by thepostman2020 » Mon Oct 05, 2015 4:09 am
3 different mail accounts (personal, university, professional) using
mu4e as a mail user agent.
RSS Feeds for news using
Elfeed. I have about 200 feeds on different topics including Cambodia, Information Security, Environment, Science, Terrorism, Peacekeeping, Academic, Newspapers like The Guardian, Australian ABC, SBS, etc. RSS is the fastest way to scan lots of news. The link to the IT and Techy Forum has suggestions for RSS for most people.
Feedly or
TheOldReader.
Howard Rheingold, an information guru, swears by
Netvibes.
Twitter is good for breaking news. I use
Twittering Mode in
Emacs for that. For Cambodia news you might want to
follow these people and the
hashtags #Cambodia and #rightskh. Most of them are still active.
LinkedIn for some networking.
Facebook is mainly for shite and to keep up with friends around the world. The main reason I stay on it. Posting news on Facebook makes you a
cognitive slave. ( I suppose that is true on 440 as well.
) A lot of people don't check their email regularly, but they check Facebook.
I watch a lot of YouTube documentaries. If I find an author I like, I put their name into YouTube, and often find they have given a talk somewhere.
Google and
TED talks can be good. If you are interested in history
Conversations with History is a good site.
I listen to a few podcasts including
Long Now,
Kings College War Studies, along with
Sources and Methods. For computer nerds
Security Weekly is pretty good.
The TV is in the family area which is usually tuned to Khmer Karaoke. So I tend to watch
Al Jazeera's live stream once a day for news. Their Middle East reporting on Yemen or Isreal is suspect but it
tends to have actual news as compared to CNN which is mainly gossip. BBC is slightly better than CNN.
Khmer440 of course!
I tend to read mostly on the desktop. With Twitter for the mobile phone. I have a Nexus 7 tablet but I rarely use it, except to read .pdf's or epubs. I am about to resurrect
my ancient EeePC 701 4G as a disposable device which I can carry around. It is light enough, but has an actual keyboard unlike most tablets. With Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS I'll have security support until 2017.
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Khmer440 of course!
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