What website/blog do you check regularly to keep yourself current and sharp in your job/field of expertise?
April 30, 2009 8:39 AM Subscribe
What single website/blog do you check regularly to keep yourself current and sharp in your job/field of expertise?
Financial Times, but there are other, non-public (paid for) services that we use a lot, too. Bloomberg, Wrightson, etc...
I trade US Treasuries in the Repo Market.
posted by Grither at 9:04 AM on April 30, 2009
I trade US Treasuries in the Repo Market.
posted by Grither at 9:04 AM on April 30, 2009
StackOverflow.com (well, I could get away without reading anything else)
posted by mkb at 9:12 AM on April 30, 2009
posted by mkb at 9:12 AM on April 30, 2009
Foundation Center Great email alerts: requests for proposals, fundraising industry news, and links to publications in various fields tangential to the nonprofit I work for.
posted by greekphilosophy at 9:41 AM on April 30, 2009
posted by greekphilosophy at 9:41 AM on April 30, 2009
SEOmoz's blog. Great tips for content optimization and technical best practices for SEO.
posted by DrDreidel at 9:43 AM on April 30, 2009
posted by DrDreidel at 9:43 AM on April 30, 2009
AlertNet.org Great source for public health / development news that frequently is ignored by the mainstream media.
posted by charmcityblues at 9:48 AM on April 30, 2009
posted by charmcityblues at 9:48 AM on April 30, 2009
arXiv.org. I'm a physicist, and anything anyone writes in my field (quantum information) gets put on there for anyone to download for free.
posted by zxcv at 9:51 AM on April 30, 2009
posted by zxcv at 9:51 AM on April 30, 2009
Nature via their RSS feeds and Google Reader. As well as a few other journals (Science, Genome Research, PLoS Computational Biology).
posted by grouse at 10:14 AM on April 30, 2009
posted by grouse at 10:14 AM on April 30, 2009
Museum Professionals is shaping up to be very good.
Global Museum.
posted by Miko at 10:51 AM on April 30, 2009
Global Museum.
posted by Miko at 10:51 AM on April 30, 2009
I (grudgingly!) read Above the Law. It doesn't help with professional skills, but it seems to be the most efficient way to keep up with conditions in my segment of the legal market.
posted by grobstein at 1:25 PM on April 30, 2009
posted by grobstein at 1:25 PM on April 30, 2009
Opalesque - a summary of hedge fund related news compiled daily. The only thing it doesn't pull is potentially-relevant SEC releases (proposed rules - it will catch news/press releases), but other than that, it has amazing range.
posted by mccn at 1:48 PM on April 30, 2009
posted by mccn at 1:48 PM on April 30, 2009
FierceWireless for me. And their sister site FierceMobileContent.
posted by altcountryman at 7:31 PM on April 30, 2009
posted by altcountryman at 7:31 PM on April 30, 2009
I read Accountants Round Up, Re: The Auditors, and Calculated Risk.
posted by velvet winter at 9:46 PM on April 30, 2009
posted by velvet winter at 9:46 PM on April 30, 2009
Ministry of Burlesque is a must-go even if you're outside the UK (which is where they're based).
posted by divabat at 2:28 AM on June 10, 2009
posted by divabat at 2:28 AM on June 10, 2009
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posted by prufrock at 8:57 AM on April 30, 2009