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Where Do You Get Your IT News?
whiggy asks: "I am a network admin in a small company with predominantly Windows systems, with minimal Linux exposure. I am attempting to organize myself in order to be more productive. Of course, one of the things on my list is to keep up with the latest technology trends. I have several sites in my bookmarks that I visit daily, but I am just curious what other good resources are out there. What are your favorite sites (or other resources) you get your morning news from? Which ones are the 'must haves'?"
Here, Ars Technica, Toms Hardware Guide, xbitlabs, AnandTech.
This seems a pretty useless question to ask on slashdot...
Why, yes! I AM new here.
Slashdot
.. not too many places. Spoonfeed and popurls are great for feeds. Popurls wins IMO because of one cool feature: if a Digg link looks interesting, you can go directly to the article by clicking on the tiny button on the right edge of each link.
P.S. Yet another horrible misuse of enlightenment's icon. Sad.
I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you.
There are any number of "general" tech news sites, but some have fairly specific topics - you should find some that cover your avenue of interest (or scrape Google News using a search for whatever). Mine:
4guysfromrolla.com, various google feeds (APIs, webmaster central), devshed.com, New Scientist tech site, The Raw Feed, MSDN, technology feed of the local newspaper website...
Mongrel News all the news that fits and froths
& Neowin.net
That and the conviviality are what draw me to slashdot.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
you can find out enough stuff here, and still have time to make fun of the anti-competition spies like you! Just joking, so don't kill me...
... scores a free pony
Mongrel News all the news that fits and froths
I find that http://www.primidi.com/ is the best place to get them. Editted by a Mr Roland Piquepaille.
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Don't RTFA - and especially don't listen to comments that have RTFA they'll just mislead you into heresy
Even better throw your own comment in without RTFA (preferably without RTFS) and enjoy the replies!!
On a more serious note, the register, bbc (but never for tech news unless you want a good laugh) and
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From http://theregister.co.uk/ IT with a smile
And here of course. News so good, they repeat it.
In frequency order: Ars Technica, Wired, TomsHardware, Slashdot, Digg, boingboing/kuro5hin/advogato, NewsForge/BetaNews/RedHerring, TheRegister/TheInquirer, Anandtech/AceHardware, TheOnion
Nowadays mostly here, and The Inquirer http://www.theinquirer.net/
Some times also Ars Technica, Tom's Hardware and Anandtech. Gizmodo is fun to check from time to time.
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Slashdot, Freshnews
from The Onion of course!
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BarraPunto, Libertad Digital, Meneame, New Scientist
The most important news is also available in http://ars.userfriendly.org/.
As there is only one cartoon a day you can be sure the news is adequately filtered.
I read slashdot and lxer it's a good news source that just contains linux news in a similar style to slashdot..
I find that there's so much news that it is too slow to read web pages. My RSS reader is absolutely necessary.
I believe every important tech news feed I read has been mentioned here already, except for GMSV.
If J.K.R wrote Windows: Puteulanus fenestra mortalis!
killed the Usenet star
SlashDot, OSNews. They link to many places and work like living bookmark collection :)
IT news is far,far too depressing these days to pay attention to. I'd say that makes my answer 'none of the above'.
Slashdot, theregister, wired, new scientist, anandtech, bbc news technology section (obligatory comedy option).
I used to read tomshardware until a few years ago when articles started becoming so blatantly biased towards whoever had sent 'tom' a new toy that week that it deteriorated from information source to propaganda.
Its one thing listing your sources of news but have you properly evaluated your source and understand what view point they may come from? /. is obviously very open source / linux biased god bless it, theregister seems to go down the route of IT tabloid in terms it will pick up any rumour and try and make witty remarks about it. anandtech claims total neutrality when benchmarking, bbc is watered down and only mainstream issues are picked up there.
Do you know what your reading?
All the general sources of IT news have already been mentioned in other comments, but I tend to visit programming.reddit.com when I want news and articles on computer science and software development.
http://www.averageadmins.com/
..going to a restaurant and asking the other costumers: "So, where do you people like to eat?"
I generally get most of my information from Networkworld.com and the various article I see here on slashdot. The other various info I et is random emails people in my department send out about various things.
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"Ars Technica, Toms Hardware Guide..."
Ars Technica is too non-specific. Tom's Hardware Guide has too many ads; I wonder how much of what is written there is just hype to get paid ads.
Can't do without Ed Foster's Gripelog. How else can you discover that it is not just you who has trouble with Dell technical support? See, for example: May 10, 2007: College Kid Learns Lesson About Dell's Warranty.
Ed Foster's readers have sometimes even rated Dell more abusive than Microsoft. Awesome achievement for Dell!
But what happened to the Ed Foster's Gripelog website? It's been offline for perhaps a week. ("Phone in your tech gripes toll-free: 888-875-7916.")
http://dailyrotation.com/ has headlines from 300+ (mostly) IT related sites.
You can pick and choose which sites you want to see headlines from. I've had the site bookmarked and/or homepage for a many years.
Pretty great tool. I have Slashdot, reddit - programming(don't use reddit full unless you are prepared to see lots and lots of impeach Bush articles), engadget, Bbc, The Onion, and some local news sites. Oh yeah and also Dilbert.
As the top of their page states: "Timely Topics for IT Professionals". It's updated 3 times a week with summaries of a bunch of articles. It's mostly ad-free and the articles tend to have an academic slant.
http://technews.acm.org/current.cfm
...stop boasting you use /. for 'daily IT news'. Why not just say you're too lazy to identify legitimate sources.
:)
It is routinely dated aggregate at best, where dupes still happen too often and you're being fed fodder without cross-references simply to draw eyeballs (meaning no rhyme or reason behind what gets posted).
Get out and see the www.orld - it is bigger, brighter and more focused than life depicted here, I promise
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
I read anything by Rob Enderle and John C. Dvorak. *ducks*
"...today consumers have been conditioned to think of beer when they see a bullfrog..."
Most of the ones I use have already been mentioned. One that hasn't is http://www.technewsworld.com/
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here, of course.
1) While I can't read the words, I like the pretty pictures, and usually I can pull out brand names and google them seperately http://mobbit.info/ 2) While I can read the words, I enjoy the humour http://theregister.co.uk/ 3) I use http://bink.nu/ to tell me whats new in the micro$oft world
If I've got time, I'll make the rounds of ZDNet, Newegg, here, and maybe breitbart. (in my weaker moments, drudgereport) If not, Cnn.com, since they're always on the ball when it comes to tech stuff....oh wait, an xbox360 price hike isn't new info?....or even really related to technology?
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I was just asked this same question yesterday. A friend was assigned this question from a class at Baker University and she didn't have to pretend to work in IT to get an answer out of me.
there is this excellent site with lots of code-examples www.thedailywtf.com
I like http://www.pcstats.com/
The most you can spend on a child is time
same here - shashdot (of course!)
Oh, and news.google.com
Uh, Linux geek since 1999.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/ especially Late Breaking News
I get my technology news from anywhere but Slashdot. It's like standing on top of a pyramid, anywhere you step is slanted and treacherous. Late night UHF infomercials, Best Buy CSRs, Bazooka Joe bubble gum wrappers, even those blasted Microsoft white papers are more accurate and informative.
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Fark.com and boingboing.net have to be my favorites. Also, there's this great IT website called slashdot! Ever heard of it?
normally it's here, devx.com and tom's hardware.
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My good friend is a technology nut and a journalist. Every day he reads Digg and Engadget. He probably looks at other sites too, but these are the ones he talks about the most.
Weird. I wonder if my ISP has blocked access to the GripeLog.
I'll check using another ISP.
The Inquirer is definitely the best. They're almost insanely prophetic, update several times a day, review bleeding-edge hardware themselves, and have "round-ups" of other review sites' reviews. Their idiosyncratic slang (boffin, vole, etc) is also amusing.
I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.
I got a message from Ed saying they had blocked access to his web site from some addresses outside the United States. So, the mystery is solved.
Anyhow, don't make any purchase without checking his web site first. A lot of people who call themselves marketing managers are merely habitual abusers, and Ed is likely to have described their methods of abuse.
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