Before nine months I used to keep myself on top of things by going through hundred of sites by using Google Reader or some other news aggregator. The things going on in my life in last nine months has not helped me to keep up with the routine (so such a huge gap on this blog). But I had this urge to keep myself on top of the most important things happening around me when I can. I am sure I have missed so many important/interesting services in this time but hopefully if they are good enough, I will see or hear about them any how.

So while I was caught up with things, I decided to make it a point to at least go through Techmeme.com site when I could. So I did get a glimpse of what was going on in the Tech Internet Space. Although I could not always spare the time to read through the linked articles, I still got the hint of what was going on. A tool that I started using was Twitter. Although I don’t twitter as much as I could, I am having fun following Frank Arrigo’s twittering. I followed him on his journey to USA while he was on a vacation which was interesting. In my drive to improve my productivity I tried to keep on track with the links on Del.icio.us. Yes, Lifehacker and Brazen Careerist are on the list too.

While traveling to and from work, instead of just sitting in the train idle or reading MX (local free evening newspaper) I decided to read books or articles. So far I have read through a Self Help book, completed reading few technical magazines and have read few many news and journal articles in my native language Gujarati (I hardly used to do this before, so have enjoyed reading it again). I hardly used to play online or offline games before 9 months, but now I have developed liking for the game of Suduko. I have printed booklet from KrazyDad.com site and now can finish a Suduko in about 25 minutes (my train trip is 30-35 minutes).

So having too much time away from Internet, I have made myself enjoy readings other topics than just reading Tech Blogs and Tech Magazines and blogging mostly all tech. This period is the time before I started blogging and I knew what news aggregator does!

While I am writing this, I got a comment from Penelope to my previous post and I agree. Blogging is like going to gym. We just need to show up to get into the habbit again. I don’t think I will worry about putting unique content up here, but even if I get myself to be present on this blog, would be a good restart for me.

This makes me wonder, what do you read when you are not reading blogs or following your aggregator?

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