What RSS Feeds Do You Use? 243
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 (Score:4, Interesting)
The feed for me (Score:5, Interesting)
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?
My feeds (Score:5, Interesting)
feeds excerpt (Score:3, Interesting)
Stephan
Re:The feed for me (Score:1, Interesting)
My list of feeds:
Slashdot main : http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot [slashdot.org]
Obvious Reasons
It tends to display "since midnight" instead, or something -- which doesn't work in different timezones.
Anyway, front-page or rss of slashdot seems to miss stuff.
If you insist... (Score:5, Interesting)
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
BOFH!! how could I forget... (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
My RSS feeds (Score:2, Interesting)
Useful information for designing websites; particularly when in it comes to standards compliance and CSS.
An honest blog about living with an electric car, and modding it.
British comedian who shot to fame (well in my eyes anyway), with the Adam and Joe show.
Written by Ben Goldacre, Bad Science tries to find the truth behind scientific claims.
Steve Lamacq writes about new bands on the UK music scene.
Follows the development of the BBC website, and iPlayer
Provides information on new cars that consume less juice.
Another science blog trying to find the truth behind scientific claims
Stories that my girlfriend has written; yes I do have a girlfriend!
Hilarious blog from Charlie Brooker. This is UK centric and half the posts are TV reviews.
Provides links to torrents for new unsigned artists, and for some established ones who are releasing new material. A great way to discover new music.
Mostly a political blog by a British student, although he's now unemployed. Funny, yet insightful
Blog about the development of last.fm and all the technical details from behind the scenes. Very interesting stuff, especially considering the large amount of data they have to work with.
Blog from Martin Lewis, the money saving expert. Another UK-centric blog.
Excellent web development blog.
Blog from an ambulance control room
Articles about North Korea. Its somewhere I'm interested in, as its hard to imagine the suffering of those who live there.
Blog that generally rants about petrol and diesel prices in the UK.
Blog from a police officer in the UK. Makes you realise how much PC crap they have to deal with just for the collection of statistics.
Reviews of outdoor hiking gear and photos and writings from different walks
An EMT (ambulance man) based in London writing about the number of people calling an ambulance who really don't need one.
Blog from a local politician in Salford, UK.
UK Battery Vehicle Society. Interesting articles about electric vehicles.
Blog from Hani Suleiman, a member of the Java Community process.
Re:Mine (Score:2, Interesting)
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.
Re:I don't get it (Score:4, Interesting)
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:And how is this N3rd N3ws ?? (Score:3, Interesting)
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:Mine (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:I don't get it (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
My Offical Feed List (Score:3, Interesting)
Second Life Blogs - Blogs about the Second Life virtual world. Usually I list these by avatar name.
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. :-/
gmarcus (Score:2, Interesting)