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Posted by Cliff on from the special-interest-monitors dept.

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?"

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  1. thanks... by bizpile · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks for the two helpful links in the article ;)

    1. Re:thanks... by stevejsmith · · Score: 2, Insightful

      God, that pisses the shit out of me when people post links to things like that. And it also gets really confusing when someone writes something like, "CNN reports that x and y are fucking around with z" and there's a link under "CNN" that just takes you to CNN, not the article, with the actual link to the article under "x and y are fucking with z."

      Thanks...but I think I'm quite capable of typing "cnn.com" into my web browser.

    2. Re:thanks... by dhakbar · · Score: 5, Funny

      "God, that pisses the shit out of me..."

      Dang, dude. If you're pissing shit, you should really see your physician.

    3. Re:thanks... by ahknight · · Score: 2, Funny

      Son, if you can't figure out how to hover your mouse, you deserve the frustration.

      That is all...

  2. Bloglines by contrasutra · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:Bloglines by BortQ · · Score: 2, Funny
      > It's free, no ads, has import/export (no lock in), etc.

      And with such a great business model you can be sure that it will last for a long time.

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  3. Hmmmmmm by Sevn · · Score: 4, Informative

    HST feed

    Electoral Vote feed

    weird news

    Distilled and actually interesting NPR

    News from the world

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  4. Hackers by HRbnjR · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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!

  5. sure by Glog · · Score: 2, Informative

    Beloved Slashdot? Pfeh. But seriously try Gizmodo or Lawrence Lessig's blog.

  6. Two good RSS directories of which I am aware by Paul+Bain · · Score: 4, Informative
    Recently, on a mailing list (cms@lists.cms-forum.org), NewsIsFree was recommended as offering categorized RSS links, and Syndic8.com was also mentioned in this vein.

    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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  7. My favourites as a sci/tech geek & newshound by Ianoo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Anandtech
    Ars Technica
    BBC Science/Nature
    BBC Technology
    CNET News
    Nature Science Update
    Slashdot
    Space.com
    SpaceWire
    Wired News

  8. Several feeds by wka · · Score: 5, Informative
    • The Daily WTF - A daily look at source code that can make one cringe, laugh, and/or cry (site, feed)
    • Astronomy Picture of the Day (site, feed)
    • Stupid Security (site, feed)
    • Cool Tools - "A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true." (site, feed
    • EFF's minilinks - see tomorrow's Your Rights Online posts today (site, feed
    • Your Gmail inbox (atom feed)
  9. You may not want to press that last link at work.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...it's not an RSS feed, but a 'humoristic' link in Sevn's sig.

  10. Gadgetry by Apreche · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

    In other words, if you read these two sites, you can turn off the matching topics on /.

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  11. Here's some funky RSS (and atom) for you by BortQ · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Steve Pavlina talks about personal growth, time management and other useful stuff:
    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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  12. Wikinerds RSS feeds by wikinerd · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I have a site which contains some interesting RSS feeds. Here I give you a list of the most interesting feeds of my site together with direct links to the RSS file (note some of them are dynamically generated via php but probably will work on any rss reader):
    • JnanaBase What's New RSS feed: This is a general knowledge base wiki, a website where everyone can write anything they want. The feed contains links to the newest articles, that may be about anything, such as music, computers, etc. A section of the wiki, called IntelliWiki, is about Artificial Intelligence and builds a database of known facts that can be read by knowledge management software. Be warned, however, that the contents of this feed are not systematically reviewed. New articles are added several times every day.
    • NerdyPC What's New RSS feed: This is a wiki knowledge base about Information Technology and computers. It contains quality articles that are passed through a review process. Contents are open source news, hardware information and very soon hardware reviews. New articles are added every day or two.
    • Wikinerds Portal RSS feed: This is a portal website which publishes a variety of articles on computers, science, social issues etc. New articles, which usually contain many links to external websites (and Slashdot discussions!) are added usually every 1-2 days. However, some of the posted articles are just announcements about new content in the wikis described above (as well as other wikis that I host).

    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.

  13. My Own Blogroll by WCityMike · · Score: 4, Informative
    At this point, this has become almost as vague a question as asking the Slashdot population if they know of any cool weblogs or cool websites. That slight snark having been made, here's my own blogroll.

    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,

  14. How about my own http://livid.3322.org ? by lordliuxin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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/

  15. comics! by josath · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

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    sig? uhh, umm, ok
  16. del.icio.us by patelbhavesh · · Score: 2, Informative

    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/

  17. warez the warez? by l0rd · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  18. Re:good RSS directories -- longevity of protocols by Isofarro · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

    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:

    Well, let's extend RSS into a new spec then. To keep any backwards-compatibility, we'd have to keep the top-level element as so people would think the format is actually RSS, and this would be really confusing.

    Forget about backwards-compatibility. If we're not worried about backwards-compatibility, why are we bothering to keep around the old mistakes of RSS? Why not take this opportunity to fix them so that the future doesn't have to deal with all the kludges necessary to parse RSS today?