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

What single website/blog do you check regularly to keep yourself current and sharp in your job/field of expertise?
posted by nitsuj to computers & internet (19 comments total)

aigamedev.com
posted by prufrock at 8:57 AM on April 30

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

StackOverflow.com (well, I could get away without reading anything else)
posted by mkb at 9:12 AM on April 30

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

SEOmoz's blog. Great tips for content optimization and technical best practices for SEO.
posted by DrDreidel at 9:43 AM on April 30

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

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

Directions Magazine
posted by desjardins at 9:57 AM on April 30

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

How Appealing, SCOTUSblog, Sentencing Law & Policy.
posted by Xalf at 10:34 AM on April 30

A List Apart
Quirksmode
posted by juv3nal at 10:40 AM on April 30

Museum Professionals is shaping up to be very good.
Global Museum.
posted by Miko at 10:51 AM on April 30

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

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

Romanesko and Buzz Machine.
posted by jgirl at 4:38 PM on April 30

A Photo Editor for editorial/ad photography.
posted by bradbane at 6:04 PM on April 30

FierceWireless for me. And their sister site FierceMobileContent.
posted by altcountryman at 7:31 PM on April 30

I read Accountants Round Up, Re: The Auditors, and Calculated Risk.
posted by velvet winter at 9:46 PM on April 30

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