I got into a lunchtime discussion of RSS today. Apparently, one of my coworkers (hi, Helen!) had never really heard of RSS before. As we explained the concept to her, we started to share some of our favorite news sites, blogs, and other things with RSS feeds.
I decided this might be of interest to a larger audience, especially with WordCamp this weekend, so decided to post an abridged list of my subscriptions here. Notably missing are:
- project feeds I’m monitoring (e.g. software releases on Google Code)
- a lot of “in-game” websites related to ARGs
- various threads/sections in message boards (e.g. Unfiction)
- blog comment feeds (many are the same as the blogs)
- feeds for Wikis and other sorts of projects I administer (to keep an eye open for spam, etc.)
The trimmed-down list is as follows. The categories are extremely rough, as many sites could fall into several different groupings; the exact placement of a site merely reflects my whim on the day I added it. With the things toward the bottom of the list (especially Digg and the categories marked as “Verbose”), I will skim the headlines if I have time but, more often than not, I will just mark everything as having been read without looking through it. Feel free to share feeds that I may be missing out on in the comments, via Twitter, or through email.
Tech
- Ars Technica
- Gizmodo
- Google Blog
- Joel on Software
- MAKE: Blog
- MobileRead Forums – Kindle Developer’s Corner
- Official Google Mac Blog
- ReadWriteEnterprise
- Reversing Everything
- RISKS Digest
- The Daily WTF
Apple
- AppleInsider
- Cult of Mac
- Daring Fireball
- Inside iPhone
- iPhone Atlas
- iPodlounge
- Macenstein
- MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
- macosxhints.com
- MacRumors
- MacRumors Page 2
- RoughlyDrafted Magazine
- The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
- Touch Arcade
Portland
- Beer and Blog Portland
- Blog Town, PDX
- Calagator: Events
- Foster Powell Neighborhood Pool
- Foster Powell PDX – Featured Stories
- Hockley Photography
- Kung Foodie
- Metroblogging Portland
- Neighborhood Notes foster-powell News
- OregonLive.com: Foster-Powell
- Our PDX Network
- PDX PIPELINE
- Portland Building Ads – Portland, Oregon
- portland ground
- Portland is Awesome
- Silicon Florist
- Social Photo Talk
- The Bananaverse
- ThePortlander
- TriMetiquette
Blogs-People
- Another Blogger
- blotto
- CamiKaos
- Cockeyed.com
- Dispatches from the Island
- gaininja
- i heart media
- Living Dangerously in the Middle of Nowhere
- lonelysandwich
- Merlin Mann
- Mssv
- Ned Batchelder’s blog
- Netninja
- So sue me
- Stephen Fry
- The Miracle in July
- The Reluctant Medium
- TinyScreenfuls.com
- WIL WHEATON dot NET: Where is my mind?
Blogs-Info
- 5ives
- A Symbol A Day
- Best of Wikipedia
- Childhood Memory Keeper: Retro Pop Culture from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
- Consumerist
- Delicious/inbox/BriEnigma
- Delicious/network/BriEnigma
- Dev-Team Blog
- Flickr
- Google Apps update alerts
- kung fu grippe
- lost – hawaii’s Tagged Photos
- moderncat :: cat products, cat toys, cat furniture, and more…all with modern style
- nin.com updates
- Paper Forest
- passive-aggressive (and just plain aggressive) notes
- Photos from The Library of Congress
- PhotoshopDisasters
- Riese The Series» Riese the Series
- The Big Picture
- The Sword and Laser
- The Transmission
- There, I Fixed It.
- WordPress Development Blog
- ZML: Latest Updates
Productivity
- 43 Folders – Personal productivity, life hacks, and other cool stuff
- 43 Folders Clips
- Lifehacker
- Smarterware
- You 2.0
Steampunk
Web Comics
- Bad Gods
- Diesel Sweeties Unified RSS Feed
- Epixlulz
- explodingdog
- Gunnerkrigg court
- Homestar Runner
- Ill Will Press: Neurotically Yours
- Maakies
- Penny Arcade
- Red Meat
- Savage Chickens – Cartoons on Sticky Notes by Doug Savage
- Slow Wave
- Spamusement
- The Joy of Tech
- The Perry Bible Fellowship
- xkcd.com
Digg
Digg-Custom
- Digg / Apple
- Digg / PDX
- Digg / Portland
- Digg RSS Search for kindle
- items dugg by friends of brianenigma
Verbose
Blogs-Verbose
ForSale
For those that are interested, the list was generated by exporting my feeds from Google Reader (as an OPML file), then processing with this hastily-thrown-together XSL transform:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="html"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <html><head><title>Subscribed Podcasts</title> </head> <body> <ul> <xsl:apply-templates select="opml/body"/> </ul> </body></html> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="outline"> <xsl:if test="string-length(@htmlUrl) > 0"> <li><a href="{@htmlUrl}"><xsl:value-of select="@title" /></a></li> </xsl:if> <xsl:if test="string-length(@htmlUrl) = 0"> <li><h2><xsl:value-of select="@title" /></h2></li> </xsl:if> <xsl:if test="./outline"> <ul><xsl:apply-templates select="./outline"/></ul> </xsl:if> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
Yay! Just added netninja to my iGoogle! Now to add a few more of my favorite sites!
Just one tip: don’t overload yourself with subscriptions at first. Start with just a few feeds and grow from there. It’s *so* much easier to ramp up to keeping up with your feeds that way.