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Your Take On(line) Reality?

Posted by Cliff on from the your-choice-of-internet-sources dept.

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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  1. my habits by Satai · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  2. My daily reality.... by heldlikesound · · Score: 3, Informative
    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.

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