{"id":2073,"date":"2010-05-30T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T11:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2010-05-30T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T11:03:32","slug":"on-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=2073","title":{"rendered":"On Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Glasgow<\/a><\/p>\n

A friend asked how I come up with these links, so I thought I’d share with you just what goes into this whole process.<\/a><\/p>\n

I subscribe to 119 different RSS feeds, and I read them in Google’s Reader<\/a>. To make the reading process most efficient, I’ve installed 2 GreaseMonkey scripts<\/a>: Google Reader for wider screens<\/a>, and Google Reader Absolutely Compact<\/a>. These get rid of the frills and wasted space (and the stupid “like” button).<\/p>\n

I go through usually by category (news, photography, food, etc.), popping things open in new tabs to read, then marking them with a “star” if they’re something to be shared out. Those things which get shared out are usually from the news category, which contains feeds from such sites as the Association for Computing Machinery<\/a>, Der Spiegel<\/a>, the SF Chronicle’s Technology section<\/a>, and so on. (I had to abandon Science Daily<\/a>, because the volume was simply too much to handle!)<\/p>\n

\"Around<\/a><\/p>\n

After I’ve let things build up for about a week, sometimes two, I harvest all of my “starred items,” organize them into categories, and pop them into a post. I used to gather up all of the links manually, which was incredibly tedious. I wrote a little .php script to do that for me, though, and now can just deal with categorizing them, which takes some time as well. So, every day I probably read news feeds for about an hour, and once a week I spend another hour or so gathering and sorting.<\/p>\n

The links I select are usually ones which I think would be of interest to my department, but I also try to get things which are simply important to the world (live in the US and wonder about volcanoes? USGS<\/a> can tell you which to worry about!).<\/p>\n

Happy Sunday!<\/p>\n

-D<\/i><\/p>\n

[The first photo is of Lord Kelvin, “Revolutionary Scientist.” The second is Che Guevarra<\/a>, wearing the famous See You Jimmy Hat<\/a> (Tam-o-Shanter) with attached “ginger locks”; this is probably making fun of both Che and The Tartan Army<\/a>.]<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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