I don't use Stack Overflow. It seemed a little too faddish.
I also find it useful to distinguish between the news (finding out what everybody else knows) and useful information. The most useful information is that which is little-known, higher quality and from perspectives most of my industry colleagues filter out. After all if you do the same things as everybody else you'll get the same results as everybody else.
@Neil, I think Stack Overflow is more for Q&A, I haven't used it yet, but it seems to be cool. Other than that, I find things through Jaiku and a selection of blogs - not the standard top-tier ones, because if they have something interesting, I'll see it in YC or Reddit. I follow smaller ones from different areas of my interests: various programming blogs, a bunch of blogs by start up founders and VCs, biology, clean energy.
@adewale, I'm betting you have some favorite programming blogs, then; I recently discovered a Ruby on Rails blog which publishes a list of the top few links for Rails in the last 24 hours - 90% of the time I'll click through from one of the links. The industry blogger is a great filter.
@teemu, yes, Stack Overflow is more for Q&A. 'RailsForum', 'Twitter', and 'YCom' are some of my most used bookmarks. Despite Railsforum being a Q&A site, I still find it contributes in some way to keeping on top of the news around Rails - or at least as a view to how people are trying to use the technology.
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1 year ago by adewale
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1 year ago by teemu
Thanks guys. Teemu, I use YC too, it's one of my bookmarks. Do either of you use Stack Overflow?
1 year ago by Neil
I don't use Stack Overflow. It seemed a little too faddish.
I also find it useful to distinguish between the news (finding out what everybody else knows) and useful information. The most useful information is that which is little-known, higher quality and from perspectives most of my industry colleagues filter out. After all if you do the same things as everybody else you'll get the same results as everybody else.
1 year ago by adewale
@Neil, I think Stack Overflow is more for Q&A, I haven't used it yet, but it seems to be cool. Other than that, I find things through Jaiku and a selection of blogs - not the standard top-tier ones, because if they have something interesting, I'll see it in YC or Reddit. I follow smaller ones from different areas of my interests: various programming blogs, a bunch of blogs by start up founders and VCs, biology, clean energy.
1 year ago by teemu
@adewale, I'm betting you have some favorite programming blogs, then; I recently discovered a Ruby on Rails blog which publishes a list of the top few links for Rails in the last 24 hours - 90% of the time I'll click through from one of the links. The industry blogger is a great filter.
@teemu, yes, Stack Overflow is more for Q&A. 'RailsForum', 'Twitter', and 'YCom' are some of my most used bookmarks. Despite Railsforum being a Q&A site, I still find it contributes in some way to keeping on top of the news around Rails - or at least as a view to how people are trying to use the technology.
Regarding start-up founder and VC blogs, these are two new favorites of mine; http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/ http://charlie-federman.blogspot.com/2008/11/vc-landscape.html
1 year ago by Neil