One of my pet interests of late is the Getting Things Done (GTD) ideas and lore of David Allen. So, I subscribe to a feed from PubSub that searches in blogs for GTD and I get a list of those entries as they are written.
Today I happened upon a really great little article that James Fallows of the NYTimes wrote called Programmers Devise New Ways to Make the Pieces Work Together. Notification about this article came from my GTD PubSub feed which found Marc Orchant's brief blog piece on theofficeweblog pointing to the NYT.
Those are the facts. What struck me is how great it is to be able to find out about this stuff in a timely manner. I doubt that I would have ever even found this excellent little piece without my RSS reader and all the blogging community and the NYT working together on my behalf.
We are all so busy these days. We rely on our network to clue us into things we should pay attention to. I used to rely on my own browsing efforts and word of mouth from my personal friends. Not any more! I feel so connected and in a way protected. People are looking out for me. People I haven't met... Thanks.
