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mgessner asks: "I'm searching for some new and interesting things to read related to geekdom, humor, the Internet, and all things technological. Normally, I'd search Google for this, but trying to find something like RSS feeds on Google would be like looking for a needle in a haystack: there's just too much to sift through. So, does anyone want to share their favorite RSS feeds (other than our own beloved /.) they'd like to recommend?"
Thanks for the two helpful links in the article ;)
Bloglines.com is actually a neat way to get new RSS feeds.
It's basically a web RSS viewer. Add or Import (OPML) all your feeds in, and you can view them from anywhere. But the cool thing is that it will recommend other RSS feeds based on what you (and others) are subscribed too. It's very good, and I've found lots of useful feeds from it.
It's free, no ads, has import/export (no lock in), etc.
The RSS feed from my site combined with the iPodder app will download all kinds of hacking, phreaking, tech, and geek related amateur radio shows.
http://hackermedia.net
http://hackermedia.net/wp-rss2.php
Hacker Media
I recommend Engadget. It's a blog that regularly posts all sorts of cool new gadgets. Of course, they have an RSS feed as well.
HST feed
Electoral Vote feed
weird news
Distilled and actually interesting NPR
News from the world
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
If you like to keep up with your favorite hackers in the FOSS world:
http://www.planetplanet.org/ has a list of blog aggregators for various projects!
Perhaps I'm a little biased, but NadaMucho is my favorite RSS feed. Perfect for the pop-culture/music-loving nerd.
Beloved Slashdot? Pfeh. But seriously try Gizmodo or Lawrence Lessig's blog.
Keep in mind that it is increasingly likely that Atom will kick RSS's butt, at least as long as Dave "the Whiner" Winer continues to control RSS and to refuse to improve it. Indeed, the primarily reason that Atom exists is that Winer refused to allow any improvements to RSS. If I were you, I would investigate Atom (and Atom feeds) rather than spend time on that which is likely soon to become thrown into on the rubbish bin of history.
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Anandtech
Ars Technica
BBC Science/Nature
BBC Technology
CNET News
Nature Science Update
Slashdot
Space.com
SpaceWire
Wired News
...it's not an RSS feed, but a 'humoristic' link in Sevn's sig.
There are some decent choices amongst all of those slashboxes:
http://ask.slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome
gizmodo and engadget are two blogs that look at all sorts of electronic goodness daily. A lot of times they dupe each other, but mostly not. Reading both of them is far from redundant. And if you read them you start to laugh at how often slashdot gets the same news so much later.
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In other words, if you read these two sites, you can turn off the matching topics on
The GeekNights podcast is going strong. Listen!
I run an audiobook project called Telltale Weekly. Cheap now in Ogg Vorbis, AAC, and MP3 formats via Bitpass. Free later with a Creative Commons License after five years or 100,000 sales, whichever comes first. RSS 2.0 feed. You set 'em up, I'll at least bunt.
For commentary on world news, I really like this one: http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/index.xml
All of the others I use tend to get rotated as I change clients.
Free the West Memphis Three!
... a decent RSS reader for Windows?
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/wp-rss2.php
Thomas Warfield about the life of a successful shareware author:
http://www.asharewarelife.com/atom.xml
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The National Weather Service has quite a few interesting and useful feeds. Including Hurricane Info and Current Observations.
Just to clarify that these are not the only RSS feeds I offer, but just the most interesting ones that have useful content. I post this message not as an advertisement, but only because I truly believe that these feeds will be interesting to you (and you asked to be informed about interesting feeds).
Note: Please do not read the RSS feeds more than 4-6 times per day because I want to keep the server utilisation low.
Bloggers: 43 Folders, Kris Dresden, Diane Duane, Paul Ford, Neil Gaiman, Michael Hanscom, Jason Kottke, Anne Murphy, Jessamyn North, Alia Phibes, Quentin Tarantino, and Wil Wheaton.
Linklogs: Anil Dash, Best of Craigslist, Boing Boing, CoolGov, Daze Reader, Fazed, Kottke Remainders, LinkMachineGo, MetaJournal, Michael Hanscom's Linklog, Museum of Hoaxes, NewYorkish, Paul Ford's Linklog, Snopes: New, SubText, and UFies.org.
Chicago: Chicagoist, jamas.org, CHICAGO.Metroblogging, Chicago Snapshot, CTA Tattler, Gapers' Block, and L or El.
Miscellaneous: Ask Slashdot, Citying, Cult of the One-Eyed Cat, Good Plastic Surgery, I Work With Fools, Schmo Blog, TeeVee, This Is Broken, Today In Alternate History, and x-entertainment.
Apple Bloggers: Buzz Andersen, Bill Bumgarner, Todd Dominey, Folklore, Steven Frank, John Gruber, Dave Hyatt, Brent Simmons,
TekNews.net, a site which aggregates the news from various tech sites (Currently Anandtech, Tom's Hardware, Ars Technica, Xbit, and Slashdot, with more on the way)
TekNews sports an RSS feed generator which allows you to generate an RSS feed containing news from any of it's sources.
I have to say this is the coolest example of RSS feeds in action.
Livejournal can act as an RSS reader, and lists their most popular feeds here:
http://www.livejournal.com/syn/list.bml
Calvin & Hobbes, Neil Gaiman, The Onion, Wil Wheaton and the BBC should start you off...
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How about my site? I wrote a really simple python robot (I called it Lividot) to track almost 100 geekdom, humor, technological sites. You can reach it at: http://livid.3322.org/
Here's what it does (I had my fingers on the mute button in case it was a sound thing - it was):
It shows a title saying "Top Ten Cute Kittens". It then shows a cute kitten. Next, when you think it'll show another kitten, it shows a message: "THE BOSS IS A CUNT!" It also screams that text. I don't know if it repeats, or not, though.
While we're on the subject, does anyone know of a good RSS applet for Linux (preferably for KDE) that displays feeds? I'm aware of Liferea and KNewsTicker, but they either user a browser to display the news or take up half of the taskbar with a scrolling message. I'd prefer something that has a small window popup in the corner, a la Trillian.
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If you like comics, here are a few in RSS form:
Dilbert
Penny Arcade
Foxtrot
Search around for your favorites.
Syndic8.com is a good place to search for feeds.
sig? uhh, umm, ok
Often, that is true. There a few reasons that this general rule does not apply in this case. First, RSS is far from having hit critical mass. Second, this inertia in the world of network protocols results from the difficulty in changing from an entrenched protocol to other, newer protocols. There will no such difficulty in changing from RSS to Atom. I cannot imagine why would it be difficult. Third, let me enumerate two protocols that fell on hard times shortly after hitting critical mass:
Finally, protocols often evolve. Look at the history of SMTP or NNTP; SMTP has evolved many times. The change from RSS to Atom will be more akin to an evolution rather than a revolution. That's one reason why the change from RSS to Atom will be easy, rather than difficult.
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I like feeds of http://del.icio.us/ where anyone can submit their bookmarks and the most popular bookmarks can be seen.
There is also an extension for our favourite broowser Firefox at http://delicious.mozdev.org/
Check out their many different options for finding feeds.
I usually use:
http://www.feedster.com/feedfinder.php/
You can also put in any domain and see what feeds they offer (since not everyone puts and obvious links on their main page).
They are new and not all-inclusive, but a valuable resource that keeps improving.
Their feed of local weather is also good.
If you check out google you can get some pretty good (unofficial) bittorrent rss feeds (*cough* suprnova *cough*).
Also what I find cool are rss feeds of tv listings.
Two other feeds I check out regularly that aren't mentioned here are Packet storm & Tomshardware.
http://www.technologyowl.com/ has tech-related feeds organized by topic.
Similarly, http://www.securityowl.com/ has security-related feeds
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i believe syndic8 has about the most complete collection of feeds.
Avoid the average political blog because they will either be ra ra Bush or Kerry. They won't be entertaining or insightful, just full of annoying and shrill rhetoric in favor of one of the two major parties.
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Tech blogs:
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Search seo Blogs:
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1. RSS has already hit critical mass. Mass media sites like the new york times, reuter's, etc all support it. These companies are not quick to change. 2. Atom vs RSS cannot be seen as an evolution, since atom is not backward compatible. If it had been then it would have been the clear successor to RSS. This was a huge mistake of atom's creators. It should have been backwards compatible. 3. Sorry dude, but gopher never hit critical mass. 4. I don't know the details of IPX. I assume that it was a propriety protocol? RSS is documented and easy to implement. Those are features that are hard to beat. I'd be happy to make a friendly bet about the most common syndication format in 5 or ten years. My money is on RSS.
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I'm sorry my particular kind of sick sense of humor made you become one of the few "freaks" I have in my list despite how controversial my opinions are at times. I'll do what I always do, and make you a "friend". Peace.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
what is the concern about 'cool' rss feeds? i would find the appropriate CONTENT first, regardless of if it had a feed of not. if it did, all the better.
rss is supposed to be for the TIMELY distribution of information..not giving out snippets of an already established website.
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Second person that's done that...
I mark all who have shock sites in their sig or as their site as foes. That's why most of my foes are even there.
I know yours isn't as blatant as, oh, Last Measure (which is becoming MORE, not less, commmon), but that DID count as a shock site.
Atom's main goal is to have a well specified unambigious specification. The problem behind RSS is that it is ambigious - so leads to silent data loss - and it took the rather public failure at Reuters for the point to sink in. As such, it is close to impossible for a specification to be both unambigious and backwards compatible with RSS. A clean break results in a cleaner and more implementable specification, especially since we are not loaded with the baggage of previous unreversable mistakes in RSS. Notwithstanding, the "solution" to the Reuters problem now breaks RSS2.0's backward compatibility with RSS0.91.
Even the motivation behind Atom is clear:
I think this is what you are looking for. It is customizable with new feeds being added continuosly. It does not require you to sign or register. Your feed preferences are stored in a cookie.
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I wish Slashdot had a this so that when I am done with slashdot, I can go to another tab where I can get a list of new headlines based on my subscriptions. I don't like the boxes, it clutters up the manin page.
The Register has a good RSS feed.
I'm using Firefox - the RSS Live Bookmarks in a sidebar are quite useful.
Check out Sage, it's an extension for mozilla that is a feed reader. it separates content into a page for you in the browser. pretty cool. and you can bookmark to it's folder.
http://sage.mozdev.org/
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I love Awasu - wish they had it for Linux.
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Ellis is definitely one of the coolest authors ever. You'd do well to check out his Transmetropolitan series and anything else he's written.
Plugging my own site: Mathforge math news feed
Autoblog http://www.autoblog.com/
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Hackaday http://www.hackaday.com/
You may want to search the RSS directories at: http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-directory.ht m/ for feeds of interest.
As for humorous techie feeds that I'm partial to:
http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com/blog-feed .xml/