I go to a major chain bookstore, the bigger the better. I look around for something really good, when I find something I like I then take the laptop out of my bag and I look up the book at Amazon. Quite often one of Amazons recommendations ends up being more interesting to me, so at that point I'll use my mobile to call a smaller, independent bookstore and special order the book. In the several days it takes to arrive I usually just read the same blogs you guys already mentioned.
Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#22A subscription to paper version of WSJ is the best $100/year you'll spend. The content is authoritative, exceptionally well researched and complete. The opinion side of things is pleasantly conservative.
And unpleasantly reactionary.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#23I'm incredibly biased but I recommend Socialbrowse! Send me an email if you would like an invite
dave at socialbrowse
Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#24http://del.icio.us/popular
del.icio.us/popular and HN are my absolutely required readings every day.
Try AideRSS for other blogs if you you want a better signal/noise ratio:
Besides this, websites I visit sometimes:
* iTulip (http://www.itulip.com) - alternative economic news
* Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net) - my favorite blog.
* Your Rights Online Slashdot (http://yro.slashdot.org) - about the coming orwellian state
* Pitchfork Media Best New Music (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/best_new_music)
Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#25A Google reader full of smaller blogs and the mindset that I DONT have to read everything. 3083 unread, as of right now, in fact.
Smaller blogs are generally one-man shows, but that's what makes them special to me, they aren't out to make money, and their opinions (about generally geeky tech things, in my case) are priceless. I don't care if they are the wrong opinions, or daft opinions, just that they are alternative opinions. It helps me see different angles of new technologies, languages and startups.
I love sites like Hacker News, they filter out the good stuff, but at the end of the day its a group opinion, and sometimes even upvoted due to the title or subject, rather than the content of the linked to article.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#26Stumbleupon
though, I only actively seek things when I have time to kill which isn't often at all. Usually its just YC News.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#27Well, you did specify "online" but what got me out of a very similar rut is . . . reading good books. I read on my machine 99% of the time, and I even use the browser to read said books quite often :)
Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#28I actually try to actively fight the urge to seek out "interesting" things to read. The content on HN is of fairly high quality, and seeking out more stuff to consume outside of it leads to diminishing returns on time wasted. I find if something is important enough, it will get to me one way or another. Or I'll see it passing by on HN.
+1 for that. You can spend practically infinite time reading interesting stuff on the internet. Take some time and do something productive. I promise you won't be missing anything by spending a couple days away from HN, etc.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#29Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#30A subscription to paper version of WSJ is the best $100/year you'll spend. The content is authoritative, exceptionally well researched and complete. The opinion side of things is pleasantly conservative.
As much as I like the WSJ, I can't stand the form-factor of newspapers. They're so awkwardly large that you can't read them on a bus/train or almost anywhere else comfortably... not to mention the ink smudging on fingers and anything else it rubs up against. I'd go for an online or Kindle (do they have that?) subscription.
But I love newspapers. I can't think of anything else that would make a more convenient and effective covering for the bottom of my bird's cage. And a supply that lasts me several months only costs a buck! Now that's what I call technology.