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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. 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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    My UID is prime... is yours?
  2. 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.
  3. 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 courseofhumanevents · · Score: 5, Funny

      You are a very inexperienced time-waster.

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

      The master will appear when the student is ready

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  4. 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.

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

    Ahh crap, and I spelled xkcd wrong.

  7. 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.