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tsql, performance tuning, industry trends, & bad jokes
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So you have a healthy subscription of blog feeds. You read the "legacy" NNTP groups. You might even have email alerts set up from google\yahoo! news to email you when SQL is mentioned in any article from sources like AP, Reuters and the other big boys. However, there is a good chance that by the time you get the scoop from those sources it is old or important new blogs or articles are sliding through the cracks.
Here are some good sources to find new feeds or 0-hour info on SQL Server:
FriendFeed (WWW, RSS) - The drunk uncle of all social aggregators. See this post for more info.
RSSMeme (WWW, RSS) - RSSMeme aggregates\ranks Google Reader shares. Why let the media, vendors or single person tell you want is important. Let the collective conscience of the intertubes guide you.Â
Summize (WWW, RSS) - Everything hits twitter first. Everything. From the Chinese earth quake to the 3G iPhone price, all on twitter way before CNN. The same goes for SQL...
Google BlogSearch(WWW, RSS) This used to be too spammy so I quit using it. Looks like they cleaned it up. I will be using again.
MSDN Blog Search (WWW, RSS) - The web search is flaky sometime you have to submit several times so submit again if nothing comes back. You get noise(to me) results from Japanese or Croatian bloggers but you also find new gems like Microsoft Bob or Moving Mars
Honorable mentions: SQL @ Digg, Spamerati Technorati, Technet BlogSearch
You can apply these concepts to all news. CNN\MSNBC\Yahoo! News could suffer the same fate that they did to the newspaper if the do not stay in touch with technology.
If I am missing a good source, please share!
posted @ Sunday, October 26, 2008 7:51 PM by tehtwfxe
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