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Re:Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read? by aaronbrethorst on Friday May 13, 2011 @02:13AM (#2543757)
I subscribe (i.e. physically) to The Economist and GQ.

I'm subscribed to 243 feeds in Google Reader, of which maybe 50-67% are still updated. Reader tells me I 'read' 7,189 items in the past 30 days. Usually I skim headlines and look for interesting things.

My favorite feeds right now are my city's alt weekly newspaper's blog, my neighborhood's unofficial blog (http://capitolhillseattle.com/), James Altucher, Ben Horowitz, and Cliff Mass (a meteorologist at the University of Washington, and a fascinating writer).

I'll skim Twitter a couple times a day when I'm waiting in line, brushing my teeth, etc. I do so more now than I used to because a website of mine gets a huge amount of traffic from tweets, and I like to stay ahead of the curve on that.

I'll skim TechMeme late at night when I've exhausted everything else.

I'll troll through the NYT and longform.org a couple times a week to add interesting things to Instapaper, too.

Re:Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read? by angusgr on Friday May 13, 2011 @02:40AM (#2543828)
Reader tells me I 'read' 7,189 items in the past 30 days

Wow, I didn't know this info was available. For anyone who is wondering, it's under "Trends" in the sidebar.

All Reader needs to do now is track how long users spend on each item, relative to how many words are in it.

Re:Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read? by simons on Friday May 13, 2011 @05:53AM (#2544113)
That only works with RSS feeds supplying full articles, rather than excerpts.