Ask Slashdot: Which Expert Bloggers Do You Read? 203
An anonymous reader writes: The crush of news sites today is almost overwhelming. For true bits of news — bare facts and alerts that something has happened — it doesn't really matter which site you read it on. Some tiny, no-name website can tell me $company1 bought $company2 just as well as Reuters, CNN, or the NY Times. When it comes to opinion pieces and analysis, though, it's a different story. One of the generalist tech bloggers at the NY Times probably isn't going to have many worthwhile posts comparing database sorting algorithms or explaining the Cassini spacecraft's orbital path or providing soldering techniques for fixing a busted monitor. An example most of us are familiar with: Bruce Schneier generally provides good advice on security and encryption. So: what expert bloggers do you keep tabs on? I'm not looking for any particular posting frequency. This type of person I'm thinking of is probably not a journalist, and may not post very often at all — posting frequency matters far less than the signal-to-noise ratio. My goal is to build a big list of smart people who write interesting things — mainly for topics you'd expect to see on Slashdot, but I'm open to other subjects, as well.
DaringFireball (Score:2)
Because really, I need the skinny on bourbon and James Bond. I mean occasionally he writes about Apple and tech, but let's be honest. We're all there for the booze news.
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I need the skinny on bourbon and James Bond.
Huh? Bond drinks vodka martinis. Shaken, not stirred.
Simple: I don't. (Score:1)
Most experts don't have the time to write or read blogs based on their work. And if I wanted an explanation of Cassini's current activities I'd just walk down the hall and ask one of the experts myself. ;)
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Same here, just different reasons. I have 88 newsfeeds in my RSS reader, I don't read a fucking thing. Max /. comment section for the drama lol...
Was Slashdot (Score:5, Insightful)
It used to be Slashdot. Not sure what this site is anymore, and I'm still looking for a reasonable replacement. I guess a collection of experts would be a decent way to go.
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http://arstechnica.com/ [arstechnica.com] is pretty good from a tech news coverage perspective. http://theregister.co.uk/ [theregister.co.uk] has the nice snarky British humor angle as well.
http://fark.com/ [fark.com] tends to have pretty great and balanced political discussion and humor.
For more irreverent/technical discussion threads, though, I'd guess there might be some corner of reddit that could match what we had here on Slashdot... but I haven't redditted much, so someone else will have to guide us.
Re:Was Slashdot (Score:4, Informative)
Fark has become Reddit lite. They went full SJW, removed boobies from the front page, redesigned it, etc.
With all of the coders on here you'd think someone would figure out a way to update INN to include moderation of some sort. Put a nice web front end on it and make it all open over API/RFC and let other people make your clients.
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I got over Fark a long time ago.
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it's still slashdot. I mean, you just made a post here :D
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How cruel - how true
Politics: SCGNews (Score:2)
OK, it's a borderline conspiracy theory site, but this guy does a good job analyzing events and media coverage.
My favorite post is on how he explains US military activity... everything makes much more sense now:
The Geopolitics of World War III: https://youtu.be/TC3tINgWfQE [youtu.be]
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The reality is, no one actually cares enough about Syria for it to lead to WW3. It will be resolved similarly to any number of the cold war conflicts, where major powers were on both sides, but neither wanted to escalate.
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Oh, I'm not worried about WWIII, it just has a pretty good explanation of how much our foreign military intervention is driven by backing the USD with growth in oil/energy since the dollar went off the gold standard.
Re:Politics: SCGNews (Score:5, Informative)
Oh, I'm not worried about WWIII, it just has a pretty good explanation of how much our foreign military intervention is driven by backing the USD with growth in oil/energy since the dollar went off the gold standard.
Never listen to any commentator on that topic if they seem unaware that most US oil consumption is supplied by the US and Canada.
(Incidentally, Milton Friedman correctly pointed out that the US went off the dollar standard in 1934. The system from then until the Nixon shock was 'gold standard' in name only).
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Oh, I'm not worried about WWIII, it just has a pretty good explanation of how much our foreign military intervention is driven by backing the USD with growth in oil/energy since the dollar went off the gold standard.
Never listen to any commentator on that topic if they seem unaware that most US oil consumption is supplied by the US and Canada.
Argh, I never listen to any commentator who obviously didn't bother reading the link, but I'll give you a pass since all I could find was the silly youtube video. Here's another post in text form:
http://stormcloudsgathering.co... [stormcloudsgathering.com]
The point isn't that the US buys foreign oil, the point is that oil is only traded in USD on the world market, and we primarily take military action against countries who dare to try to sell oil to others in their own currency.
Another good narrative is the "Covert Origins of ISIS"
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Argh, I never listen to any commentator who obviously didn't bother reading the link, but I'll give you a pass since all I could find was the silly youtube video. Here's another post in text form:
Thanks, I'd tried to find a transcript but couldn't
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Certainly oil is an important resource, but understanding foreign policy only as an attempt to protect oil is simplistic. Believing that the Federal Reserve is causing wars in the middle east (as your link suggests) is conspiratorial, but more importantly naive.
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eh, I'm becoming kinda interested in energy policy, esp. since we're gradually transitioning from a production economy to a purely imaginary intellectual-property-based economy. Also timely now that we're poking/griefing at Russia's largely oil-based economy and their relationship with China.
If you have some reading on US foreign policy / military intervention strategy that's less naive than "spreading freedom and democracy" or even "cheap energy" (like the GI Joe and Transformers cartoons I grew up with),
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In any case, looking there will give you a good start. I warn you though.......once you start getting into reading about foreign policy and history (Bismark! Wow!), it becomes more addicting than Game of Thrones. It's much slower paced, but so much deeper and more realistic.
Re:Politics: SCGNews (Score:5, Funny)
Well, if you use Canadian oil you'll go from 1 mile per gallon down to 0.425143706 kilometre per liter. Nobody wants that!
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http://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/... [npr.org]
For those who do not want to go to the article, where does US oil come from:
- USA: 38.8%
- Canada: 15.1%
- Saudi Arabia: 8.1%
- Mexico: 7.5%
- Latin America (other than Mexico/Venezuela): 6.2%
- Venezuela: 5.9%
- Nigeria: 5.2%
- Africa (other than Nigeria): 5.1%
- Persian Gulf (other than Saudi Arabia): 4.8%
- Other than above: 3.3%
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I was going to link the blog site http://scgnews.com/ [scgnews.com] , but that site appears to have been squatted upon.
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Oh, here's where it went: http://stormcloudsgathering.co... [stormcloudsgathering.com]
Jon Katz (Score:2)
I also enjoy Jeff K and timothy.
Bennett Haselton (Score:5, Funny)
He's got a lot to say, and a captive community to say it to.
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He's got a lot to say, and a captive community to say it to.
Read on for more of what Bennett has to say...
The Incidental Economist, Bill Maher, (Score:2)
Only blogs I see regularly are The Incidental Economist (healthcare news, reform, and research) and Real Time with Bill Maher (It's...um...Bill Maher...).
http://theincidentaleconomist.... [theinciden...nomist.com]
http://www.real-time-with-bill... [real-time-...r-blog.com]
Brian Krebs (Score:5, Interesting)
Krebs On Security. Nuff said.
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Expert Blogs (Score:5, Interesting)
A few of the "expert" ones I frequent:
Economics/Social Science:
Econlong [econlib.org]
Marginal Revolution [marginalrevolution.com]
The Money Illusion [themoneyillusion.com]
Overcoming Bias [overcomingbias.com]
Bronte Capital - More short selling fund/capital management than economics [blogspot.com]
Law
Volokh Conspiracy [washingtonpost.com] (Now tied into the Washington Post)
Writing/Fantasy/SF
According to Hoyt [accordingtohoyt.com]
Mad Genius Club [madgeniusclub.com]
Come Let Us Reason Together (more politics than writing) [comeletusr...gether.com]
Tom Kyte (Score:2)
3D printing tips and models (Score:3)
I read Zheng3.com, but that's just me.
xkcd (Score:5, Interesting)
oh, wait.. it is not a blog.. but who cares, the information is more valid than many "expert blogs"
Re: Obligatory xkcd (Score:2)
https://xkcd.com/727/ [xkcd.com]
slashies!
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Re:xkcd (Score:5, Informative)
http://theoatmeal.com/ [theoatmeal.com] also has more insightful writing than most of the drivel posted on "blogs".
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It's also full of interesting information, such as http://theoatmeal.com/comics/b... [theoatmeal.com]
I don't. Why follow when you can lead? (Score:2, Insightful)
It is real simple.
* If you are wasting time following another blogger that means you are being reactive.
* Instead, invest your time into creating/producing solutions which means you are being pro-active.
It is the same deal with Focus. As Steve Job's used to say "The secret to staying focused is to say no." Every minute you waste reading someone else's blog, waste watching TV, waste gaming, etc., means the competition just gained an advantage over you.
I spend 5 minutes / day reading /. and Reddit spread th
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Yeah, 'cause living in your own bubble makes you a super effective player in the world you're ignoring.
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But you have to ignore a lot of what's going on. If you follow 5000 twits heading for a cliff, even if you don't follow them down, you'll still have wasted your time.
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat*. - Kay
* Part of the quote was removed to fit reality**
** Reality as I know it, anyway***
*** If this really is reality in the
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I spend 5 minutes / day reading /. and Reddit spread throughout the day. Any more then ~5 minutes is time wasted that could be spend more efficiently building your business, helping people, networking, etc.
I really hope this is supposed to be a joke.
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Well, you just cared about his post, so you're not even following his advice even though you think he's right.
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You completely missed the point.
I never said to ignore everyone.
I only said you need to be selective in how and how much you spend your time.
If you want to be successful you need to properly manage how your time is spent / invested.
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Why are you wasting your time with pointless ad hominem attacks??
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/sarcasm Riiight, because taking 30 seconds out of my 5 minute budget to hopefully enligthen carni that he has unresolved issues is a SUCH a waste of time.
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/sarcasm Riiight, because taking 30 seconds out of my 5 minute budget to hopefully enligthen carni that he has unresolved issues is a SUCH a waste of time.
That's 60 seconds now.
And if you read this and reply to it, another 30 seconds...
Do you keep, like, a chess clock next to your computer?
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/Sarcasm Gee, if only there was a place a person could go for a news aggregator [slashdot.org] to read the important summaries from a single place instead of wasting time with N+ sites.
Sticking your head in the sand and ignoring what is going around in the world is dumb.
Being balanced and investing a few minutes to keep up-to-date is smart.
Crush? (Score:5, Interesting)
"The crush of news sites today is almost overwhelming."
Call it off-topic, but if you are overwhelmed by the "crush of news sites", then you're probably doing something wrong. Virtually all of the news in the US can be summed up as "MSM". A couple of liberal families own most of the "news" organizations. An ultra-conservative Aussie owns the best-known alternative. There are more main-stream sites available, but most people don't want to hear about them.
In my news feeds, I have two Russian, two Chinese, one Indian, one Kurd, one Arab, one Israeli, 4 British, one Australian, and a mishmash of US MSM. I scan over the MSM, choosing to click on one now and then. Being a conservative at heart, I click Fox more often than I click Hearst or Turner links, but TBH, I don't like Fox much. For the real news, I scroll on down to the "foreign" sources.
Also in my feeds, I have things like Scientific American, Project Censored and - oh, what's this? SLASHDOT?!?! How did that get in there?
Think outside the box that Main Stream Media tries to put you in.
On a related note - http://dontbubble.us/ [dontbubble.us]
Maybe I should have advised you to think outside the bubble, instead?
Re:Crush? (Score:5, Informative)
I dunno if AC will check back or not - but in no particular order:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ [bbc.co.uk]
http://www.reuters.com/ [reuters.com]
http://rt.com/ [rt.com]
http://www.cbc.ca/ [www.cbc.ca]
http://www.news.com.au/ [news.com.au]
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.... [dailytelegraph.com.au]
http://news.sky.com/ [sky.com]
http://kurdishdailynews.org/ [kurdishdailynews.org]
http://rt.com/ [rt.com]
http://www.jpost.com/ [jpost.com]
http://www.aljazeera.com/ [aljazeera.com]
http://www.china.org.cn/ [china.org.cn]
http://www.scientificamerican.... [scientificamerican.com]
http://timesofindia.indiatimes... [indiatimes.com]
http://english.pravda.ru/ [pravda.ru]
http://www.projectcensored.org... [projectcensored.org]
http://www.arabtimesonline.com... [arabtimesonline.com]
I think I've covered the best - be aware, some national sites are heavy into propaganda. Pravda very much so, RT somewhat less so.
Depending on your own interests - you might type in some country in a Google search, and add "times" or "post" or "news". From time to time, I do something like that - the earthquake in Tibet for instance. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=pale... [duckduckgo.com] That search offered up a number of sites, but I didn't add any of them to my feeds. Note that many of the hits are very politicized, but you can still find Tibetan news sources among them.
Have fun!
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Every news site in the world has it's own slant, if not it's own agenda. Every single one. There are no "unbiased" news sites. There are no unbiased persons. I have my views, you have your views, and so does every other person on this planet. We are all biased, we put our own spin on things.
If you have failed to grasp that concept, then you are a babe in the woods, prey for whatever bad monster comes along.
If you insist on playing the fool, please don't waste my time.
If you have grasped the concept tha
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Whoooooaaahhh there, Nelly. I'm quite sure that I specified earlier that I was NOT using the term "liberal" in the same sense that most of the world uses it. Here in the US, we have our own meaning for the word.
Hell, man, half of Europe thinks that Marx was right of center! Or, you might credit him with being centrist.
Liberal, Democrat, Progressive - on this side of the pond, the terms are pretty much synonymous. And, "conservative" over here doesn't mean the same either.
Signal to noise ratio (Score:5, Insightful)
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You said a mouthful there. Now and then, I am impressed with someone's point of view. I return to their site a few times. Sometimes more than a few. So VERY many of them end up stuffing their foot in their mouths. And, of course, there are some who apparently keep their heads up their asses, and I just happened to catch them on a day they pulled their heads out to breathe.
People worth listening to don't waste a lot of time blathering. They are to busy DOING SOMETHING!
Smorgasbord (Score:4, Interesting)
In the Pipeline (chemistry and pharma)
MathBabe (math and data mining)
Schneier on Security (crypto and computer security)
My Biased Coin (statistics)
Steve on Image Processing (image proc w/ Matlab)
Paul Graham (computing and Y Combinator)
Lessig Blog (intellectual property and cyber law)
The Volokh Conspiracy (politics)
MultiBlogs:
Talking Points Memo (political)
Google Research Blog
KDD Nuggets (datamining)
R-Bloggers (R and datamining)
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In the Pipeline (chemistry and pharma)
Came here to look for thepipeline, was not disappointed. It's fantastic for anyone interested in chemistry and medicine.
math & physics, theoretical CS, anti-feminism (Score:3, Interesting)
For theoretical computer science, I read Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP [wordpress.com], by Richard J. Lipton [wikipedia.org] and Kenneth W. Regan.
For analyzing the harm that modern feminism is causing, I read Dalrock [wordpress.com].
News? What's that? (Score:2)
Years ago a journalist reported the news. Today... no such animal. Just reporters giving an opinion.
Pharma industry/drug development (Score:2)
War nerd, simple justice, popehat (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:War nerd, simple justice, popehat (Score:5, Informative)
I came here to post popehat. My legal blog recommendations:
* Popehat [popehat.com] insightful/snarky legal commentary from someone who used to be a federal prosecutor and is now in private practice.
* Lowering the Bar [loweringthebar.net]: hilarious legal humor. Recent topics: Hulk Hogan, Donald Trump, drone law, argle-bargle.
*Papers, Please [papersplease.org]: Lots of TSA and similar topics. Their MO is to file expansive FOIA requests to intelligence and law enforcement agencies, then write stridently about how they were rejected.
* Jetsetting Terrorist [jetsettingterrorist.com]: trials and tribulations of somebody erroneously on the do not fly list. (not updated often)
* Taking Sense Away [wordpress.com]: blog written by TSA employee (no longer updated, but fun to read the archives).
* SCOTUSblog [scotusblog.com]: blow-by-blow news of goings-on at the supreme court. super nerdy.
* Supreme Court Haiku [supremecourthaiku.com]: summaries of supreme court decisions, in haiku form.
* Volokh Conspiracy [washingtonpost.com]: insightful pieces on constitutional law and similar topics. primarily conservative, primarily written by law profs.
wow, with all these things in my feedly, it's amazing I get any work done!
Kibo (Score:3)
The best information you can get on the 'net
http://www.kibo.com/ [kibo.com]
Not really a blog but.. (Score:2)
Zero Punctuation [escapistmagazine.com] from The Escapist and Ben Croshaw is fucking hilarious - these are short, fast paced game reviews done in flash animation if you're not familiar.
Red Letter Media [redlettermedia.com] for Half in the Bag, Best of the Worst, and of course Mr. Plinkett. These are movie reviews, commentary and sometimes satire from movie buffs. The most well known (and the reason I still regularly check back) are the scathing several hours long multi-part dissections of the Star Wars Prequels [redlettermedia.com] there are some for a few other things a
IP/Copyright/DMCA/Cyberlaw law blog (Score:2)
He seems like a level-headed, well-informed lecturer with insight into UK law as well as US laws.
Authority Be Damned (Score:2)
Stuff (Score:2)
Derek Lowe, In The Pipeline [corante.com], I got into him from his Things I Won't Work With [corante.com] tag (Note: he's going to be moving to another domain in a few weeks)
Stephen Smith's Space KSC [blogspot.com] (I think he's a bigwig with NASA's outreach or advocacy programs or something)
Bunnie Huang's [wikipedia.org] blog [bunniestudios.com] (famous for hacking the Xbox, but he isn't updating very often this year, so he must be working on something)
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For Windows insights (Score:3, Informative)
Daily WTF (Score:2)
Post modern Christian blog, Of Dust and Kings (Score:2)
"Of Dust and Kings": http://tehanna.com
Now, most slashdotters are atheists, and I'm not going to debate about that one way or the other. I honestly have no concern what you believe, because I think there's a kernel of truth in all religions and non-religions (including humanism, satanism (whcih is another form of humanism), etc.). However, even if you are an atheist, you still have a sense of morality, and it is possible to get some inspiration from Christian tradition, as long as you don't get enmired i
Wait! (Score:2)
Some of those guys are experts?
Expert on what? (Score:2)
Expert on what? The field of human endeavor, and thus the question, is impossibly broad. (Though the questioner quasi limits it to IT/science/hardware by implication.) In fact, the submission reads an awful lot like someone trying to get content for free...
That being said, for most of the stuff I want expert help on I tend to visit specialized forums far more than blogs. I've generally got too much going on to strain the sea in hopes that something I can actually use drops into my lap by happenstance.
Yves Smith (Score:2)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com... [nakedcapitalism.com]
Best economics group blog on the Internet. Led by Yves Smith, who's writing about the 2008 banking crisis was absolutely brilliant and spot-on. Also Philip Pilkington, who's blog "Fixing the Economists" is essential reading. Non-ideological (unless you disagree with them, in which case you will claim - falsely - that they're ideological). Their economics expertise is unquestioned.
I read their blog every day and every time I find myself disagreeing with something they've
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>> Their economics expertise is unquestioned.
Well then. I guess that settles that!
Canadian experts (Score:2)
In general it's difficult to get excited about Canadian issues, since the news and commentary from our US neighbors tends to be a lot more loud and extreme. However, there are a couple commenters I turn to when I want to catch up on what is happening in my own country:
Michael Geist [michaelgeist.ca] is an excellent source for tech and intellectual property issues in Canada.
Chantal Hebert [thestar.com] is a fantastic political analyst... her columns are regularly insightful and devoid of the partisan screeching that seems to infect a lot
Just one (Score:2)
This guy [slashdot.org], because I agree with everything he has to say.
Fivethirtyeight (Score:3)
I've been reading Fivethirtyeight.com [fivethirtyeight.org] since back when it was an expert blog on statistical analysis of polls. I guess that's not what it is any more, but I still read it.
I still read CodingHorror [codinghorror.com], although Jeff's output has gone way down since StackOverflow took off (or since he starting having kids. I'm not sure which was the real driver).
But I think for the most part youtube series have replaced a lot of my blog reading.
this way: (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
late to the discussion... (Score:2)
When it comes to mobile news (Score:2)
He's been pretty much spot on in regards to Nokia and predicted that Microsoft would do cut to the Lumia brand which is part of today's headlines on
Read the opposition. (Score:2)
I read a lot of the usual suspects: this site; although it's probably
gone downhill over the years, there are still some interesting, insightful
or informative opinions/posts.
Other sites include:
El Reg [theregister.co.uk]. Always good for the latest government fuck-ups with IT.
The latest: 16 billion quid wasted [theregister.co.uk] trying to implement a new IT system for what is essentially a renamed social security benefit.
Our dishonest dick of a PM (David Cameron) said today:
Anyone who posts often isn't worth reading (Score:2)
Generating good content is hard, and for a single person to do it on a regular basis is next to impossible. As an experiment, take all the blog posts you read on a particular day that come from whatever source you normally use (for me that's /r/programming or Hack-A-Day). Then go to the previous post on that person's blog. Odds are you'll find that article of significantly lower quality than the one that brought you there, and/or that article will have been posted months or years ago.
Content aggregators
Software Engineering Philosophy (Score:2)
The very first public wiki: it goes by the aliases "Wiki Wiki Web", "C2 wiki", and "Portland Pattern Repository".
It's a combination wiki, blog, and discussions on the philosophies of software design. It's messy, but often messy in a good way.
There is a tension between what may be called "practitioners" and "academics" that I find fascinating (and have helped fuel, I must say). The practitioner stance is that human (coder) nature/perception and economics (bottom line) are the key factors, while the academic
Economic and doom sites mostly (Score:2)
ZeroHedge.com (Sensationalist but the true bits are quite interesting and after about a year or two, whatever crazy thing they're going on about shows up on "The Economist.")
NakedCapitalism.com (It doesn't SHOUT at you the way ZeroHedge does, but it's informative).
ricefarmer.blogspot.com (A sane news aggregation site with occasional realistic commentary. As usual, reality puts people off).
ClubOrlov.com (Interesting guy. Grew up in Russia during the collapse. Comments on our ongoing slo mo collapse).
http://o [ourfiniteworld.com]
A couple (Score:2)
Storage Mojo
Rands in Repose
Daringfireball for a laugh. You should seriously be cautious of any site without comments. Most of his content doesn't stand up to even mild criticism.
Networking blog: ipspace.net (Score:2)
I follow Ivan Pepelnjak at blog.ipspace.net [slashdot.org] for advanced networking stuff (some topics are CCIE-level). He is great at explaining concepts, has strong opinions on new technologies and provides links to background information. He also gives weminars on multiple technologies (most are paid). Great source of information to get in touch with reality, apart from what appears in networking books. (Disc: I am not affiliated with him, but follow the blog and have attended some paid weminars).
Fefe (Score:2)
For IT News you need to read fefe. Who doesn't?
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Me. I blog about things which are most interesting... to me.
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Ditto. Who gives a rat's ass what random dweebs think.
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I do (seriously).
Some people are interesting or at least can write in an interesting style. The cool thing about the internet is it gives anyone who wants to a platform to babble on. It doesn't guarantee that anyone will listen, but I don't think there is any harm in doing so, and of course some people just enjoy the experience (look at people who keep personal journals that no one sees..)
I have no inclination to have a blog, but I certainly read a fair number of them. Some are from people with serious cred
Re:Daring Fireball (Score:5, Funny)
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The Gruber brothers were (separately) in the first and third Die Hard movies. They didn't appear in the second. That was the one about mercenaries taking over the Dulles airport.
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Re:For politics/economics... (Score:5, Interesting)
A good track record of what?
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A good track record of what?
A good track record of insightful contributions to public discourse.
Or at least a better track record than most of us who post to slashdot.
I wish I had mod points (Score:2)
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You're quite right about that. All that's left is idiots who try to get referrals to their Bitcoin faucet account.
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English is not my native language.
"are idiots"
sorry.
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I imagine a lot of people boost their reputation (and thus the money they can make doing speaking engagements / consulting work) by publishing free content. Bruce Schneier comes to mind.
Then there's people like Raymond Chen, who's blog I read despite that I haven't had much to do with windows in about 10 years.. I just find it interesting and he has a fun writing style.
And there's always ad revenue. Stuff like eevblog is "free" but he's probably making a bunch of money on ad revenue (as far as I know, eevbl