Drupal Feeds Worth Following

As we start 2009 I want to share some knowledge about how I keep up with what's going on in the Drupal community. Keeping up with the Drupal community is important to me because.I believe that in order to be successful in mastering Drupal you need to immerse your self in the world of Drupal.

One of the best ways to immerse yourself in Drupal is to keep track of the various sites where Drupal is discussed on a regular basis. I choose to keep track of my sites of choice by subscribing to RSS feeds. The concept of RSS may be new to people who are just getting started in web development. For the benefit of those people I've embedded a screencast below that shows how you can get started with RSS by using Google Reader.

• Drupal.org Main Page - These are items posted to Drupal.org that get promoted to the main page of the site. These are usually very useful stories.
• Drupal Search on Twitter - Lists all recent posts on Twitter that mention Drupal. This updates very frequently and will contain a lot of "noise" but can help you to find interesting people who are working with Drupal.
• Drupal Planet - An aggregation of a large number of Drupal oriented posts combined into one feed.
• Drupal on Delicious - Returns the latest 25 bookmarks saved on Delicious that were tagged with drupal.

There are lots more potential Drupal oriented feeds out there on sites like Flickr, YouTube and many others. I've found the four in my list to be the most interesting and/or helpful. Feel free to add feeds that you think are worth mentioning in the comments.

Google Reader Screencast

This video screencast will help you learn more about using Google Reader.