My friends are: ziggy, jdavidb, davorg, acme, jjohn, cwest, chaoticset, TorgoX, pdcawley, Matts, Robrt, Elian, pudge, rjray, Simon, darobin, barbie, Allison, geoff, ask (moved on), skyhook, kasei, lenzo, hfb (moved on), brentdax, garron, and unimatrix. The last part of that list is people who haven't updated their journals in months.
Who else on use.perl should I be reading? Who is under-appreciated? No fair nominating yourself :-)
--Nat
Mmm. Pudge and I have talked about this offline. Promoting blogging or blog consumption to a daily TODO item can lead to madness. Personally, I run through my "friends" list on use.perl.org, NVP, HFB and Jmac. I also will check out blogs of people who comment on blogs (oddly enough). It seems like there is an interesting excerise in data mining in watching blogs, although I can't quite formulate what that excerise would be. Monitoring productivity loss in the work place, maybe?
Re:*should* be reading?
gnat on 2002-07-13T00:07:20
RSS Aggregators can make this easier for you--you get one page with links to all the latest news. Not that I use one, of course. A while ago I was spending two or three hours reading blogs a day, and that was just insane. Of course, I could claim it was research for the Essential Blogging book:-) I have a handful of non-use.perl blogs that I read. I'm just wondering whether I'm missing good stuff.
As for datamining, I really want to gather a hundred peoples' bookmarks files and use clustering to see if I can easily spot an OS X weenie vs a closet Java programmer etc.
:-) The interesting blog mining is done by blogdex and the daypop top 40. --Nat
Re:*should* be reading?
ziggy on 2002-07-13T14:11:09
I read a whole bunch of journals here, mostly to see what perl people are doing and see what my friends have to say here. Oh, and I check out the oreillynet blogs pretty regularly too.I have a handful of non-use.perl blogs that I read. I'm just wondering whether I'm missing good stuff.:-) For non-useperl blogs, I look for something that's interesting that contains news/links I won't find anywhere else. I've gotten into lisp recently, so I'm reading lemonodor, Lambda the Ultimate daily, and Paul Graham's homepage whenever he has something new to say. Perhaps if I could find a few smalltalk blogs, I'd monitor them as well (just never got around to looking mostly).
I'm not particularly interested in the general look at me, I'm so fabulous type blogs. Sure, they're a great trove of links and topics, but that's not something I want to integrate into my daily reading regimen. More of an interesting distraction than something I want to track regularly.
Re:Friends List
2shortplanks on 2002-07-13T11:43:10
It's too much effort since I use journal-to-mail to screenscrape use.perl.org and email me the journals whenever one of my 'friends'[1] posts a journal.[1] Oh, this also explains why my friends list doesn't have half the people's journals I read on it.
Re:Friends List
gnat on 2002-07-13T14:46:19
(gnat's friends list grows...) Thanks!
--Nat
Re:Friends List
belg4mit on 2002-07-13T20:47:39
I have 300K of bookmarks in my profile. They organized and things still get lost. It actually takes a lot of time to "check", I have realized this greatly since I created and started using le pnewsRe:Friends List
barbie on 2002-07-16T21:45:54
The two I probably enjoy reading most are 2shortplanks & richardc. Mainly because they nearly always reference modules and stuff I really feel I ought to take a look at. Don't always get the time to, but I do like new toys every now and then.Of the others I read most, well they're already in your list
;)
You are already friends with most of the heavy posters. A peek at what the others are saying might be a good way to make new friends.
