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Your time is limited (so is mine).  Here are the things really worthy paying attention to.  You’ll find most VCs, entrepreneurs, and industry insiders plugged into some subset of these.

If You Read One Thing Each Day

• Good Morning Silicon Valley – the daily news digest from the paper-of-record for Silicon Valley, the San Jose Mercury News.  A daily must-read that provides a perfect-size tech-news summary with links to noteworthy articles.  Subscribe to the e-mail version so you don’t lose an issue.

Online Media

• AllThingsD (by Wall Street Journal reporters.  Especially good is Digital Daily written by the former GMSV reporter, John Paczkowski)
• Wired News (daily tech news)
• TechCrunch (startup & tech industry coverage)
• GigaOm (startup & tech industry coverage)
• BusinessInsider’s Silicon Alley Insider – I particularly like the Chart of the Day (link to Twitter feed).
• CNet News (always worth a scan of RSS headlines)
• Things I check less regularly include VentureBeat, SeekingAlpha (stocks), and gadget blogs like Gizmodo, GDGT, Engadget.
• Stanford e-Corner podcasts & videos.

Mainstream Media (MSM)

• Wired Magazine
• FastCompany
• New York Times Technology
• BusinessWeek Tech
• Fortune/CNN Technology
• Forbes BusinessTech

Boston College

• BCVC (Boston College Venture Competition) – compete for $15K in prize money, be paired with a mentor, teams must be 50% BC undergrads.  Participants should also join the BCVC Facebook Group.
• Boston College Technology Council – Dinner and breakfast series attracting A-list speakers and great networking.  For BC alumni and parents.  There is also a Silicon Valley chapter.
• Chief Executive Club – Boston College – Often voted the top speaker forum in the country (ahead of the National Press Club and Detroit Economic Forum), the CEO Club attracts top-tier CEOs.  Club membership required, but occasionally the Deans will invite students.  Videos are often served via Boston College Front Row.
• Undergrads should consider joining the IS Academy (for ‘09-’10 contact Jenna Kazarian), while Grads should join the MBA TechClub (for ‘09-’10 contact Ashwin Somakumar).  Both groups co-sponsor campus speakers & run local TechTrek-style visits to area firms.
• BC also has a thriving presence on Twitter, including @BostonCollege, @BCAlumni, and @BCchronicle.  BC is also on Facebook and there are several thriving BC groups on LinkedIn.

Local Events

• MIT Enterprise Forum
• Harvard Cyberposium (annual weekend conference attracting star-caliber panels)
• Innovation Open Houses (Facebook Group), and Scott Kirsner’s Blog – cool Boston-area firms open their doors for student visits.
• Boston Jelly (working / learning entrepreneurial get-togethers) and video of global Jelly Talks.
• BetaHouse (co-working for technologists, entrepreneurs, creatives, in Central Square, Cambridge, MA)
• DartBoston – runs the Pokin’ Holes events (and webcast if you can’t attend), where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas & get on-the-spot feedback from experts. Must-see viewing for BCVC teams!
• MIT BiG (Business in Gaming conference)
• Boston Area Game Developer Meetups – small, informal meetings for area game coders.
• Web Innovators Group – events promoting Boston’s web & mobile innovation community
• EurekaFest & the Cambridge Science Festival – events that celebrate invention & science.  Family fun!
• Mass Innovation Nights – free launch parties at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation, connecting entrepreneurs with the marketplace.
• MITX (Mass Innovation & Technology Exchange) – professional association for area digital media, marketing, and tech pros.
• Facebook Group for Boston-Area Innovation Open Houses – Tech-Trek style visits, started by the Globe’s Scott Kirsner.  Scott’s Innovation Economy blog is a great source for area happenings, and his post on the Boston Startup Cultural Revolution helped inform my refresh of these resources.

Entrepreneurs and Startup Internships

• True Ventures TEC (Silicon Valley – last year two of eight interns were from BC)
• Highland Capital Partners Summer at Highland (two BC alums are Highland Partners – Dan Nova and Prof. Peter Bell)
• Spark Capital’s Summer@Spark (Spark Partner Bijan Sabet is a BC alum)
• TechStars Boston (get $18K in seed funding, plus mentoring and pitch opportunities)
• Y-Combinator (Silicon Valley).  Sequoia-affiliated early-stage funding/coaching.  BC Teams have been YC affiliated, and two BC alums are at Sequoia.  Also note YC resources news.ycombinator.com and searchyc.com.
• Stay in MA – a Flybridge Capital Partners event scholarship program that funds event costs (up to $100/event) for Massachusetts-based college students.
• Open Coffee – entrepreneur’s gathering co-founded by BC Alum Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital.
• The Awesome Foundation – modest ($1,000) grants and BetaHouse co-working space, offered monthly to those deemed to be working on, well, something awesome.

Key players in all of these efforts are on Twitter.  Follow those that you are interested in!

Put these things into an RSS reader and scan headlines.  There’s a lot I didn’t include, but hey, there’s only so much free time in a day!  If you feel super-passionately about a resource or opportunity, shoot it to me along with a brief summary on why it’s important.

Still pressed for time?  That’s what the Week in Geek’s for!