What RSS Feeds Do You Use?

oncehour writes "I'm looking to broaden my horizons in terms of news, industry information, and generally good-to-know stuff. I've found a lot of great blogs and websites over the years, but I'm wondering what Slashdotters read regularly? What's in your RSS feeds?" We discussed this back in 2004, but the list of quality feeds has grown quite a bit in the past four years. Try to include at least a minimal description, so we know if we'll be looking at NASA news or up-to-the-minute cowboy boot fashion trends.

Debian Package a Day

[twistedcubic]

Unfortunately, it isn't updated daily, but when it is, it's usually very good. It gives reviews of free software you might not be aware of. http://debaday.debian.net/feed/atom/ [debian.net]

Re:

[FiReaNGeL]

http://feeds.esciencenews.com/eScienceNews/popular [esciencenews.com]

Eureka Science News

The feed for me

[Deltaspectre]

My list of feeds:
Slashdot main : http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot [slashdot.org]
Obvious Reasons

Linux.com : http://www.linux.com/feature/?theme=rss [linux.com]
Useful tips for using Linux on a daily basis and for my sysadmin job

Lifehacker : http://lifehacker.com/excerpts.xml [lifehacker.com]
Tips for life in general

Hack a Day : http://www.hackaday.com/rss.xml [hackaday.com]
Stuff I wish I had the motivation to do

Google Open Source Blog : http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss [blogspot.com]
Keeping current with The Goog's OSS efforts

Google Summer of Code Blog : http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoogleSummerOfCodePodcasts [feedburner.com]
Seeing the State of the Program

The Art of Manliness : http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheArtOfManliness [feedburner.com]
Do you really have to ask?

Re:

[darthflo]

Who said anything about waiting 24 hours between visits? My feed reader (Opera) is instructed to pull the high-volume feeds every 3-6 hours.

Re:

[Firehed]

On some feeds, that's still WAY too long of a wait. Digg for one, though it's mostly crap anyways. As a photographer, I subscribe to the Strobist Flickr Group feed (yeah, flickr has feeds for group photostreams - surprised me too) and according to Google Reader's stats page, that's had well over 8,000 items within the last 30 days (averaging over 275/day). Digg is a distant second at 100/day, then Slashdot in third with a mere 18.8 daily average.

Point being that 4-8 times a day just isn't nearly enough f

Re:

[darthflo]

Get it more often, then. 275 items per day is about 12 per hour (let's assume 50/hr at peak). Find out how many items the feed contains, half that number and make that the time between refreshes (e.g. 20 items => refresh in a 10 minute interval).

Re:

[Firehed]

I do - Google Reader checks probably every ten or 15 minutes. I was just pointing out that the parent's suggestion of 3-6 hours for high-volume feeds isn't likely enough.

Re:

[Q-Hack!]

The Brick Testament [thebricktestament.com]
I like how they try and promote there books as Sunday School friendly, yet their website is loaded with nudity and violence. Blasphemous and funny.

Re:

[Hal_Porter]

How do you reconcile the fact that anybody who calls their production "The Art of Manliness" is almost guaranteed to be a 92 pound douche?

I'll take the Red Green Show.

That's not true. They might be a >200 pound douche.

Re:

[pipingguy]

You'll love Steve Smith's Playhouse if you're a Red Green fan. It's that bad that it doesn't deserve to be considered "campy good" (like Plan 9) because it's so bad. It's also a blatant rip-off of MST3K except without the funny and host character interactions. The series smells like a contract-fulfillment effort that contains waaay too many fart jokes and inappropriate sexual innuendo where it's not humorous at all, just tiring.

Chalk it up to Canadian "arts" funding via tax breaks, the CBC and entrenched

My feeds

[PhrostyMcByte]

• Sorting it all Out [msdn.com] - a Microsoftie who specializes in i18n/l10n. This is always a joy to read, even for those who don't run Windows.
• Sutter's Mill [wordpress.com] - Anyone doing heavy C++ will know of Herb Sutter. His blog is updated regularly with standards work and other interesting C++-related things.
• MAKE Magazine [makezine.com] - Making weird stuff just for the hell of it.
• TEDTalks videos [feedburner.com] - TED never fails to fascinate me.

feeds excerpt

[sugarmotor]

In no particular order, links to websites, pages, or feeds proper:

• blog.craigslist.org - name says it
• hackd.wordpress.com - Thrivesmart has some nice tinymce work
• googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com - the people who do google maps, and google earth
• vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/cpg - craigslist job posting in vancouver that might fit me
• findability.org name says it
• stephansmap.org/home_entry Track changes to the front page
• tinymce.moxiecode.com/forum_news_rss.php - track tinymce updates (tinymce is a javascript rich-text editor)
• weblog.jamisbuck.org - rails stuff / capistrano
• locationaware.org - name says it

Stephan

Re:

[mdd4696]

In no particular order, links to websites, pages, or feeds proper:

• blog.craigslist.org [craigslist.org] - name says it
• hackd.wordpress.com [wordpress.com] - Thrivesmart has some nice tinymce work
• googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] - the people who do google maps, and google earth
• vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/cpg [craigslist.ca] - craigslist job posting in vancouver that might fit me
• findability.org [findability.org] name says it
• stephansmap.org/home_entry [stephansmap.org] Track changes to the front page
• tinymce.moxiecode.com/forum_news_rss.php [moxiecode.com] - track tinymce updates (tinymce is a javascript rich-text editor)
• weblog.jamisbuck.org [jamisbuck.org] - rails stuff / capistrano
• locationaware.org [locationaware.org] - name says it

Stephan

I don't mean to hijack your comment but links would have been useful.

Re:

[sugarmotor]

Pretty funny. I had drunk some alcohol; considering that, I did a good job, I think. - Thanks - Stephan

Some of my feeds

[jake_vdb]

- Netflix Queue and New Releases - Some rare stuff I've been looking for on eBay - A few forums I follow that offer post feeds - Hack a Day and Make Magazine - Dealnews and Woot - Found Magazine - Packet Storm Security Advisories and Exploits

I use *none*

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're browsing as a pastime activity, why would you want to speed that up by using efficient RSS feeds?
Bookmarks ftw!

Re:I use *none*

[vidarh]

Because some of us wants to read the content, not spend time navigating to the content.

Re:I use *none*

[courseofhumanevents]

You are a very inexperienced time-waster.

Re:I use *none*

[DaveV1.0]

The master will appear when the student is ready

Re:

[Baloo Ursidae]

I stick to Linux work environments because most PHBs don't understand multiple desktops, and flipping a mousewheel over a pager to switch between work and slack makes effective multislacking a real snap.

Re:

[DaveV1.0]

I just don't worry about it. My boss never comes around. I have trained him well.

Google Reader

[Nerdfest]

If you haven't already discovered it, the Google NewsReader [google.com] is fantastic, and since it's web based, it keeps track of what's been read and what hasn't, between home, work, etc.

I don't get it

[Threni]

I've tried feeds. I don't read blogs, and when I've tried reading Slashdot or news sites I end up having to click somewhere to read the full article. This seems to be the case for any feed reader I've tried, whether it be on my phone or my laptop pc.

Re:I don't get it

[MMMDI]

Let's say your favorite sites are Slashdot, Site1, Site2, and Site3. You check these sites a couple of times daily for new content, which consists of you manually visiting slashdot.org, site1.com, site2.com, and site3.com every time the mood strikes you and then scanning said sites for updates.

With an RSS reader, you simply go to your feed reader of choice (or open your preferred program, or however you get your content - there's hundreds of options) and scan down the list - "Oh, Slashdot updated with three new stories, that one looks interesting, [click]."

Now, say that you want to stay up to date with dozens or even hundreds of sites, and you'll see the benefit of feeds.

Re:I don't get it

[B5_geek]

I agree with the OP, and am in the "I don't get it" category. I have 3 sites that I visit and check frequently (read: addiction), so it's easier/quicker to hit the bookmark and view the page then use ABC to load feeds, wait for it to update, then I still need to goto the site if it's interesting.

I enjoy this topic because I am hoping that it will expose some new sites to me that I might like.

Your post is valid if you have 20+ sites that you want to keep upto-date on, but I would like to hear your insight on the usefullness of using RSS to view a smaller number.

Re:

[Southpaw018]

Try an offline reader. Feedreader [feedreader.com] is good for Windows. Go to your 3 sites and load the feeds in. Set the feeds to update every hour. Then, when the mood strikes you to check your sites, you don't have to load anything at all. The content is already there, right on your desktop, waiting whenever the Feedreader icon is orange. Also, I GUARANTEE that once you start tacking feeds, you'll go to a new site you like and say "Hey. I can add this feed." and you'll be off and away. I started with exactly two and look

Re:

[DMUTPeregrine]

I use a mix. Things I check daily/semidaily (webcomics and such) are normal pages. forums are normal pages. RSS feeds are used for pages I rarely check, or pages with lots of headlines (fark, BBC, etc). Slashdot has a feed, but I also regularly browse the main page. So it seems mostly good for pages where I might want 1 or 2 headlines out of many, and can wait a bit for them to scroll by while doing something else.
Oh, I use the RSS Ticker addon for firefox. I normally have FF open, so it ends up being just

I'm with you.

[maillemaker]

I never understood RSS either. To me, it's like signing up for an email newsletter. I hardly ever do that, either. Most of my web browsing is for entertainment. I don't want or need to be hounded by my entertainment. When I want to read Slashdot or Digg, I'll surf on over and read a bit. It's OK with me if I missed some stuff since the last time I was on - this is entertainment not life-critical information.

Re:

[jaiyen]

I never really got the point of rss either, when you had to use a separate program to get the feeds. But the "Live bookmarks" feature in Firefox made me a convert, it's so much easier even for only 3 sites.

You can add an rss feed/live bookmark and then store the ones you visit the most on the toolbar just beneath the location bar, and you don't need to worry about it waiting for it to update as you can set how often you want it do that automatically. It makes seeing if there's any new posts on the sites y

Re:

[Hatta]

Now, say that you want to stay up to date with dozens or even hundreds of sites, and you'll see the benefit of feeds.

Just so hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has s

Re:

[TheRaven64]

I subscribe to the BBC News, The Register, Ars Technica, OS News and a couple of other feeds. I get a list of headlines, and a short (one paragraph) summary. 90% of the time the headline gives me enough information - just a quick indication that something of note has happened. When I want to read it in more detail, I click on the headline.

Think of it as skim-reading a custom newspaper. Scanning the headlines gives you a rough view of what's going on in the world, and reading the articles gives you more

Re:

[Gewalt]

Cause feeds were never meant to be a machine to person thing. They are supposed to be a machine to machine thing! iGoogle is the perfect feed reader. I get to create my own portal that is actually useful to me that way. I find out when my favorite sites get new content right on my homepage. I can't imagine using feeds in any other way.

WHICH feeds

[DNS-and-BIND]

Which feeds, not what feeds. Sorry, living abroad as I do, it's embarrassing to see native speakers with a lower level of written English than ESL students. Anyway, here's my list:

• http://www.chinalawblog.com/index.xml
  China Law Blog, all sorts of interesting stuff about China and IPR. The law is actually pretty good in China, the problem is people don't know how to use it.

• http://feed.feedsky.com/danweirss10
  Danwei, who are a bunch of pompous self-important Beijing residents, but have some good articles

Re:

[Anonymous Coward]

Since you're such a language expert, maybe you should tell the guys over at bbc.co.uk to update their material:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/youmeus/learnit/learnitv175.shtml

Re:

[Anonymous Coward]

You are in error. The word "which" is used when there is a limited selection. The word "what" is used when there is an unlimited selection.

Thus one would say:
* Which feed is your favorite - slashdot or reddit?
* What feeds are your favorite?

Note that an "unlimited selection" does not refer to infinite choices, rather that the choices are not limited (selected) by the asker.

Re:

[Myopic]

Your signature and my signature need to team up.

I want to comment, however, that ESL students learn academic English, whereas native speakers learn common English. You and I both lean toward academic English (even though we are native speakers), but it's a legitimate question whether the academic or common variant is a more pure expression of the essence of a language.

Feeds

[Dan541]

http://en-gb.fxfeeds.mozilla.com/en-GB/firefox/headlines.xml [mozilla.com]

http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot [slashdot.org]

and of course my own
http://www.theinane.com/feed [theinane.com]

Mine

[KasperMeerts]

*Ctrl-Alt-Delete
http://www.cad-comic.com/rss/rss.xml [cad-comic.com]
Stupid webcomic
*Looking for Group
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LookingForGroup?format=xml [feedburner.com]
Webcomic.
*Least I Could Do
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LICD?format=xml [feedburner.com]
Webcomic.
*Linux Kernel
http://www.kernel.org/kdist/rss.xml [kernel.org]
(no explanation)
*NationStates
http://69.60.14.82/cgi-bin/rss.cgi?nation=windhelm [69.60.14.82]
A sort of game where you have to govern a nation. I develops based on the laws you vote.
*Questionable Content
http://www.questionablecontent.net/QCRSS.xml [questionablecontent.net]
Webcomic
*The Book of Biff
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheBookOfBiff [feedburner.com]
Webcomic
*The Perry Bible Fellowship
http://pbfcomics.com/feed/feed.xml [pbfcomics.com]
Webcomic (not updated i a looong time)
*VG Cats
http://www.vgcats.com/vgcats.rdf.xml [vgcats.com]
Stupid and bad webcomic
*xkcd
http://www.xkcd.com/rss.xml [xkcd.com]
FANTASTIC webcomic
*Linux Journal
http://feeds.feedburner.com/linuxjournalcom [feedburner.com]
I dunno why it's in there. I like the articles
*Slashdot
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot [slashdot.org]
I guess that's about it. I'm going to delete a couple of webcomics though. Some are just too awful.

Re:

[Inner_Child]

If you're ashamed of the comics you read to the point where you completely dismiss them as "bad" or "stupid", why even bother listing them? For that matter, why be ashamed?

Here are the ones I read, and I see no reason to be ashamed of any of them. If you don't like them, no one is forcing you to read them.

• Questionable Content [questionablecontent.net]
• Penny Arcade [penny-arcade.com]
• Ctrl Alt Del [cad-comic.com]
• PvP Online [feedburner.com]
• VG Cats [vgcats.com]
• XKCD [xkcd.com]
• Cyanide & Happiness [feedburner.com]

Re:

[kv9]

I used to read XKCD but the geek content is too dilluted for my taste. like a chick flick with nerds. and for PA I don't need a feed. monday/wensday/friday afternoon when I walk in at work they are usually up. and now the feeds:

• bsdtalk [blogspot.com] various interviews with BSD people
• debaday [debian.net] not really a debianwhore but nice gems to be found there
• fleshbot [fleshbot.com] who doesn't like porns?
• hubertf [feyrer.de] everyone's favorite NetBSD dev
• papod [penny-arcade.com] PA podcast
• tdwtf [thedailywtf.com] the daily wtf so you don't feel you are alone in your editor
• thinkgeek [thinkgeek.com]

Re:

[DMUTPeregrine]

I don't use RSS feeds for webcomics, so here is the set of pages I regularly visit:
XKCD [xkcd.com] We probably all know this one.
Cyanide and Happiness [explosm.net] Somewhat twisted humour.
Errant Story [errantstory.com] Excellent art and storyline.
Bunny [bunny-comic.com] Strange humour about bunnies.
QC [questionablecontent.net] Indy rock comic of social interaction.
Megatokyo [megatokyo.com] Megatokyo. Has gone downhill in recent years, but still good art.
Penny Arcade [penny-arcade.com] Gamer comic, quite famous.
PBF [pbfcomics.com] Perry Bible Fellowship hasn't updated in some time, but very funny when he does.
Edible Dirt [frozenreality.co.uk] is a series

Feeds

[rdwald]

I read a whole bunch, but the best/most useful are:

Digg [digg.com]: Sure, the commentary here is better, but it's nice to know what the Obamanation thinks of the latest political scandals.
Ars Technica [arstechnica.com]: They've got good articles on various technical issues. Relatively low-volume.
Boing Boing [boingboing.net]: Quirky news, with a slant towards privacy concerns, steampunk, and general weirdness.
Wired's Threat Level [wired.com]: Alerts on various privacy issues, as well as other things the government is doing that you don't want them to be.

My suggestions; less obvious yet prob. worthwhile

[Jerry Smith]

http://www.schneier.com/blog/index.rdf [schneier.com] (security specialist Schneier, security in the news)

http://www.chaosmanorreviews.com/rss.xml [chaosmanorreviews.com] (Jerry Pournelle, author etc, sort of tech diary)

http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default [blogspot.com] (Fake Steve Jobs, 'interesting views')

I've got more but I thought these were less obvious, yet as 'must-have' as theregister and slashdot.

BOFH!! how could I forget...

[Jerry Smith]

http://feed.theregister.co.uk/rss?a=Simon%20Travaglia [theregister.co.uk]

It's not a standard theregister-rss-feed, but since Simon only does the BOFH on theregister, it works, and the feed is good for at least a bright smile every Friday.

Re:

[sapped]

Thank you! It's so irritating that BOFH doesn't appear in the Odds and Sods feed.

Feeds

[Turiko]

Feeds are something i don't use. Long live the standard webpages.

If you insist...

[abbamouse]

I'll leave out really common feeds and a few that won't interest many people, but here are the top 25% or so of my feeds:

A Gentleman's C http://gentlemansc.blogspot.com/rss.xml [blogspot.com]
An Angry Professor gripes about stuff

Armchair Generalist http://armchairgeneralist.typepad.com/my_weblog/index.rdf [typepad.com]
Blog by a moderate-left military analyst

Arts & Letters Daily http://aldaily.com/rss/rss.xml [aldaily.com]
Three interesting links every day (actually usually one or two INTERESTING ones)

Breaking News (History News Network) http://hnn.us/roundup/rss_full/41.xml [hnn.us]
Stories about History with a slight conservative bias

Consumerist http://consumerist.com/excerpts.xml [consumerist.com]
Shoppers bite back.

indexed http://indexed.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss [blogspot.com]
Note card humor, usually featuring Venn diagrams

Inside Higher Ed http://feeds.feedburner.com/insidehighered/OxmP [feedburner.com]
Stories from academe, with fairly grumpy comments

Junk Charts http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/rss.xml [typepad.com]
Redraws charts to make data analysis easier

Obscure Store and Reading Room http://obscurestore.typepad.com/obscure_store_and_reading/index.rdf [typepad.com]
Well-known wierd news site with comments

PostSecret http://postsecret.blogspot.com/rss.xml [blogspot.com]
Secrets on postcards, every Sunday. Fascinating.

ReelViews New Reviews http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReelviewsNewReviews [feedburner.com]
My favorite currently-active film reviewer

SCOTUSblog http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/index.xml [scotusblog.com]
Get the skinny on the latest Supreme Court actions

Slashfood http://www.slashfood.com/rss.xml [slashfood.com]
Because I love food

Slate Magazine http://www.slate.com/rss/ [slate.com]
The best of the online political mags; lefty bias

Spluch http://spluch.blogspot.com/rss.xml [blogspot.com]
Always something interesting. Similar material to the extremely popular Boing Boing, but with fewer posts per day.

The Monkey Cage http://www.themonkeycage.org/atom.xml [themonkeycage.org]
Analysis from political scientists. Much better than the usual partisan approach.

The Onion http://feeds.theonion.com/theonion/daily [theonion.com]
Most of the humor is usually contained in the headlines, so I seldom read more

Re:

[kv9]

oh my, you must be fun at parties!

My list

[EnsilZah]

I have quite a few.

Apple Trailers [apple.com] - New movie trailers.
BlizzCast [blizzard.com] - Blizzard podcast, not that great.
GameTrailers [gametrailers.com] - Latest game trailers.
The Perry Bible Fellowship [pbfcomics.com] - Amusing comics though seem dead lately.
Penny Arcade [penny-arcade.com] - Enough said.
TED Talks [ted.com] - Insightful talks about many subjects.
Three Panel Soul [rsspect.com] - Mac Hall is dead, long live Three Panel Soul.
Video Copilot [videocopilot.net] - Nice video compositing tutorials.
xkcs [xkcd.com] - Master of all geek webcomics.
Zero Punctuation [escapistmagazine.com] - Game reviews amusing enough you don't need to care about the gam

Re:My list

[EnsilZah]

Ahh crap, and I spelled xkcd wrong.

Re:

[BarryJacobsen]

The Perry Bible Fellowship [pbfcomics.com] - Amusing comics though seem dead lately.

If you read the news section he says that the comic strip is no longer his focus and updates will be very irregular.

I only read 1

[aussie_a]

The only one I read is the one for the Wizards website [wizards.com] so I know when they've updated it.

Make your feed aggregator public !

[BigJim.fr]

In order to promote that feed sharing and discovery I made my daily reading list [liotier.org] public. If you like the concept of concept of discovering new feeds from friends and neighbors, the you might also enjoy Toluu [toluu.com].

Most important one

[Dachannien]

I have more than 50 feeds in my aggregator (Sage), but easily the most important of these is http://feeds.feedburner.com/ICanHasCheezburger [feedburner.com] .

Re:

[Dachannien]

Let me guess, you are an editor of the site?

Nope, I jus lurvs kittehs.

Off-line RSS reader for Linux?

[BlackCreek]

Speaking of RSS... Does anyone knows of a decent off-line RSS reader for Linux? It would be nice to have something like that for days I sit longer in the train.

About the feeds, here are the ones I read the most (I guess almost all are self-descriptive for slashdot reader's).

• XKCD (comic),
• Bruce Scheneier's blog
• Linux Weekly news (LWN)
• Kernel Trap (news about the linux kernel)
• Dilbert (which now has an official RSS feed!)
• Dinosaur comics (great comics strips)
• Paul Krugman - Economist at the NYT
• Joel on Sof

Re:

[JShadow21]

I use Liferea, pretty decent gnome reader. Otherwise if you're a KDE fan there's akregator.

Re:

[tzanger]

Akgregator will work offline? awesome.

Re:

[prator]

I've never tried it on Linux, but you can use Google Reader in offline mode if you install Google Gears.

Re:

[Baloo Ursidae]

Gears seems to work wherever Gecko is the rendering engine, from what I've seen.

Re:

[Randle_Revar]

If you like the CLI, try newsbeuter

Photography feeds

[Thatmushroom]

RSS feeds for the photographer geek:
Strobist http://www.strobist.com/ [strobist.com]
Off-camera lighting, and possibly the geekiest popular photography blog around. Give this site a serious look.

Joe McNally http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/ [joemcnally.com]
National Geographic shooter, photojournalist extraordinaire. Less about the mechanics than Strobist.

Flash Flavor http://www.flashflavor.com/ [flashflavor.com]
Insights from a very popular wedding shooter.

The Big Picture http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/ [boston.com]
A blog attempting to fill the shoes of LIFE.

Library of Congress http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ [flickr.com]
The Library of Congress has been putting their archives on Flickr. Some are slightly dull, but it's an interesting exposure to first half of the 20th century.

These all link to the main site, where you should hopefully be able to find the RSS feed.

My big themed list

[Miletos]

Comics

• Dilbert [feedburner.com] - do I need to describe this?
• Explosm.com [feedburner.com] - Cyanide and Happiness comic
• Fokke & Sukke [feedburner.com] - Dutch comic. Popular daily cartoon (yes, I'm dutch and the name is intentional)
• Little Gamers [little-gamers.com] - gaming comic
• Penny Arcade [penny-arcade.com] - gaming comic
• FAIL blog [failblog.org] - epic fail every day

Finance & Economy

• BusinessWeek Online -- Most Popular Stories [businessweek.com]
• Calculated Risk [feedburner.com] - general blog
• The Economist - News analysis and views [economist.com]
• NRC | Economie [www.nrc.nl]Dutch newspaper, economy section

Space

• Bad Astronomy [feedburner.com] - Phil Plait's blog about astronomy and skepticism
• Chris Lintott's Universe [chrislintott.net] - Astronomer, Galaxy Zoo co-founder and co-host of BBC's The Sky at Night
• NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day [acme.com]
• New Scientist, Space [newscientist.com] - Astronomy section of New Scientist
• Space.com [space.com] - More space news...
• Starts With a Bang! [startswithabang.com] - Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel, tries to answer some common but very complex astronomy questions.
• Universe Today [universetoday.com] - One of the most well known astronomy blogs

Tech

• Engadget [engadget.com] - THE gadget blog
• Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories [evilmadscientist.com] - making crazy electronic stuff (and drooling over niche market product catalogues)
• Gametrailers' ScrewAttack [gametrailers.com] - funny gaming videos
• Kotaku [kotaku.com] - THE games blog
• Reuters Science [reuters.com]
• Reuters Technology [reuters.com]
• Slashdot [slashdot.org]
• The Brainy Gamer [feedburner.com] - in-depth articles about (the history of) games in general
• Tweakers.net [feedburner.com] - the dutch Slashdot

Misc

• Greggman [greggman.com] - American gamedev'er who lived in Japan
• Jort Kelder [jortkelder.nl] - Dutch dandy. Ex-editor-in-chief of Quote, a magazine about entrepeneurs and the life of the nouveau rich. Co-host of the dutch Dragons Den.
• Scalzi's Whatever [scalzi.com] - Sciencefiction author.
• The Sartorialist [feedburner.com] - Fashion photographer. If you'd like to dress like a man with some class, instead of a fake tan metrosexual...look here for inspiration.

Thought Experiments

[FishandChips]

Thought Experiments at http://www.bryanappleyard.com/ [bryanappleyard.com] - stuff that makes you think by the writer and journalist Bryan Appleyard. Feed = http://www.bryanappleyard.com/atom.xml [bryanappleyard.com]
Nigeness - http://nigeness.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com] - acute observation and a connoisseur of many forms of art, a welcome port in the verbiage-strewn seas of the net. Feed = http://nigeness.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default [blogspot.com]
The Lumber Rood at http://elberry.wordpress.com/ [wordpress.com] - why moan about the end of the world and the collapse of civilization whe

Best /. article in a while

[The Master Control P]

This is the first time in a while I've come away from reading /. with more than a whole lot of thoughts to process. Right click, "add feed to akgregator"!

• ScienceDaily [sciencedaily.com]
• Google News [google.com]
• Lords of the Blog [wordpress.com]

And of course the KDE feeds that come preset with Akgregator.

Two

[gtx]

http://truth.gooberbear.com/rss.xml [gooberbear.com]
An ongoing series of arguments against Intelligent Design

http://http//feeds.feedburner.com/Http/ablankpapercom [http]
A Blank Paper: A political blog written by a guy who believes (amongst other things) that political parties are the problem with the American political system.

My RSS feeds

[aembleton]

I subscribe to plenty of RSS feeds, and colate them together using Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader/view/ [google.com] . Then I can just set up a live bookmark in Firefox to view them whenever I'm bored. My feeds are as follows:

• http://www.alistapart.com/feed/rss.xml
  Useful information for designing websites; particularly when in it comes to standards compliance and CSS.
• http://aminorjourney.co.uk/wordpress/feed/atom/
  An honest blog about living with an electric car, and modding it.
• http://adam-buxton.co.uk/a

These ones

[cluening]

http://www.wirelesscouch.net/cgi-bin/headlines/headlines.pl [wirelesscouch.net]

People Like Us

[anomalous cohort]

I have taken the liberty of aggregating the syndication feeds of myself and my friends here. Check it out.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/ploneglenn/friends [yahoo.com]

This is using http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ [yahoo.com] which is an interesting syndicated content aggregater.

That reminds me. I would be interested in /.'s opinions on the http://www.opensearch.org/ [opensearch.org] project. Do you think that it will catch on? I ask because I am considering [sourceforge.net] adding a support for this to the search engine part of my content publishing project [sourceforge.net].

none 0 nada

[jupiterssj4]

None, I have never seen the need for them. I have plenty of time to visit all the sites I view everyday.

Re:

[justthinkit]

Most of my feeds are valuable because they tell me when particular content is available. I could hit these web sites over and over again, but I prefer to have RSS tell me once, exactly. Some of my sites may not interest you: hulu.com telling me when the latest House M.D. is now available for streaming on their site, for example (besides, it is the off season for House).

A killer application of RSS for me is to be told when the local library system has new DVDs available. The sooner you get there to pla

isitchristmas.com's rss feed

[Destoo]

http://www.isitchristmas.com/ [isitchristmas.com]
yesterday: no.
today: no. ...

HowFlow - Digg, for us IT guys

[slashflood]

I've created a social bookmarking site for Open Source tipps, tricks and howtos [howflow.com]. I'm thinking about adding a news section, since the former tech news site digg.com became a picture sharing site. :)
HowFlow is about seven weeks old, but I'm getting great feedback from its users. It has some very unique features, like an intelligent pastebin [howflow.com] that tries to find a solution for pasted error messages and so on.
You can subscribe to several feeds: upcoming or published tricks and so called 'tag feeds'. The site

A few

[Shadow-isoHunt]

I have a rather security focused google homepage(I love it):

Securityfocus
National Vulnerability Database
milw0rm
sebug
and last but not least, idefense.

List

[C_Kode]

* Slashdot
* Linux.com
* RootPrompt.org (Used to be a good site, but the bum doesn't update consistently anymore!)
* TexasRangers.com
* DallasNews.com/sports/football (Dallas Cowboys)
* BBC

A few of my favorites

[mpn14tech]

Danger Room - National Security
http://blog.wired.com/defense [wired.com]

Threat Level-Security and Politics.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/ [wired.com]

Paul Graham

[pbaer]

Paul Graham [paulgraham.com] is in my RSS feed because he's very insightful, lucid, and extra relevant for CS/programmer people.

Too many to list

[hamsterboy]

Mostly I use Google Reader to keep all the blogs I read in one place. A representative sample, and feeds I highly recommend:

Coding horror (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/)
Raganwald (http://weblog.raganwald.com/)

The Dilbert Blog (http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/)
Postsecret (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/)
Xkcd (http://blag.xkcd.com/)

Joel on Software (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/)
Stevey's blog rants (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/)
Paul Graham's essays (http://www.paulgraham.com/)

Not to mention webcomics,

I only do RSS on my iPhone, actually.....

[King_TJ]

Maybe old habits just die hard or something, but I never really took to using RSS on my home computers or notebook. I've always felt like if I have time to read the content, I have the time to view the actual web site and view it the way it was intended to be viewed.

Where I do like RSS is on my jailbroken iPhone, where I use a freeware RSS feed manager program. It came pretty much pre-configured to view feeds from Digg and Engaget, so I read those on there. (Limited bandwidth and the small screen size ma

Feeds on interest

[Tarqwak]

http://tar.rapla.net/feeds/ [rapla.net]

130+ feeds divided into categories in OPML.xml that's styled with XSL.

My selection:

[AmiMoJo]

The good:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ [codinghorror.com]
- non-language specific programming musings

http://blog.brokep.com/ [brokep.com]
- The Pirate Bay's brokep's blog

http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com]
- interesting furniture hacks

http://www.ladyada.net/rant [ladyada.net]
- hobby electronics news

http://www.wired.com/rss/commentary/securitymatters.xml [wired.com]
- Bruce Schneier's blog

http://www.thefirsthourblog.com/ [thefirsthourblog.com]
- reviewing the first hour of games, handy for people like me who have a 10 minute attention span

http://torrentfreak.com/ [torrentfreak.com]
- P2P / legal news

The ugly:

htt [bbc.co.uk]

RSS for individual Slashdot threads

[BruceCage]

While we're on the topic of RSS. I've been thinking that it would be cool if one were able to subscribe to individual threads here on Slashdot and be notified of any changes.

I might just try hacking together something real quick this weekend.

games & game dev:

[Bobtree]

Lambda The Ultimate (programming languages): http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/rss.xml [lambda-the-ultimate.org]

Greg Costikyan (culture): http://feeds.feedburner.com/costik/gXjD [feedburner.com]

Darius Kazemi (gamedev networking): http://tinysubversions.blogspot.com/atom.xml [blogspot.com]

Warren Spector (design): http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/feed/ [wordpress.com]

Tom Forsyth (graphics): http://www.eelpi.gotdns.org/blog.wiki.xml [gotdns.org]

Christer Ericson (collision detection): http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/blog/?feed=rss2 [realtimeco...ection.net]

Erin Catto (physics): http://www.gphysics.com/feed [gphysics.com]

Duncan Fyfe

MSDN Feeds

[Saint Stephen]

Having used to work at Microsoft, I find a lot of the Microsoft blogs pretty interesting to read in Outlook 2007. :-) I know - lame. But no other blog seems to make sense to read, and all the other RSS software sucks to me relative to just using the browser. This is like being on internal mailing lists back at MS.

Meh, jesus christ, is it so freaking hard to put an OPML to HTML converter up on the web where I can find it? Here, have some raw formatting...

<opml version="1.1"><head><title

Re:

[Randle_Revar]

http://www.phpied.com/files/opml2html/opml2html.html [phpied.com]
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/misc/opml2html.pl.txt [zawodny.com]

Mine

[bigtangringo]

Cato daily podcast [cato.org]

Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog [claytoncramer.com]

TED Talks [tedtalks.blip.tv]

NPR: Science Friday Podcast [sciencefriday.com]

feeds

[Randle_Revar]

News feeds:

IE Blog - for keeping track of what MS is up to on the browser front
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/atom.xml [msdn.com]

Standards Blog - not as many posts now days, was very important during the height of the ooxml/odf war
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/backend/geeklog.rss [consortiuminfo.org]

I keep OSNews for completeness, but it is pretty useless - software news
http://osnews.com/files/recent.xml [osnews.com]

Anandtech - hardware news and reviews
http://www.anandtech.com/rss/articlefeed.aspx [anandtech.com]

Ars Technica - tech news and commentary
http://a [arstechnica.com]

The banality of RSS

[AlpineR]

I was hoping to hear about some interesting feeds that I've been missing out on. Most of the suggestions seem to be in the categories of Comics, Tech/Gadgets, Coding, Politics, Photos.

Meh. Comics can be fun for five seconds, but won't really solve the problem of being online and bored. Tech/Gadgets is interesting a few times a year but not every day. I don't code enough to warrant reading about that unless I'm trying to solve a specific problem. Politics is moderately interesting in an election year, but it's a lot like talking about baseball scores (and I don't think much about sports). Photos are like comics, interesting for about five seconds.

Here's my list of Web sites that I visit daily. Because I'm older (or just less compulsive) I check them manually rather than as a feed:

Slashdot
Ars Technica
Digg
New York Times
Rotten Tomatoes (weekly)

On a good day there's an hour of interesting material on those sites combined. Maybe I need to go back to reading more magazines, books, and newspapers. But in this age of bite-size, instantaneous news at least two of those three seem to be dying.

RSS feeds (slashboxes) on /. home page.

[antdude]

I use /. home page for my RSS feeds, but I wished /. would fix the problems:
MacCentral [sourceforge.net]'s outdated stories and LinuxGames' empty box [sourceforge.net].

My Offical Feed List

[Erbo]

Herewith, my own RSS feeds list. I have a few categories of stuff I keep up on on a regular basis; this listing includes only (mostly) blogs that are posting regularly.

Second Life Blogs - Blogs about the Second Life virtual world. Usually I list these by avatar name.

• The Lexx's Second Life [wordpress.com] - Alexzandria Aeon ("Lexx") is my "SL daughter" and a businesswoman.
• Jacek Antonelli [meratalk.com] - An artist and commentator on various aspects of the world.
• Hamlet Au - New World Notes [blogs.com] - The "big dog" in Second Life blogging. Hamlet Au used to work for Linden Lab, and wrote a book, The Making of Second Life.
• life|cubed [life3.org] - One of my friends, "Padre" Triste Bertrand, who is also a minister in RL.
• Cala - Transgender in Second Life [blogspot.com] - She writes about some interesting topics.
• Evans Avenue Exit [wordpress.com] - I write this one. :-) I post about current events, scripting, and whatever else suits my fancy.
• Vint Falken [feedburner.com] - One of the premier European SL bloggers (she's from Belgium).
• Grand Unified Linden Blog [secondlife.com] - Official news and information from Linden Lab.
• Torley Lives [torley.com] - Everybody in Second Life should know Torley Linden. Torley is unique, helpful, and watermelon-flavored.
• An Engine Fit For My Proceeding [feedburner.com] - Ordinal Malaprop is SL's own version of Ada Lovelace...a fine Victorian lady and a top-flight scripter.
• Massively (Second Life) [massively.com] - The latest news and information about Second Life. (Massively.com also covers other virtual worlds and MMOs.)
• Second Thoughts [typepad.com] - Prokofy Neva is perhaps the most-hated person in SL, and is sort of the "official gadfly." He's well worth reading for an alternate perspective, though.
• Dwell On It [blogger.com] - Tateru Nino is one of the smartest people I know. Her writing is part of what got me into SL in the first place.
• MeraTalk [meratalk.com] - Mera Pixel is insightful, witty, and very purple.
• Second Life Grid Status Reports [secondlifegrid.net] - When there are problems with SL--an all-too-often occurrence these days, alas--Linden Lab posts here.

Political Blogs - This is stuff with a right-wing bent, and is the section that will probably be most responsible for this post being modded down. :-/

• The Smallest Minority [feedburner.com] - Kevin Baker is partly a gunblogger, partly an excellent commentator. He's had good posts recently about education.
• La Shawn Barber's Corner [lashawnbarber.com] - A Christian blogger who only dabbles in politics these days, spending more time writing about music and digital technology.
• Leslie Carbone [blogspot.com] - A Virginia political blogger who I found via Twitter.
• Personal Effects [mrsdutoit.com] - Connie du Toit is one of the clearest-minded writers you'll find on many subjects.
• Geopoliticus [kimdutoit.com] - Kim du Toit (yes, he and Connie are married) is the L33t Master of Firearms, and an insightfu

My feeds

[shannara256]

Here are some of the blogs I read:

Joel on Software [joelonsoftware.com]
Introversion [introversion.co.uk] - an indie games company
The Old New Thing [msdn.com] - Raymond Chen of Microsoft
The Daily WTF [thedailywtf.com] - how not to code
The Consumerist [gawker.com]
FAIL Blog [failblog.org]
Not Always Right [notalwaysright.com] - for people who [used to] work in retail

I use big feeds and aiderss.

[jafo]

I watch some of the big feeds, like Planet Python, which have dozens of posts a day. But I just can't keep up with that. About 6 months ago I started filtering these and some of the other feeds that I only occasionally have interesting stuff in through aiderss.com.

It's helped quite a lot. I don't spend much time following feeds, so getting the 100 cut down to 5 or 10 has been quite a help.

It's like the comment rating filter here on /., I have most of my feeds on aiderss turned up to "5" to cut down the v

A Blank Paper

[gtx]

http//feeds.feedburner.com/Http/ablankpapercom

A pretty sharp political blog that has been updating its content pretty regularly. One of its many points is that political parties are to blame for the USA's current political issues.

Yeah, I linked this above too, but then I realized that I ballsed up the link.

feeds

[diamondmagic]

Tech:
I, Cringley http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/rss2.xml [pbs.org]
Freedom to Tinker http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?feed=rss2 [freedom-to-tinker.com]
Freenode staffblog http://blog.freenode.net/?feed=rss2 [freenode.net]
Gentoo Monthly Newsletter http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/rss.xml [gentoo.org]
Xaprb (MySQL) http://www.xaprb.com/blog/feed/atom/ [xaprb.com]

Games:
Cruise Elroy ("Intelligent discussion of video games") http://cruiseelroy.net/feed/ [cruiseelroy.net]
Jonathan Drain's D20 Source http://d20.jonnydigital.com/feed [jonnydigital.com]
Socratic Design http://socratesrpg.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default [blogspot.com]
Step

gmarcus

[gmarcus]

Glenn's Second Brain: http://www.glennmarcus.com/blog [glennmarcus.com] I scan about 100 tech and culture feeds daily. I put the best that I find onto my own feed at http://www.glennmarcus.com/blog/ [glennmarcus.com] It is an aggregated feed with about 1-2 posts per day. Enjoy.

Re:

[twistedcubic]

http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 [gentoo.org] - So I know when "sudo emerge --sync" is particularly called for

Brilliant! Thanks! Now I don't have to sync once a week.

Re:

[bigman2003]

I use a local feed aggregator:

http://thepile.net/woodland [thepile.net]

That's it.

Eating Betty Rules!

[Talkischeap]

Yeah!

I've been playing Eating Betty on my radio shows for years now.

I only have "in Dub", but it rocks!, nice to see newer music.

If you like DUB, then this is for you.

Listen up... I'll be announcing acts tonight (Sat, 06-21) at the Sierra Nevada World Musical Festival.

- Derek Dubwise on KZYX FM

Re:

[Arivia]

On topic, a nice RSS feed-providing website for women I fell in love with recently is geeksugar [geeksugar.com], the gadgets and tech part of the Sugar bloglomerate. A site that's willing to colour coordinate and discuss ARM processors in Android? Yes please!

Re:

[scragz]

On topic, a nice RSS feed-providing website for women I fell in love with recently is geeksugar [geeksugar.com]...

Why would we want to read about women you recently fell in love with?