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How do I stay "up to date" on software testing related stuff?

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"Up to date" can probably be debated as development in our field change quite fast, and what was ground braking yesterday, fast becomes old news today. I try to read as much as possible, and this usually vary from week to week, day to day due to other obligations, but I squeeze in some hours each week. This is mostly done on the evening, on the way to and back from work, and at work when I have 5-10 minutes until a meeting starts, and I can not start on anything new, I spend that time picking up a blog post or two, and traversing through it. There is a set of blogs I follow, these are mostly from other practitioners in the field software testing / development. All of them are organized in different folders in Feedly , which I use to aggregate the blog posts, news, and other information. Here is a screenshot of the structure that I have. Testing folder contain most feeds from about 50-ish sources, and I have separated some of the blogs into AutTesting (Automated Test

Here we go - jumping into it

Some years ago I considered starting a blog, writing, taking notes for myself publicly, sharing these and other ideas, I obviously did not get very far as it always seemed to be the wrong time to start. There were many reasons for not starting (some good ones too), mostly it was time consuming. I usually have many "balls in the air", and adding one more just seemed like something that I would not complete or follow up on, without any external factors helping or pushing me. Just a month ago, in December, I was discussing some issues with Anssi ( http://hellofatester.blogspot.no/ ) and during the discussion we touched into the theme of writing blog posts and sharing, and that both Anssi and I wanted to write more, in my case start to write. Coincidentally I read a blog post just prior to the meeting, where the author of that blog post, to which I'll hopefully find the link to and share later, explained that they were two colleagues that pushed each other to write mor