So not learning new technologies, but just being aware of new ideas, approaches, early releases, progress on standards, etc.<p>At the moment, I just sort of browse HN/Reddit and look at books being published.<p>How do you stay informed?
You don't.<p>Really a good majority of the stuff that is released at any given moment is pretty worthless.<p>Fixing something that doesn't need to be fixed, begging you to move to something for the sole reason that its new without a valid reason, etc etc etc.<p>You don't have to keep up at any given moment. Things that are actually worth paying attention to will filter through eventually.
I read <a href="http://webplatformdaily.org/" rel="nofollow">http://webplatformdaily.org/</a> daily, and I subscribe to a few newsletters (PonyFoo, HTML5 weekly, JS Weekly). I read the changelogs for new versions of browsers. And, occasionally, I browse all the pages linked from chrome://chrome-urls. I've learnt about all sorts of old-but-new-to-me browser technologies doing that.
For a while I subscribed to the <a href="http://html5weekly.com/" rel="nofollow">http://html5weekly.com/</a> and <a href="http://javascriptweekly.com/" rel="nofollow">http://javascriptweekly.com/</a> newsletter. They publish several more and I still enjoy the nodejs one.