How to waste time more effectively


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I know the title’s pretty weird. There’s a catch to it, though. Our job is to increase our web productivity, right?

You probably know this situation very well: you just finished your latest web design, and you want to take a break and just goof around a bit, which in web 2.0 geek means using a few of these sites:

  • Digg
  • Reddit
  • Del.icio.us
  • Stumbleupon
  • Slashdot
  • Propeller

(I see no purpose here in linking to them).

These are social media news sites. The biggest problem is that many of them have similar content, because popular content becomes popular universally. That is where you loose time. Digg is pretty slow, and while the other sites are faster, they’ll treat you to similar content most of the time. So the question is, how do we pick out our favourite news items from a heap of social media news sites?

Welcome to the wonderful world of RSS. Many social media sites, if not all, provide you with a full RSS feed. If I like Digg’s Linux/Unix category, for instance, I’ll subscribe to it. That will become my content of choice. But why go through all that work?

popurls

Popurls is a great aggregator with ‘the latest web buzz’. Not only has it got all the news from the sites above, there’s also a ton of other source, blogs and videos, all on one page!

I’m wasting my time professionally from now on :)

Posted by Gregon January 27th, 2008

Filed in General Productivity, Social Bookmarking, Web

7 Responses to “How to waste time more effectively”

  1. UNIX Coding School » Blog Archive » unix news [2008-01-27 21:30:04] Says:
    January 27th, 2008 at 23:45

    […] How to waste time more effectively By Greg … how do we pick out our favourite news items from a heap of social media news sites? Welcome to the wonderful world of RSS. Many social media sites, if not all, provide you with a full RSS feed. If I like DIgg’s Linux/Unix category, … The Internetling - http://www.internetling.com […]

  2. John Raul Joven II Says:
    January 29th, 2008 at 15:15

    I will try that POPURL, let’s see if it’s really nice. Thanks for the info. :)

  3. Ted Cook Says:
    January 30th, 2008 at 05:49

    Thank you for your sharing. It is cool.

  4. Chetan Says:
    January 31st, 2008 at 12:53

    Let me try it out.. And lets see how professionally we wud waste our time from now on :)

  5. nickie Says:
    February 5th, 2008 at 11:17

    There is a similar site - needfornews.com
    It’s also news aggregator, but it gives whats hot today tags cloud + Breaking video news from
    FoxNews, Cnn, Mtv and others… now i have 2 news aggregators in my bookmarks =)

  6. Ejudicator Says:
    April 3rd, 2008 at 03:56

    I also found a site that I enjoy hitting whenever the need to kill some brain cells arises www.i-am-bored.com Not as extensive but it is updated throughout the day with pointless games, jokes, funny movies, etc.

  7. Mike Golvach Says:
    May 8th, 2008 at 07:55

    Hi,

    I use these social bookmarking services, also. But I find that I actually get more return from forum marketing (as long as they let me include a signature with my site’s URL).

    I pretty much exclusively drive all my traffic that way (and let Google get me organically). It’s good lazy-work if you know the subject and can find a “newbie” forum :)

    , Mike

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