The dangers of asking for help on the internet...

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One of the big ones is that there are a lot of people who would rather laugh at you than help you.

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[+3] - Robert Gentel - 09/13/2008Another example: [img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/2807838577_83cbed0126_o.jpg?t=1053139[/img]
[+2] - Sglass - 09/13/2008Where do you find your material? It's the best
[+2] - Robert Gentel - 09/13/2008I follow a lot of sites and most of the stuff I post I find through their crowd sourcing or aggregation. I use a lot of social bookmarking to both save the interesting things I find and to find...
[+2] - dlowan - 09/14/2008Where do you mainly go for news?
[+1] - Rockhead - 09/13/2008I think I know that guy...
[+1] - Bi-Polar Bear - 09/13/2008truly hilarious
[+1] - Robert Gentel - 09/14/2008To catch breaking news I read CNN and that's probably the news site I visit first if I just want to see what's going on. When I want to know more about a particular subject I'll then search (web...
[+1] - Robert Gentel - 10/01/2008"You should buy a go-cart" [img]http://img.skitch.com/20080930-j4dthnbmcrd9maw53urdcsm19r.jpg[/img]
[+1] - nimh - 10/01/2008That one's just kind of sad...
[+1] - nimh - 10/01/2008The other ones were funny tho ;)

Re: Robert Gentel (Post 3401287)

I think I know that guy...

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Re: Robert Gentel (Post 3401287)

Another example:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/2807838577_83cbed0126_o.jpg?t=1053139

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Re: Robert Gentel (Post 3401291)

truly hilarious

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Re: Robert Gentel (Post 3401287)

Where do you find your material? It's the best

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Re: Sglass (Post 3401377)

I follow a lot of sites and most of the stuff I post I find through their crowd sourcing or aggregation. I use a lot of social bookmarking to both save the interesting things I find and to find things that others found interesting and have recommended. This site's going to have social bookmarking like that in the future so this is where I'll do my bookmark sharing.

So basically what I do is use the crowd to surf the internet for me, and there are whole sites dedicated toward finding sites that the crowds find interesting, like:

delicious.com
stumbleupon.com
digg.com
reddit.com

I follow a lot of other aggregators and specific niches I'm interested in (technical, academic and news) but those sites are where I run into most of the things people here find interesting.

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Re: Robert Gentel (Post 3401381)

Where do you mainly go for news?

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Re: dlowan (Post 3401475)

To catch breaking news I read CNN and that's probably the news site I visit first if I just want to see what's going on. When I want to know more about a particular subject I'll then search (web search and news search) and land on all kinds of different sources depending on the story.

I also get news through a variety of RSS feeds from Yahoo, Google News, and many many more (I've used hundreds of different feeds) and I use a lot of different niche sites (for example in tech I'll often read news.com, techcrunch, engadget, ...... I don't want to list them all, I sometimes blog tech news on a tech blog that Nick and I (and eventually Steve) are doing but since a2k launched I haven't had a lot of time for that.

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