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22 July 2010
What are the first 10 websites you check daily and in what order?→[More:]
1. Gmail
2. Full screen weather (srsly, try it)
3. Tumblr
4. Metafilter
5. Metachat
6. Facebook
7. NPR
8. BBC
9. JSOnline (local news)
10. Flickr
Well my home page is google news. So I guess I look at that first. Then I open a menu that opens up tabs of
1=
Gmail
facebook
ask.mefi
mefi
meTa
MeCha
Twitter
yahoo fantasy baseball.
Then after I look at those, I open
9. google reader (open things that I'm interested in reading in tabs... I hate reading on google reader)
10. check my bank account/credit card balances.
etsy
gmail
mail.com
twitter
ask mefi
metachat
arts and letter daily
philadelphia craigslist furniture
oh no they didn't
trulia.com (awesome if you're looking for a house)
1. gmail + admin page + mefi recent activity [first three tabs open]
2. if none of those spawn other pages (they usually do) I'll check facebook and flickr and my bank
3. other top contenders include google news, livejournal friend feed and whatever twitter client I'm using [similar though not the same to checking twitter.com]
4. if really nothing is going on, I'll check quora and pop in here and write blog posts.
Twitter
Metachat
Facebook
Hotmail
Gmail
Google Calendar
Unfit for Mass Consumption
Out There
Geekologie
Nascar
Stock Car Science
Cracked
Google News
My bank
Netflix
1 - Metafilter
2 - Monkey Filter
3 - Digg
4 - Nothing To Do With Arbroath
5 - Give Away Of The Day
6 - I Have Seen The Whole Of The Internet
7 - Unique Daily
8 - Newsmap
9 - Metachat
I don't have a tenth site, unless you count checking my email acount which runs through my site
Gmail first, with or even (gasp!) before my coffee. After that, the order changes, but according to the last week of browsing history, the top morning sites are:
MeFi
AskMe
MetaChat
BBC news
weather.com
[local news/weather]
[my own damn blog]
FaceBook (though that's also The Fella checking his personal and writing accounts)
local library (that's surprising --- I didn't know I checked it every morning, but I do)
1. Yahoo Comics
2. Arcamax.com for the one comic I like that Yahoo doesn't have (Zits)
3+. Advice columns: Carolyn Hax, Annie's Mailbox, Ask Amy, Cary Tennis, and Dear Margo and John Gray on their appropriate days
4. Passive-aggressive Notes
5. Post Secrets on its appropriate day
6. Photoshop Disasters
7. Dan Shaughnessy Watch
8. You Suck at Craigslist
9. Newspaper Death Watch
10. Universal Hub
11. MetaChat
12. Metafilter
Also check A Gentleman's C and Boston the Hack, but they don't update very often.
google (homepage)
DOE email (Department of Education/work email)
gmail (two different accounts)
metachat
KDS (Knowledge Delivery Systems, for online courses in education I have to take to maintain my certification -- they're not bad, really, but tedious)
Not everyday, but often enough to be on my favorites bar:
Netflix
Craigslist NYC and New York Times Real Estate (I go through periods where I like to look at apartment listings)
Amazon (I'm always pricing something -- I just bought a TV Ears speaker system for my mom's birthday so she can hear the TV better at the rehab center and when she goes home; generally I price more than I buy, though)
SugarDVD (you can pay by the minute now; very effecient -- come on, people, where are the porn sites? I KNOW you visit porn sites -- ceiling cat is watching you!)
Lately:
JetBlue and Virgin America (mostly pricing hypothetical Vegas trips)
Macys furniture and Raymour and Flanigan (still thinking about that new living room set and new bed)
Botanical Gardens and Museum of Art (looking for things to do over the summer)
google reader (open things that I'm interested in reading in tabs... I hate reading on google reader)
gaspode, you should check out the "Feedly" extension for Firefox and Chrome. I use it and never have to actually visit Google Reader- the Feedly interface is great.
1. email
2. CNN (if any of the email headlines look interesting)
3. MetaChat
4. MetaTalk
5. AskMe Anon
6. AskMe Pets
MetaChat and MetaTalk get checked several times a day. The rest of AskMe gets checked a few times a week. Facebook is usually looked at once per day, but not always.
Thanks to desjardins I've added wunderground.com to the list.
I just installed Feedly. That first peek was overwhelming. I will need to do some serious pruning, but overall, the initial work looks well worth the effort.
My homepage is a MyYahoo page I set up more than 10 years ago (realizing the ramifications of that, YIPES). In addition, the tabs I always keep open are Gmail, YahooMail, Webmail for my @oneswellfoop.net addresses, the Cpanel for oneswellfoop.net and my other sites under construction (Coming Soon to Beta!), MetaFilter Blue, MetaChat and HELL YEAH Monkeyfilter. Sometimes I keep tabs open for MoFi's ongoing Blogspot and Numbers Game threads because THEY'RE FUN. (And MeCha's Blogspot thread has died off, leaving me as the last player. Come on people, "D-E-C-I-S-I-O-N", it's not that hard!)
The next things I look at are links from my MyYahoo page, news from msnbc, bbc, npr and the local newspaper, blogs from Scalzi, kottke, Mark Evanier, Miss Cellania and her workplace Neatorama, io9, Lifehacker, Consumerist, Smashing Mag, Weblog Tools, and every evening I check woot! for things I shouldn't be buying and my webcomic bookmarks (organized in folders based on what days they update)... you did say the first 100 websites, right?
Oh, I almost forgot, Weather Underground (the source for that Full Screen Weather site; thinking I may change to that page), where it's currently 67 degrees with scattered clouds in my town, aren't you jealous?
1. Yahoo! email
2. Work email
3. IGoogle.com home page
4. Google news aggregation page
5. MetaFilter, in following order: my page and any memail, then the Blue, the Gray, the Green
6. MetaChat
7. My credit union accounts
8. Twitter
0. 750words
1. Personal email
2. Personal facebook
Get to work
3. Work email
4. Work facebook
5. lysdexic email
6. metachat
7. metafilter/ask/talk + spawns
8. fark + spawns
9. Computerworld Daily Shark
I wonder if another thread needs to be started on how you save what you want to read later. Sometimes I'll start on something long and since I'm at work I need to pause. During the week I'll have a good 30 things open that I want to read or save. My dad sent me "read it later" but I also have stuff in IE and Opera and Chrome and Iron. I made Thursday braindump day, where I save up all the links and email them from work email to personal email.
1. GMail and my other mailbox (in Thunderbird)
2. Facebook
3. Metafilter
4. SA Let's Play forum
5. Weather: will it still be fucking hot tomorrow? - yes it will, just like for the past few weeks :(
6. EPL (local newspaper)
7. Kingdom of Loathing
8. Engadget
1. gmail (two accounts if it's during the school year)
2. facebook
kotaku
jezebel
metachat
ask.metafilter
metafilter
var. fic communities I lump together
NY Times
Huffington Post
1. Work Gmail
2. Personal Gmail
3. Facebook
4. Work client database (web app)
5. Work client email system (web app)
6. Bank
7. MetaChat
8. MetaFilter (usually AskMe and MetaTalk)
9. Our blog (What I Ate For Dinner) but only if we have done a new post the night before
This is the sum total of all the websites I ever check. I may go to others if I see an interesting link on MetaChat or MetaFilter. My web browsing habits used to be a lot more varied before I started working every waking minute.
gmail (and work email)
accuweather
politicalwire
nytimes/wpost/other national papers
sfgate
metafilter
delicious
popurls
political blogs (tpm, atrios, etc., though a lot less than I used to)
various other blogs (lifehacker/kottke/boingboing/dangerousmeta/etc.)
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