Results of my
Reading Material Survey
In January, 2004, I
sent out a reading material survey to my colleagues in Informatics. My goal was
to find what people read to keep up to date on industry trends and other news.
I asked what magazines people read, what web sites they read, if they subscribe
to newsletters and if they read blogs. Here are the
results:
Web Sites
- slashdot.org
- High on all lists. News for nerds,
stuff that matters.
- news.google.com
- Not tech news per se but second only
to Slashdot on everyone’s list
- I’ll add a personal note to check out
Google
News Alerts. It lets you put in a search criteria (say, Isis
Pharmaceuticals) and you will receive an update once a day via email
with a list of links to news articles which contain references to your
search criteria. It rocks.
- eWeek
- DV
- Internet.com
- World encompassing geek news and
trends from our British neighbors.
- World news and events with a slant for
the odd and bizarre
- This isn't tech news, but it's a great
resource for finding products of any kind.
News Letters
eWeek
XML.com Update (O'Reilly)
Blogs
- O'Reilly
has several that are great!
- Blogspace hosts the Google
blog & has a page on RSS Readers
- An interesting article on blogging and why people do it can be found here.
It is talks about Lotus Domino but the interviews with several bloggers and why they blog
can be expanded to the blogging community as a
whole.
If you have results
you’d like to add, send them to: skingery[at]isisph.com