Your Take On(line) Reality?

Omega1045 asks: "It is a fact that our perception is based on the information given to us. I find tha Slashdot readers offer a wealth of knowledge though the various sites they reference. I ask Slashdot, where do you surf to on a daily basis? What is your daily pattern of information retrieval? This is of particular interest to me as the Internet has made us all publishers. There are many sources of information, all with their own slant on the day's news, many non-traditional. Where do my fellow peers go on a daily basis?"

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Declan McCullagh's Politech

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my habits

[Satai]

slashdot.org
newsforge.com
theregister.co.uk
my university's daily newspaper (no link!)
fark.com
the smirking chimp
dr. fun
the daily vault (although i review there once in a while)
google news
daily rotten
lwn.net
crackmonkey archives
the dot
kde-look.org
corona's coming attractions
snopes' update page
doc's weblog

And I think that's about it for a daily basis.

My usual trip:

[Drakker]

My daily trip usualy begins with comics strip:

User Friendly
Mega Tokyo
Sinfest

Then, I usualy go to Slashdot. Then its off to the
linux game tome (happypenguin.org),
then linuxgames.com. After that comes
gbacentral.net,
doomworld,
desktoplinux.c om,
firingsquad.com,
tomshardware.

Oh, and TheHaus.net and icculus.org.

Whem I'm bored I sometime check ve3d.com and
http://www.redlynx.com/phobiaIII/index.html (to see if the long delayed Phobia 3 version is finaly out).
About once a week I check linuxhardware.org, but its not updated often.

Also, I frequently browse sourceforge.net, contributing to escape of the unicorn (www.sourceforge.net/projects/eounicorn) which is in early beta.

That's about it, now you know everything about my browsing habits and didn't have to install any spywares into my computer. :)

Have I been fooled?

My daily reality....

[heldlikesound]

Here's my regular sources of info, not including the twenty or so blogs i read everyday....

By the way, let me take this oppurtunity to sing the praises of RSS, an XML schema, that allows for new aggragtors such as NetNewsWire for OSX to collect and read blog, new sites, etc... from one app... Wonderful stuff.... If your websites aren't outputting it, they should be!

"Realworld" News
indymedia.org - far left news and thoughts
newsmax.com - far right news and thoughts
nytimes.com - somewhere inbetween, leaning to the left

I do this to balance things out so that hopefully the info I am being fed (and don't lie to yourself, you ARE being fed) is at least a bit varied, and I can try to make own my own conclusions...

What is popular and currently interesting: (Popular doesn't mean best, but i AM interested in what's popular)
daypop.org/top
memepool.com
slashdot.o rg

Tecnical Reference
phpbuilder.com - php and mysql reference
http://forums.macnn.com/ - all things Mac
devshed.com - more php and mysql
www.macdevcenter.com - more Mac
macosxhints.com - OSX centric
arstechnica.com - everything else!

Breaking Mac News:
maccentral.com
macnn.com
thinksecret.com (for somewhat reliable rumors)

General Interest
howstuffworks.com - one of THE most underated sites online

Fun
I have a girlfriend for fun.

my daily routine..

[psycho_tinman]

• Slashdot... Hardly a surprise here..
• Freshnews.. I really like this news aggregator site, from there, I usually scan OReilly, Kuro5hin, Ars and a few other sites they feature for interesting articles and visit if the title seems interesting..
• Use Perl.. Top 10 journals, mostly
• Google news.. This replaced visits to BBC, CNN and a few others
• Freshmeat.. and a few other shareware sites from time to time
• Joel on Software.. and a few more blogs, like Scripting
• Trillian, Phoenix, Apache and a few more software sites for possible updates...
• Webmail accounts

Yeah, that's about it.. Fortunately for my productivity, I cant find a good public news server, or I'd also be on Usenet for a large portion of the day :D

My _Daily Folder

[setien]

I always have the bookmarks/favorites sidebar open in Phoenix/IE, and in the top of that list I have a folder named _Daily, which phoenix graciously let's me open in tabs every morning, disposing the tabs one by one as I read through them, opening more tabs to the list as I hit interesting links.

Whenever a new site I want/need to check regularly I add it to this list. It's like my morning newspaper, without the paper.

In my _Daily folder I currently have:

(Fun)
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3
http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.htm
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html
http://www.userfriendly.org/

(Friends and blogs)
http://www.kuro5hin.org/user/sunbeam60/diary
http://www.rasmus.sigsgaard.com/blog.php
http://www.kuro5hin.org/
http://meidell.dk/blog

(News) http://slashdot.org/
http://wired.com/
http://www.computerworld.dk/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID=1
http://www.memepool.com/
http://osnews.com/
http://www.shacknews.com/
http://www.gonegold.com/

Many of these are dispersed with a quick scan, and nothing more. Others are checked thoroughly and spawn many new tabs (like /.)