Without sources there would be no Daily Nerd. I don’t actively surf the web in search of interesting things, the things come to me. How? For example by people who send me a link, or by people who tweet something that might interest me. Twitter is definitely the most important source. But there is more.

RSS feeds

There are some RSS feeds I rely on: the bookmarks saved by Jeremy Keith, Kazuhito Kidachi and Paul Irish. The first two usually add a helpful description to their bookmarks. You can find another high quality feed on the Full Stop Interactive Blog, with valuable comments with each – always relevant – link. The rest of the links is distilled from a somewhat random collection of ancient and newer RSS feeds. Do you really want to know what they are? Here is the OPML file, I’ll try to update it every now and then (although it never changes dramatically).

People

As I said, Twitter is an important source. Not just for collecting links, but also to ask the opinion of some real specialists (without people like Mathias Bynens and Peter van der Zee I would never dare to write anything about JavaScript and without people like Ermo Leenders I wouldn’t write about UX). I sometimes ask for advice on the #fronteers IRC channel, an incredible place where you can chat with geniuses like Sander van Lambalgen, Stephen Hay, Krijn Hoetmer, Peter Beverloo, Anne van Kesteren and Divya Manian, among many, many others.

You

There are a few ways to send me a link. If you add the tag dntip to a bookmark on Delicious, Pinboard or a tweet on Twitter the link will be added to my Unread Items list on Pinboard. If I find the link of interest I will publish it (it might take a while before I get to read the link, my backlog can get pretty big).

I’m not really looking for more sources, there is more than enough info coming my way. If you think there is a source I must use you can always try to convince me.