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What's Your Site Rotation?
joeljkp asks: "Nearly everyone has a news rotation — that list of sites you visit each day to catch up on the latest in whatever you're into, be it foreign affairs or knitting. I usually do the rounds at BBC News, The New York Times, and a couple local papers. What have you found that keeps you informed and entertained every day?"
I don't have a rotation, instead I have RSS feeds on my Google personalized homepage. Apart from that, I just have a bookmark that opens all my current favorite comics in new tabs.
Mostly blogs and mailing lists. I am in security, so I try to keep up with the latest and greatest. I have my Google homepage set up with a "Security" tab that contains the RSS feeds from:
...etc
Matasano Chargen
SecurityBuddha.com
MSRC Blog
Sunbelt Blog
Securiteam Blog
F-Secure blog
SecurityFocus news
Arbor Networks blog
Websense blog
Milw0rm.com exploit feed
There are some on here that are due to be removed, and some others I'd like to add. I also read mailing lists Bugtraq, Full Disclosure, DailyDave, and Funsec among others.
As an aside, the Google customized homepage has a feature where, when you add a new tab, you can have it auto-populate with content related to the name of the tab. For example, if I create a new tab called "Linux", it populates it with:
Slashdot:Linux
LinuxInsider
LXer Linux News
DistroWatch news
LinuxQuestions.org
At least once a week, I try to visit ArabNews.com, MoscowTimes.ru, xinuanet.com, francedaily.com, and japantimes.co.jp. The point of a World-Wide Web, it seems to me, is to encounter things from all around the world. ArabNews often has the most amazing cartoons, such as this one: http://www.arabnews.com/cartoon/2003/07/06.jpg.
Another interesting source is WatchingAmerica.com, which has English translations of articles from foreign sources. Many sites have different material for locals than they have for foreigners, and it's interesting to see what they say in their own languages.
Every week or so I also hit a few political sites, such as thenation.com and amconmag.com, again to get different views on different issues.
For general knowledge, I hit The Numbers Guy at the Wall Street Journal, Bruce Schneier's blog at schneier.com and TheStraightDope.com.
I used to check out http://freshmeat.net/ almost daily, but that was when I was only a few years into Linux and still on an endless search for software that did different things, and at the time it seemed simpler to just wait and see what came up on fm every day (you could easily tell how active things were that way, too). Speaking of fm---does anyone have a copy of that old butchered-meat logo fm used to have, waaaay back, before the beginning of the fm II theme?
About weekly, I'll check out http://amasci.com/ (amateur science and electricity stuff), http://en.wikipedia.org/ (duh), http://www.cray-cyber.org/ (free supercomputer access), http://www.hpcalc.org/ (HP48/49/etc calculator stuff), etc., to check for new stuff. I'll check my http://facebook.com/ and http://myspace.com/orangesquid (shuddup) messages about weekly. From time to time I might browse http://www.amazing1.com/ (catalog which has Tesla coils and stuff, though they're not actually the best place for parts/kits/devices) or search for scientific equipment or old unix systems on http://www.ebay.com/ (see the Used SGI Buying Guide FAQ, etc).
I also check up on some of my friends via http://os.livejournal.com/friends every few days.
Lately I've been choosing a new section on http://scitoys.com/ to read every few days. Every few weeks, I'll usually find a different information-type site to read through gradually, or pick a topic to research on wikipedia.
--TheOrangeSquid Is it any wonder things seem so awry? We swim in a sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
You laugh, but I actually do like to visit Fox News, Al Jazeera and other sites that challenge my opinion, just to get some balance. If I spent all day at slashdot, with the occasional detour to the BBC, and other news sites that I agree with, or at least don't stray far from the centre ground (i.e. Places like the Telegraph and the Guardian (yes, I'm english)) my world view would become incredibly biased. Instead, I like to give myself some perspective by reading opinions that challenge my own in the extreme.
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