Twitter, Prismatic, Google Reader, and Hacker News keep me up to the minute on the tech news I care about.? While I tune my feeds to give me more signal and less noise, popular links frequently repeat: five people I follow on Twitter link to a story, then I find it on top of my Prismatic feed, and later it’s on the front page of Hacker News.<\/p>\n
I therefore treasure orthogonal sources that break out of that echo chamber.? The “Four Short Links”<\/a> series on the O’Reilly Radar<\/a> blog is one of my favorites.? Every day Nat Torkington<\/a> offers four links to under-the-radar news items joined with description and commentary of masterful brevity.? It holds pride of place among my RSS subscriptions; maybe you’ll like it, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Twitter, Prismatic, Google Reader, and Hacker News keep me up to the minute on the tech news I care about.? While I tune my feeds to give me more signal and less noise, popular links frequently repeat: five people I follow on Twitter link to a story, then I find it on top of my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}