Your Take On(line) Reality? 61
Omega1045 asks: "It is a fact that our perception is based on the information given to us. I find tha Slashdot readers offer a wealth of knowledge though the various sites they reference. I ask Slashdot, where do you surf to on a daily basis? What is your daily pattern of information retrieval? This is of particular interest to me as the Internet has made us all publishers. There are many sources of information, all with their own slant on the day's news, many non-traditional. Where do my fellow peers go on a daily basis?"
Well... (Score:2)
avalanche.org (Score:2)
Declan McCullagh's Politech (Score:3, Informative)
The Politech [politechbot.com] mailinglist.
From http://www.politechbot.com/info/about.html [politechbot.com]:
my habits (Score:4, Informative)
newsforge.com [newsforge.com]
theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk]
my university's daily newspaper (no link!)
fark.com [fark.com]
the smirking chimp [smirkingchimp.com]
dr. fun [ibiblio.org]
the daily vault [dailyvault.com] (although i review there once in a while)
google news [google.com]
daily rotten [dailyrotten.com]
lwn.net [lwn.net]
crackmonkey archives [crackmonkey.org]
the dot [kde.org]
kde-look.org [kde-look.org]
corona's coming attractions [corona.bc.ca]
snopes' update page [snopes.com]
doc's weblog [weblogs.com]
And I think that's about it for a daily basis.
OSNews.com and heise.de (Score:1)
Heise News [heise.de] (German IT news, the guys that make the c't) - they have an English Version [heise.de], too (though you won't find anything there)
Re:OSNews.com and heise.de (Score:1)
Daily Dilbert [dilbert.com] (though I get the newsletter)
Userfriendly [userfriendly.org] - the other famous comic strip
Nicht lustig [nichtlustig.de] - cool German comics, soon to be expected an a daily basis because the author signed a contract. Currently he's busy with his book, though.
Penny-Arcade.com (Score:1)
My usual trip: (Score:3, Informative)
User Friendly
Mega Tokyo
Sinfest
Then, I usualy go to Slashdot. Then its off to the
linux game tome (happypenguin.org),
then linuxgames.com. After that comes
gbacentral.net,
doomworld,
desktoplinux.
firingsquad.com,
tomshardware.
Oh, and TheHaus.net and icculus.org.
Whem I'm bored I sometime check ve3d.com and
http://www.redlynx.com/phobiaIII/index.html (to see if the long delayed Phobia 3 version is finaly out).
About once a week I check linuxhardware.org, but its not updated often.
Also, I frequently browse sourceforge.net, contributing to escape of the unicorn (www.sourceforge.net/projects/eounicorn) which is in early beta.
That's about it, now you know everything about my browsing habits and didn't have to install any spywares into my computer.
Have I been fooled?
Common Dreams (Score:1)
Common Dreams [commondreams.org] is absolutely incredible. Pulls together progressive news and opinion from newspapers and magazines all around the world. You truly will be exposed to news that you will never see if you stick with the New York Times. Don't let the word 'progressive' scare you either. While I would agree there is a lot of what many would consider "liberal" opinion, the emphasis is on hard news. Just as I would never discount something that's been labelled 'conservative' out of hand, allow yourself the same liberty with this fine site and do yourself the favor of truly broadening your perspective. This is what the internet was meant for.
List of sites (Score:2)
1.) CNN [cnn.com]
2.) LinuxToday [slashdot.org]
3.) OSnews [osnews.com]
4.) KernelTrap [kerneltrap.org]
5.) Yahoo! Mail [slashdot.org] - Only including this because it's in my list.
6.) ExtremeTech [extremetech.com]
7.) AnandTech [anandtech.com]
8.) Tom's Hardware [tomshardware.com]
9.) 2cpu [2cpu.com]
10.) Slashdot [slashdot.org] - Last because it takes the longest.
Hmm, come to think of it I have some wierd habits while surfing too. When I'm traveling my path of websites, I picture them on a 2d plane with distance in between. CNN on the left, linuxtoday in the lower middle, etc. Anyone else do this?
Re:List of sites (Score:1)
> I have a definite list and surprisingly an order too (anyone else do this compulsively?)
I've got a order and a list. It's in phoenix group bookmark feature. I've got a bookmark group in phoenix named "morning" that I check every, yeah, you guessed it, morning. Get out of bed, make coffe, smoke cigarette and then check e-mail, IM and the morning bookmark. The coffee actually isn't ready yet.
The bookmark contains of:
GrepLaw - online law (Well I'm a law student)
Gnuheter - Swedish news about open source (I'm swedish)
Dilbert - well
User Friendly - of course
NYT - Usuallay well written news
dagen.com - Christian swedish online news. I don't relly know why I read it, It's nice to get a perspective on things.
Google News - Check what's has happened while I was asleep
Aftonbladet - Swedish news
Slashdot -
Time to get my coffee.
NOT newscientist.com (Score:1)
i.e. The secret of hiccups!
I have absolutely no idea why
My daily reality.... (Score:4, Informative)
By the way, let me take this oppurtunity to sing the praises of RSS, an XML schema, that allows for new aggragtors such as NetNewsWire for OSX to collect and read blog, new sites, etc... from one app... Wonderful stuff.... If your websites aren't outputting it, they should be!
"Realworld" News
indymedia.org - far left news and thoughts
newsmax.com - far right news and thoughts
nytimes.com - somewhere inbetween, leaning to the left
I do this to balance things out so that hopefully the info I am being fed (and don't lie to yourself, you ARE being fed) is at least a bit varied, and I can try to make own my own conclusions...
What is popular and currently interesting: (Popular doesn't mean best, but i AM interested in what's popular)o rg
daypop.org/top
memepool.com
slashdot.
Tecnical Reference
phpbuilder.com - php and mysql reference
http://forums.macnn.com/ - all things Mac
devshed.com - more php and mysql
www.macdevcenter.com - more Mac
macosxhints.com - OSX centric
arstechnica.com - everything else!
Breaking Mac News:
maccentral.com
macnn.com
thinksecret.com (for somewhat reliable rumors)
General Interest
howstuffworks.com - one of THE most underated sites online
Fun
I have a girlfriend for fun.
Re:My daily reality.... (Score:2, Funny)
"Oh, so I'm 'for fun', am I?! This is just a fling to you, is that it?! You've never taken this relationship seriously! Why won't you make any commitment?? Let me tell you, mister..."
etc.
my reality (Score:2)
My weblog declares sources in 'jumpbars' (Score:5, Interesting)
The links are just abbreviations, so you have to explore to discover what they mean, but the advantage to this is that I can cite the abbreviation easily each time I link a story found via that source.
The idea of putting them in rows at the top is so that frequent visitors to my blog can jump to other sources if they don't find anything new/interesting at mine. (I call them 'jumpbars'.) Lately I've started adding little asterisks for sources that have recently done especially noteworthy updates.
My local startpage duplicates the jumpbars, and adds less-frequent sources like monthlies. When I started blogging I made a serious effort to learn the update schedules of every online periodical, and I created a generic startpage [robotwisdom.com] that summarised these. (It's badly out of date now.) The idea was to encourage people to copy this page and customise it to their interests. But knowing when zines usually update makes it easy to prioritize my surfing-schedule. (I wish all periodicals spelled this info out on their front page, eg The Onion comes out late Tuesday.)
I think NewsHub [newshub.com] still isn't appreciated for its headline-aggregation pages. I'd use NewsLinx [angel.net] too except that most all the tech zines have decided to use obnoxiously junky html-design, so I stick with Slashdot and the Register for tech news.
My politics are lefty, and Sam Smith's Progressive Review [prorev.com] gives a very deep daily summary with links, while Common Dreams [commondreams.org] reprints full articles from many major sources. A newcomer is Memory Hole [thememoryhole.org] that specializes in stories the mainstream media tries to suppress/ignore.
For space news, NasaWatch [nasawatch.com] is tops. I've mostly given up on Drudge and Salon, and am having doubts about the BBC science page.
Other daily faves include the AstroPic of the Day, two poem-of-the-day sites, Zippy the Pinhead, and various blogs. A weekly that I think is underappreciated is Dean Baker's Economic Reporting Review [tompaine.com] that gives a very dry weekly critique of economics-propaganda in the NY Times and Washington Post. (They very systematically distort the facts with the obvious goal of redistributing the wealth upwards.)
Usually in this order (Score:1)
http://slashdot.org [slashdot.org]
http://art.gnome.org [gnome.org]
http://themedepot.org [themedepot.org]
http://freshmeat.themes.net [themes.net]
http://debianplanet.org [debianplanet.org]
http://gnome.org [gnome.org]
http://google.com [google.com]
Then I usually log into Blackboard at school to see if I have any new assignments or if any messages have been posted since I last checked. Then it's off to my numerous webmail accounts with netscape.com, cup of coffee, hop on the bus, go to class. Sneak a peak at Slashdot while the teacher is not looking. lather, rinse, repeat
Re:Usually in this order (Score:1)
Albums [pihlopase.mine.nu]
mmm sites (Score:1)
My List: (Score:1)
And then:
Newsforge
Overclockers.com
Slashdot
The Register
Osopinion
Osnews
Wired
theinquirer.n
On my way to work I listen to Don Wade and Roma out of Chicago for semi-coherant national news and talk.
Generally: (Score:2)
http://www.shacknews.com/ [shacknews.com]
http://www.slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org]
http://www.linuxgames.com/ [linuxgames.com]
http://www.icculus.org/ [icculus.org]
http://www.flipcode.com/ [flipcode.com]
http://www.google.com/ [google.com]
http://www.gouranga.com/ [gouranga.com]
http://curmudgeon.linuxgames.com/ [linuxgames.com]
http://icculus.org/fingerdigest.html [icculus.org]
http://kerneltrap.org/ [kerneltrap.org]
No doubt this will be buried into the mass of similar posts before long, but it is a decent format for listing where people generally go...
do until die (Score:1, Funny)
20 sleep 30
30 goto 10
Interesting question (Score:3, Funny)
news.google.com (Used to be news.yahoo.com - I like Google better).
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=i
Slashdot.org (Where I come to flame, troll, be trolled, etc)
Kuro5hin.org (For thoughtful debate)
Salon.com (+5, Insightful)
Plastic.com (+5, Funny)
portland.indymedia.org (Check on the local anarchists/communists/Earth! Firsters)
www.indymedia.org (Check on the global anarchists/communists/Earth! Firsters)
my daily routine.. (Score:2, Informative)
Freshnews (Score:1)
slashdot
zdnet
o'reilly network
newsforge
coding style
linux today
freshmeat
bsd today
megarad
techdirt
ars technica
the register
the inquirer
acm
use perl;
madville
linux news
kuro5hin
linux hardware
designtechnica
geeknews
warp2search
icannwatch
neowin
RISKS digest
internet news
wired news
macslash
advogato
tom's hardware
quick like (Score:2)
www.cnn.com
www.foxnews.com
www.msnbc.com
www.usatoday.com
boxofficemojo.com
www.fark.com
starnix.org
news.google.com
aard.org
nicoal.org
www.yzedf.com/links.html
www.ninenine.com
www.sexkey.com
www.speedtv.com
my daily dose of news media (Score:1)
After that it's usually off to non-news stuff like Diesel Sweeies [dieselsweeties.com] or whatever.
I look at the local newspaper occasionally, even though their editing is awful and they get facts wrong in the subject areas I know about, which makes me wonder if they ever get it right the rest of the time. I only watch TV news if something important is happening. (Celebrities getting arrested isn't important, so I rarely watch TV news.) If something interesting is happening and I don't think the TV news is worth turning on, I hit the Google News [google.com] beta site and type keywords.
'Old fashioned' sources (Score:2)
My faily sites (Score:1)
OK, the sites I visit every day are:
Slashdot [slashdot.org] - my home page, visited several times per day.
The Register [theregister.co.uk] - also several times per day.
Amiga news sites, each visited once per day:
Amiga.org [amiga.org]
AmigArt [amigart.com]
Czech Amiga News [czex.com]
Online comics, each visited once per day:
Dilbert [dilbert.com]
Peanuts [snoopy.com]
That's all folks!
emperor's new clothes (Score:2)
anyways, I found out some information about the Serbians in World War II that seems likely to be true and interesting.
Emperor's new clothes [tenc.net]
Re:emperor's new clothes (Score:2)
But I find what appears to be a premise of the site; that you find out what is 'really' happening or what really happened flawed. Even if you could, that wouldn't help you find a way out of the mess; firstly some people wouldn't believe you even if you had 100% accurate and truthful evidence; secondly different people base their decisions on evidence, it's just that different people will base their decision on different pieces of evidence.
Finally, I noticed some tendency of the site to condemn other commentators based on their opinions on completely disconnected areas. This amounts to being ad hominem attacks.
As with all these sites you have to take the evidence with a ton of salt. Personally I would trust say, the BBC, much more than this site.
so that means it's a pretty lousy world.
Probably ;-)
Re:emperor's new clothes (Score:1)
Favorites, listed by Category (Score:3, Interesting)
The Dailies (Score:2)
FOXNews [foxnews.com]
Drudge [drudgereport.com]
Rush [rushlimbaugh.com]
InstaPundit [instapundit.com]
The Bleat [lileks.com]
Dilbert [dilbert.com]
Blue's [bluesnews.com]
jwz [livejournal.com]
Davezilla [davezilla.com]
Netscape with multiple URLs on one bookmark (Score:3, Insightful)
What this means is you can bookmark a group of URLs, and then download them in parallel. That's much faster, because you don't have to wait for each to download individually, since even with broadband, it takes a while for each page to download. Also, you don't have to think about it; you can download the same URLs every day.
Try it; it's very cool; atleast it is if you like using tabbed browsing.
My own additions... (Score:1)
Most of the obvious sites have already been posted, but I'd like to add two more to the list:
My first 5 daily reads. (Score:1)
Unless I'm moderating I usually just skim the top with highest scores first although I regularly work my way to the first posts at the bottom. Not to join on the bandwagon but moderation has gotten terrible so I've set all the negative moderations to have a 1+ value in my preferences. This in effect negates them so an article has as fair a chance of reaching me as any other not moderated. I haven't decided that all negative moderations are evil so I also haven't come to the conclusion that any moderation is worth my attention. I'll set my preferences to 2+ if that ever happens.
I follow up slashdot with a somethingawful.com [somethingawful.com] chaser to set my mind at ease and to be reassured that getting aggrevated is futile since the internet makes you stupid.
After reading the day's feature, I then check their Awful Link of the Day. Unless it belongs to a very original freak or a freak ailed by something an acquaintance suffers from, I pass. If it can't give me ammo to tease friends I always opt for my own nomination, macosrumors.com [macosrumors.com]
In the rare case of an update I'll read it for laughs unless it's a processor based update. I don't have a comedy chaser ready for those instances so there's no point in winding myself up into a murderous rage.
A quick stop afterwards at maccentral.com [maccentral.com] usually satisfies the need for real Mac news although I'm thinking of solely switching to macdevcenter.com [macdevcenter.com] since they have Mac Central updates on a sidebar.
The subject says "5 daily reads" and for now that's macdevcenter.com [macdevcenter.com] which I got into by following slashdot articles. This slot is always being contested and it's a good thing I only read The Filthy Critic [bigempire.com] on Monday. --- and then I got tired of proofreading my post
Foreign news (Score:2)
American news sucks - incomplete and mostly domestic. When you go to the BBC News, click the 'outside UK' option, and you'll get great world coverage without any news of the Midwestern family that heroically rescued their cat amidst a thunderstorm.
Re:Foreign news (Score:2)
I can't say I like their new news format as well as the last one though. To me it's harder to scan the headlines now.
My _Daily Folder (Score:2, Informative)
Whenever a new site I want/need to check regularly I add it to this list. It's like my morning newspaper, without the paper.
In my _Daily folder I currently have:
(Fun)
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3
http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.htm
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html
http://www.userfriendly.org/
(Friends and blogs)
http://www.kuro5hin.org/user/sunbeam60/diary
http://www.rasmus.sigsgaard.com/blog.php
http://www.kuro5hin.org/
http://meidell.dk/blog
(News) http://slashdot.org/
http://wired.com/
http://www.computerworld.dk/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID=1
http://www.memepool.com/
http://osnews.com/
http://www.shacknews.com/
http://www.gonegold.com/
Many of these are dispersed with a quick scan, and nothing more. Others are checked thoroughly and spawn many new tabs (like /.)
Mostly traditional news and recreation, really. (Score:3, Interesting)
The stats and status page for an intranet service I'm involved in running.
www.dilbert.com - 'nuff said
keepersoflists.org - a bit hit and miss, but occasionally +5 coffee-through-nose funny
www.theregister.co.uk - essential
slashdot - 'nuff said
www.telegraph.co.uk - Yes, it's antidiluvian right-wing stuff, but the Alex cartoon strip in the business section is a deadly accurate parody of the financial services biz (currently exploring the world of unemployed investment bankers after Alex has been laid off by MegaBank....)
www.ananova.com/news - headline scan in case they've picked up something the BBC has missed.
Google news - For a more US-centric take on the world
catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/ - The Risks list digest - when my automatic checker flags an update
www.economist.com - The Economist newspaper, on Fridays - I get the print edition too but the web site has additional stories.
Various news and info pages on employer's intranet.
Reuters news service via employer's intranet, especially for air transport information
3 airline booking sites every few weeks to track any useful special offers
Total time taken: maybe 15 minutes if there's a lot going on.
Yes, I'm an expat Brit IT-er working in financial services. How could you tell?
My news aggregate (Score:2)
You can read the group nicely formatted at mcgroarty.net/inkfeed [mcgroarty.net]. Each includes a link to the site it comes from underneath the article.
My list (Score:1)
Netscape Messenger
Yahoo! Mail
CNN.com
News.com
Googling for work and whatever sites that takes me to
Boners.com (less and less, not alot of updates lately)
DailyRotten.com and whatever sites that takes me to
Games-Workshop.com to see if there's anything new
Portent.net to check on 40K rumors
Googling for curiousity and whatever sites that takes me to
Re:My list (Score:1)
www.gentoo.org - checking on news
www.openzaurus.org - checking on news
www.neurosaudio.com - checking on the forums
My recently shortened list (Score:2)
I visit these pretty much every day:
Globe Gazette - local paper at globegazette.com
Slashdot
BBC News
The Scotsman - thescotsman.co.uk
User Friendly
Various email account sites
If I have time I'll also visit:
The Register
sffworld.com Message Boards - sf/fantasy book discussions
babynames.com Message Boards - people ask for advice on names for their kids
I also get a NY Times email update in the morning and sometimes visit their site to read the stories when a headline grabs my eye.
One other site I recently started checking out is the World News Network - WN.com
While sipping my morning coffee... (Score:2)
2) Slashdot [slashdot.org] - News for Nerds
3) Washington Post [washingtonpost.com] - GF takes the morning paper with her
4) ArsTechnica [arstechnica.com] - always looking for new hardware
5) eBay [ebay.com] - not news? it's kinda like my price checking engine...
--trb
The sites I visit (Score:2)
I tend to skip visiting Free Republic during days of light political activity, not that there's any such thing nowadays. But for War on Terrorism news it's perfect.
http://www.economist.com/ brings a European perspective to the news, although I often get my fix through the print edition instead of the web. Although Europe has not been good at supporting us against Iraq (although The Economist has been steadfast), it does have better journalism overall than the US.
I've been checking out la.indymedia.org because I want to film a big left protest. I notice that the left and right nowadays are arguing completely at cross-purposes; if you visit a left web site, it doesn't even address the points given on the right, and vice versa. I find this unfortunate; how can you make up your mind on the issues when the two sides won't even debate?
Slashdot, of course.
I join the mainstream of Slashdot in reading http://www.theregister.co.uk - it has just the right sarcastic bite to it to make it fun to read the news.
http://www.ubersoft.net/ , while uneven, often reaches the level of true greatness, as when they had Binky, the paperclip character from Office, on the witness stand testifying for "Ubersoft".
http://www.macsurfer.com/ keeps me updated on the Macintosh world. http://www.appleturns.com/ is probably the world's best Mac news site, if they would only start doing it again. Having a kid seems to have really damaged their production schedule
http://www.wired.com still has high-quality news articles on an interesting range of subjects.
I don't have any particular routine, but on a typical day I'll visit all those sites. Slashdot and Free Republic tend to send me to some pretty strange sites on occasion.
News and humor (Score:2)
BBC News [bbc.co.uk], which everyone's familiar with;
CNN [cnn.com], the epitome of US government-sanctioned news;
The Economist [economist.com], of course;
The Times [thetimes.co.uk] of London,
Japan Today [japantoday.com],
Pravda [pravda.ru],
The Beijing Review [bjreview.com.cn],
Le Monde [lemonde.fr], and
The Tehran Times [tehrantimes.com]
EurekAlert [eurekalert.org], a great site for science and medicine press releases,
the former, but still running, Hacker News Network [hackernews.com],
BottomQuark [bottomquark.com],
the phenomenal journal Nature [nature.com],
Science [science.com] magazine,
and, of course, The Source [slashdot.org].
Some good comics, most of which you will all know, but which I love; here are a couple you might not know:
Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet [comicspage.com], a comic that actually features a female sysadmin/techgoddess, and
Bateman [batemania.com] Political cartoons, a fun political comic updated regularly.
And, of course, take a look at my sig... Click every day.
$$$$$exyGal (Score:1)
For tech headlines (and more) - dailyrotation.com (Score:1)
Quick Loading Headlines From 190+ Tech Sites. Pick the sites you want to see headlines for and they give it to you.
Can't live without it!
mmm...i like webcomics (Score:1)
Then (if there's still time before class, if not just after) I generally see whats up on
And well, thats about it. That I check frequently at least. I do like webcomics and strongly suggest that you check out Machall Megatokyo and Errant Story if you don't already though! And then there's also everything2 [everything2.org] but its not news and I can't check it daily (or else I would do nothing all day but read!) its too good at just drawing you in. And the anime turnpike [animeturnpike.com] to go browsing through Anime fansites...
My daily sites (Score:1)
Angst Technology [inktank.com], Ctrl Alt Del [ctrlaltdel-online.com], Dilbert [dilbert.com], Errant Story [errantstory.com], Force Monkeys [gamespy.com], Fox Trot [ucomics.com], goats [goats.com], Life of Riley [clanbob.net], Mac Hall [machall.com], Megatokyo [megatokyo.com], Misfire [misfirecomics.com], Penny Arcade! [penny-arcade.com], Sinfest [sinfest.net], Something Positive [somethingpositive.net], and finally Wendy [cutewendy.com].
Then, after my daily webcomic barage (not to say that these all update on a daily basis. Some are good [ like ctrl alt del, and penny arcade ] and update regularly. others... well...) I frequent other sites, for information.
Slashdot of course (not linking it...)
Gamespot [gamespot.com]
Games workshop [games-workshop.com],
and
Unconventional Conformity [uwaterloo.ca].
Other than that, I have a few sites i goto every so often. Or ones which i check throughout the day. But they become less important than the comics.
-Gharbad
Links as far left as you can get (Score:1)
From the Wilderness http://www.fromthewilderness.com/ [fromthewilderness.com]
What Really Happened http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ [whatreallyhappened.com]
Centre for Research on Globalization http://www.globalresearch.ca/ [globalresearch.ca]
Center for Cooperative Research http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/home.htm [cooperativeresearch.org]
Independent Media Center http://www.indymedia.org [indymedia.org]
Emperor's New Clothes http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/911page.htm [emperors-clothes.com]
9-11 the people's investigation http://www.911pi.com/ [911pi.com]
Guerrilla News Network http://www.guerrillanews.com [guerrillanews.com]
International A.N.S.W.E.R. http://www.internationalanswer.org/ [internationalanswer.org]
UK: The Observer (John Pilger) http://www.observer.co.uk/ [observer.co.uk]
UK: Independent (Robert Fisk) http://argument.independent.co.uk/ [independent.co.uk]
As a side note, I rarely use browser bookmarks; I keep my own index.html that I update daily, putting in references to articles I like and updating the top portion, of which the above are a subset. Then I can keep a copy of this on the internet in case I ever need it from a remote location.
my "bored" folder (Score:1)
Here's some I haven't seen mentioned:
Ben's Bargains [bensbargains.net] - because it's good to drool.
Homestar Runner [homestarrunner.com] - the only excuse for Flash on the web
Never forget... (Score:2)
Most of my dailies are listed in various strings, but each Friday, never forget....
Bob the Angry Flower! [angryflower.com]