What RSS Feeds Do You Use?

oncehour writes "I'm looking to broaden my horizons in terms of news, industry information, and generally good-to-know stuff. I've found a lot of great blogs and websites over the years, but I'm wondering what Slashdotters read regularly? What's in your RSS feeds?" We discussed this back in 2004, but the list of quality feeds has grown quite a bit in the past four years. Try to include at least a minimal description, so we know if we'll be looking at NASA news or up-to-the-minute cowboy boot fashion trends.

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Debian Package a Day

[twistedcubic]

Unfortunately, it isn't updated daily, but when it is, it's usually very good. It gives reviews of free software you might not be aware of. http://debaday.debian.net/feed/atom/

Re:Debian Package a Day

[bloodninja]

First thing every morning:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DilbertDailyStrip

I found this one on /. but it hasn't been updated in maybe a year:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/What-Is-What

I go through these two a few times a day:
http://lifehacker.com/software/top/index.xml
http://www.instructables.com/tag/type:id/featured:true/rss.xml

Re:Debian Package a Day

[FiReaNGeL]

http://feeds.esciencenews.com/eScienceNews/popular

Eureka Science News

Re:Debian Package a Day

[Anonymous Coward]

DashHacks: http://dashhacks.com/aggregator/rss
Aggregate of their network of hacking sites for: psp, ps3, xbox360, wii, iphone, ipods

Re:Debian Package a Day

[shokk]

Ugh. Why are we posting these long lists when we could be posting tasty, crunchy OPML that no one can read...
http://www.shokk.com/monkeychow/opml.php

The feed for me

[Deltaspectre]

My list of feeds:
Slashdot main : http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot
Obvious Reasons

Linux.com : http://www.linux.com/feature/?theme=rss
Useful tips for using Linux on a daily basis and for my sysadmin job

Lifehacker : http://lifehacker.com/excerpts.xml
Tips for life in general

Hack a Day : http://www.hackaday.com/rss.xml
Stuff I wish I had the motivation to do

Google Open Source Blog : http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Keeping current with The Goog's OSS efforts

Google Summer of Code Blog : http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoogleSummerOfCodePodcasts
Seeing the State of the Program

The Art of Manliness : http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheArtOfManliness
Do you really have to ask?

Re:The feed for me

[Anonymous Coward]

My list of feeds:
Slashdot main : http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot
Obvious Reasons

Really, that works for you? Slashdot doesn't appear to display "last 24 hours", so you miss stuff that way.

It tends to display "since midnight" instead, or something -- which doesn't work in different timezones.

Anyway, front-page or rss of slashdot seems to miss stuff.

Re:The feed for me

[maxume]

How do you reconcile the fact that anybody who calls their production "The Art of Manliness" is almost guaranteed to be a 92 pound douche?

I'll take the Red Green Show.

Re:The feed for me

[darthflo]

Who said anything about waiting 24 hours between visits? My feed reader (Opera) is instructed to pull the high-volume feeds every 3-6 hours.

Re:The feed for me

[Hal_Porter]

How do you reconcile the fact that anybody who calls their production "The Art of Manliness" is almost guaranteed to be a 92 pound douche?

I'll take the Red Green Show.

That's not true. They might be a >200 pound douche.

Re:The feed for me

[Firehed]

On some feeds, that's still WAY too long of a wait. Digg for one, though it's mostly crap anyways. As a photographer, I subscribe to the Strobist Flickr Group feed (yeah, flickr has feeds for group photostreams - surprised me too) and according to Google Reader's stats page, that's had well over 8,000 items within the last 30 days (averaging over 275/day). Digg is a distant second at 100/day, then Slashdot in third with a mere 18.8 daily average.

Point being that 4-8 times a day just isn't nearly enough for the REALLY high-volume stuff.

Re:The feed for me

[darthflo]

Get it more often, then. 275 items per day is about 12 per hour (let's assume 50/hr at peak). Find out how many items the feed contains, half that number and make that the time between refreshes (e.g. 20 items => refresh in a 10 minute interval).

Re:The feed for me

[Firehed]

I do - Google Reader checks probably every ten or 15 minutes. I was just pointing out that the parent's suggestion of 3-6 hours for high-volume feeds isn't likely enough.

Re:The feed for me

[Anonymous Coward]

I added every single one of the feeds you provided. This is great stuff.

Posting anonymously as some mod will probably mod this as off-topic.

Re:The feed for me

[Deltaspectre]

It was much better when I had a subscription and got the personalized feed, but I don't really use it enough to warrant another subscription just for that

Re:The feed for me

[Q-Hack!]

The Brick Testament
I like how they try and promote there books as Sunday School friendly, yet their website is loaded with nudity and violence. Blasphemous and funny.

Re:The feed for me

[pipingguy]

You'll love Steve Smith's Playhouse if you're a Red Green fan. It's that bad that it doesn't deserve to be considered "campy good" (like Plan 9) because it's so bad. It's also a blatant rip-off of MST3K except without the funny and host character interactions. The series smells like a contract-fulfillment effort that contains waaay too many fart jokes and inappropriate sexual innuendo where it's not humorous at all, just tiring.

Chalk it up to Canadian "arts" funding via tax breaks, the CBC and entrenched civil servants in the cultural ministries. Embarrassing.

Re:The feed for me

[Schraegstrichpunkt]

Ugh. I got it confused with The Alphabet of Manliness, and though "somebody made an RSS feed of The Best Page in the Universe? Awesome!"

Thoroughly disappointing. Not only was it not Maddox, but it wasn't even something Maddox would approve of.

"It's okay for you to cry if your pet dies." (paraphrased)... Yuck.

Overtly religious, too.

Re:The feed for me

[shokk]

My feed reader is web server based (MonkeyChow) and pulls once an hour, although I've spread the polling so that the whole feed list is done over five periods in that hour. I have almost 270 feeds, most of which post infrequently, and a few like Digg that post like a firehose. As low as I thought Digg was on the class scale, Reddit was even lower and had a higher volume of crap.
 

You're welcome

[Perseid]

http://www.crestock.com/rss/keyword.aspx?keyword=cowboy+boots

Comics

[Bob54321]

Ctrl Alt Del Penny Arcade xkcd Questionable Content

Re:Comics

[Anonymous Coward]

Ctrl Alt Del B^U

Re:Comics

[stoolpigeon]

I read the same 4 - along with Perry Bible Fellowship, though I don't check that as often and it never takes long to catch up.

I usually read xkcd and ctrl alt del first - they are the most consistent on being updated on time.

PA is usually later, but they are on the west coast and pvp is so erratic, I just check it whenever.

My feeds

[PhrostyMcByte]

• Sorting it all Out - a Microsoftie who specializes in i18n/l10n. This is always a joy to read, even for those who don't run Windows.
• Sutter's Mill - Anyone doing heavy C++ will know of Herb Sutter. His blog is updated regularly with standards work and other interesting C++-related things.
• MAKE Magazine - Making weird stuff just for the hell of it.
• TEDTalks videos - TED never fails to fascinate me.

Re:My feeds

[Anonymous Coward]

Now that I'm working in academia researching functional programming languages I read feeds like Lambda the Ultimate, comp.lang.functional, PLNews, Topix Programming Languages, Planet Python and Planet Haskell.

me me me

[hobbit347arse]

I'd be reading these on my headphones: http://www.acetonestudio.com/ http://www.acetonestudio.com/eatingbetty.html

...wow...

[OMNIpotusCOM]

This crappy post, an AC having the smartest post, Bill Gates isn't the richest man... can someone call somebody and find out the weather conditions in Hell?

Re:...wow...

[Anonymous Coward]

better go check hell now, as Bill Gates is definitely not teh smartest ... eh richest man any more!

Re:...wow...

[sa1lnr]

http://www.passco.com/hell.htm

"weather conditions in Hell" and modded Flaimbait. Mint!

Re:...wow...

[OMNIpotusCOM]

Aaaah! Finally! I lost my excellent karma after a month or so of trolling and disagreeing with the bandwagoners. No I can go on knowing that the majority, regardless of how wrong they are, will always win =)

One to add to the list:

[Lubotsky]

http://feeds.laughingsquid.com/laughingsquid "Art, Culture, and Technology"... heavily SFO-centric, and entirely wonderful.

my RSS

[nawcom]

Slashdot.
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot

Web Comics.
http://the.holybibble.net/?feed=rss2

Certain torrent sites.
http://www.demonoid.com/rss/0.xml

news feeds for multiple project sites.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/InsanelyMac

Newgrounds.
http://rss.ngfiles.com/dailytop5.xml

plus a ton more. i organize them via thunderbird.

ACEtone blog for dub stuff and the usual

[hobbit347arse]

and why not http://www.acetonestudio.blogspot.com/ for when your sticky key melodica needs repair?

feeds excerpt

[sugarmotor]

In no particular order, links to websites, pages, or feeds proper:

• blog.craigslist.org - name says it
• hackd.wordpress.com - Thrivesmart has some nice tinymce work
• googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com - the people who do google maps, and google earth
• vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/cpg - craigslist job posting in vancouver that might fit me
• findability.org name says it
• stephansmap.org/home_entry Track changes to the front page
• tinymce.moxiecode.com/forum_news_rss.php - track tinymce updates (tinymce is a javascript rich-text editor)
• weblog.jamisbuck.org - rails stuff / capistrano
• locationaware.org - name says it

Stephan

Re:feeds excerpt

[mdd4696]

In no particular order, links to websites, pages, or feeds proper:

• blog.craigslist.org - name says it
• hackd.wordpress.com - Thrivesmart has some nice tinymce work
• googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com - the people who do google maps, and google earth
• vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/cpg - craigslist job posting in vancouver that might fit me
• findability.org name says it
• stephansmap.org/home_entry Track changes to the front page
• tinymce.moxiecode.com/forum_news_rss.php - track tinymce updates (tinymce is a javascript rich-text editor)
• weblog.jamisbuck.org - rails stuff / capistrano
• locationaware.org - name says it

Stephan

I don't mean to hijack your comment but links would have been useful.

Re:feeds excerpt

[sugarmotor]

Pretty funny. I had drunk some alcohol; considering that, I did a good job, I think. - Thanks - Stephan

eh

[arbiter1]

i got a nice size list, i got an eggdrop bot on my linux box so it outputs on to irc.

baka-updates
mangaupdates
boxtorrents
tokyotosho
scarywater
slashdot
theregister
CNN
ABC
msNBC
cNBC
and 2 i can't name cause private torrent sites

yea I like japanse anime (quotes family guy) so what ya wanna fight about it?

Re:eh

[bigman2003]

I use a local feed aggregator:

http://thepile.net/woodland

That's it.

Google News and Blog

[pwhite]

I subscribe to a number of blogs on subjects I'm interested in. Equally I subscribe to a number of Google News feeds, if you can get the keywords right you can get very specific information about a subject.

Some of my feeds

[jake_vdb]

- Netflix Queue and New Releases - Some rare stuff I've been looking for on eBay - A few forums I follow that offer post feeds - Hack a Day and Make Magazine - Dealnews and Woot - Found Magazine - Packet Storm Security Advisories and Exploits

I use *none*

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're browsing as a pastime activity, why would you want to speed that up by using efficient RSS feeds?
Bookmarks ftw!

Re:I use *none*

[vidarh]

Because some of us wants to read the content, not spend time navigating to the content.

Re:I use *none*

[courseofhumanevents]

You are a very inexperienced time-waster.

Re:I use *none*

[DaveV1.0]

The master will appear when the student is ready

Re:I use *none*

[Yaldabaoth]

This. Ever since my boss turned me on to RSS, my usual strategy has become looking for the RSS "subscribe" button and not reading the web page. Enduring the red-and-yellow-fest of modern web design is not for me -- even CNN is a ketchup and mustard blink-tag fest compared to my RSS feeds.

Re:I use *none*

[Baloo Ursidae]

I stick to Linux work environments because most PHBs don't understand multiple desktops, and flipping a mousewheel over a pager to switch between work and slack makes effective multislacking a real snap.

Re:I use *none*

[DaveV1.0]

I just don't worry about it. My boss never comes around. I have trained him well.

Re:I use *none*

[Baloo Ursidae]

I tend to work on smaller teams, so while I can handle multislacking and still get things done, it still ends up being hard to explain additional cruft.

Re:I use *none*

[shokk]

Because then I can browse for more things that actually have updates instead of spending my day saying "Awwww! Nothing new.", "Awwww! Nothing new.", Awwww! Nothing new."....

Just these four

[__aabvlw4075]

http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 - So I know when "sudo emerge --sync" is particularly called for

http://www.desktoplinux.com/backend/headlines.rss - Occasionally informs me of things not covered on Slashdot

http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot - Yup

http://feeds.feedburner.com/rawstory/gKpz - Politics

Re:Just these four

[twistedcubic]

http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 [gentoo.org] - So I know when "sudo emerge --sync" is particularly called for Brilliant! Thanks! Now I don't have to sync once a week.

I don't get it

[Threni]

I've tried feeds. I don't read blogs, and when I've tried reading Slashdot or news sites I end up having to click somewhere to read the full article. This seems to be the case for any feed reader I've tried, whether it be on my phone or my laptop pc.

Re:I don't get it

[MMMDI]

Let's say your favorite sites are Slashdot, Site1, Site2, and Site3. You check these sites a couple of times daily for new content, which consists of you manually visiting slashdot.org, site1.com, site2.com, and site3.com every time the mood strikes you and then scanning said sites for updates.

With an RSS reader, you simply go to your feed reader of choice (or open your preferred program, or however you get your content - there's hundreds of options) and scan down the list - "Oh, Slashdot updated with three new stories, that one looks interesting, [click]."

Now, say that you want to stay up to date with dozens or even hundreds of sites, and you'll see the benefit of feeds.

Re:I don't get it

[TheRaven64]

I subscribe to the BBC News, The Register, Ars Technica, OS News and a couple of other feeds. I get a list of headlines, and a short (one paragraph) summary. 90% of the time the headline gives me enough information - just a quick indication that something of note has happened. When I want to read it in more detail, I click on the headline.

Think of it as skim-reading a custom newspaper. Scanning the headlines gives you a rough view of what's going on in the world, and reading the articles gives you more detail if you want it.

Re:I don't get it

[Project2501a]

90% of the time the headline gives me enough information

You must be new around slashdot...

Re:I don't get it

[B5_geek]

I agree with the OP, and am in the "I don't get it" category. I have 3 sites that I visit and check frequently (read: addiction), so it's easier/quicker to hit the bookmark and view the page then use ABC to load feeds, wait for it to update, then I still need to goto the site if it's interesting.

I enjoy this topic because I am hoping that it will expose some new sites to me that I might like.

Your post is valid if you have 20+ sites that you want to keep upto-date on, but I would like to hear your insight on the usefullness of using RSS to view a smaller number.

Re:I don't get it

[Anonymous Coward]

same here, the only good thing about rss feeds IMO: they can be parsed by a simple script and used for automating things (eztv, ...)

Re:I don't get it

[Gewalt]

Cause feeds were never meant to be a machine to person thing. They are supposed to be a machine to machine thing! iGoogle is the perfect feed reader. I get to create my own portal that is actually useful to me that way. I find out when my favorite sites get new content right on my homepage. I can't imagine using feeds in any other way.

Re:I don't get it

[Southpaw018]

Try an offline reader. Feedreader is good for Windows. Go to your 3 sites and load the feeds in. Set the feeds to update every hour. Then, when the mood strikes you to check your sites, you don't have to load anything at all. The content is already there, right on your desktop, waiting whenever the Feedreader icon is orange. Also, I GUARANTEE that once you start tacking feeds, you'll go to a new site you like and say "Hey. I can add this feed." and you'll be off and away. I started with exactly two and look at me now.

Here's my list, organized by folder. If a folder is marked (collapsed), I read those feeds as a group by clicking on the folder. Note: if the descriptions seem basic, /. was bitching about "too few characters per line," so I had to add some filler.

• Feedreader (collapsed) - these two feeds came with Feedreader, and I just didn't delete them.
• • Feedreader Developer Blog
  • Feedreader news and announcements
• Games
• • Deus Ex Projects - two projects for my favorite game of all time that both move one inch toward completion every 6 months.
  • • Deus Ex HTDP - high-definition texture pack. Text feed, news and announcements.
    • Project 2027 - new levels and story for Deus Ex. Text feed, news and announcements.
  • The Escapist: Zero Punctuation - if you're not watching these game reviews, you should be. Feed is links to the weekly ZP posts.
  • Valve Steam news and updates - Steam is Valve's content delivery system. This feed includes game updates and general news. Text only.
• News/aggregator
• • CNN top stories - this feed can be annoying because it sometimes contains a story summary in the item, but more often it just contains a link to the story. I wish it had summaries more often.
  • Fark - Fark is a news aggregator site that, like /., combines user submission with a little editorial control (as opposed to the Digg method). This feed is of the mainpage stories and contains only the headlines and a link. Sophomoric and dark humor are mainstays.
  • MSNBC - this is the top stories feed, editorially selected. They also have a "most viewed" feed if you're into celeb news and dogs in funny poses.
  • MSNBC - Coundown - feed of Countdown with Keith Olbermann video clips, updated nightly, with the first two stories usually posted before the show is over. Feed is links to the clips.
  • Slashdot - log in, your feed is personalized to your mainpage prefs. /.'s own feed contains headlines and story summaries.
• Politics
• • Crooks and Liars - This is a blog that supports more liberal ideals than the party line. Feed is of front page stories and contains attachments of any items referenced in the stories (usually QT files, sometimes PDFs)
  • Daily Kos - The largest liberal log/community on the net, this one is much more toward party line. Text only.
  • Electoral-vote.com - election news and coverage with a map that updates the electoral college count by poll average. Contains the site's daily upd

Re:I don't get it

[Hatta]

Now, say that you want to stay up to date with dozens or even hundreds of sites, and you'll see the benefit of feeds.

Just so hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.
-Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle (1863)

Re:I don't get it

[DMUTPeregrine]

I use a mix. Things I check daily/semidaily (webcomics and such) are normal pages. forums are normal pages. RSS feeds are used for pages I rarely check, or pages with lots of headlines (fark, BBC, etc). Slashdot has a feed, but I also regularly browse the main page. So it seems mostly good for pages where I might want 1 or 2 headlines out of many, and can wait a bit for them to scroll by while doing something else.
Oh, I use the RSS Ticker addon for firefox. I normally have FF open, so it ends up being just as good as a standalone reader.

Re:I don't get it

[jaiyen]

I never really got the point of rss either, when you had to use a separate program to get the feeds. But the "Live bookmarks" feature in Firefox made me a convert, it's so much easier even for only 3 sites.

You can add an rss feed/live bookmark and then store the ones you visit the most on the toolbar just beneath the location bar, and you don't need to worry about it waiting for it to update as you can set how often you want it do that automatically. It makes seeing if there's any new posts on the sites you visit the most just a single click away, and then going to direct to the new content one more click.

Try it, once you "get" RSS it's painful going back to the manual bookmark + reload way.

Re:I don't get it

[Anonymous Coward]

They're totally useful for sites that are irregularly updated. I subscribe to a few blogs' feeds, and it's a huge improvement on checking a bunch of sites all the time only to find out they have no new content.

Re:I don't get it

[Mauzl]

I never got RSS either until I used Google Reader (http://google.com/reader). I tried it a few times in the past, but it never really clicked until I used Google's implementation.

Certainly this will arouse someone's 'Google knows too much' rant, though I don't see the problem with them knowing my browsing habits.

Wait, what did I just say?

Re:I don't get it

[Anonymous Coward]

I started using RSS feeds for webcomics. There are a few sites that update only sporadically, and I got tired of visiting them each day to see nothing new. The feed helps this so I don't have to bother checking every day, but I still won't miss an update.

Re:I don't get it

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

I probably wouldn't bother for just 2-3 sites, but at the same time before rss all I did was check 2-3 sites.

Once you have a program(or in my case Google) checking for you, the number of things you're interested in seems to skyrocket.

You also tend to check things as they happen that otherwise would be a once every few months pageload, like most web comics.

You can add "dead" sites that you'd normally never find out if there are news and instead find out instantly with no additional work.

I've also found out about more than a few local shows I ended up checking out thanks to a local blog I'd never bother to read if it wernt for RSS.

RSS isn't perfect by any means -- Sites like Gizmodo that tend to edit their submissions often after they go live leads to plenty of dupes (due to rss publishers re-publishing on edit since theres no way to rewrite an entry someone already copied), and some feeds annoyingly update in bulk so that even if you check the feed once every 15 minutes you'll still only get the block of 8 or 9 stories in a row once a day, with no way to really integrate them based on publishing date.

That said, it sure beats having to load a website for everything I'm interested in.

Re:I don't get it

[shokk]

You're still wasting time looking for updates at those few sites, where you could be doing something else. Or from another point of view, you could be missing out on articles that aren't posted directly to the front page.

WHICH feeds

[DNS-and-BIND]

Which feeds, not what feeds. Sorry, living abroad as I do, it's embarrassing to see native speakers with a lower level of written English than ESL students. Anyway, here's my list:

• http://www.chinalawblog.com/index.xml
  China Law Blog, all sorts of interesting stuff about China and IPR. The law is actually pretty good in China, the problem is people don't know how to use it.

• http://feed.feedsky.com/danweirss10
  Danwei, who are a bunch of pompous self-important Beijing residents, but have some good articles and translations that aren't available anywhere else.

• http://www.ningboguide.com/rss.xml
  An English magazine that occasionally has something interesting on it.

• http://www.zonaeuropa.com/index.xml
  EastSouthWestNorth, a weblog with all sorts of interesting stories about dissent in China, and it's not even blocked by the GFW. Unfortunately the website editor is a radical leftist and this colors his coverage of some events. The web page is ugly as sin and includes a bunch of irrelevant crap about Taiwanese actresses and such, so RSS is the best bet.

Re:WHICH feeds

[Anonymous Coward]

Since you're such a language expert, maybe you should tell the guys over at bbc.co.uk to update their material:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/youmeus/learnit/learnitv175.shtml

Re:WHICH feeds

[Anonymous Coward]

Which feeds, not what feeds. "What feeds" is correct, since we are not talking about a limited, known set of feeds. See this article, for example.

(Posted AC since I don't have my login info at the moment.)

Re:WHICH feeds

[Anonymous Coward]

Which feeds, not what feeds. Sorry, living abroad as I do, it's embarrassing to see native speakers with a lower level of written English than ESL students.

It looks like perfectly good colloquial English to me. Are you suggesting that languages shouldn't be allowed to evolve?

Re:WHICH feeds

[Hal_Porter]

http://feed.feedsky.com/danweirss10
Danwei, who are a bunch of pompous self-important Beijing residents, but have some good articles and translations that aren't available anywhere else. http://www.danwei.org/internet/president_hu_jintao_talks_to_n.php

China's President Hu Jintao had a brief online chat with members of the People's Daily's 'Strong Country' online forum this morning. ...

- Are you angry with the harsh questions posted on the forum?
- What do think of the 93% support rate for your government?
- What is your comment on the performance of the Chinese people in the face of disasters this year?

Next!

Re:WHICH feeds

[Anonymous Coward]

You are in error. The word "which" is used when there is a limited selection. The word "what" is used when there is an unlimited selection.

Thus one would say:
* Which feed is your favorite - slashdot or reddit?
* What feeds are your favorite?

Note that an "unlimited selection" does not refer to infinite choices, rather that the choices are not limited (selected) by the asker.

Re:WHICH feeds

[Anonymous Coward]

your feeds are just as pompous and useless as your fucking post. think about that while you're sipping that expensive brandy in your fucking LOFT!

Re:WHICH feeds

[OfficeSupplySamurai]

No, "what" and "which" are equally acceptable. See the informative comment by the anonymous coward below.

Also, your sig is wrong. The phrase "a lot" is a noun, and is used as such: "I eat a lot of turkey on Thanksgiving." The word "alot" is indeed a valid word, but it is an adverb: "I eat turkey alot."

If you're going to be pompous about grammar, you could at least be correct about it.

Re:WHICH feeds

[kaminariko]

"What" is used to ask a question when there is an unknown number of possible answers. "Which" is used to ask a question when there is a fixed number of possible answers. There is an unknown number of favorite RSS feeds. Nobody loves a pedant.

Re:WHICH feeds

[Anonymous Coward]

+5 insightful? Mods, you're rewarding idiocy and revealing your own ignorance. Like prescriptivists often do, user 461968 has proudly pointed out a grammatical mistake where none exists. Here's the rule, folks:

What is used to refer to objects or ideas in an open question; which is preferred when a choice is given of items you can choose from.

461968, here's a helpful little exam you can take before (shudder) teaching ESL students: http://www.smic.be/smic5022/whichorwhat.htm

Good luck.

Re:WHICH feeds

[Anonymous Coward]

China Law Blog, all sorts of interesting stuff about China and IPR.

This isn't a sentence.

Danwei, who are a bunch of pompous self-important Beijing residents, but have some good articles and translations that aren't available anywhere else. Nor is this.

An English magazine that occasionally has something interesting on it.

Nor is this.

Oh and some of your compound sentences are written incorrectly. You need a coordinator between independent clauses.

The following site may be helpful:
http://www.eslbee.com/sentences.htm

Sorry. Living in the states as I do, it's embarrassing to see native speakers with a lower level of written English than ESL students.

Re:WHICH feeds

[Myopic]

Your signature and my signature need to team up.

I want to comment, however, that ESL students learn academic English, whereas native speakers learn common English. You and I both lean toward academic English (even though we are native speakers), but it's a legitimate question whether the academic or common variant is a more pure expression of the essence of a language.

Re:WHICH feeds

[pipingguy]

The web page is ugly as sin

Not every site can be as beautiful as Slashdot.

Re:WHICH feeds

[Anonymous Coward]

Which feeds, not what feeds. Sorry, living abroad as I do, it's embarrassing to see native speakers with a lower level of written English than ESL students. WHAT are you talking about? WHICH of the following are you:
1) Arrogant
2) Misinformed
3) half-baked :-)

I'm like to create RSS feeds for my fav Ebay queries.

 

Feeds

[Dan541]

http://en-gb.fxfeeds.mozilla.com/en-GB/firefox/headlines.xml

http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot

and of course my own
http://www.theinane.com/feed

Re:Feeds

[Anonymous Coward]

I think there's a problem with your feed. Maybe the link is wrong? I just subscribed, and the first post listed had a title of 'cock sex XXX cumslut spears fucks true anal penetration!!! sexplay 55!'

a Feed From an ESL Student

[Anonymous Coward]

it's embarrassing to see native speakers with a lower level of written English than ESL students. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/rss/leweekly.xml

The Daily Planets

[Anonymous Coward]

http://planet.gnome.org/
http://planet.mozilla.org/
http://planet.ubuntu.com/
http://planet.i2p/ (only accessible through the i2p network)

Mine

[KasperMeerts]

*Ctrl-Alt-Delete
http://www.cad-comic.com/rss/rss.xml
Stupid webcomic
*Looking for Group
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LookingForGroup?format=xml
Webcomic.
*Least I Could Do
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LICD?format=xml
Webcomic.
*Linux Kernel
http://www.kernel.org/kdist/rss.xml
(no explanation)
*NationStates
http://69.60.14.82/cgi-bin/rss.cgi?nation=windhelm
A sort of game where you have to govern a nation. I develops based on the laws you vote.
*Questionable Content
http://www.questionablecontent.net/QCRSS.xml
Webcomic
*The Book of Biff
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheBookOfBiff
Webcomic
*The Perry Bible Fellowship
http://pbfcomics.com/feed/feed.xml
Webcomic (not updated i a looong time)
*VG Cats
http://www.vgcats.com/vgcats.rdf.xml
Stupid and bad webcomic
*xkcd
http://www.xkcd.com/rss.xml
FANTASTIC webcomic
*Linux Journal
http://feeds.feedburner.com/linuxjournalcom
I dunno why it's in there. I like the articles
*Slashdot
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot
I guess that's about it. I'm going to delete a couple of webcomics though. Some are just too awful.

Re:Mine

[Inner_Child]

If you're ashamed of the comics you read to the point where you completely dismiss them as "bad" or "stupid", why even bother listing them? For that matter, why be ashamed?

Here are the ones I read, and I see no reason to be ashamed of any of them. If you don't like them, no one is forcing you to read them.

• Questionable Content
• Penny Arcade
• Ctrl Alt Del
• PvP Online
• VG Cats
• XKCD
• Cyanide & Happiness

Re:Mine

[kv9]

I used to read XKCD but the geek content is too dilluted for my taste. like a chick flick with nerds. and for PA I don't need a feed. monday/wensday/friday afternoon when I walk in at work they are usually up. and now the feeds:

• bsdtalk various interviews with BSD people
• debaday not really a debianwhore but nice gems to be found there
• fleshbot who doesn't like porns?
• hubertf everyone's favorite NetBSD dev
• papod PA podcast
• tdwtf the daily wtf so you don't feel you are alone in your editor
• thinkgeek must buy everything!
• undeadly not dead yet

Re:Mine

[DMUTPeregrine]

I don't use RSS feeds for webcomics, so here is the set of pages I regularly visit:
XKCD We probably all know this one.
Cyanide and Happiness Somewhat twisted humour.
Errant Story Excellent art and storyline.
Bunny Strange humour about bunnies.
QC Indy rock comic of social interaction.
Megatokyo Megatokyo. Has gone downhill in recent years, but still good art.
Penny Arcade Gamer comic, quite famous.
PBF Perry Bible Fellowship hasn't updated in some time, but very funny when he does.
Edible Dirt is a series of single-panel jokes. Very funny, often somewhat twisted.
Ctrl-Alt-Del is a comic about a few gamer roomates.
LFG WoW/MMO/D&D spoof. Quite funny, good art, interesting plot. Many references break the 4th wall.
Two-Lumps is a comic about cats, 1 smart, 1 very, very dumb. I think the artist is stalking my cat to get ideas for the dumb one.
Gunnerkrigg Court Beautiful art, excellent story. And robots.
underpower hasn't updated in some time, great single-page art pieces recently and an actual story before.
Girl Genius is all about Mad Science.
Bunny System is a comic about psychotic rabbits.
Something Positive is very, very cynical. It actually has 5 webcomics on 1 page. Very much worth checking out.
Head Trip is... a head trip.
FLEM hasn't updated in a while, and has a strange and rather violent storyline. Back to single-panel shorts now.
VGCats video game cats is excellent, if you play video games.
Clan of the Cats Author is going blind, will continue if she gets better. Great story and art.
Dr. McNinja The adventures of Dr. McNinja. Clean art, good story, ninjas on fire.
Code Name: Hunter Magic/technology interaction in a world strangely dominated by talking animals. Excellent facial expressions, especially for being animals.
Awkward Zombie gamer comic similar to vgcats.
No Need for Bushido Samurai story, well drawn and reasonably well written.
Giant ITP hosts both The Order of The Stick, a D&D spoof, and The Battle For Gobwin Knob, a comic about a GM who gets sucked into a world of his own design, on the losing side of a no-win scenario.
Last Blood Zombies have taken over the earth and killed nearly all humans, so now the vampires fight to protect their dwindling food source. Excellent drawing and unique story.
Chopping Block Butch the serial killer. Sick, twisted humour, but very funny.
Dominic Deegan Oracle for Hire, is a good story with pretty good art.
The Traveling Gnome Great art, story seems good so far.
One-Liners may be offensive to some, or funny to those with a sense of humour.

Re:Mine

[KasperMeerts]

I'm sorry, it sounded a bit too harsh. I still read them because for some reason when I read some, I must see the next ones. I just don't have the courage. Here on Slashdot I view all the comments Raw and Uncut, because I'm so curious I'm always clicking them open. Except for VGCats, I don't read any really bad webcomic.

Re:Mine

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you serious? VG Cats "stupid and bad?" I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you accidentally put the description under the wrong link. Which means I'm assuming you're enough of a gamer geek that you actually understand the best of the content.

Scott doesn't like to explain things in his comics, which means it's easy to have a comic go completely over your head if you haven't played the game in question, or kept up with the specific piece of gaming news, and those are his best.

Re:Mine

[KasperMeerts]

I played most of the games he writes about and I get the MGS references and about the other games I didn't play.Still, after a while the rape jokes became old.

And what's so funny about everybody from Phoenix Wright getting boobs?
Or Altair spiking himself with his pointy thingie?
Or Miyamoto beating his wife/mama/whatever.
Or a Portal Turret killing a baby
It might be my inferior intellect but I just don't get what's so funny about them.

I heard the jokes that are good months before he made them. Just because they are so predictable

Nagios status

[Anonymous Coward]

The only feed I watch is the local Nagios status using nagserv.

Feeds

[rdwald]

I read a whole bunch, but the best/most useful are:

Digg: Sure, the commentary here is better, but it's nice to know what the Obamanation thinks of the latest political scandals.
Ars Technica: They've got good articles on various technical issues. Relatively low-volume.
Boing Boing: Quirky news, with a slant towards privacy concerns, steampunk, and general weirdness.
Wired's Threat Level: Alerts on various privacy issues, as well as other things the government is doing that you don't want them to be.

Re:And how is this N3rd N3ws ??

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, I don't know; I think swapping RSS feeds is manly. It's not like we're swapping recipes. Well, okay, it is like that, but manly recipes.

My suggestions; less obvious yet prob. worthwhile

[Jerry Smith]

http://www.schneier.com/blog/index.rdf (security specialist Schneier, security in the news)

http://www.chaosmanorreviews.com/rss.xml (Jerry Pournelle, author etc, sort of tech diary)

http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default (Fake Steve Jobs, 'interesting views')

I've got more but I thought these were less obvious, yet as 'must-have' as theregister and slashdot.

Feeds

[Turiko]

Feeds are something i don't use. Long live the standard webpages.

My feeds

[Anonymous Coward]

news related feeds:

Ars Technica

Engadget

Slashdot (of course)

Wired Top Stories

Other interesting stuff

Woot!

xkcd.com

Lifehacker

Those are my technology related feeds, but im working on finding a nice general news feed without an overwhelming number of articles

Liferea and HTML::TreeBuilder

[Anonymous Coward]

http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/ - The Sartorialist is a a photographer for GQ, Vogue, etcetra who publishes his photos of well dressed people he meets on the street for all to see.

http://www.idiotcomics.com/ - Idiot Comics is a spot on webcomic sometimes, but lately its been a little slow.

http://waiterrant.net/ - A blog written by a waiter who has spent a long time in the restaurant business. Source municipal is a pretty good read.

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ and PostSecret of course...

The best ones I read I pull together with Liferea's web scraping support and some Perl to generate an RSS feed either by building one from scratch or gutting the description tag and replacing it with HTML from the site to get the whole article. The Mother 3 Fan Translation, The Onion, McSweeney's Letters, the New York Times, and the Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA all fall under this category. Snownews has a repository for these scripts at http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/snowscripts/. I'd submit mine but I could never log in.

If you insist...

[abbamouse]

I'll leave out really common feeds and a few that won't interest many people, but here are the top 25% or so of my feeds:

A Gentleman's C http://gentlemansc.blogspot.com/rss.xml
An Angry Professor gripes about stuff

Armchair Generalist http://armchairgeneralist.typepad.com/my_weblog/index.rdf
Blog by a moderate-left military analyst

Arts & Letters Daily http://aldaily.com/rss/rss.xml
Three interesting links every day (actually usually one or two INTERESTING ones)

Breaking News (History News Network) http://hnn.us/roundup/rss_full/41.xml
Stories about History with a slight conservative bias

Consumerist http://consumerist.com/excerpts.xml
Shoppers bite back.

indexed http://indexed.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Note card humor, usually featuring Venn diagrams

Inside Higher Ed http://feeds.feedburner.com/insidehighered/OxmP
Stories from academe, with fairly grumpy comments

Junk Charts http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/rss.xml
Redraws charts to make data analysis easier

Obscure Store and Reading Room http://obscurestore.typepad.com/obscure_store_and_reading/index.rdf
Well-known wierd news site with comments

PostSecret http://postsecret.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Secrets on postcards, every Sunday. Fascinating.

ReelViews New Reviews http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReelviewsNewReviews
My favorite currently-active film reviewer

SCOTUSblog http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/index.xml
Get the skinny on the latest Supreme Court actions

Slashfood http://www.slashfood.com/rss.xml
Because I love food

Slate Magazine http://www.slate.com/rss/
The best of the online political mags; lefty bias

Spluch http://spluch.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Always something interesting. Similar material to the extremely popular Boing Boing, but with fewer posts per day.

The Monkey Cage http://www.themonkeycage.org/atom.xml
Analysis from political scientists. Much better than the usual partisan approach.

The Onion http://feeds.theonion.com/theonion/daily
Most of the humor is usually contained in the headlines, so I seldom read more

Re:If you insist...

[sledge_hmmer]

I bow before thee....you must be a master time-waster. I have 9 feeds and can't read all of them. I don't get any work done just trying to read all of them.

You even have time to post on /. Wow!

Re:If you insist...

[kv9]

oh my, you must be fun at parties!

My list

[EnsilZah]

I have quite a few.

Apple Trailers - New movie trailers.
BlizzCast - Blizzard podcast, not that great.
GameTrailers - Latest game trailers.
The Perry Bible Fellowship - Amusing comics though seem dead lately.
Penny Arcade - Enough said.
TED Talks - Insightful talks about many subjects.
Three Panel Soul - Mac Hall is dead, long live Three Panel Soul.
Video Copilot - Nice video compositing tutorials.
xkcs - Master of all geek webcomics.
Zero Punctuation - Game reviews amusing enough you don't need to care about the game.

EZTV - Scene TV torrent releases.
Releaselog - General scene torrent releases.

And there's of course Slashdot which currently has 126 unread stories, I'm sure I'll get to them sometime.

Re:My list

[EnsilZah]

Ahh crap, and I spelled xkcd wrong.

Re:My list

[BarryJacobsen]

The Perry Bible Fellowship - Amusing comics though seem dead lately. If you read the news section he says that the comic strip is no longer his focus and updates will be very irregular.

Re:My list

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, PBFcomics is on an "undefined hiatus".
http://www.blorgable.com/2008/02/19/the-perry-bible-fellowship-enters-semi-retirement/

I only read 1

[aussie_a]

The only one I read is the one for the Wizards website so I know when they've updated it.

BOFH!! how could I forget...

[Jerry Smith]

http://feed.theregister.co.uk/rss?a=Simon%20Travaglia

It's not a standard theregister-rss-feed, but since Simon only does the BOFH on theregister, it works, and the feed is good for at least a bright smile every Friday.

Re:BOFH!! how could I forget...

[sapped]

Thank you! It's so irritating that BOFH doesn't appear in the Odds and Sods feed.

Re:BOFH!! how could I forget...

[a9db0]

Thanks, I needed that.

Cant forget this one

[Anonymous Coward]

There is always http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/goatse/rss - posts tagged with goatse
I think I need to get a life

Eating Betty Rules!

[Talkischeap]

Yeah!

I've been playing Eating Betty on my radio shows for years now.

I only have "in Dub", but it rocks!, nice to see newer music.

If you like DUB, then this is for you.

Listen up... I'll be announcing acts tonight (Sat, 06-21) at the Sierra Nevada World Musical Festival.

- Derek Dubwise on KZYX FM

Re:Eating Betty Rules!

[hobbit347arse]

wow, thanks!

Easy

[Ciarang]

Have your own 'planet' and answer this question with a single url: http://planet.ciarang.com/

Make your feed aggregator public !

[BigJim.fr]

In order to promote that feed sharing and discovery I made my daily reading list public. If you like the concept of concept of discovering new feeds from friends and neighbors, the you might also enjoy Toluu.

Most important one

[Dachannien]

I have more than 50 feeds in my aggregator (Sage), but easily the most important of these is http://feeds.feedburner.com/ICanHasCheezburger .

Re:Most important one

[Anonymous Coward]

I have more than 50 feeds in my aggregator (Sage), but easily the most important of these is http://feeds.feedburner.com/ICanHasCheezburger .

Let me guess, you are an editor of the site?

Re:Most important one

[Dachannien]

Let me guess, you are an editor of the site? Nope, I jus lurvs kittehs.

Off-line RSS reader for Linux?

[BlackCreek]

Speaking of RSS... Does anyone knows of a decent off-line RSS reader for Linux? It would be nice to have something like that for days I sit longer in the train.

About the feeds, here are the ones I read the most (I guess almost all are self-descriptive for slashdot reader's).

• XKCD (comic),
• Bruce Scheneier's blog
• Linux Weekly news (LWN)
• Kernel Trap (news about the linux kernel)
• Dilbert (which now has an official RSS feed!)
• Dinosaur comics (great comics strips)
• Paul Krugman - Economist at the NYT
• Joel on Software

Re:Off-line RSS reader for Linux?

[JShadow21]

I use Liferea, pretty decent gnome reader. Otherwise if you're a KDE fan there's akregator.

Re:Off-line RSS reader for Linux?

[prator]

I've never tried it on Linux, but you can use Google Reader in offline mode if you install Google Gears.

Re:Off-line RSS reader for Linux?

[GooglePlexity]

I too use Liferea. You can also try Straw at http://www.gnome.org/projects/straw/ or Mozilla Thunderbird News.

Re:Off-line RSS reader for Linux?

[tzanger]

Akgregator will work offline? awesome.

Re:Off-line RSS reader for Linux?

[Randle_Revar]

If you like the CLI, try newsbeuter

Re:Off-line RSS reader for Linux?

[Baloo Ursidae]

Gears seems to work wherever Gecko is the rendering engine, from what I've seen.

Yahoo Pipes and alt.binz

[Amphetam1ne]

I have a large number of feeds that encapsulate/link .nzb files, condensed and filtered via Yahoo Pipes and the resultant feed is read by my alt.binz usenet client, which is setup to auto-download files from usenet based on a text filter list.

So I don't actually read any RRS feeds myself, I have software to do that for me.

Semantic & generated feeds

[Randomly]

Aside from the RSS feeds of Slashdot and the main UK dailys, I like to read semantically or search engine generated feeds:

Delicious popular tag 'politics':
http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/politics

Delicious popular tag 'science':
http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/science

Google News search 'biodiesel', an endless stream of positive news:
http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&ned=uk&q=biodiesel&ie=UTF-8&output=rss

I'm hoping that Delicious may eventually allow combinations of tags, e.g. popular uk+politics.

Plus a few other plain RSS feeds:

BBC Technology:
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/technology/rss.xml

XKCD A webcomic of romance and math humor.
http://xkcd.com/rss.xml

Tech-On Asian Technology News:
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/index.rdf

The Guardian's 'Comment is Free' article stream with comment section:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/rss

Buffalo Beast, US political satire:
http://interglacial.com/rss/buffalo_beast.rss

Fabians political society:
http://fabians.org.uk/index2.php?option=com_ds-syndicate&version=1&feed_id=1

Photography feeds

[Thatmushroom]

RSS feeds for the photographer geek:
Strobist http://www.strobist.com/
Off-camera lighting, and possibly the geekiest popular photography blog around. Give this site a serious look.

Joe McNally http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/
National Geographic shooter, photojournalist extraordinaire. Less about the mechanics than Strobist.

Flash Flavor http://www.flashflavor.com/
Insights from a very popular wedding shooter.

The Big Picture http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/
A blog attempting to fill the shoes of LIFE.

Library of Congress http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
The Library of Congress has been putting their archives on Flickr. Some are slightly dull, but it's an interesting exposure to first half of the 20th century.

These all link to the main site, where you should hopefully be able to find the RSS feed.

IN it

[Anonymous Coward]

An English magazine that occasionally has something interesting on it. Who cares about what's on it? There is a lot more inside.

Good blogs in french?

[Anonymous Coward]

I am a keen reader of slashdot and am wondering if any of the readers can suggest to me a blog of the same calibre in french. I am interested in a broad range of topics including tech, music, culture, science I'm an english native speaker but am learning french. Merci!

Re:Good blogs in french?

[Anonymous Coward]

For a much less tech-savy audience, have a look at AgoraVox, a user-contributed news site. The "science & tech" section is here : http://www.agoravox.fr/mot.php3?id_mot=20

Just one.

[nova.alpha]

The Reddit

Good blogs in french

[Anonymous Coward]

For some reason my original post was removed??

I am asking if anyone knows of blogs of the same calibre as slashdot in french, covering general or specifics on tech/music/culture/news/science.. thankyou.

Re:Good blogs in french

[empaler]

Your original post still exists. Slashdots comments system is acting up.
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=590843&cid=23883869

My big themed list

[Miletos]

Comics

• Dilbert - do I need to describe this?
• Explosm.com - Cyanide and Happiness comic
• Fokke & Sukke - Dutch comic. Popular daily cartoon (yes, I'm dutch and the name is intentional)
• Little Gamers - gaming comic
• Penny Arcade - gaming comic
• FAIL blog - epic fail every day

Finance & Economy

• BusinessWeek Online -- Most Popular Stories
• Calculated Risk - general blog
• The Economist - News analysis and views
• NRC | EconomieDutch newspaper, economy section

Space

• Bad Astronomy - Phil Plait's blog about astronomy and skepticism
• Chris Lintott's Universe - Astronomer, Galaxy Zoo co-founder and co-host of BBC's The Sky at Night
• NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
• New Scientist, Space - Astronomy section of New Scientist
• Space.com - More space news...
• Starts With a Bang! - Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel, tries to answer some common but very complex astronomy questions.
• Universe Today - One of the most well known astronomy blogs

Tech

• Engadget - THE gadget blog
• Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - making crazy electronic stuff (and drooling over niche market product catalogues)
• Gametrailers' ScrewAttack - funny gaming videos
• Kotaku - THE games blog
• Reuters Science
• Reuters Technology
• Slashdot
• The Brainy Gamer - in-depth articles about (the history of) games in general
• Tweakers.net - the dutch Slashdot

Misc

• Greggman - American gamedev'er who lived in Japan
• Jort Kelder - Dutch dandy. Ex-editor-in-chief of Quote, a magazine about entrepeneurs and the life of the nouveau rich. Co-host of the dutch Dragons Den.
• Scalzi's Whatever - Sciencefiction author.
• The Sartorialist - Fashion photographer. If you'd like to dress like a man with some class, instead of a fake tan metrosexual...look here for inspiration.

Lots of feeds from me

[Anonymous Coward]

I have quite a few, many of which have someredundancies, but I just don't want to miss out on information :)

They are also cathegorized:

1.) Games
- www.areagames.de - quite decent german gaming site, especially important for local releases
- www.gametrailers.com - a lot of junk I don't care about, but every now and then very good HD vids
- http://news.filefront.com/ (Gaming Today) - Great gaming Feed
- http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp - Often funny, and good comments on things
- http://www.thelastboss.com/ - Was my favorite, giving lots of Vids and stuff, but it seems to be dead since over a year

2.) General Tech
- http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/News - A little too ITish at times, but great comments and opinions
- http://www.dailytech.com/ - Most of the time the right amout of ITism, but few opinions and trivia
- http://www.chip.de/rss/rss_tests.xml - A lot of reviews on different produkts
- http://slashdot.org/ - Could be more ITish at times, but good general articles make up for that

3.) Handy Stuff (in German mobile = handy, so this is a wordplay)
- http://www.areamobile.de/ - Not so good on the hardware part, but great for knowing releases and new contracts in Germany
- http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/Handhelds/News - Again good comments and opinions
- http://www.engadgetmobile.com/ - Very good for hardware and some trivia
- http://news.google.com/news?q=i-mate+7150&output=rss - Was looking forward to that device is it looks dead to me...
- http://www.slashphone.com/ - Kind of redundant with Engadget mobile, might get the axe, but still a good feed.

4.) Hardware
- http://www.anythingbutipod.com/ - Good MP3-Player feed, updated seldomely, but is still good
- http://aqua-computer.de/newsfeed_de.rss - A RSS feed of a watercooling company
- http://www.notebookcheck.com/ - Good reviews on new models, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookjournal.de/rss/notebookjournal_news_feed.xml - Notebook news, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookjournal.de/rss/notebookjournal_tests_feed.xml - Notebook reviews, very good, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookreview.com/ - Great page for getting first looks on the new or upcoming top notebooks
- http://www.themp3players.com/ - Also on MP3 player, updated very seldomely
- http://www.hardwarezone.com/ - Good on general hardware (graphics cards and stuff)

5.) Science
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/default.stm - Good articles but sometimes too much on legislation and stuff
- http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Science.xml - Also great with some good long interesting articles
- http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/ - A very good quick view on what has been discovered or researched

6.) Stuff
-

Thought Experiments

[FishandChips]

Thought Experiments at http://www.bryanappleyard.com/ - stuff that makes you think by the writer and journalist Bryan Appleyard. Feed = http://www.bryanappleyard.com/atom.xml
Nigeness - http://nigeness.blogspot.com/ - acute observation and a connoisseur of many forms of art, a welcome port in the verbiage-strewn seas of the net. Feed = http://nigeness.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
The Lumber Rood at http://elberry.wordpress.com/ - why moan about the end of the world and the collapse of civilization when you can enjoy them instead? This blog will show you how. Feed = http://elberry.wordpress.com/feed/
Oie de Chine at http://chine.blog.lemonde.fr/ - a photo-blog of daily life in China from a hugely talented French photographer. Feed = http://chine.blog.lemonde.fr/feed/

Best /. article in a while

[The Master Control P]

This is the first time in a while I've come away from reading /. with more than a whole lot of thoughts to process. Right click, "add feed to akgregator"!

• ScienceDaily
• Google News
• Lords of the Blog

And of course the KDE feeds that come preset with Akgregator.

Feeds

[Anonymous Coward]

http://portableapps.com/feeds/general
Shows the latest updates from PortableApps.com

Re:Just one. WEIRDASIANEWS

[Anonymous Coward]

The Reddit Thankyou; strangely even though the interface is in french every article is english. Is that normal?

also I have a contribution, sorry if it's already been posted

www.weirdasianews.com

Various productivity feeds

[empaler]

I love David Allen's GTD, and I've a few productivity RSS feeds that I follow;
David Allen Co.'s official RSS feed has a lot of interesting GTD-centric tips.
43Folders is Merlin Mann's productivity feed with a little more unrelated noise.
Lifehacker has a lot of productivity tips, but again, more noise. On the other hand, Lifehacker is also a lot more down to earth.
Get Rich Slowly isn't directly productivity--related, but it's a good reminder to mind your finances.

(I've linked to the sites and not the feeds so that new readers can get a glimpse of the content before choosing whether or not to grab the RSS feed)

Mine

[kingturkey]

I have quite a few, there's comics, blogs and news. Google for the links if you want them, I had them in but it was poor readability. They'd all be the top hit anyway.

Comics:
Ctrl Alt Del
Dilbert
Dinosaur Comics
Cyanide and Happiness
Penny Arcade
Questionable Content
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Simulated Comic Product
The Perry Bible Fellowship
XKCD

Blogs:
GaijinSmash.net
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs

News:
Slashdot
Sydney Morning Herald - World News
The Australian - Business
The Australian - The Nation
Whirlpool.net.au (Australian ISP news and discussion forum)

trance/techno/house feed

[Anonymous Coward]

If you like trance/techno/house music subscribe to http://www.blazx.net/?feed=rss2

Two

[gtx]

http://truth.gooberbear.com/rss.xml
An ongoing series of arguments against Intelligent Design

http://http//feeds.feedburner.com/Http/ablankpapercom
A Blank Paper: A political blog written by a guy who believes (amongst other things) that political parties are the problem with the American political system.

My RSS feeds

[aembleton]

I subscribe to plenty of RSS feeds, and colate them together using Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader/view/ . Then I can just set up a live bookmark in Firefox to view them whenever I'm bored. My feeds are as follows:

• http://www.alistapart.com/feed/rss.xml
  Useful information for designing websites; particularly when in it comes to standards compliance and CSS.
• http://aminorjourney.co.uk/wordpress/feed/atom/
  An honest blog about living with an electric car, and modding it.
• http://adam-buxton.co.uk/ad/feed/
  British comedian who shot to fame (well in my eyes anyway), with the Adam and Joe show.
• http://www.teslamotors.com/display_data/blog_rss_combined.xml
• Official blog of the Tesla motor company, an electric car company. Follows the development of their Roadstar and the future Whitestar models.
• http://www.badscience.net/?feed=atom
  Written by Ben Goldacre, Bad Science tries to find the truth behind scientific claims.
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/stevelamacq/index.xml
  Steve Lamacq writes about new bands on the UK music scene.
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/rss.xml
  Follows the development of the BBC website, and iPlayer
• http://www.cleangreencars.co.uk/services/newsrss.jsp
  Provides information on new cars that consume less juice.
• http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/dcquack.xml
  Another science blog trying to find the truth behind scientific claims
• http://www.fanfiction.net/atom/u/1152747/
  Stories that my girlfriend has written; yes I do have a girlfriend!
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charliebrooker/rss
  Hilarious blog from Charlie Brooker. This is UK centric and half the posts are TV reviews.
• http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/group/Indie%252FRock%2BPlaylist/journals.rss
  Provides links to torrents for new unsigned artists, and for some established ones who are releasing new material. A great way to discover new music.
• http://jamesomalley.co.uk/blog/?feed=atom
  Mostly a political blog by a British student, although he's now unemployed. Funny, yet insightful
• http://blog.last.fm/atom/
  Blog about the development of last.fm and all the technical details from behind the scenes. Very interesting stuff, especially considering the large amount of data they have to work with.
• http://lifeboatscrapbook.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
• Blog from a Cornish lifeboat man. Its interesting what people call them out for.
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/martinlewisblog
  Blog from Martin Lewis, the money saving expert. Another UK-centric blog.
• http://www.matts411.com/main/feed
  Excellent web development blog.
• http://www.neenaw.co.uk/index.php/feed/
  Blog from an ambulance control room
• http://freekorea.us/feed/
  Articles about North Korea. Its somewhere I'm interested in, as its hard to imagine the suffering of those who live there.
• http://www.petrolprices.com/blog/feeds/atom.xml
  Blog that generally rants about petrol and diesel prices in the UK.
• http://inspectorgadget.wordpress.com/feed/
  Blog from a police officer in the UK. Makes you realise how much PC crap they have to deal with just for the collection of statistics.
• http://www.petesy.co.uk/?feed=atom
  Reviews of outdoor hiking gear and photos and writings from different walks
• http://randomreality.blogware.com/blog/index.xml
  An EMT (ambulance man) based in London writing about the number of people calling an ambulance who really don't need one.
• http://www.stevecooke.org/?feed=rss2
  Blog from a local politician in Salford, UK.
• http://www.batteryvehiclesociety.org.uk/wordpress/?feed=rss2
  UK Battery Vehicle Society. Interesting articles about electric vehicles.
• http://www.bileblog.org/feed/
  Blog from Hani Suleiman, a member of the Java Community process.
• http://syndication.thedailywtf.com/TheDailyWtf

My feeds

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot (of course) - no need to explain that
Google News - to keep me in touch with the world
Lifehacker - for the tips and other useful info
Gizmodo - for the gadget stuff (and sheer craziness)
Digg - for the various interesting stuff

These ones

[cluening]

http://www.wirelesscouch.net/cgi-bin/headlines/headlines.pl

Human Slavery

[Anonymous Coward]

The Trafficking Blog only updates occasionally, but is worth throwing into the mix.

(It's good to find a few niche items on areas that it's important to know about, even if they're not always emotionally fluffy to read.)

People Like Us

[anomalous cohort]

I have taken the liberty of aggregating the syndication feeds of myself and my friends here. Check it out.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/ploneglenn/friends

This is using http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ which is an interesting syndicated content aggregater.

That reminds me. I would be interested in /.'s opinions on the http://www.opensearch.org/ project. Do you think that it will catch on? I ask because I am considering adding a support for this to the search engine part of my content publishing project.

none 0 nada

[jupiterssj4]

None, I have never seen the need for them. I have plenty of time to visit all the sites I view everyday.

Re:none 0 nada

[justthinkit]

Most of my feeds are valuable because they tell me when particular content is available. I could hit these web sites over and over again, but I prefer to have RSS tell me once, exactly. Some of my sites may not interest you: hulu.com telling me when the latest House M.D. is now available for streaming on their site, for example (besides, it is the off season for House).

A killer application of RSS for me is to be told when the local library system has new DVDs available. The sooner you get there to place a hold, the shorter your wait time is, and there is no way to sign up faster for a new DVD than an RSS feed. This was my first feed, and most valuable.

Finally, my daily dose of Dilbert is obtained with the greatest ease via RSS. The site changed recently and became unbearable to use. There is a "fast" link, but it doesn't compare to RSS.

I think RSS is less useful for news sites like /., for example. I find it faster (and gain more information) by visiting the home page than by hovering over subject-line RSS summaries. RSS gets in the way because for any story you care about you need to hover, and/or click just to get to the same level of information/links as you get from the home page. Also, the /. home page maintains a reverse chronological order so you know what stories you have already read. And I found the /. RSS links to keep showing me stories I had already deleted.

registereduser1946

[registereduser1946]

My Feeds: Select: All 95 subscriptions, None, Unassigned A to Z Kids Stuff children http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/atoz.xml ABC News: Top Stories news http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/fp_rss20.xml About Computing Center technology http://z.about.com/6/g/pcworld/b/rss2.xml About.com Archaeology Archaeology http://z.about.com/6/g/archaeology/b/rss2.xml All Things Digital technology http://feeds.allthingsd.com/atd-feed/ Archaeology News Archaeology news http://www.topix.net/rss/science/archaeology.xml Ars Technica tech news http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/BAaf ArsTechnica: Security Content Security technology http://feeds.feedburner.com/arstechnica/security BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition U.K. http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml BBC News | Science/Nature | World Edition Science/Nature http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/science/nature/rss.xml Boing Boing odd http://feeds.boingboing.net/boingboing/iBag Breaking News: CBSNews.com news http://www.cbsnews.com/feeds/rss/main.rss Breitbart.tv varied news topics http://www.breitbart.com/xml/recentvideo.xml ChannelWeb Complete Feed Computer news http://www.crn.com/cwb/globalcontent/cweball/index.xml;jsessionid=L0I1HBDQISHBCQSNDLQSKH0CJUNN2JVN Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories news http://www.csmonitor.com/rss/top.rss CNN.com - Offbeat odd http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_offbeat.rss CNN.com - Politics politics http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_allpolitics.rss CNN.com - U.S. U.S. news http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_us.rss Computerworld Breaking News technology http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/News Cool Tools technology http://feeds.feedburner.com/CoolTools Courant.com - Connecticut News Ct. news http://feeds.courant.com/Courant/ConnecticutNews Defense Tech U.S. defense news http://www.defensetech.org/index.rdf Discovery News - Technology technology http://dsc.discovery.com/news/subjects/technology/xdb/topstories.xml Drudge Report news http://feeds.feedburner.com/FeedPalooza/lwDu Dvorak Uncensored news http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?feed=rss2 Engadget robots & gadgets http://www.engadget.com/rss.xml Extremetech technology http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/extreme.xml Fark.com news http://www.pluck.com/rss/fark.rss FileForum software http://fileforum.b

Re:registereduser1946

[Anonymous Coward]

Why is this the only post that mentioned Techdirt? Sad.

isitchristmas.com's rss feed

[Destoo]

http://www.isitchristmas.com/
yesterday: no.
today: no. ...

HowFlow - Digg, for us IT guys

[slashflood]

I've created a social bookmarking site for Open Source tipps, tricks and howtos. I'm thinking about adding a news section, since the former tech news site digg.com became a picture sharing site. :)
HowFlow is about seven weeks old, but I'm getting great feedback from its users. It has some very unique features, like an intelligent pastebin that tries to find a solution for pasted error messages and so on.
You can subscribe to several feeds: upcoming or published tricks and so called 'tag feeds'. The site is non-commercial, there is only one little open-source related ad on it.

A few

[Shadow-isoHunt]

I have a rather security focused google homepage(I love it):

Securityfocus
National Vulnerability Database
milw0rm
sebug
and last but not least, idefense.

List

[C_Kode]

* Slashdot
* Linux.com
* RootPrompt.org (Used to be a good site, but the bum doesn't update consistently anymore!)
* TexasRangers.com
* DallasNews.com/sports/football (Dallas Cowboys)
* BBC

A few of my favorites

[mpn14tech]

Danger Room - National Security
http://blog.wired.com/defense

Threat Level-Security and Politics.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/

Neurologica Blog

[Anonymous Coward]

If you are interested in neuroscience, skepticism, pseudoscience exposures etc., neurologica blog by Steven Novella is a good place. http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/

Some feeds I like

[mitgib]

This is a great thread! Picked up 2 new feeds that I would not have bothered looking at before.

The only feed I enjoy that has not already been listed previously is
EFF Updates which is EFF Press Releases

BTJunkie search feeds for torrents

[Anonymous Coward]

http://btjunkie.org/rss.xml?query=my+search
Enables me to look out for new torrent releases, without having to check manually.

Some choice feeds I monitor in no particular order

[Tikkun]

0x000000 Security. Very snarky and somewhat crazy security blogger. Usually interesting.
Phoronix. Linux + hardware + games = Nothing not to love unless you are lame.
Anandtech. Hardware. Glorious hardware. Make sure to put on the adult diapers before visting.
HowtoForge. How to do stuff. Usually in Linux.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. More fun than a barrel of iMacs.
Signal to Noise. The official 37signals blog. They are pompus, they can be pricks at times, but they usually have interesting things to say.
Scobleizer. Robert Scoble. His job is talking to people using social networking tools who own companies that make social networking tools. At some point there will be a business plan. Just not today.

Good HOWTO parse RSS feed?

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been using erss (that comes in early enlightenment e17); it hasn't been updated lately, and I want to *ulp make it work with slashdot and freshmeat. erss comes with pre-packed configs so most other feeds work fine, like cnn international and Yahoo News. But for my 2 favorite sites, and others like google news, I get 'Is there something wrong with your config file?' error.

So I've been staring at the two config files; they look no different. Tried looking online for an easy tutorial. But most HOWTOs tell you how to put RSS on your webpage, or how to use the most popular aggregators. I want maybe something that shows how they're broken down, what makes rss on slashdot and freshmeat different? Conky reads them fine but I'd rather not read code but look at something in english =)

Re:Good HOWTO parse RSS feed?

[Anonymous Coward]

It needs special config files for different feeds?
Shouldn't you be able to just give it a list of urls?

Re:Good HOWTO parse RSS feed?

[Anonymous Coward]

THe configs do look similar, thats why i am mystfied as to why /. and fm don't show.

i think it depends on whether the site is rss 1 or rss 2 (or is it rdf?). Slashdot and fm.net i think have this huge block that the parser is not ignoring (before it gets to the first REAL news item) and the parser gets confused. I thought I had the wrong URL for those rss feeds but it's the same one posted in these discussions.

News, Tech, & Humor Feeds

[likemindead]

BBC News & Drudge Report for News. Slashdot, Boing Boing, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Engadget, Geekologie, Linux Today, & LXer in Tech. And Xkcd, White Ninja, Dinosaur Comics, LOLcats, & LOLdogs for Humor.

Paul Graham

[pbaer]

Paul Graham is in my RSS feed because he's very insightful, lucid, and extra relevant for CS/programmer people.

Too many to list

[hamsterboy]

Mostly I use Google Reader to keep all the blogs I read in one place. A representative sample, and feeds I highly recommend:

Coding horror (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/)
Raganwald (http://weblog.raganwald.com/)

The Dilbert Blog (http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/)
Postsecret (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/)
Xkcd (http://blag.xkcd.com/)

Joel on Software (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/)
Stevey's blog rants (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/)
Paul Graham's essays (http://www.paulgraham.com/)

Not to mention webcomics, but I think that's another Ask Slashdot. I also use my reader to keep up on news about particular events, like PDC 2008.

My feeds

[MoleyGhost]

Here's my list! It's pretty political, but hey, I'm in DC... /. xkcd.com (if you haven't seen it, go there. now.) Crooks and Liars (mainly liberally-spun news on the right wing) DCist (DC-specific news) Economist (world news) Feministe (feminist) Feministing (^) ichc (lolcats, naturally) Pandagon (gender issues) Wonkette (DC gossip)

I only do RSS on my iPhone, actually.....

[King_TJ]

Maybe old habits just die hard or something, but I never really took to using RSS on my home computers or notebook. I've always felt like if I have time to read the content, I have the time to view the actual web site and view it the way it was intended to be viewed.

Where I do like RSS is on my jailbroken iPhone, where I use a freeware RSS feed manager program. It came pretty much pre-configured to view feeds from Digg and Engaget, so I read those on there. (Limited bandwidth and the small screen size make it a lot more practical to view a lightweight version of news and information.)

More feeds from Mr. Coward.

[Anonymous Coward]

*BASH Cures Cancer
--Great tips & ideas for anyone who regularly scripts in BASH. If you use the shell, give it a look.

And then the usual stuff:
*BBC News
*Various Economist Feeds;
*Hack-A-Day;
*The Register;
*Tranny Farm;
*xkcd, webcomic;
*Penny Arcade, webcomic;
*Ctrl-Alt-Del, webcomic;

I can't be bothered with Dilbert, since it's gone Flash.

Re:More feeds from Mr. Coward.

[paulmac84]

Try this for the flash free version of Dilbert: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DilbertDailyStrip

Mine list

[Mr. DOS]

- Slashdot - http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot (well, duh)
- Slashdot: Games - http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotGames
- El Reg - http://www.theregister.co.uk/headlines.rss (different sort of tech news than /. generally carries)
- Wired - http://feeds.wired.com/wired/topheadlines (sometimes nice for a change, although I don't read anywhere near all of it)

      --- Mr. DOS

Google Reader

[Nerdfest]

If you haven't already discovered it, the Google NewsReader is fantastic, and since it's web based, it keeps track of what's been read and what hasn't, between home, work, etc.

Re:Google Reader

[shokk]

If you have access to your own web server, give the PHP-based MonkeyChow a try to keep Google out of your web reading habits.

Feeds on interest

[Tarqwak]

http://tar.rapla.net/feeds/

130+ feeds divided into categories in OPML.xml that's styled with XSL.

Favourite feeds on Planetaki

[muelas]

I keep all my favorite feeds in Planetaki a new really easy to use news reading service. Check out my list here:

http://www.planetaki.com/sam/subscriptions

I mainly keep feeds for blogs of people who interest me and only a couple that produce large amounts of posts, otherwise it gets quite overwhelming with constant news.

Cheers, sam

My selection:

[AmiMoJo]

The good:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
- non-language specific programming musings

http://blog.brokep.com/
- The Pirate Bay's brokep's blog

http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/
- interesting furniture hacks

http://www.ladyada.net/rant
- hobby electronics news

http://www.wired.com/rss/commentary/securitymatters.xml
- Bruce Schneier's blog

http://www.thefirsthourblog.com/
- reviewing the first hour of games, handy for people like me who have a 10 minute attention span

http://torrentfreak.com/
- P2P / legal news

The ugly:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/default.stm
http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/
- destroy your faith in humanity, or at least the British

http://seenonslash.com/
- because sometimes -1 is funny

http://icanhascheezburger.com/
http://www.lolcats.com/rss.php
- still funny?

only one

[GregNorc]

Most of mine /. has probably heard of (XKCD, Schneier on Security, XKCD, Penny Arcade, etc.) But one is relatively unknow. It's called spill. They do these flash animated group reviews. Each movie is rates either "Bullshit", "Matinee", "Rental", or "Full Price". In addition to being run by some true film buffs, the reviews themselves are usually pretty funny, especially since they tend to give shittier movies the MST3K treatment.

OPML

[waded]

Of course, Slashdot users should not meet up in a social feed reading tool to weed out what's useful for themselves, or even mention these tools... Slashdot's editorial approach would suddenly seem irrelevant. Perhaps it could post duplicates and incorrect summaries 24-7 to be worth reading, at least for comedic and grits reasons. But we already passed around those floppies containing OPML files back in 2004.

My list of feeds

[2muchcoffeeman]

(Tangent: I use Yarssr [for *nix/GNOME] to organize my feeds. Lives in the GNOME panel notification area as a pop-up menu.)

Slashdot
Various Associated Press news wires
BBC News
CNN
Daily Kos
Several local news feeds from my local newspaper
Multiple single-topic feeds from ESPN
The International Herald Tribune
A custom feed from Careerbuilder
The Top Stories and In Depth feeds from Reuters
My regional surf reports from Surfline
Politics coverage from The Hill

RSS for individual Slashdot threads

[BruceCage]

While we're on the topic of RSS. I've been thinking that it would be cool if one were able to subscribe to individual threads here on Slashdot and be notified of any changes.

I might just try hacking together something real quick this weekend.

Optical Illusions/Slashdot

[shiftline]

http://feeds.feedburner.com/VisualFunHouse - Optical Illusions Updated daily, pretty cool stuff. and of course slashdot :)

none

[theuhstuf]

rss is a waist of my time

Re:none

[shokk]

Right, who would want to spend time on looking at RSS feeds when they could be learning things like grammar and spelling. Right?

games & game dev:

[Bobtree]

Lambda The Ultimate (programming languages): http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/rss.xml

Greg Costikyan (culture): http://feeds.feedburner.com/costik/gXjD

Darius Kazemi (gamedev networking): http://tinysubversions.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Warren Spector (design): http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/feed/

Tom Forsyth (graphics): http://www.eelpi.gotdns.org/blog.wiki.xml

Christer Ericson (collision detection): http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/blog/?feed=rss2

Erin Catto (physics): http://www.gphysics.com/feed

Duncan Fyfe? (writing): http://www.hitselfdestruct.com/feeds/posts/default

Soren Johnson (design): http://feeds.feedburner.com/Designer-notes

Fun Motion (physics games): http://www.fun-motion.com/feed/

Play This Thing (short reviews & commentary): http://playthisthing.com/allposts/feed

GoGamer (game deals): http://feeds.feedburner.com/Gogamercom48hourMadnessSpecial

CheapAssGamer (game deals): http://feeds.feedburner.com/cheapassgamer

Kotaku (news & commentary): http://kotaku.com/index.xml

Rock, Paper, Shotgun (PC gaming): http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?feed=rss2

My Turn

[MonsterTrimble]

Slashdot
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot

WWdN: In Exile
http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/rss.xml

Penny Arcade
http://www.penny-arcade.com/rss.xml

The Merry Corsetier
http://community.livejournal.com/corsetmakers/data/rss

T-Shirt Surgery
http://community.livejournal.com/t_shirt_surgery/data/rss

Winnipeg Bargain Barn Swap Meet and Flea Market
http://community.livejournal.com/winnipeg/data/rss

Post Secret
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

XKCD
http://xkcd.com/rss.xml

National Post
http://feeds.feedburner.com/NP_Top_Stories.rss

Astronomy Picture of the Day RSS Feed
http://www.acme.com/jef/apod/rss.xml

Dilbert Daily Strip
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DilbertDailyStrip

We The Robots
http://www.wetherobots.com/feed/

Disclaimer: I have removed all of my friend's blog's feeds.

MSDN Feeds

[Saint Stephen]

Having used to work at Microsoft, I find a lot of the Microsoft blogs pretty interesting to read in Outlook 2007. :-) I know - lame. But no other blog seems to make sense to read, and all the other RSS software sucks to me relative to just using the browser. This is like being on internal mailing lists back at MS.

Meh, jesus christ, is it so freaking hard to put an OPML to HTML converter up on the web where I can find it? Here, have some raw formatting...

<opml version="1.1"><head><title>Feeds</title></head><body><outline text="A View from Elsewhere" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmont/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="ascend slowly, breathing normally" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/karinm/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="BCL Team Blog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="bharry's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Convert your Windows Server 2008 to a Workstation!" xmlUrl="http://www.win2008workstation.com/wordpress/feed/" type="rss"/><outline text="Douglas Purdy" xmlUrl="http://douglaspurdy.com/feed/" type="rss"/><outline text="Eric Fleegal's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericflee/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Geoffrey Vandiest WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogsrss.skynet.be/g/geoffrey-vandiest/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/coolthingoftheday" type="rss"/><outline text="I'm not a Klingon" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnste/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Jason Zander's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Jeff Beehler's Blog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Kim Hamilton" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/kimhamil/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet" xmlUrl="http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/rss2.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="Microsoft Source Analysis for C#" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/sourceanalysis/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Microsoft SQL Server Development Customer Advisory Team" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Microsoft Windows SDK Blog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/windowssdk/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="MSDN Blogs" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/MainFeed.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="MSDN: United States" xmlUrl="http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/MSDN/globalfeeds/en-us/Global-MSDN-en-us.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="MSDN: Visual Studio" xmlUrl="http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/MSDN/en-us/vsts2008/products/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Not Northwind" xmlUrl="http://www.codeplex.com/notnorthwind/Project/ProjectRss.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="Pedram Rezaei's Ramblings" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/pedram/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="rdoherty's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/rdoherty/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScottHanselman" type="rss"/><outline text="Scott Holden's Blog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/scottholden/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="ScottGu's Blog" xmlUrl="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/rss.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="ShankuN's Blog" xmlUrl="http://www.shankun.com/Services/Rss.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="shell: revealed" xmlUrl="http://shellrevealed.com/blogs/MainFeed.aspx?GroupID=-1&amp;Type=BlogsOnly" type="rss"/><outline text="Somasegar's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Sorting it all Out" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="SQL Server Storage Engine" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="SQLCAT.com" xmlUrl="http://sql

Re:MSDN Feeds

[Randle_Revar]

http://www.phpied.com/files/opml2html/opml2html.html
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/misc/opml2html.pl.txt

Re:MSDN Feeds

[Saint Stephen]

Thanks. I tried #1, but it doesn't work with Microsoft's 1.1 format exported from Outlook 2007 :-) It would be trivial to write a little XSLT, but I'm on Windows and don't want to write yet another commandline XML to XSLT processor in C# :-) Thanks tho.

Re:And how is this N3rd N3ws ??

[Arivia]

On topic, a nice RSS feed-providing website for women I fell in love with recently is geeksugar, the gadgets and tech part of the Sugar bloglomerate. A site that's willing to colour coordinate and discuss ARM processors in Android? Yes please!

Mine

[bigtangringo]

Cato daily podcast

Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog

TED Talks

NPR: Science Friday Podcast

Which RSS feeds? Where do you start?

[IrishMASMS]

First I will add a plug for https://www.bloglines.com/ â" RSS feeds where ever I can log in, via HTTPS. Great for those feeds I read whenever & everywhere; and for those I only check when waiting to board the airplane. In my bloglines collection I have around 400 feeds, which will grow after looking through these threads. :) Some selections that hopefully no one else has mentioned:

Amusement:
http://failblog.wordpress.com/feed/
All about the Fail

http://lolbots.com/?feed=rss2
Robots making the LOLz, though not updated often.

http://lolgeeks.com/?feed=rss2
Geeks making the LOLz, though not updated often.

The latest limerick database entries - http://peeron.com/tickers/limerickdb.xml

The Triumph of Bullshit - http://bullshit.tumblr.com/rss

Diesel Sweeties by R Stevens - http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ds-unifeed.xml

PHD Comics - http://www.phdcomics.com/gradfeed.php
Ever spent time in academia? You will relate to this web comic.

Unshelved - http://www.unshelved.com/rss.aspx
A web comic about a library. Ssssshhhuusshh!

Indexed - http://indexed.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Take two (or more) topics and compare them using graphs & charts â" full of insight & lolz.

Computerworld Shark Tank News - http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/Shark/Tank
Many stories, full of humor and face palm

Overheard in the Office - http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/atom.xml
Instead of what was overheard in New York, now worldwide and from your office.

Common geek topics (those blogs that seem to hit all the topics days or weeks before you see them on Slashdot):
Didnt You Hear... http://www.didntyouhear.com/feed/

The Daily WTF - http://thedailywtf.com/rss.aspx

Global Nerdy - http://globalnerdy.com/feed/

Shopping:
http://content.dealnews.com/dealnews/rss/todays-edition.xml
Many of those geek toys you need

Newegg.com daily deals: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=DailyDeals&nm_mc=OTC-RSS
Need I say more?

Slickdeals: http://www.slickdeals.net/rss.php
Need I say more?

Woot! http://www.woot.com/blog/rss.aspx

Dumb political stuff:
Homeland Stupidity: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HomelandStupidity
Government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence

Groklaw: http://www.groklaw.net/backend/GrokLaw.rdf

Declan McCullagh's Politech http://www.politechbot.com/info/rss/politech.xml
Also not updated often, but on target when it is.

Cryptome: http://cryptome.org/cryptome.xml
You can get lost here for hours

Music:
House of Blues: http://hob.com/venues/clubvenues/lasvegas/
The RSS feed for the local House of B

My regular feeds

[busydoingnothing]

In order:

Yahoo! News: Top Stories
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things http://www.boingboing.net/ - Links of cool stuff / interesting political stuff on the web
Slashdot.org (some nerd website)
Penny Arcade http://www.penny-arcade.com/ - Best webcomic evar
Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com/ - Gaming news
BensBargains.net http://www.bensbargains.net/ - Website that lists awesome deals on all sorts of stuff
FOUND Magazine http://www.foundmagazine.com/ - Website where people submit random interesting/hilarious/beautiful/sad/etc things that they find (letters, pictures, notes, signs, etc.)
SlickDeals.net http://www.slickdeals.net/ - Same as above
Techbargains.com http://www.techbargains.com/ - Ditto.

Best News Blog

[aldelphi]

The best non biased world news blog: http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/2008.html

My feeds, might b addin some after readin tho

[martbhell]

The nomic looks pretty cool, might be adding that one later. Don't know who posted it, kinda got lost :S From top to bottom: all in English except otherwise mentioned. I'm using google reader.
1. Swedish travel journals of friends from resdagboken.com
2. Job that fits my search criteria at monster.ie
3. The Vinyl Café at http://cbc.ca/podcasting
4. CDFreaks News http://www.cdfreaks.com/news
5. Friend's blog
6. Another friend, probably not updating anymore. Book in blog form about a helpdesk. In Swedish. http://contactcentret.blogspot.com/
7. http://www.idg.se/ Swedish Computernews.
8. Another friend's blog.
9. Another friend's, probably not updating anymore.
10. Detroit Red Wings news.
11. Slashdot.
12. The Goliath Expedition. This dude is walking around the Earth. http://blog.goliath.mail2web.com/ Stalled at the moment though due to Russian VISA issues.
13. http://musicvsmusic.blogspot.com/ Pop Rock Indie Blog. Usually a bit emo music but sometimes they get it right. Sparsely updated.
14. non-working RSS feed for a Cybernations Alliance.
15. Three Panel Soul http://www.threepanelsoul.com/ Comic
16. http://www.tjuvlyssnat.se/ Swedish overheardit version
17. http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/ Another comic.

Not which, but how

[Anonymous Coward]

Well... much more importantly, *how* do you read your RSS feeds? Standalone reader? Integrated reader? Online aggregator? What?

Me, I have about 80 feeds subscribed in Firefox as "live bookmarks" so FF is my main reader. (And with 3.0 it has gone back to its old nasty habit of monopolizing the system with disk activity and CPU load for a minute or two whenever it updates them, with no way to control the intervals or to block that - sucks, a lot.) There are a few feeds I keep in Yahoo's "MyYahoo" system, a few much less relevant ones are kept in Netvibes and Pageflakes. I've tried Opera's integrated feed reader way back when and found it atrocious (Opera is otherwise my main webbrowser). Looked at other software and online readers, but never stuck with any.

How do you do it?

Re:Not which, but how

[shokk]

I use the same custom web based reader on my iPod Touch as on the web at home, as on the web at work.
http://www.monkeychow.org/

Dilbert

[cjmnews]

It's the only way to see Dilbert without the Flash junk he added to his site.

Not to mention the initial release of the Flash version of Dilbert wouldn't show you the whole Sunday strip. So I switched to RSS and read it in the RSS feed. No Ads, No Flash!

feeds

[Randle_Revar]

News feeds:

IE Blog - for keeping track of what MS is up to on the browser front
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/atom.xml

Standards Blog - not as many posts now days, was very important during the height of the ooxml/odf war
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/backend/geeklog.rss

I keep OSNews for completeness, but it is pretty useless - software news
http://osnews.com/files/recent.xml

Anandtech - hardware news and reviews
http://www.anandtech.com/rss/articlefeed.aspx

Ars Technica - tech news and commentary
http://arstechnica.com/index.rssx

Phoronix - linux graphics news and info
http://www.phoronix.com/rss.php

Linux Weekly News
http://lwn.net/headlines/rss

KDE announcements
http://www.kde.org/dotkdeorg.rdf

Open Source Software Planets:

http://planet.debian.org/rss20.xml

http://planet.fedoraproject.org/atom.xml

http://planet.ubuntu.com/rss20.xml

http://planet.gnome.org/atom.xml

http://planetkde.org/rss20.xml

http://planet.freedesktop.org/rss20.xml

http://planet.mozilla.org/atom.xml

http://planet.jabber.org/atom.xml

mostly software releases and XEP updates
http://planet.jabber.org/news/atom.xml

http://maemo.org/news/planet-maemo/atom.xml

environment feeds:

Good Pacific Northwest environmental news
http://www.sightline.org/daily_score/rss

Best environmental news and discussion on the web
http://www.worldchanging.com/index.xml

I keep Treehugger for completeness, but I mark 90% of their posts as read without looking at them.
Really too "light green/consumer green" for me
http://www.treehugger.com/index.xml

other feeds:

Dive into Mark - not what once was, but good enough to keep around
http://diveintomark.org/feed/

Loooong posts on software
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Bruce Scheier knows Alice and Bob's shared secret
http://www.schneier.com/blog/index.rdf

The intersection of Science (especially Evolution), Liberalism, Atheism, and Squid
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/index.xml

"Your comment has too few characters per line" - what a load of bull. Taco, I know this and the timer are supposed to cut down on spam, but I think they annoy legitimate posters more than they reduce spam. You should really reconsider these "features".

My Feeds

[Gm4n]

Consists of just one feed: http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot It's devoted to up-to-the-minute cowboy boot fashion trends.

My Feeds

[godlyhalo]

Engadget - All sorts of Tech News Slashdot PC Perspective - All sorts of hardware news, graphics cards, processes and the like http://www.pcper.com/ xkcd - awesome comic website, lots of funny math/love/science comics http://xkcd.com/ Lug Radio - Linux podcast that has lots of open source news http://www.lugradio.org/episodes.rss Severed Fifth - Solo metal band by Jono Bacon, guy from Lug Radio, Promotes creative commons music and soon to distribute free metal music http://www.severedfifth.com/news/ Those are my rss feeds

My Must-Read Feeds

[brady8]

Kottke
Daring Fireball
Joel on Software
Waxy.org
Ctrl+Alt+Del
xkcd.com
Dilbert
CBC Top Stories
Signal vs. Noise
Rail Spikes
The Big Picture (boston.com - highly recommended!)

SOME of mine..

[ClioCJS]

tried to post them. slashcode wouldn't let me. i spent a lot of time on that. never again, slashdot. never again.

i posted them ON MY OWN blog to bypass slashcode

[ClioCJS]

http://clintjcl.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/internet-useful-rss-feeds/

The banality of RSS

[AlpineR]

I was hoping to hear about some interesting feeds that I've been missing out on. Most of the suggestions seem to be in the categories of Comics, Tech/Gadgets, Coding, Politics, Photos.

Meh. Comics can be fun for five seconds, but won't really solve the problem of being online and bored. Tech/Gadgets is interesting a few times a year but not every day. I don't code enough to warrant reading about that unless I'm trying to solve a specific problem. Politics is moderately interesting in an election year, but it's a lot like talking about baseball scores (and I don't think much about sports). Photos are like comics, interesting for about five seconds.

Here's my list of Web sites that I visit daily. Because I'm older (or just less compulsive) I check them manually rather than as a feed:

Slashdot
Ars Technica
Digg
New York Times
Rotten Tomatoes (weekly)

On a good day there's an hour of interesting material on those sites combined. Maybe I need to go back to reading more magazines, books, and newspapers. But in this age of bite-size, instantaneous news at least two of those three seem to be dying.

Re:The banality of RSS

[trawg]

[plug]

This is basically the exact reason we built Feedzero - http://www.feedzero.com./

Wading through endless crappy RSS feeds is boring, especially given the number of repeat posts you tend to see on a hundred different blogs. Feedzero tries to tame the chaos by letting you decide from a few feeds what you're interested in, then it magically adapts to what you like after some training.

You can then subscribe to a heap more feeds and get a much nicer filtered list of content.

It's still only really "alpha" and there's a bunch of bugs, but we're hoping to get it finished up soon.

Re:The banality of RSS

[FraterNLST]

Try the Whatever blog then:

http://scalzi.com/whatever

It's by science fiction author whatever and covers a large range of topics from science fiction (obviously) to politics, and also bears the honour of being on of the first ever blogs.

It's also quite prolific most of the time.

On the subject of authors, there is also:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Charles Stross, science fiction author

http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/blog.asp
William Gibson - surely you know who this is.

http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/
Laurell K Hamilton, most well known of the Paranormal Romance emerging genre

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/
Wil Wheaton, author and famous as "Wesley" from Star Trek: TNG years ago.

There are a lot of other feeds on my list, many of which have already been mentioned. One that hasn't however is The Register.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/

A british news site with a tech slant

and Worse than Failure (The Daily WTF)

http://thedailywtf.com/

A site that highlights the worst of the worst in programming and IT stories. Highly entertaining.

RSS feeds (slashboxes) on /. home page.

[antdude]

I use /. home page for my RSS feeds, but I wished /. would fix the problems:
MacCentral's outdated stories and LinuxGames' empty box.

My Offical Feed List

[Erbo]

Herewith, my own RSS feeds list. I have a few categories of stuff I keep up on on a regular basis; this listing includes only (mostly) blogs that are posting regularly.

Second Life Blogs - Blogs about the Second Life virtual world. Usually I list these by avatar name.

• The Lexx's Second Life - Alexzandria Aeon ("Lexx") is my "SL daughter" and a businesswoman.
• Jacek Antonelli - An artist and commentator on various aspects of the world.
• Hamlet Au - New World Notes - The "big dog" in Second Life blogging. Hamlet Au used to work for Linden Lab, and wrote a book, The Making of Second Life.
• life|cubed - One of my friends, "Padre" Triste Bertrand, who is also a minister in RL.
• Cala - Transgender in Second Life - She writes about some interesting topics.
• Evans Avenue Exit - I write this one. :-) I post about current events, scripting, and whatever else suits my fancy.
• Vint Falken - One of the premier European SL bloggers (she's from Belgium).
• Grand Unified Linden Blog - Official news and information from Linden Lab.
• Torley Lives - Everybody in Second Life should know Torley Linden. Torley is unique, helpful, and watermelon-flavored.
• An Engine Fit For My Proceeding - Ordinal Malaprop is SL's own version of Ada Lovelace...a fine Victorian lady and a top-flight scripter.
• Massively (Second Life) - The latest news and information about Second Life. (Massively.com also covers other virtual worlds and MMOs.)
• Second Thoughts - Prokofy Neva is perhaps the most-hated person in SL, and is sort of the "official gadfly." He's well worth reading for an alternate perspective, though.
• Dwell On It - Tateru Nino is one of the smartest people I know. Her writing is part of what got me into SL in the first place.
• MeraTalk - Mera Pixel is insightful, witty, and very purple.
• Second Life Grid Status Reports - When there are problems with SL--an all-too-often occurrence these days, alas--Linden Lab posts here.

Political Blogs - This is stuff with a right-wing bent, and is the section that will probably be most responsible for this post being modded down. :-/

• The Smallest Minority - Kevin Baker is partly a gunblogger, partly an excellent commentator. He's had good posts recently about education.
• La Shawn Barber's Corner - A Christian blogger who only dabbles in politics these days, spending more time writing about music and digital technology.
• Leslie Carbone - A Virginia political blogger who I found via Twitter.
• Personal Effects - Connie du Toit is one of the clearest-minded writers you'll find on many subjects.
• Geopoliticus - Kim du Toit (yes, he and Connie are married) is the L33t Master of Firearms, and an insightfu

Re:My Offical Feed List

[Anonymous Coward]

Some blogs that help me get through the day:

b3ta - Full to the brim with lots of inspired/close-to-the-bone/somewhere-through-the-bone humour.
The Daily WTF - Most people will already have this, but for softies like me, its a goldmine of stories that get just a little too familiar for comfort.
Fancyplants' Japan Blog - Japan from a guy who backpacked his way round for three weeks - and had never been abroad before!

Don't forget this...

[thexile]

http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotAskSlashdot So that you can help others.

Re:And how is this N3rd N3ws ??

[scragz]

On topic, a nice RSS feed-providing website for women I fell in love with recently is geeksugar...

Why would we want to read about women you recently fell in love with?

I'm with you.

[maillemaker]

I never understood RSS either. To me, it's like signing up for an email newsletter. I hardly ever do that, either. Most of my web browsing is for entertainment. I don't want or need to be hounded by my entertainment. When I want to read Slashdot or Digg, I'll surf on over and read a bit. It's OK with me if I missed some stuff since the last time I was on - this is entertainment not life-critical information.

My feeds

[shannara256]

Here are some of the blogs I read:

Joel on Software
Introversion - an indie games company
The Old New Thing - Raymond Chen of Microsoft
The Daily WTF - how not to code
The Consumerist
FAIL Blog
Not Always Right - for people who [used to] work in retail

I use big feeds and aiderss.

[jafo]

I watch some of the big feeds, like Planet Python, which have dozens of posts a day. But I just can't keep up with that. About 6 months ago I started filtering these and some of the other feeds that I only occasionally have interesting stuff in through aiderss.com.

It's helped quite a lot. I don't spend much time following feeds, so getting the 100 cut down to 5 or 10 has been quite a help.

It's like the comment rating filter here on /., I have most of my feeds on aiderss turned up to "5" to cut down the volume.

So far it's been working well.

Not affiliated, just a happy user.

Sean

For aviation enthusiasts..

[gilgsn]

http://planenews.com/rss2.php

A Blank Paper

[gtx]

http//feeds.feedburner.com/Http/ablankpapercom

A pretty sharp political blog that has been updating its content pretty regularly. One of its many points is that political parties are to blame for the USA's current political issues.

Yeah, I linked this above too, but then I realized that I ballsed up the link.

My feeds

[kainino]

In order of interestingness:

• http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot - Slashdot (Duh)
• http://xkcd.com/rss.xml - xkcd
• http://blag.xkcd.com/feed/ - xkcd blag
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/OfficialGmailBlog - Official Gmail blog
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/MKuf?format=xml - Official Google blog
• http://www.runehead.com/feeds/rss/RuneScapeNews.xml - Runescape news (provided by RuneHead)

I just put all those in the toolbar in Firefox and click one and run the mouse over them to look for new ones.

feeds

[diamondmagic]

Tech:
I, Cringley http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/rss2.xml
Freedom to Tinker http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?feed=rss2
Freenode staffblog http://blog.freenode.net/?feed=rss2
Gentoo Monthly Newsletter http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/rss.xml
Xaprb (MySQL) http://www.xaprb.com/blog/feed/atom/

Games:
Cruise Elroy ("Intelligent discussion of video games") http://cruiseelroy.net/feed/
Jonathan Drain's D20 Source http://d20.jonnydigital.com/feed
Socratic Design http://socratesrpg.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Stephen's Weblog (NDS homebrew) http://blog.akkit.org/feed/
StupidRanger http://feeds.feedburner.com/Stupidrangercom
Zero Punctuation http://www.escapistmagazine.com/rss/articles/editorials/zeropunctuation
Zelda Reorchestrated http://www.zreomusic.com/feed/
Used to read The Escapist, quite enjoying the magazine format, but seven or so articles all on the same day each week became too much (once a month please!). The format has changed since then, it just isn't the same.

And the Comics:
xkcd comic & blag
Penny Arcade
and no feed, but 8-bit Theater

And a number of various personal feeds

Slashdot I just check every few hours, I can be assured there is going to be a new article to read

gmarcus

[gmarcus]

Glenn's Second Brain: http://www.glennmarcus.com/blog I scan about 100 tech and culture feeds daily. I put the best that I find onto my own feed at http://www.glennmarcus.com/blog/ It is an aggregated feed with about 1-2 posts per day. Enjoy.

Blabbermouth!

[Dani Filth]

For the latest in Metal news: feed://feeds.feedburner.com/blabbermouth

Live Bookmarks

[Anonymous Coward]

If you only have a couple sites you regularly visit, Firefox's Live Bookmarks are a good RSS solution. Basically you get the newest links from a given RSS feed in a folder of bookmarks.

Get Local!

[Anonymous Coward]

I have lots of feeds coming in, and recently found http://www.localcrimenews.com/. It is California-specific, but can be very entertaining to get local arrest reports. Maybe less so in a large city, due to overload. I wonder if similar sites are available nationwide. At any rate, I've learned that this town is full of drunks, tweakers and spouse abusers - often the women beating up their men.

My feeds.

[Anonymous Coward]

The technology stuff:
Slashdot
ThinkGeek Clearance
ThinkGeek What's new
Was a promising Image Editor. - Pixel Image Editor
Great discount on technology and sometimes other gear.
More technology discounts.
Latest video tools.
Mac Software discounts.
discounted product sales.
More Mac Software discounts.

A few local feeds:
Durham, NC food reviews. - Carpe Durham
Durham, NC drink specials.
Raleigh, NC drink specials.
Raleigh, NC Photo blog. - Goodnight, Raleigh!
Chapel Hill, NC drink specials.

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Education Feeds

[dmcolon]

These posts have some really great feeds. I'm going to give some good education blogs: Ratio Studiorum: My blog -- sorry for the plug. I try to post on web 2.0 trends and rail against those who rail against "kids today". http://feijoorichmond.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default Larry Ferlazzo's Web Sites of the Day: Has an incredible array of links. http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/feeds/posts/default weblog-ed. Web 2.0 guru Will Richarson's blog. Lots of great ideas. http://weblogg-ed.com/feeds/posts/default

Feeder Readers

[Anonymous Coward]

We're beginning to use RSS feeds in our portal environment and in Outlook 2007. What do you use to read RSS feeds? IE7 or Firefox? Another third party application? Do you repurpose your feeds to applications at the desktop or via websites? What interesting things do you do with your feeds? Do you just consume feeds at the desktop level or do you make them broadly available internally, to customers?

RSS only?

[Anonymous Coward]

I use Atom, you insensitive clod!

Time to evolve

[Anonymous Coward]

All the best "RSS" feeds are Atom (http://atomenabled.org/)

Great SEO strategy

[Anonymous Coward]

s/RSS feeds/websites/ig

Hey - anybody know some kewl websites?

[yada yada yada ... ]

4. Profit!

What I've Got

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, I myself use Google Reader, with Lifehacker, Slashdot, Dilbert (the cartoon), xkcd, the Google Open Source blog, and gHacks on the list.

English Wiktionary Word of the Day

[livingdeadline]

http://tools.wikimedia.de/~cmackenzie/wotd-rss.php

USED BOOKS

[misterjava66]

USED BOOKS

http://www.betterworldblog.com/

start with:

http://www.betterworldblog.com/CategoryView,category,Xavier%20and%20Erin's%20African%20Adventures.aspx
http://www.betterworldblog.com/CategoryView,category,Impact.aspx

and

http://www.betterworld.com/content/rss/staffpicks.xml

Re:Libs show their hand

[shokk]

Thank you for your contribution. Those were all good rss feeds you recommended. *Rolls Eyes*

RSS Feeds - an incomplete list

[Anonymous Coward]

Comix:
Ctrl-Alt-Del http://www.cad-comic.com/
Diesel Sweeties http://dieselsweeties.com/
Questionable Content http://www.questionablecontent.net/
Penny Arcade http://www.penny-arcade.com/
xkcd http://xkcd.com/

Blogs:
Warren Ellis http://www.warrenellis.com/
Thighs Wide Shut http://thighswideshut.org/
Kids with Guns http://patrickben.livejournal.com/

Geeky Blogs/Mags:
Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/
Cool Hunting
365 Tomorrows
Grinding.be http://grinding.be/
io9 http://io9.com/
Lifehacker http://lifehacker.com/
Slashdot
Wired http://www.wired.com/rss/index.xml
AppleInsider http://www.appleinsider.com/
Macenstein http://macenstein.com/default
The Unofficial Apple Weblog http://www.tuaw.com/
Macworld http://www.macworld.com/

Dirty Stuff:
Fleshbot http://fleshbot.com/tag/straight
FlickrBabes http://flickrbabes.com/
UseMyComputer http://usemycomputer.com/
Homocidal Insomniac http://homicidalinsomniac.blogspot.com/

News:
Salon http://www.salon.com/