Monday, March 1, 2010

How I Inhale Information

I read the Washington Post online every morning. Mostly skimming. I read the actual Wash Post on Sundays. My wife and I enjoy lounging on Sunday mornings, reading the paper.

I have lots of news feeds hooked up via iGoogle. I use Firefox and I have 5 pages it defaults to whenever I fire it up. Gmail, iGoogle, Washington Post, and two internal work intranet/wiki sites.

Besides the Wash Post, I get my news via newsfeeds on iGoogle. I read Calculated Risk, Pro Publica, Consumer Reports health and car blogs, io9 (scifi nerdy blog) and a couple gaming related blog - kotaku, joystiq - and gamasutra news. I also load up and read Techmeme, Huffington Post, the Atlantic Wire, Politico, GigaOM, and ESPN.

I read Entertainment Weekly religiously, the only magazine I subscribe to. I also pick up The Economist every month or so, if the cover interests me. I really should subscribe to it one of these days. My wife subscribes to Washingtonian so I'll read that occasionally, mostly for restaurant reviews.

In the evenings, I spend an hour or so, watching shows on Tivo. I record and watch The Daily show every night or in the morning before work. I don't watch evening news or cable news networks, its just a bunch of noise to me.

Most of my book reading is done on Kindle these days. I'm in the middle of a couple novels and non fiction books. I typically read in bed before going to sleep, or if I have a free couple hours on a weekend. My free time in evenings and weekends often gets taken up by my graduate school classes that I'm taking. (I'm working on a dual degree MBA/MS in E-Business/Technology Management).

A few favorite sites I like to read (mostly blogs) - Dubious Quality, Whatever, By Ken Levine, Rock Paper Shotgun, Flickr Blog (for beautiful photos), and Penny Arcade.

On iPhone, I like USA Today and Scifi Wire, both short reads.

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