For years I've been aware of DotNetKicks (I believe the stream of consciousness at the time was, "Jeepers, this guy's put all this effort into a blog post, and someone's kicked him. Oh, it's a good thing. Oh, this site aggregates .net related links, and spreads those that are popular. That's cool!")
I only really got into it recently (shamefacedly, most likely since I started coveting those kicks as a blogger myself) and I must confess it's a struggle to keep up. What with the blog roll, the mailing lists I monitor, occasional forum posting, required daily research, links sent around the office, having more required reading so well shared via DNK can be overwhelming. Especially considering I've got to get some actual work in too.
Keeping up to date with trends and continuous improvement is an essential part of my job, so I make the time for most of it. I do sometimes wish I'd chosen a less progressive profession, though. Something like Phrenology, those guys haven't had any advances for ages...
The nifty links BlogEngine.NET had by default (note to self: one of these days I must customise this thing further) exposed me to DZone ("Oh great, more fresh links for developers"), previously unknown to me probably because they don't do trackbacks. DZone is awesome, the most polished of interfaces, and a great, wide variety of content. You can even be a bitch, and vote down. Nice.
Then today for the first time I noticed some other trackbacks appearing in blogs I read. Suddenly I noticed that people were being voted (great) on the Web Development Community, and linked on DotNetLinks. Not sure how long they've been around, but they're new to me.
Oh my. Come on guys, some of us are desperately trying to do some work over here :)
In the meantime though, I think I'll publish this to all those sites I've mentioned. Maybe I'll even discover some more...
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