Where We Get Our News

A lot of people ask where we get all of the news that we filter to find our daily news links. Here is my system…

I use Google Reader, which is an easy way to track all the news and blog posts from the sites you care about in one place. Every morning, I’ll pull up all of the headlines written since the previous day. I subscribe to all of the sites listed in the blogroll at the bottom of this page, as well as local and imp0rtant newspapers and news sites.

To help you guys have access to top news and commentary as it breaks, we’ve added a feed from my Google Reader list to the bottom of the pages on Bay Area Real Estate Trends.

Within the feeds I can see in Google Reader are several blogs that regularly put out their own daily reading lists. I can usually find some good stories on Patrick.net, Naked Capitalism, Counterparties, The Big Picture, The Mess That Greenspan Made, and a handful of other places.

I’ll also give extra attention to recent posts from Calculated Risk and Mish. And, if there is a real estate post on CR, I’ll usually skim through the hundreds of comments to see if anyone has posted links to other related content. The Calculated Risk comment threads are a great resource.

Then there’s Twitter.

I’m following most of the movers-and-shakers in the economic-financial-real-estate world. I’ll quickly skim through tweets looking for anything breaking. Here’s a list of who I’m following.

I’ll take one last quick pass through some of my favorite news sites, just to make sure we’re not missing anything important. My favorites are The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, and The Atlantic.

Start to finish, the process usually takes me about an hour. And, I get to read all of the top news and commentary in the process – something I’d be doing anyway.