Comment by Mev-Rael on "How do you keep up to date with the technology world?"

In general thenextweb.com, techcrunch.com and producthunt.com altogether with many other news portals.

As a professional in specific field, you should know your tools and key persons in that field and follow them. For example, if it's Machine learning, you are following Andrew Ng and Jeff Dean, right? Anyway, you should follow key CEOs, CTOs around the world. Finally, you should have own network and follow your friends and other people. Everyone and everything is on Facebook/Twitter/Quora/Medium. Visit those platforms at least few times per week.

Set up your Facebook news feed, it is #1 world's information aggregator.

Join professional and regional groups on Facebook as well. Eventually, you will start following everything in one place. Just make sure you are not infinitely scrolling down and clicking on every cat gif.

I second the Facebook news feed thing, but caution against it's addictive nature. Maybe it's just me (I have severe ADHD), but after adding in sites like those you mentioned, my news feed has gotten a bit more addictive to scroll through; kind of like a futile search for more and more information.

What's frustrating is that they're algorithm is designed in such a way that even if you select "Show this page first" for a particular page, they only show it to you if it's new, rather than pinning it there.

This is part of what has me wanting to design my own personal dashboard, which will pull into information from various social networking sites using their OAuth APIs. First thing I'd get rid of is the linear infinite scroll. I've come to absolutely hate that design. I'd use a more folder-oriented, or haphazard-desk-oriented (dragable items with rotational physics / friction) dashboard style.

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