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What RSS Feeds Do You Use?

Posted by Soulskill on from the attention-deficit dept.

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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  1. Re:I use *none* by vidarh · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

  2. Mine by KasperMeerts · · Score: 3, Insightful

    *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.

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    As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
  3. The banality of RSS by AlpineR · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.