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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. Debian Package a Day by twistedcubic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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/

  2. The feed for me by Deltaspectre · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?

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    1. Re:The feed for me by Hal_Porter · · Score: 2, Funny

      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.
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  3. My feeds by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 4, Interesting
    • 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.
  4. feeds excerpt by sugarmotor · · Score: 2, Interesting
    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

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    1. Re:feeds excerpt by mdd4696 · · Score: 2

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

      Stephan

      I don't mean to hijack your comment but links would have been useful.
  5. Some of my feeds by jake_vdb · · Score: 2, Informative

    - 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

  6. I use *none* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    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. Re:I use *none* by courseofhumanevents · · Score: 5, Funny

      You are a very inexperienced time-waster.

    3. Re:I use *none* by DaveV1.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

      The master will appear when the student is ready

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  7. I don't get it by Threni · · Score: 2

    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.

    1. Re:I don't get it by MMMDI · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

    2. Re:I don't get it by B5_geek · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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.

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    3. Re:I don't get it by Southpaw018 · · Score: 2, Informative
      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.
      • 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
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    4. Re:I don't get it by Hatta · · Score: 2, Interesting


      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)
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  8. WHICH feeds by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 2, Insightful
    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.
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    1. Re:WHICH feeds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      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

    2. Re:WHICH feeds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      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.

  9. 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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    1. Re:Mine by Inner_Child · · Score: 2, Interesting
      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.

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    2. Re:Mine by kv9 · · Score: 2, Interesting
      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
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  10. Feeds by Turiko · · Score: 2

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

  11. If you insist... by abbamouse · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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

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  12. BOFH!! how could I forget... by Jerry+Smith · · Score: 2, Interesting
    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.

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  13. Re:My list by EnsilZah · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ahh crap, and I spelled xkcd wrong.

  14. Photography feeds by Thatmushroom · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

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  15. My big themed list by Miletos · · Score: 5, Informative
    Comics

    Finance & Economy

    Space

    Tech

    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.
  16. My RSS feeds by aembleton · · Score: 2, Interesting
    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
  17. Re:Off-line RSS reader for Linux? by JShadow21 · · Score: 2, Informative

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

  18. none 0 nada by jupiterssj4 · · Score: 2, Insightful

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

  19. isitchristmas.com's rss feed by Destoo · · Score: 2, Informative


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

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  20. Re:Off-line RSS reader for Linux? by prator · · Score: 2, Informative

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

  21. Paul Graham by pbaer · · Score: 2, Informative

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

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  22. Google Reader by Nerdfest · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

  23. Re:And how is this N3rd N3ws ?? by Arivia · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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!

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  24. 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.

  25. My Offical Feed List by Erbo · · Score: 2, Interesting
    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
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    Be who you are...and be it in style!
  26. Re:And how is this N3rd N3ws ?? by scragz · · Score: 2, Funny

    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?
  27. gmarcus by gmarcus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.