Where Do You Get Your IT News? 85
whiggy asks: "I am a network admin in a small company with predominantly Windows systems, with minimal Linux exposure. I am attempting to organize myself in order to be more productive. Of course, one of the things on my list is to keep up with the latest technology trends. I have several sites in my bookmarks that I visit daily, but I am just curious what other good resources are out there. What are your favorite sites (or other resources) you get your morning news from? Which ones are the 'must haves'?"
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Whislt on the subject, Bias? (Score:2, Insightful)
Slashdot, theregister, wired, new scientist, anandtech, bbc news technology section (obligatory comedy option).
I used to read tomshardware until a few years ago when articles started becoming so blatantly biased towards whoever had sent 'tom' a new toy that week that it deteriorated from information source to propaganda.
Its one thing listing your sources of news but have you properly evaluated your source and understand what view point they may come from? /. is obviously very open source / linux biased
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Do I know what my reading?
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For the higher-end and more insightful tech industry news i use CBRonline.com and Business2. Both of these sites run interviews, etc with the leading lights at Sun, Novell, Oracle, MS, Adobe, etc, etc... Dont expect much humour though
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Does anyone still use the old address for Tom's like I do?
?Ed Foster's Gripelog (Score:2)
Ars Technica is too non-specific. Tom's Hardware Guide has too many ads; I wonder how much of what is written there is just hype to get paid ads.
Can't do without Ed Foster's Gripelog. How else can you discover that it is not just you who has trouble with Dell technical support? See, for example: May 10, 2007: College Kid Learns Lesson About Dell's Warranty [infoworld.com].
Ed Foster's readers have sometimes even rated Dell more abusive than Microsoft. Awesome achievement for De
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Apparently, those ads have some content that some filters reject. At my employer, Tom's is blocked because it's categorized as a "malicious web site."
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I wonder if my ISP has blocked access... (Score:2)
I'll check using another ISP.
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I got a message from Ed... (Score:2)
Anyhow, don't make any purchase without checking his web site first. A lot of people who call themselves marketing managers are merely habitual abusers, and Ed is likely to have described their methods of abuse.
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pcstats.com (Score:1)
Weeellll... (Score:5, Funny)
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[comic-book-guy voice]okay, since you probably said it in a high pitched whiny way from your mothers basement while eating hot-pockets, i'll give it +.2 funny[/cbg voice]
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I agree that /. is a great place to get an overall view of what is going on in the tech world. I'll also agree that /. makes browsing most of the suggested sites redundant as most of the time if it is a worthwhile store to read it will quickly show up here.
What I strongly disagree with is that /. is your one stop solution for all that is good and necessary in the world of IT. /. is a great sight to get an overall summ
apart from /. (Score:4, Informative)
P.S. Yet another horrible misuse of enlightenment's icon. Sad.
feeds (Score:4, Interesting)
There are any number of "general" tech news sites, but some have fairly specific topics - you should find some that cover your avenue of interest (or scrape Google News using a search for whatever). Mine:
4guysfromrolla.com, various google feeds (APIs, webmaster central), devshed.com, New Scientist tech site, The Raw Feed, MSDN, technology feed of the local newspaper website...
Bink.nu (Score:3, Informative)
I like my news a week late (Score:5, Funny)
here... (Score:1)
first to mention Digg... (Score:1)
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Now wheres my pony??
Re:first to mention Digg... (Score:5, Funny)
- Why religion is bad for everyone
- Impeach Bush/Cheney NOW!
- Ron Paul eats dinner at his house
- Ron Paul prefers apples over oranges
- Top 10 ways to support Ron Paul
- Linus announces 2.6.22-rc2-git7
- Mark Shuttleworth says Ubuntu is the best
- 30 reasons why Ubuntu is better than Vista
- Kevin Rose speaks out about his weekend fishing trip
- Top 20 ways to improve your memory skills
- RIAA sues 28 grandmothers at a nursing home
- Google renames the 'Privacy & Information' link on google.com
- Teacher caught on video screaming at class
- Bush signs new law effectively giving him the right to take over the world
- Rudy vs Ron Paul: 10 reasons Rudy is wrong
- New RIAA law to ban digital music, write to your senator!
- Fat kid falls off his bike (VIDEO)
- 15 tips on how to become an overnight millionaire
- Tell Fox News to give Ron Paul equal airtime
- Digg this thread to help stop cancer
- Linux 2.6.22-rc2-git8 will be released tomorrow
- Nintendo Wii game has hidden easter egg that spells 'IMPEACH BUSH'
- Bush's ratings fall below the PS3 for the first time ever
- MPAA lies about piracy figures AGAIN
- Fox News says that questioning the government is illegal, 1984 is here?
- Vista hacked by 12 year old kid in Ethiopia, NO UPDATE AVAILABLE YET
- Top 13 cool widgets to install on your new Kubuntu desktop
Note that I have translated the above topics into human readable form.
Technology trends? (Score:4, Funny)
Comments (Score:2)
Don't RTFA - and especially don't listen to comments that have RTFA they'll just mislead you into heresy
Even better throw your own comment in without RTFA (preferably without RTFS) and enjoy the replies!!
On a more serious note, the register, bbc (but never for tech news unless you want a good laugh) and
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Here and there (Score:2, Funny)
And here of course. News so good, they repeat it.
Max's list (Score:3, Informative)
Some times also Ars Technica, Tom's Hardware and Anandtech. Gizmodo is fun to check from time to time.
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Thanks.
The Inquirer! (Score:2)
The two that I look at are (Score:1)
why... (Score:5, Funny)
NJ Transit [nynj.net], PATH train [nynj.net] schedules online
The most important issues ... (Score:2, Funny)
As there is only one cartoon a day you can be sure the news is adequately filtered.
lxer (Score:1)
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RSS feeds. (Score:2, Interesting)
I believe every important tech news feed I read has been mentioned here already, except for GMSV [svextra.com].
RSS (Score:1)
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Khm... (Score:1)
patents, drm, draconian legislation (Score:3, Interesting)
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Programming news (Score:3, Interesting)
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That's like... (Score:3, Funny)
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Network world (Score:1)
dailyrotation.com (Score:3, Informative)
You can pick and choose which sites you want to see headlines from. I've had the site bookmarked and/or homepage for a many years.
Google reader (Score:1)
ACM's TechNews (Score:1)
http://technews.acm.org/current.cfm [acm.org]
Please... (Score:3, Interesting)
It is routinely dated aggregate at best, where dupes still happen too often and you're being fed fodder without cross-references simply to draw eyeballs (meaning no rhyme or reason behind what gets posted).
Get out and see the www.orld - it is bigger, brighter and more focused than life depicted here, I promise
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Someone had to say it (Score:1)
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I used to hate Dvorak as well, but I gained somewhat of a respect for him when I started listening to TWiT often enough to hear him go off on all aspects of technology.
Not listed yet (Score:2)
Um, (Score:2)
Suggestions (Score:1)
Depends... (Score:1)
Homework trolling? (Score:1)
If you are into programming (Score:2)
Democratic Underground (Score:1)
Anywhere but Slashdot (Score:2)
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it depends on what i'm looking for. (Score:2)
Engadget, Digg (Score:2)
dansdata.com (Score:2)