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)
Re:Debian Package a Day (Score:2)
http://feeds.esciencenews.com/eScienceNews/popular [esciencenews.com]
Eureka Science News
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?
Re:The feed for me (Score:2)
Re:The feed for me (Score:2)
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 for the REALLY high-volume stuff.
Re:The feed for me (Score:2)
Re:The feed for me (Score:2)
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:The feed for me (Score:2)
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:The feed for me (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:The feed for me (Score:2)
Chalk it up to Canadian "arts" funding via tax breaks, the CBC and entrenched civil servants in the cultural ministries. Embarrassing.
My feeds (Score:5, Interesting)
feeds excerpt (Score:3, Interesting)
Stephan
Re:feeds excerpt (Score:2)
Stephan
Re:feeds excerpt (Score:2)
Some of my feeds (Score:2, Informative)
I use *none* (Score:4, Funny)
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* (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:I use *none* (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I use *none* (Score:5, Funny)
The master will appear when the student is ready
Re:I use *none* (Score:2)
Re:I use *none* (Score:2)
I just don't worry about it. My boss never comes around. I have trained him well.
Google Reader (Score:3, Insightful)
I don't get it (Score:2)
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 (Score:5, Informative)
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 (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:I don't get it (Score:3, Informative)
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,
Re:I don't get it (Score:2)
Oh, I use the RSS Ticker addon for firefox. I normally have FF open, so it ends up being just as good as a standalone reader.
I'm with you. (Score:2)
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:I don't get it (Score:2)
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 you visit the most just a single click away, and then going to direct to the new content one more click.
Try it, once you "get" RSS it's painful going back to the manual bookmark + reload way.
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.
Re:I don't get it (Score:2)
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 detail if you want it.
Re:I don't get it (Score:2)
WHICH feeds (Score:2, Insightful)
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.
Danwei, who are a bunch of pompous self-important Beijing residents, but have some good articles and translations that aren't available anywhere else.
An English magazine that occasionally has something interesting on it.
EastSouthWestNorth, a weblog with all sorts of interesting stories about dissent in China, and it's not even blocked by the GFW. Unfortunately the website editor is a radical leftist and this colors his coverage of some events. The web page is ugly as sin and includes a bunch of irrelevant crap about Taiwanese actresses and such, so RSS is the best bet.
Re:WHICH feeds (Score:2, Informative)
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:WHICH feeds (Score:3, Informative)
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:WHICH feeds (Score:2)
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 (Score:2)
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 (Score:3, Insightful)
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: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:Mine (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Mine (Score:2)
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 of single-panel jokes. Very funny, often somewhat twisted.
Ctrl-Alt-Del [ctrlaltdel-online.com] is a comic about a few gamer roomates.
LFG [lfgcomic.com] WoW/MMO/D&D spoof. Quite funny, good art, interesting plot. Many references break the 4th wall.
Two-Lumps [keenspot.com] is a comic about cats, 1 smart, 1 very, very dumb. I think the artist is stalking my cat to get ideas for the dumb one.
Gunnerkrigg Court [gunnerkrigg.com] Beautiful art, excellent story. And robots.
underpower [non-essential.com] hasn't updated in some time, great single-page art pieces recently and an actual story before.
Girl Genius [girlgeniusonline.com] is all about Mad Science.
Bunny System [thebunnysystem.com] is a comic about psychotic rabbits.
Something Positive [somethingpositive.net] is very, very cynical. It actually has 5 webcomics on 1 page. Very much worth checking out.
Head Trip [comicgenesis.com] is... a head trip.
FLEM [flemcomics.com] hasn't updated in a while, and has a strange and rather violent storyline. Back to single-panel shorts now.
VGCats [vgcats.com] video game cats is excellent, if you play video games.
Clan of the Cats [clanofthecats.com] Author is going blind, will continue if she gets better. Great story and art.
Dr. McNinja [drmcninja.com] The adventures of Dr. McNinja. Clean art, good story, ninjas on fire.
Code Name: Hunter [rcsitravel.net] Magic/technology interaction in a world strangely dominated by talking animals. Excellent facial expressions, especially for being animals.
Awkward Zombie [awkwardzombie.com] gamer comic similar to vgcats.
No Need for Bushido [noneedforbushido.com] Samurai story, well drawn and reasonably well written.
Giant ITP [giantitp.com] hosts both The Order of The Stick, a D&D spoof, and The Battle For Gobwin Knob, a comic about a GM who gets sucked into a world of his own design, on the losing side of a no-win scenario.
Last Blood [lastblood.net] Zombies have taken over the earth and killed nearly all humans, so now the vampires fight to protect their dwindling food source. Excellent drawing and unique story.
Chopping Block [choppingblock.org] Butch the serial killer. Sick, twisted humour, but very funny.
Dominic Deegan [dominic-deegan.com] Oracle for Hire, is a good story with pretty good art.
The Traveling Gnome [comicgenesis.com] Great art, story seems good so far.
One-Liners [one-liners.net] may be offensive to some, or funny to those with a sense of humour.
Feeds (Score:2)
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 (Score:2)
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... (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.
Re:BOFH!! how could I forget... (Score:2)
Feeds (Score:2)
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
Re:If you insist... (Score:2)
My list (Score:2)
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 game.
EZTV [tvrss.net] - Scene TV torrent releases.
Releaselog [rlslog.net] - General scene torrent releases.
And there's of course Slashdot which currently has 126 unread stories, I'm sure I'll get to them sometime.
Re:My list (Score:5, Funny)
Ahh crap, and I spelled xkcd wrong.
Re:My list (Score:2)
I only read 1 (Score:2)
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 ! (Score:2)
Most important one (Score:2)
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:Most important one (Score:2)
Off-line RSS reader for Linux? (Score:2)
About the feeds, here are the ones I read the most (I guess almost all are self-descriptive for slashdot reader's).
Re:Off-line RSS reader for Linux? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Off-line RSS reader for Linux? (Score:2)
Re:Off-line RSS reader for Linux? (Score:3, Informative)
I've never tried it on Linux, but you can use Google Reader in offline mode if you install Google Gears.
Re:Off-line RSS reader for Linux? (Score:2)
Re:Off-line RSS reader for Linux? (Score:2)
If you like the CLI, try newsbeuter
Photography feeds (Score:3, Informative)
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 (Score:5, Informative)
Finance & Economy
Space
Tech
Misc
Thought Experiments (Score:2)
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 when you can enjoy them instead? This blog will show you how. Feed = http://elberry.wordpress.com/feed/ [wordpress.com]
Oie de Chine at http://chine.blog.lemonde.fr/ [lemonde.fr] - a photo-blog of daily life in China from a hugely talented French photographer. Feed = http://chine.blog.lemonde.fr/feed/ [lemonde.fr]
Best /. article in a while (Score:2)
Two (Score:2)
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 (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.
These ones (Score:2)
http://www.wirelesscouch.net/cgi-bin/headlines/headlines.pl [wirelesscouch.net]
People Like Us (Score:2)
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 (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:none 0 nada (Score:2)
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 place a hold, the shorter your wait time is, and there is no way to sign up faster for a new DVD than an RSS feed. This was my first feed, and most valuable.
Finally, my daily dose of Dilbert is obtained with the greatest ease via RSS. The site changed recently and became unbearable to use. There is a "fast" link, but it doesn't compare to RSS.
I think RSS is less useful for news sites like
isitchristmas.com's rss feed (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.isitchristmas.com/ [isitchristmas.com]
yesterday: no.
today: no.
HowFlow - Digg, for us IT guys (Score:2)
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 is non-commercial, there is only one little open-source related ad on it.
A few (Score:2)
Securityfocus
National Vulnerability Database
milw0rm
sebug
and last but not least, idefense.
List (Score:2)
* 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 (Score:2)
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 (Score:3, Informative)
Too many to list (Score:2)
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, but I think that's another Ask Slashdot. I also use my reader to keep up on news about particular events, like PDC 2008.
I only do RSS on my iPhone, actually..... (Score:2)
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 make it a lot more practical to view a lightweight version of news and information.)
Feeds on interest (Score:2)
130+ feeds divided into categories in OPML.xml that's styled with XSL.
My selection: (Score:2)
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:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/default.stm [bbc.co.uk]
http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/ [ifyoulikei...ethere.com]
- destroy your faith in humanity, or at least the British
http://seenonslash.com/ [seenonslash.com]
- because sometimes -1 is funny
http://icanhascheezburger.com/ [icanhascheezburger.com]
http://www.lolcats.com/rss.php [lolcats.com]
- still funny?
RSS for individual Slashdot threads (Score:2)
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: (Score:2)
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? (writing): http://www.hitselfdestruct.com/feeds/posts/default [hitselfdestruct.com]
Soren Johnson (design): http://feeds.feedburner.com/Designer-notes [feedburner.com]
Fun Motion (physics games): http://www.fun-motion.com/feed/ [fun-motion.com]
Play This Thing (short reviews & commentary): http://playthisthing.com/allposts/feed [playthisthing.com]
GoGamer (game deals): http://feeds.feedburner.com/Gogamercom48hourMadnessSpecial [feedburner.com]
CheapAssGamer (game deals): http://feeds.feedburner.com/cheapassgamer [feedburner.com]
Kotaku (news & commentary): http://kotaku.com/index.xml [kotaku.com]
Rock, Paper, Shotgun (PC gaming): http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?feed=rss2 [rockpapershotgun.com]
MSDN Feeds (Score:2)
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>Feeds</title></head><body><outline text="A View from Elsewhere" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmont/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="ascend slowly, breathing normally" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/karinm/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="BCL Team Blog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="bharry's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Convert your Windows Server 2008 to a Workstation!" xmlUrl="http://www.win2008workstation.com/wordpress/feed/" type="rss"/><outline text="Douglas Purdy" xmlUrl="http://douglaspurdy.com/feed/" type="rss"/><outline text="Eric Fleegal's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericflee/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Geoffrey Vandiest WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogsrss.skynet.be/g/geoffrey-vandiest/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/coolthingoftheday" type="rss"/><outline text="I'm not a Klingon" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnste/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Jason Zander's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Jeff Beehler's Blog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Kim Hamilton" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/kimhamil/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet" xmlUrl="http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/rss2.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="Microsoft Source Analysis for C#" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/sourceanalysis/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Microsoft SQL Server Development Customer Advisory Team" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Microsoft Windows SDK Blog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/windowssdk/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="MSDN Blogs" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/MainFeed.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="MSDN: United States" xmlUrl="http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/MSDN/globalfeeds/en-us/Global-MSDN-en-us.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="MSDN: Visual Studio" xmlUrl="http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/MSDN/en-us/vsts2008/products/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Not Northwind" xmlUrl="http://www.codeplex.com/notnorthwind/Project/ProjectRss.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="Pedram Rezaei's Ramblings" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/pedram/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="rdoherty's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/rdoherty/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScottHanselman" type="rss"/><outline text="Scott Holden's Blog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/scottholden/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="ScottGu's Blog" xmlUrl="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/rss.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="ShankuN's Blog" xmlUrl="http://www.shankun.com/Services/Rss.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="shell: revealed" xmlUrl="http://shellrevealed.com/blogs/MainFeed.aspx?GroupID=-1&Type=BlogsOnly" type="rss"/><outline text="Somasegar's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Sorting it all Out" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="SQL Server Storage Engine" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="SQLCAT.com" xmlUrl="http://sql
Re:MSDN Feeds (Score:2)
http://www.phpied.com/files/opml2html/opml2html.html [phpied.com]
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/misc/opml2html.pl.txt [zawodny.com]
Mine (Score:2)
Cato daily podcast [cato.org]
Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog [claytoncramer.com]
TED Talks [tedtalks.blip.tv]
NPR: Science Friday Podcast [sciencefriday.com]
feeds (Score:2)
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://arstechnica.com/index.rssx [arstechnica.com]
Phoronix - linux graphics news and info
http://www.phoronix.com/rss.php [phoronix.com]
Linux Weekly News
http://lwn.net/headlines/rss [lwn.net]
KDE announcements
http://www.kde.org/dotkdeorg.rdf [kde.org]
Open Source Software Planets:
http://planet.debian.org/rss20.xml [debian.org]
http://planet.fedoraproject.org/atom.xml [fedoraproject.org]
http://planet.ubuntu.com/rss20.xml [ubuntu.com]
http://planet.gnome.org/atom.xml [gnome.org]
http://planetkde.org/rss20.xml [planetkde.org]
http://planet.freedesktop.org/rss20.xml [freedesktop.org]
http://planet.mozilla.org/atom.xml [mozilla.org]
http://planet.jabber.org/atom.xml [jabber.org]
mostly software releases and XEP updates
http://planet.jabber.org/news/atom.xml [jabber.org]
http://maemo.org/news/planet-maemo/atom.xml [maemo.org]
environment feeds:
Good Pacific Northwest environmental news
http://www.sightline.org/daily_score/rss [sightline.org]
Best environmental news and discussion on the web
http://www.worldchanging.com/index.xml [worldchanging.com]
I keep Treehugger for completeness, but I mark 90% of their posts as read without looking at them.
Really too "light green/consumer green" for me
http://www.treehugger.com/index.xml [treehugger.com]
other feeds:
Dive into Mark - not what once was, but good enough to keep around
http://diveintomark.org/feed/ [diveintomark.org]
Loooong posts on software
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/atom.xml [blogspot.com]
Bruce Scheier knows Alice and Bob's shared secret
http://www.schneier.com/blog/index.rdf [schneier.com]
The intersection of Science (especially Evolution), Liberalism, Atheism, and Squid
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/index.xml [scienceblogs.com]
"Your comment has too few characters per line" - what a load of bull. Taco, I know this and the timer are supposed to cut down on spam, but I think they annoy legitimate posters more than they reduce spam. You should really reconsider these "features".
The banality of RSS (Score:4, Insightful)
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. (Score:2)
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 (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. :-/
My feeds (Score:2)
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. (Score:2)
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 volume.
So far it's been working well.
Not affiliated, just a happy user.
Sean
A Blank Paper (Score:2)
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 (Score:2)
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]
Stephen's Weblog (NDS homebrew) http://blog.akkit.org/feed/ [akkit.org]
StupidRanger http://feeds.feedburner.com/Stupidrangercom [feedburner.com]
Zero Punctuation http://www.escapistmagazine.com/rss/articles/editorials/zeropunctuation [escapistmagazine.com]
Zelda Reorchestrated http://www.zreomusic.com/feed/ [zreomusic.com]
Used to read The Escapist, quite enjoying the magazine format, but seven or so articles all on the same day each week became too much (once a month please!). The format has changed since then, it just isn't the same.
And the Comics:
xkcd comic & blag
Penny Arcade
and no feed, but 8-bit Theater
And a number of various personal feeds
Slashdot I just check every few hours, I can be assured there is going to be a new article to read
gmarcus (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Just these four (Score:2)
Re:eh (Score:2)
I use a local feed aggregator:
http://thepile.net/woodland [thepile.net]
That's it.
Eating Betty Rules! (Score:2)
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: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:And how is this N3rd N3ws ?? (Score:3, Funny)
On topic, a nice RSS feed-providing website for women I fell in love with recently is geeksugar [geeksugar.com]...