http://thefuturevalueofbusiness.com/how-do-you-read-technical-articles.htm Using Business Intelligence to make data meaningful and solve business problems. Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:43:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://thefuturevalueofbusiness.com/how-do-you-read-technical-articles.htm/comment-page-1#comment-99 Scott Felten Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:14:42 +0000 http://thefuturevalueofbusiness.com/how-do-you-read-technical-articles.htm#comment-99 Ok...this is interesting...reading magazines using Google Earth's API - you gotta try this --> http://www.zkimmer.com/Statement/2007/August-September/index.html Ok…this is interesting…reading magazines using Google Earth’s API – you gotta try this –> http://www.zkimmer.com/Statement/2007/August-September/index.html

]]> http://thefuturevalueofbusiness.com/how-do-you-read-technical-articles.htm/comment-page-1#comment-13 David E. Bowman Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:02:49 +0000 http://thefuturevalueofbusiness.com/how-do-you-read-technical-articles.htm#comment-13 Personally I am an RSS junkie when it comes to reading. I subscribe to about 150 feeds. I love RSS because I can scan the headline and the 1st paragraph to see if I am interested. If not, on I go. Using a tool like Google Reader, where you can enable hotkeys to speed up the process, is critical. You can literally scan through 500 articles in a few minutes, bookmarking the good ones and passing over the rest. To balance this out, I try to spend some time every night going page by page through a book. Even then I read the index, the summary, and the notes first. That allows me to speed up my reading greatly. I have been reading a few articles on speed reading, which has helped me to get through books at a much more rapid clip. Still, the busier I get, the more I get picky about which chapters / pages I will consume before moving on to something else. Personally I am an RSS junkie when it comes to reading. I subscribe to about 150 feeds. I love RSS because I can scan the headline and the 1st paragraph to see if I am interested. If not, on I go. Using a tool like Google Reader, where you can enable hotkeys to speed up the process, is critical. You can literally scan through 500 articles in a few minutes, bookmarking the good ones and passing over the rest.
To balance this out, I try to spend some time every night going page by page through a book. Even then I read the index, the summary, and the notes first. That allows me to speed up my reading greatly. I have been reading a few articles on speed reading, which has helped me to get through books at a much more rapid clip. Still, the busier I get, the more I get picky about which chapters / pages I will consume before moving on to something else.

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