If you don’t have Google Reader with subscriptions set up, then I think you are either drowning in information or don’t have an effective and efficient way of managing your time to make sure that you don’t miss out on information. I personally monitor over 200 blogs each and every day in real time using Google Reader and the funny secret is that it doesn’t take that much time at all.

If you aren’t on Google Reader or something similar, here is a good and simple step-by-step direction of why to do it and how to set it up: What Is RSS? A Step-by-Step Guide to Google Reader

So now the question is: What does a discriminating enthusiast of forensic science monitor?

Here are my top picks (in no particular order in fact they are in alphabetical order):

• ASTM International – New Publications for Committee E11
• ASTM International – New Publications for Committee E30
• ASTM International – Standards and Workitems for Committee E11
• ASTM International – Standards and Workitems for Committee E30
• Behavioural Pharmacology – Current Table Of Contents
• Bench Notes: Forensic Science News
• BulletPath
• Chemistry and the Law
• Computer Forensics, Malware Analysis & Digital Investigations
• Crime Scene Training
• CSI and Forensic Blog
• CSI in training
• Expert Witness Blog
• ExperTox’s Blog
• Forensic Focus Blog
• Forensic Magazine
• Forensic News Blog
• Forensic Pathology Blog
• Forensic Science Blog
• Forensic Science Blog
• Forensic Science International
• Functional Group Forensics
• Injustice Everywhere
• ISO – Latest News
• It’s evident
• JONATHAN TURLEY
• Journal of Forensic Sciences
• Journal of Research – NIST
• Journal of the American Chemical Society: Latest Articles (ACS Publications)
• Lab/Operational Technology
• Mobile Telephone Evidence
• NIST TechBeat
• Nobelprize.org
• NOVA scienceNOW | PBS
• NOVA | PBS
• Pennsylvania DUI Blog
• Pennsylvania DUI Blog
• Press Releases from the Democratic Caucus, Committee on Science
• ProPublica: Articles and Investigations
• Retraction Watch
• Ride The Lightning
• RSC – Anal. Methods latest articles
• SANS Computer Forensics and e-Discovery with Rob Lee
• SciBlogs.co.nz
• Science & Law Blog
• Science Humor
• ScienceDaily: Latest Science News
• ScienceNOW
• Scientific American
• SCOTUSblog
• Suite101: Forensic Science Articles
• The Big Blog Theory
• the charles smith blog
• The Confrontation Blog
• The Crime Analyst’s Blog
• The McShane Firm, LLC – Law Offices
• The Truth About Forensic Science
• This Week in Science

You are probably thinking to yourself “Boy Justin, it takes a lot of time to go to each of these and subscribe.” No it doesn’t I am going to do you a favor and simply allow you to glam off my list. Here is an importable OPML file with them all. Enjoy. Google Reader: How to Import OPML Files

And here is the OPML (xml) file to import them all.