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.

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

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.

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.

Re:WHICH feeds

[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:Off-line RSS reader for Linux?

[JShadow21]

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

isitchristmas.com's rss feed

[Destoo]

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

Re:Off-line RSS reader for Linux?

[prator]

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

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.

Re:WHICH feeds

[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:I don't get it

[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 at me now.

Here's my list, organized by folder. If a folder is marked (collapsed), I read those feeds as a group by clicking on the folder. Note: if the descriptions seem basic, /. was bitching about "too few characters per line," so I had to add some filler.

• Feedreader (collapsed) - these two feeds came with Feedreader, and I just didn't delete them.
• • Feedreader Developer Blog [feedburner.com]
  • Feedreader news and announcements [feedburner.com]
• Games
• • Deus Ex Projects - two projects for my favorite game of all time that both move one inch toward completion every 6 months.
  • • Deus Ex HTDP [offtopicproductions.com] - high-definition texture pack. Text feed, news and announcements.
    • Project 2027 [planetdeusex.ru] - new levels and story for Deus Ex. Text feed, news and announcements.
  • The Escapist: Zero Punctuation [escapistmagazine.com] - if you're not watching these game reviews, you should be. Feed is links to the weekly ZP posts.
  • Valve Steam news and updates [steampowered.com] - Steam is Valve's content delivery system. This feed includes game updates and general news. Text only.
• News/aggregator
• • CNN top stories [cnn.com] - this feed can be annoying because it sometimes contains a story summary in the item, but more often it just contains a link to the story. I wish it had summaries more often.
  • Fark [fark.com] - Fark is a news aggregator site that, like /., combines user submission with a little editorial control (as opposed to the Digg method). This feed is of the mainpage stories and contains only the headlines and a link. Sophomoric and dark humor are mainstays.
  • MSNBC [msn.com] - this is the top stories feed, editorially selected. They also have a "most viewed" feed if you're into celeb news and dogs in funny poses.
  • MSNBC - Coundown [msn.com] - feed of Countdown with Keith Olbermann video clips, updated nightly, with the first two stories usually posted before the show is over. Feed is links to the clips.
  • Slashdot - log in, your feed is personalized to your mainpage prefs. /.'s own feed contains headlines and story summaries.
• Politics
• • Crooks and Liars [feedburner.com] - This is a blog that supports more liberal ideals than the party line. Feed is of front page stories and contains attachments of any items referenced in the stories (usually QT files, sometimes PDFs)
  • Daily Kos [dailykos.com] - The largest liberal log/community on the net, this one is much more toward party line. Text only.
  • Electoral-vote.com [electoral-vote.com] - election news and coverage with a map that updates the electoral college count by poll average. Contains the site's daily upd