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Where Do You Get Your IT News?

Posted by Cliff on from the somewhere-else-than-here dept.

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'?"

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  1. feeds by weighn · · Score: 3, Interesting
    other than here, I spend a chunk of my lunch break looking at RSS feeds.

    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...

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    Mongrel News all the news that fits and froths
  2. RSS feeds. by LarsG · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

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    If J.K.R wrote Windows: Puteulanus fenestra mortalis!
  3. patents, drm, draconian legislation by RLiegh · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IT news is far,far too depressing these days to pay attention to. I'd say that makes my answer 'none of the above'.

  4. Programming news by arevos · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  5. Please... by djupedal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...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 :)

  6. Re:Ed Foster's Gripelog by BenEnglishAtHome · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Tom's Hardware Guide has too many ads;

    Apparently, those ads have some content that some filters reject. At my employer, Tom's is blocked because it's categorized as a "malicious web site."