RSS Feeds You Can't Live Without

Over the past month I've had two blog entries asking you, my six readers, what programs and Web sites you can't live without. (See Programs You Can't Live Without and Web Sites You Can't Live Without.) Jeff Coon and others have suggested that I add a third entry: RSS feeds you can't live without.

So, what RSS feeds do you find required reading each morning? If you could share just one blog with someone who doesn't know about it, what blog would that be? How many RSS feeds are you subscribed to, and what RSS aggreagator do you use to consume those feeds?

My favorite RSS feeds for light reading are Dilbert (http://dwlt.net/tapestry/dilbert.rdf) and TheDailyWTF (http://thedailywtf.com/Rss.aspx). For sports, I am addicted to Bill Simmons's articles (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/columnist?name=simmons_bill), the NBA news on ESPN.com (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/nba/news), the latest posts on NBAWebLog.com (http://nbaweblog.com/nba/MainFeed.aspx), and Mark Cuban's insights (http://blogmaverick.com/rss.xml). For technical information, I find no blog more interesting than Raymond Chen's (http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/Rss.aspx). I also tend to subscribe to the blogs of prolific authors, as they usually have good things to say (Dino Esposito, Fritz Onion, etc.). I also have a feed to the articles on www.ASP.NET (http://asp.net/modules/articleRss.aspx?count=7&mid=64), the latest articles on ASPAlliance.com (http://aspalliance.com/rss.aspx), and (of course) the latest articles on 4GuysFromRolla.com (http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/rss/rss.aspx).

If I could share just one blog with someone (assuming they're not a technical person), I'd share Matthew Haughey's Ten Years Of My Life (http://tenyearsofmylife.com/index.rdf). It's basically a photo journal of this guy's life. His plan is to take a picture each day for ten years, posting the picture on his blog. (And that's all it is - no side tracked text entries, just one picture each day.)

I am subscribed to ~40 blogs, and I use RssBandit as my aggregator. (In a previous entry I stated my preference for BlogLines over RssBandit, but since upgrading to a much better computer, I have preferred having my blog reader as a desktop application rather than through a Web site interface.)