Hi Gary, I use a variety of feeds, but no parsers or searches … First source is Google Reader, where I follow both ‘personal feeds’ and blogs, I try to do one a day; second are facebook and google+ and twitter feeds, I just go into them 40 minutes in the morning and another session in the evening. All these feeds have been slowly composed over time, if I see an interesting source, I just add it to one of those feeds . Finally, once a week I go into my delicious ‘network’ and that’s about it. So it’s just a question to keep track of the good sources you come across gradually. I should also mention that I organize my feeds into bundles … see for example how I organize my delicious feeds.

I don’t know if you would feel comfortable doing this, but I’m really curious how you identify items that eventually make it into the links posts. The diversity of sources is just immense. How do you go about locating these sources? Is it via a network of like-minded people who send you things that might be of interest? Or do you use a web crawler and some kind of sophisticated parser that identifies content based on your interests (eg, using a concept search technique)? One of the things I struggle with is how to identify items for my own work. Right now it’s done with RSS feeds filtered with regular expressions but this is pretty leaky. It would make a very helpful post if you described in general terms your own techniques. Others beside me could also benefit I’m certain.

Thanks so much for your curation. … Gary