February 29, 2008: Saha in Front of a Brokedown Wall
As I've become busier at work, it's hard to keep up with all of my RSS reading. At one point, I was following more than 350 feeds, covering New York news, technology, and photography. I've been able to cut that down to about 100 feeds, mostly by removing sources that I didn't read, or that contained a lot of duplicated content. I've also started using a lot of aggregators, like Techmeme for tech news, or Outside.in for local blog coverage. But I've not been able to find anything good for photography-- has anyone heard of an aggregator that spots the best photoblog, photo news, and photo theory posts? Because that would be hugely helpful!
I did sign up for some sort of photoblog aggregator at some point, but it was just terrible. I discovered maybe three cool sites and waded through hundreds of terrible posts to get there.
Taking a look at my feed reader, the two really indispensable sites I check every day are Conscientious and Flak Photo. Between those two, I generally get a good amount of exposure to new artists and ideas every day.
My other trick for finding new work is subscribing to some of my favorite Flickr photographers' favorites RSS feed. I've been using that and vi.sualize.us (my feed is http://vi.sualize.us/dalton/) to bookmark some favorite photos from around the web. You could find a few people with interesting taste on either of those sites to track and get a healthy dose of new work every day.