TL;DR
This post is about how I manage blog posts reading list. It list tools that I use on daily basis to collect and share what I read.
My first try was twitter. I use it for collecting my blog post reading list by following software testers that blog about software development and testing topics. Here is my following list.
But very soon, twitter failed me. As they started pivoting their business model, very soon I received in my twitter feed a lot of noise (shares, likes, advertisement, flame discussions).
Then I turned to rss Google reader. RSS is old technology, and you can check if web site supports it by just adding /rss at the end of site url. No noise, no flame wars, just useful data. Notifications about new blog posts. But Google decided to shut down Reader (no advertisements rings a bell).
Rss reader market is not so big, and after short investigation, I found Newsblur . It has browser and mobile desktop and I use paid option (I think 27 us$ per year).
I have around twenty feeds that I am following (security, software development and software testing).
Another issue is how to share what I have red to support the author? I know, there is Twitter, Facebook. But my Facebook friends are mostly not connected with software development.
Here is how I share my reading list. Newsblur has it own share feature, one click away. It is called blurblogs. What I share, directly goes to my blurblogs page. That page also has rss feed. I expose it on this blog first page.
rss is old and very useful technology, give it a try.
