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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?"
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  • Well... Slashdot of course. :)
  • Avalanche.org [avalanche.org]. Don't leave home without it.
  • by bob@dB.org ( 89920 ) <bob@db.org> on Wednesday February 26, 2003 @02:57AM (#5385042) Homepage

    The Politech [politechbot.com] mailinglist.

    From http://www.politechbot.com/info/about.html [politechbot.com]:

    Politech is the moderated mailing list of politics and technology. Topics include privacy, free speech, the role of government and corporations, antitrust, and more.
    Membership is free, and you can redistribute messages freely if you keep the information intact. You can expect to receive about three messages each weekday. Your email address will not be made public. Archives are available at politechbot.com.
  • my habits (Score:4, Informative)

    by Satai ( 111172 ) on Wednesday February 26, 2003 @03:04AM (#5385049)
    slashdot.org [slashdot.org]
    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.
  • OS News [osnews.com] (all about OSes and more, my favourite next to /.)
    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)
  • Penny-Arcade [penny-arcade.com] what? you only visit it once-a-day? sheesh...
  • My usual trip: (Score:3, Informative)

    by Drakker ( 89038 ) on Wednesday February 26, 2003 @03:10AM (#5385066) Homepage Journal
    My daily trip usualy begins with comics strip:

    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.c om,
    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 [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.

  • I have a definite list and surprisingly an order too (anyone else do this compulsively?)

    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?
    • afay wrote:
      > 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.
    • It's rediculous. They have either pointless stories or stories that don't matter worth beans. Many times both.
      i.e. The secret of hiccups!
      I have absolutely no idea why /. makes any reference to this pathetic wannabe science magazine.
  • My daily reality.... (Score:4, Informative)

    by heldlikesound ( 132717 ) on Wednesday February 26, 2003 @03:34AM (#5385120) Homepage
    Here's my regular sources of info, not including the twenty or so blogs i read everyday....

    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)
    daypop.org/top
    memepool.com
    slashdot.o rg

    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.

    • > I have a girlfriend for fun.

      "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.
  • www.google.com [google.com] www.slashdot.org [slashdot.org] www.fark.com [fark.com] www.drudgereport.com [drudgereport.com] www.regexp.org [regexp.org] www.willworkforfood.org [willworkforfood.org] www.ryanflynn.com [ryanflynn.com] www.mp3.com [mp3.com] www.sf.net [sf.net] www.perlmonks.org [perlmonks.org] www.freshmeat.net [freshmeat.net]
  • by RobotWisdom ( 25776 ) on Wednesday February 26, 2003 @03:48AM (#5385148) Homepage
    I've been blogging for 5+ years, and have evolved my routine into a system. Almost all of it is summarised in three rows of links at the top of my weblog [robotwisdom.com]-- top row for weekly visits, middle row for daily visits, and bottom row for continual updates.

    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.)

  • First, my site to see if any new pictures have been posted http://pihlopase.mine.nu/albums [pihlopase.mine.nu]
    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
    • Of course the link to my site is wrong. It leads to a directory listing instead of a pretty web page. For anyone interested in sneaking at peak at my life here is the proper link:
      Albums [pihlopase.mine.nu]
  • Throughout the day I go through BBC news, slashdot, techdirt, the inquirer, the register, ananova and wired. I also scan through the mass of RDF wires that I have on the left in /. for anything intersting.
  • About thirty webcomics. (Really.)

    And then:

    Newsforge
    Overclockers.com
    Slashdot
    The Register
    Osopinion
    Osnews
    Wired
    theinquirer.ne t

    On my way to work I listen to Don Wade and Roma out of Chicago for semi-coherant national news and talk.
  • http://www.bluesnews.com/ [bluesnews.com]
    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...
  • by Anonymous Coward
    10 slashdot [slashdot.org]
    20 sleep 30
    30 goto 10
  • by gengee ( 124713 ) <gengis@hawaii.rr.com> on Wednesday February 26, 2003 @04:33AM (#5385222)
    I've had to cut down on blogging lately, lest I get fired. But my daily routine is:

    news.google.com (Used to be news.yahoo.com - I like Google better).
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=in dex2&cid=9 65 - Yahoo! News Most Popular
    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)
    • Slashdot [slashdot.org]... Hardly a surprise here..
    • Freshnews [freshnews.org].. I really like this news aggregator site, from there, I usually scan OReilly, Kuro5hin, Ars and a few other sites they feature for interesting articles and visit if the title seems interesting..
    • Use Perl [perl.org].. Top 10 journals, mostly
    • Google news [google.com].. This replaced visits to BBC, CNN and a few others
    • Freshmeat [freshmeat.net].. and a few other shareware sites from time to time
    • Joel on Software [joelonsoftware.com].. and a few more blogs, like Scripting
    • Trillian, Phoenix, Apache and a few more software sites for possible updates...
    • Webmail accounts
    Yeah, that's about it.. Fortunately for my productivity, I cant find a good public news server, or I'd also be on Usenet for a large portion of the day :D
  • www.freshnews.org - very handy headline summary site for a bunch of other news sources, including:

    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
  • here [yzedf.com] for starters.

    www.cnn.com

    www.foxnews.com

    www.msnbc.com

    www.usatoday.com

    boxofficemojo.com

    www.fark.com

    starnix.org /. of course

    news.google.com

    aard.org

    nicoal.org

    www.yzedf.com/links.html

    www.ninenine.com

    www.sexkey.com

    www.speedtv.com
    • BBC News [bbc.co.uk] is usually first on my list. I hit the (non-UK) front page, use Ctrl-Alt-click in Opera [opera.com] to kick open all the interesting links, then go to Americas (because that's where I am) and do the same. Sometimes I go for Europe or Entertainment.
    • Slashdot [slashdot.org] - unlike all those other silly people who are replying!
    • If I actually feel like thinking, I look at Kuro5hin [kuro5hin.org], which takes a different approach to same idea as Slashdot. Most everyone can post a new article. Many articles tend to go into depth, rather than just presenting a summary. You can vote the articles up or down; you can choose to view even low-rated articles in certain subjects, etc. Self-service text ads let you support the site - and you can let people comment on the ads.
    • Sometimes I look at top stories on Yahoo [yahoo.com], or go for most popular stories and images [yahoo.com].

    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.

  • My main sources of information are the newspaper, TV news bulletins and teletext. The only site on the internet that I visit more than daily is /.. This is how I get the news. If I want information on a specific subject I try to find it on the Internet using Google.
  • 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!

  • I don't actually read this site very often, but I happened upon it one day and I don't know what to make of it. Perhaps some slashdotters can either say, "no, this site is full of made up references" or "uhh, I guess I can't disprove what it says, so that means it's a pretty lousy world."
    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]
    • I started reading it; but its really hard to know, even if everything it says is completely true; there's enormous scope for selective taking of evidence.

      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 ;-)

    • Yeah, I check out tenc. I saw one of the guys at the anti-war protest in San Francisco and agreed with his opinions. Here's a picture of him: "George Bush" [netrequisite.com]
  • by superyooser ( 100462 ) on Wednesday February 26, 2003 @05:59AM (#5385402) Homepage Journal
    I set a few buttons in my Mozilla PrefBar [xulplanet.com] as links for my most frequently-visited sites.

  • 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]
  • by WolfWithoutAClause ( 162946 ) on Wednesday February 26, 2003 @07:08AM (#5385540) Homepage
    One new feature I only caught on to recently in Netscape 7.01 is bookmarking groups of tabs.

    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.

  • Most of the obvious sites have already been posted, but I'd like to add two more to the list:

    • Advogato.org [advogato.org] - The diaries and rare new stories.
    • Perl Monks [perlmonks.org] - I've learned a lot from this site.
  • I start off on the slashdot.org front page and as I scan the articles I prioritize them based on their level of interest to me. Starting at the top of my list I then read the conversations until they degenerate to drivel or I lose interest after following a few dozen threads--links and all. It's time to move on to the next article whenever I come to the conclusion that I now know more about a subject I was casually interested in than was worth the time I afforded to learning about it. I repeat this process as many times as necessary until I run out of articles or I decide the articles at the bottom of my list aren't worth the trouble.

    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

  • http://news.bbc.co.uk/

    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.
    • Interesting that you mentioned this. I do this too. Having clicked on both inside and outside the UK buttons, I find they are significantly different on occasion and that it pays to switch between the two using the option to change editions (now a link at the top of the screen) to see if there's anything I've missed.

      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)

    by setien ( 559766 )
    I always have the bookmarks/favorites sidebar open in Phoenix/IE, and in the top of that list I have a folder named _Daily, which phoenix graciously let's me open in tabs every morning, disposing the tabs one by one as I read through them, opening more tabs to the list as I hit interesting links.

    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 /.)

  • by Doctor Hu ( 628508 ) on Wednesday February 26, 2003 @09:45AM (#5385948)
    news.bbc.com - UK, World, Business, Science & Technology sections - first stop of the day and start of the afternoon.
    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?

  • I gather up all the things I read daily that have an RSS feed.

    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.

  • by Jahf ( 21968 )
    This is my normal daily browsing routine, in general order:

    Netscape Messenger
    Yahoo! Mail /. and whatever sites that takes me to
    CNN.com
    News.com

    Googling for work and whatever sites that takes me to ... after an hour or two of work it's time for relaxing

    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 ... Rinse and repeat the first block ... Rinse and repeat the second block ... ??? ... Profit!
    • As if anyone cares, but I left out these since they are more of a weekly fare:

      www.gentoo.org - checking on news
      www.openzaurus.org - checking on news
      www.neurosaudio.com - checking on the forums
  • I've tried to shorten my list lately because I find I'm spending too much time going through each of these.

    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
  • 1) Yahoo! Mail [yahoo.com] - our motto: "Better than Hotmail!"
    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
  • I'll probably be flamed for visiting notorious conservative site http://www.freerepublic.com/ , but the articles are actually quite balanced, and in these times of war you can read fascinating things from the horse's mouth in the Middle East. It's only the comments that aren't balanced (and some of them make me question the nature of human evolution). Still, if you want all the world's news in one place, I have yet to find a better way to get it.

    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.
  • I go to a number of sites for "news" news; I find that the "same" news is very different coming from different countries:
    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]

    ...and a couple of sites for tech and science news:
    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.
  • I want to know $$$$$exyGal's [slashdot.org] daily pattern of information retrieval.
  • www.dailyrotation.com [dailyrotation.com]

    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!
  • Generally, I tend to start my day with Webcomics:
    • Machall [machall.com] - best..webcomic...ever (updates: "tues, thurs, sat" but more like when he gets around to it)
    • Penny Arcade [penny-arcade.com] - a very popular, and very funny gaming comic (M W F)
    • Megatokyo [megatokyo.com] - a well drawn comic with a strong story mangaish (M W F)
    • Ctrl-Alt-Del [ctrlaltdel-online.com] - cut and paste, but always funny (Daily)
    • Something Positive [somethingpositive.net] - kinda cut and paste, but often very funny (daily)
    • Real Life [reallifecomics.com] - cut and paste, but still a pretty funny gaming comic (mostly daily)
    • Calvin and Hobbes [ucomics.com] - rereleasing C+H online, 10 years delayed...my personal fav (daily)
    • Errant Story [errantstory.com] - a well drawn, story based modernish fantasy comic (updates every other day or so)
    • Angst Technology [inktank.com] - a game software firm and their antics (updates almost daily)

    Then (if there's still time before class, if not just after) I generally see whats up on
    • (as if you need the link)Slashdot
    • CBC News [cbc.ca] Canadian news from the CBC
    • Debian Planet [debianplanet.org] good debian news
    • Footnotes [gnomedesktop.org] GNOME news
    • Ars Technica [arstechnica.com] another tech site, often has interesting projects too...
    • Anime News Network [animenewsnetwork.com] exactly what the name implies.
    • Unconventional Conformity [uwaterloo.ca] a blog.
    • The Weather Network [theweathernetwork.com] - for my local weather


    • 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...
  • When i wake up in the morning, I crack open the daily newspapaper and.... wait that's not true. Lets start again. When I wake up in the morning I turn on my computer, and check out... webcomics.

    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
  • I check out slashdot, anandtech and other tech and science links. Also news.google.com and csmonitor.com (Christian Science Monitor). These to get an idea of the mainstream. I can't stand CNN and such so I skip those. Then I move on to my far left political links:

    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.
  • I put all my dailies in a folder called "Bored"

    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
  • Most of my dailies are listed in various strings, but each Friday, never forget....

    Bob the Angry Flower! [angryflower.com]

I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"

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