Would you be interested in trying it out? My email's in my profile. I'd love to hear about what you think is missing in google reader, yourversion, etc.
        • robryan 17y ago
          How much of the comments do you read? I find it hard to believe you would have the time for so many posts and peoples opinion on them.
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• revorad 17y ago
  Wow, are you really reading 30,000 good blog posts in a year? Could you please share what blogs you read? I find most blogs tiring and annoying, because there is so little new content and so much reposting and regurgitating of the same things going on over and over again. I am rediscovering what a joy it is to read books. It seems it does take a lot of work to write well. Blog posts, almost by definition, are not meant to be well-written in terms of depth and succinctness. But, maybe I'm just reading all the wrong blogs.
  • badave 17y ago
    See my reply to tome. There are lots of good blogs out there. I think a substantial number of bloggers end up getting published in books, and a lot of good writers blog. There is a lot of information out there, my primary point is that you don't have to consume it on parchment for it to count.
  • tpyo 17y ago
    Try Roger Ebert's one: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/atom.xml http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/atom.xml
• 10ren 17y ago
  idea: a social aggregator, that votes on blogs that elicit that moment; organized by category to form virtual books of 300 chapters.