How to find new things to read online…use the Human Filter!

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I’m an information junkie. I also share a lot of what I find with coworkers, friends, etc. So when people ask me where I dig this stuff up I often respond “just found while surfing” or “in my RSS feed”. I usually only pass on what I think is good. I call this Human Filtering.

Back in May, Chris Garrett launched this thread on Authority Blogger Forum. The concept was to develop a Blogging Pack with the goal to increase the quality readership of the blogs involved:

First read Michaels post
http://michaelmartine.com/2008/05/14…subscriptions/

Second, add your feed URL and Twitter account to this thread

Third we all subscribe to each blog and follow each Twittererer (I will do an OPML file when we have enough people join in to make it easy to subscribe to each)

Fourth we should each at random stumble, favorite and/or comment on a recent post from as many articles THAT WE ACTUALLY LIKE in the pack as we can manage

Sound good?

We have around 1000 users of this forum, should give any blog a good boost if we all join in

So I joined, received a pretty good spike in RSS feed subscriptions, and was exposed to a vast array of new blogs to read.

And now we’re getting to the meat of this post, I’m going to profile a few of those blogs – just the ones that appeal to me. I’ll do this from time to time.

• Codswallop — one of Chris Garrett’s blogs. A good example of how to run a technology blog…with a side niche on productivity. I’m not sure what’s up with its URL though: http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/
• Freelance Switch — a big and bright blog dedicated to moving folks into Freelancing. Full of all sorts of advice and information.
• How Not To Write — yes, it’s a blog about writing…sort of. Or about the times between writing when you should be writing, are thinking of writing, but not. Or redefining ‘writing’ from writing…and I’m not sure which is which or even if I’m doing either, but the blog is a good read.

Over the next few weeks I’ll profile others that catch my attention.  Stay tuned…

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