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Your morning tabs 38 comments

12:40pm 07 Feb 2012  There a few pleasures in life as recklessly 21st century as five tabs simultaneously loading, while you sip your coffee and pick morning music. Granted, we don't all go on the internet in the morning - many of us first get online at work/school, and some wait until they get home in the evening. Some people don't even go online most days, but those people probably aren't reading this blog anyway. I would guess quite a few people load their email, a few news sites, and a social network or two first up. But what else, and which ones? I open the usual suspects, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, gmail, Stuff, NYTimes, but it also gets a bit more specific to me, Techmeme, Pandodaily, AdWeek, and ShortFormBlog . Truly, without the middle click (if you didn't know - the middle click opens links in new tabs. Try it.) this would be a painful experience. I used to be all about the RSS feeds in my Google reader, but now I pretty much only use RSS for work, Twitter seems to have replaced what I used to use it for. I also used to read TechCrunch every day, but its quality has deteriorated due to the loss of some important writers. I used to read the Guardian too, but NYTimes has slowly replaced that. So which news sites are you all about in the morning? Do you avoid Facebook early on or check it immediately? Are there specific blogs that you find important enough to check immediately? Or are you maybe more spartan in your immediate use, checking your email before closing your browser to do some serious work? If so, whoa. Does being at work change what tabs you immediately open?