Cool RSS Feeds?

mgessner asks: "I'm searching for some new and interesting things to read related to geekdom, humor, the Internet, and all things technological. Normally, I'd search Google for this, but trying to find something like RSS feeds on Google would be like looking for a needle in a haystack: there's just too much to sift through. So, does anyone want to share their favorite RSS feeds (other than our own beloved /.) they'd like to recommend?"

Hackers

[HRbnjR]

If you like to keep up with your favorite hackers in the FOSS world:
http://www.planetplanet.org/ [planetplanet.org] has a list of blog aggregators for various projects!

Gadgetry

[Apreche]

gizmodo and engadget are two blogs that look at all sorts of electronic goodness daily. A lot of times they dupe each other, but mostly not. Reading both of them is far from redundant. And if you read them you start to laugh at how often slashdot gets the same news so much later.

In other words, if you read these two sites, you can turn off the matching topics on /.

Here's some funky RSS (and atom) for you

[BortQ]

Steve Pavlina talks about personal growth, time management and other useful stuff:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/wp-rss2.php [stevepavlina.com]

Thomas Warfield about the life of a successful shareware author:
http://www.asharewarelife.com/atom.xml [asharewarelife.com]

Wikinerds RSS feeds

[wikinerd]

I have a site [wikinerds.org] which contains some interesting RSS feeds. Here I give you a list of the most interesting feeds of my site together with direct links to the RSS file (note some of them are dynamically generated via php but probably will work on any rss reader):

• JnanaBase What's New RSS feed [wikinerds.org]: This is a general knowledge base wiki, a website where everyone can write anything they want. The feed contains links to the newest articles, that may be about anything, such as music, computers, etc. A section of the wiki, called IntelliWiki, is about Artificial Intelligence and builds a database of known facts that can be read by knowledge management software. Be warned, however, that the contents of this feed are not systematically reviewed. New articles are added several times every day.
• NerdyPC What's New RSS feed [wikinerds.org]: This is a wiki knowledge base about Information Technology and computers. It contains quality articles that are passed through a review process. Contents are open source news, hardware information and very soon hardware reviews. New articles are added every day or two.
• Wikinerds Portal RSS feed [wikinerds.org]: This is a portal website which publishes a variety of articles on computers, science, social issues etc. New articles, which usually contain many links to external websites (and Slashdot discussions!) are added usually every 1-2 days. However, some of the posted articles are just announcements about new content in the wikis described above (as well as other wikis that I host).

Just to clarify that these are not the only RSS feeds I offer, but just the most interesting ones that have useful content. I post this message not as an advertisement, but only because I truly believe that these feeds will be interesting to you (and you asked to be informed about interesting feeds).

Note: Please do not read the RSS feeds more than 4-6 times per day because I want to keep the server utilisation low.

How about my own http://livid.3322.org ?

[lordliuxin]

How about my site? I wrote a really simple python robot (I called it Lividot) to track almost 100 geekdom, humor, technological sites. You can reach it at: http://livid.3322.org/ [3322.org]

warez the warez?

[l0rd]

If you check out google you can get some pretty good (unofficial) bittorrent rss feeds (*cough* suprnova *cough*).

Also what I find cool are rss feeds of tv listings.

Two other feeds I check out regularly that aren't mentioned here are Packet storm & Tomshardware.

Re:good RSS directories -- longevity of protocols

[Isofarro]

2. Atom vs RSS cannot be seen as an evolution, since atom is not backward compatible. If it had been then it would have been the clear successor to RSS. This was a huge mistake of atom's creators. It should have been backwards compatible.

Atom's main goal is to have a well specified unambigious specification [intertwingly.net]. The problem behind RSS is that it is ambigious - so leads to silent data loss - and it took the rather public failure at Reuters [intertwingly.net] for the point to sink in [harvard.edu]. As such, it is close to impossible for a specification to be both unambigious and backwards compatible with RSS. A clean break results in a cleaner and more implementable specification, especially since we are not loaded with the baggage of previous unreversable mistakes in RSS. Notwithstanding, the "solution" to the Reuters problem now breaks RSS2.0's backward compatibility with RSS0.91 [harvard.edu].

Even the motivation behind Atom is clear:

Well, let's extend RSS into a new spec then. To keep any backwards-compatibility, we'd have to keep the top-level element as so people would think the format is actually RSS, and this would be really confusing.

Forget about backwards-compatibility. If we're not worried about backwards-compatibility, why are we bothering to keep around the old mistakes of RSS? Why not take this opportunity to fix them so that the future doesn't have to deal with all the kludges necessary to parse RSS today?