What websites do you visit every day?
Submitted by Chez Michelle.
There are very few WEBSITES that I visit online anymore. I make heavy use of RSS feeds and compile everything into my Google Reader RSS reader. I'll post the OPML file for that sometime soon with some annotations to cover most of my stuff, but here are the basic categories of items:
- Blogs – This is where personal blogs, vox groups, and various collaborative blogs go. I think I've got about 45 or 46 different entries in here, which tend to post about 50 items a day. I read most of my vox neighborhood via RSS and only occasionally (once or twice a day) go to my vox home page to see if there's any neighborhood-only posts that the reader didn't catch.
- Comics – All of my webcomics I'm currently reading go here. In some cases, the comic didn't have an RSS feed, so I had to create one with a webscraper on my server that pulled the comic off and created an RSS feed available on my webhost. About 40 items in this group, but most update on a 2-3 times a week basis, so I never have more than about 20 items per day to read here.
- Interest – This is where more professional blogs go. Things like Cute Overload, Boing Boing, 43 Folders, etc. I can take or leave this stuff, so I separated it so I know I can gloss over stuff if I just want to get caught up. Always good for about 80-90 posts a day between 15 groups (mostly Boing Boing!)
- Tech – Right now this only has 2 feeds in it – Download Squad and Engadget. These are extremely tech-heavy and I like to separate them out because I tend to only glance at the titles of the posts and read every fifth article or so. Upwards of 100 posts a day from these two groups made me make this decision.
So what websites do I actually end up visiting every day in addition to the RSS feeds? Vox, for one. Also Gmail for my personal email (always use the secure SSL connection!), and Woot for my woot fix. The Toothpaste For Dinner Livejournal Picture Scraper is always interesting, but I don't hit it every day. Especially from work, as there are occasionally NSFW pictures that get incorporated into the page.
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