<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/da09018e-e80f-40ab-a1e1-7b7203eadb2a/6DBBC9BE-4571-408B-AE11-6C88EB5A4215/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/3-steps-to-highly-efficient-news-reading" href="http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/3-steps-to-highly-efficient-news-reading" style="font-size: 11px;">dmiessler.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/3-steps-to-highly-efficient-news-reading">One of the main problems we as information fetishists face is the lack of a solid, repeatable methodology for processing new input online. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/3-steps-to-highly-efficient-news-reading">At the core of efficient news reading is having quality sources.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/3-steps-to-highly-efficient-news-reading">One of the coolest recent developments for people who value both time and information has been the emergence of meta-sources, or aggregated sources, of news.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/3-steps-to-highly-efficient-news-reading"><OL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Open your RSS reader.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Go through your feeds and either read each item right in the reader or open it separately (in a browser tab).</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">When you’ve gone through all your feeds, <STRONG>close your reader</STRONG>; you’re done with it.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Go to your browser and start from the left-most tab. Read each item, focusing on the core content and not the fluff. Remember, most items are like 80% fluff.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">If the item is a good reference or you may want to read it again or show it to others, <STRONG>archive it</STRONG> using a service like Del.icio.us.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">When you’re done processing all the open tabs, <EM>you’re done reading news.</EM></LI> </OL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6DBBC9BE-4571-408B-AE11-6C88EB5A4215/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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