Where Do You Get Your IT News?

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'?"

Well..

[Iam9376]

Here, Ars Technica, Toms Hardware Guide, xbitlabs, AnandTech.

Whislt on the subject, Bias?

[T0wner]

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

Re:

[basscomm]

Do you know what your reading?

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Do I know what my reading?

Syntax error.

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[Threni]

> http://crummysocks.com/ [crummysocks.com]

Status : 403 Forbidden
Description : Organizational policies prohibit access to this page.
Note : If necessary, please contact your Systems Administrator for resolution.

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[robbyyy]

Personally i stick to a couple of sources. For the consumer side of tech i use /. and El Reg. The Reg can be pretty funny at times too so its a good read.

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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[hazzey]

Here, Ars Technica, Toms Hardware Guide, xbitlabs, AnandTech.

Does anyone still use the old address for Tom's like I do?

sysdoc.pair.com

?

Ed Foster's Gripelog

[Futurepower(R)]

"Ars Technica, Toms Hardware Guide..."

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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[BenEnglishAtHome]

Tom's Hardware Guide has too many ads;

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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[Jonah Hex]

Worked for me: Do We Need a Computer Lemon Law? By Ed Foster, Section The Gripelog Posted on Thu May 24, 2007 at 12:04:35 AM PDT

I wonder if my ISP has blocked access...

[Futurepower(R)]

Weird. I wonder if my ISP has blocked access to the GripeLog.

I'll check using another ISP.

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[Jonah Hex]

Check via a proxy? http://proxieslist.net/ [proxieslist.net]

I got a message from Ed...

[Futurepower(R)]

I got a message from Ed saying they had blocked access to his web site from some addresses outside the United States. So, the mystery is solved.

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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[bluelip]

Since the person requesting the information hasn't any idea why the 'Enlightenment' area is the category for the question, I'm suggessting MSDN, Mattel, and Legoland. ;)

pcstats.com

[joshmobile]

I like http://www.pcstats.com/ [pcstats.com]

Weeellll...

[durin]

This seems a pretty useless question to ask on slashdot...

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[dtml-try MyNick]

You must be new here.

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[drachenstern]

yeah, a 5 digit id versus a mid-6s id. . . hmmm

[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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[WasteOfAmmo]

Ok, one less acticle I can use up my mod points in but I had to comment on this one...

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 /.

[arun_s]

.. not too many places. Spoonfeed [spoonfeed.org] and popurls [popurls.com] are great for feeds. Popurls wins IMO because of one cool feature: if a Digg link looks interesting, you can go directly to the article by clicking on the tiny button on the right edge of each link.
P.S. Yet another horrible misuse of enlightenment's icon. Sad.

feeds

[weighn]

other than here, I spend a chunk of my lunch break looking at RSS feeds.

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

[figleaf]

& Neowin.net

I like my news a week late

[Ohreally_factor]

That and the conviviality are what draw me to slashdot.

here...

[QueePWNzor]

you can find out enough stuff here, and still have time to make fun of the anti-competition spies like you! Just joking, so don't kill me...

first to mention Digg...

[weighn]

... scores a free pony

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[Iam9376]

I get my news from MySpace bulletins ... please don't hurt me.

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[scoot80]

Digg!

Now wheres my pony??

Re:first to mention Digg...

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry, it got buried under the pile of posts on these topics:

- 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?

[ambrosen]

I find that http://www.primidi.com/ [primidi.com] is the best place to get them. Editted by a Mr Roland Piquepaille.

Comments

[simm1701]

Thats it - the comments on /.

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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[Raenex]

I RTFA and you're wrong.

Here and there

[tumutbound]

From http://theregister.co.uk/ [theregister.co.uk] IT with a smile
And here of course. News so good, they repeat it.

Max's list

[Max Romantschuk]

Nowadays mostly here, and The Inquirer http://www.theinquirer.net/ [theinquirer.net]

Some times also Ars Technica, Tom's Hardware and Anandtech. Gizmodo is fun to check from time to time.

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[dwater]

I didn't know I had a list. Interesting.

Thanks.

The Inquirer!

[dreddnott]

The Inquirer is definitely the best. They're almost insanely prophetic, update several times a day, review bleeding-edge hardware themselves, and have "round-ups" of other review sites' reviews. Their idiosyncratic slang (boffin, vole, etc) is also amusing.

The two that I look at are

[scoot80]

Slashdot, Freshnews

why...

[bluegreenone]

from The Onion [theonion.com] of course!
...
NJ Transit [nynj.net], PATH train [nynj.net] schedules online

The most important issues ...

[qaz2]

The most important news is also available in http://ars.userfriendly.org/ [userfriendly.org].

As there is only one cartoon a day you can be sure the news is adequately filtered.

lxer

[dns_server]

I read slashdot [slashdot.org] and lxer [lxer.com] it's a good news source that just contains linux news in a similar style to slashdot..

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[Anonymous Coward]

Did you really have to give a link to slashdot...?

RSS feeds.

[LarsG]

I find that there's so much news that it is too slow to read web pages. My RSS reader is absolutely necessary.

I believe every important tech news feed I read has been mentioned here already, except for GMSV [svextra.com].

RSS

[Nazlfrag]

killed the Usenet star

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[Knara]

Rule #1... oh never mind

Khm...

[AuxLV]

SlashDot, OSNews. They link to many places and work like living bookmark collection :)

patents, drm, draconian legislation

[RLiegh]

IT news is far,far too depressing these days to pay attention to. I'd say that makes my answer 'none of the above'.

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[Atzanteol]

You should check out slashdot sometime.

Programming news

[arevos]

All the general sources of IT news have already been mentioned in other comments, but I tend to visit programming.reddit.com [reddit.com] when I want news and articles on computer science and software development.

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[Raenex]

Just going by the page of links I got when I went there, I'm impressed. Thanks for the link!

That's like...

[CockroachMan]

..going to a restaurant and asking the other costumers: "So, where do you people like to eat?"

Re:That's like...

[Thumper_SVX]

If the restaurant is full of costumers, then you've just walked into a furry convention.

Network world

[LordBafford]

I generally get most of my information from Networkworld.com and the various article I see here on slashdot. The other various info I et is random emails people in my department send out about various things.

dailyrotation.com

[magores]

http://dailyrotation.com/ [dailyrotation.com] has headlines from 300+ (mostly) IT related sites.

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

[vally_manea]

Pretty great tool. I have Slashdot, reddit - programming(don't use reddit full unless you are prepared to see lots and lots of impeach Bush articles), engadget, Bbc, The Onion, and some local news sites. Oh yeah and also Dilbert.

ACM's TechNews

[ArmyOfFun]

As the top of their page states: "Timely Topics for IT Professionals". It's updated 3 times a week with summaries of a bunch of articles. It's mostly ad-free and the articles tend to have an academic slant.

http://technews.acm.org/current.cfm [acm.org]

Please...

[djupedal]

...stop boasting you use /. for 'daily IT news'. Why not just say you're too lazy to identify legitimate sources.

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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[NinjaTariq]

Now if you gave a money back guarentee, i would consider going out... But a promise?

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[Paperweight]

Seems like a boring static real estate page to me... [orld.com]

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[Hoi Polloi]

So why are you still on /.? Could it be for the sparkling commentaries? ;)

Someone had to say it

[katamerry_damatree]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ [indiatimes.com]

obviously

[Blob Pet]

I read anything by Rob Enderle and John C. Dvorak. *ducks*

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[Thumper_SVX]

Actually, I read dvorak.org occasionally because it's often amusing. Bear in mind, I'm an Apple user so sometimes I find his anti-Apple tirades somewhat tiring... but he's quite often anti-Windows as well. Sometimes his posts can be insightful... though granted they tend to be the exception rather than the rule.

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

[Endo13]

Most of the ones I use have already been mentioned. One that hasn't is http://www.technewsworld.com/ [technewsworld.com]

Um,

[hcdejong]

here, of course [crazyapplerumors.com].

Suggestions

[JagEsquire]

1) While I can't read the words, I like the pretty pictures, and usually I can pull out brand names and google them seperately http://mobbit.info/ [mobbit.info] 2) While I can read the words, I enjoy the humour http://theregister.co.uk/ [theregister.co.uk] 3) I use http://bink.nu/ [bink.nu] to tell me whats new in the micro$oft world

Depends...

[Seakip18]

If I've got time, I'll make the rounds of ZDNet, Newegg, here, and maybe breitbart. (in my weaker moments, drudgereport) If not, Cnn.com, since they're always on the ball when it comes to tech stuff....oh wait, an xbox360 price hike isn't new info?....or even really related to technology?

Homework trolling?

[ab0mb88]

I was just asked this same question yesterday. A friend was assigned this question from a class at Baker University and she didn't have to pretend to work in IT to get an answer out of me.

If you are into programming

[zerojoker]

there is this excellent site with lots of code-examples www.thedailywtf.com

Democratic Underground

[TrogL]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/ [democratic...ground.com] especially Late Breaking News

Anywhere but Slashdot

[techsoldaten]

I get my technology news from anywhere but Slashdot. It's like standing on top of a pyramid, anywhere you step is slanted and treacherous. Late night UHF infomercials, Best Buy CSRs, Bazooka Joe bubble gum wrappers, even those blasted Microsoft white papers are more accurate and informative.

M

it depends on what i'm looking for.

[east coast]

normally it's here, devx.com and tom's hardware.

Engadget, Digg

[vga_init]

My good friend is a technology nut and a journalist. Every day he reads Digg and Engadget. He probably looks at other sites too, but these are the ones he talks about the most.

dansdata.com

[pipingguy]

for the upside-down take on tech.