I still the WOZ, @Wochenzeitung, and the Monde Diplomatique (German translation).
On Twitter, I follow @boingboing, @xeni, @freedomofpress, @ggreenwald, @kgosztola, @eff, @csoghoian.
On Google+, I follow +Jürgen Hubert, +Jorgen Schäfer, +Kristian Köhntopp, +Aljoscha Rittner, +Yonatan Zunger, +Rajini Rao.
On Facebook, I just follow friends and family.
I listen to a lot of Podcasts to get my fix of music, history and philosophy.
I also read some websites and blogs, but not as frequently as Google+...
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Maybe I am old fashioned, but I simply don’t get it. What’s the point of following someone?
– AlexDaniel 2014-08-15 00:58 UTC
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I guess the point is: Where do you get your “news” from? I don’t read the daily newspapers. I have a weekly newspaper and a monthly newspaper. The people I listed provide me with a sort of “food for thought” stream. They write about politics, science, feminism, design—the very things I’d like to see in a newspaper, but opinionated, short, some interesting comments. In a way, they are the add-on journalists that I’m missing in my newspaper, I guess.
– Alex Schroeder 2014-08-15 06:35 UTC
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That makes sense! But how do you keep yourself from being distracted because of these?
– AlexDaniel 2014-08-16 02:58 UTC
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I don’t. 😥
That’s the other side of this coin. I still remember when I was a teenager and later, in my early twenties, I subscribed to various daily and weekly newspapers. And it was just so much to read! I was frustrated, and so I canceled many of my subscriptions. These days, the same is true for Twitter and G+: Every now and then I will try to prune the list. And sometimes many days pass and I don’t read any of it. As a news consumer in an age of plenty, I need to learn to let go, to not drink from the fire hose.
A small benefit of getting the news online is that it doesn’t feel like waste when you don’t read it. Unread tweets are nothing. Unread newpapers are dead weight, dead trees, and they require recycling.
– Alex Schroeder 2014-08-16 09:37 UTC