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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.
Because some of us wants to read the content, not spend time navigating to the content.
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.
Danwei, who are a bunch of pompous self-important Beijing residents, but have some good articles and translations that aren't available anywhere else.
An English magazine that occasionally has something interesting on it.
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.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
*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.
As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
None, I have never seen the need for them. I have plenty of time to visit all the sites I view everyday.
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.
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.