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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.)

posted on Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:18 AM

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# re: RSS Feeds You Can't Live Without 9/23/2004 9:59 AM Craig

For fun, I recommend PVP Online (http://dwlt.net/tapestry/pvponline.rdf).

My newsreader of choice is FeedDemon (http://www.feeddemon.com/feeddemon/index.asp).

# re: RSS Feeds You Can't Live Without 9/23/2004 10:41 AM Scott Mitchell

Craig, I used FeedDemon for a while, and really liked the user experience, but it was missing one vital feature for me: commentRss support (and, to a lesser extent, commentAPI). Hopefully Nick adds this feature in a future version...

# re: RSS Feeds You Can't Live Without 9/23/2004 12:13 PM Steve

"/.": always dig some of the off the wall stuff they post about
http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss

Also is good to be on top of MSDN Article releases:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/rss.xml



# re: RSS Feeds You Can't Live Without 9/23/2004 12:29 PM // Rutger

Well, here's my Top 10:

Weblogs @ ASP.NET (http://weblogs.asp.net/MainFeed.aspx)
Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/index.rss)
Scott on Writing (http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/Rss.aspx)
Scott Watermasysk (http://scottwater.com/Blog/rss.aspx)
ASP.NET Daily Articles (http://www.asp.net/modules/articleRss.aspx?count=7&mid=64)
Rob Howard's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/rhoward/Rss.aspx)
Frans Bouma's blog (http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/Rss.aspx)
MSDN: ASP.NET (http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/rss.xml)
Tweakers.net Mixed RSS Feed (http://www.tweakers.net/feeds/mixed.xml)
RutgerSmit.com - Internet nieuws (http://news.rutgersmit.com/rss/?E-NWS)

I'm reading my blogroll with Sage, a FireFox (http://www.getfirefox.com) extension that is great beacause of it's simplicity.

# re: RSS Feeds You Can't Live Without 9/23/2004 9:55 PM Wessam Zeidan

Nikhil Kothari's Weblog is one of my favorates(http://www.nikhilk.net/Rss.ashx?id=1)

I use JetBrains Omea Reader.

# re: RSS Feeds You Can't Live Without 9/24/2004 1:29 PM Mike Swaim

Here's my top 5 links:
Slashdot:(http://slashdot.org/index.rss)
Randomize(http://www.tallent.us/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss)
The Old New Thing(http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/Rss.aspx)
Slate(http://slate.msn.com/rss/)
CNet News(http://news.com.com/2547-1_3-0-5.xml)
Wired(http://www.wired.com/news_drop/netcenter/netcenter.rdf)

I use SharpReader to read my feeds.

# RE: RSS Feeds You Can't Live Without 10/20/2004 1:24 PM bhavinrs@hotmail.com (Bhavin)

I use RssBandit as my aggregator. I like its tabbed browsing and the feature to hide the sidebar so that I get to read the blog contents without scrolling a lot. It has a search feature to search the blogs but you cannot do it on a per folder basis

Some blogs I would recommend include:

I like Eric Lippert's blog (Fabulous Adventures In Coding - http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/) a lot. He is a Microsoft guy and very good writer and talk about the internals of the Active Scripting Engine etc.

This guy (Tejas Patel) is really updated about current IT events and gives you really good pointers around for tech browsing: Ingenious Tejas's Digest Blog - http://geekswithblogs.net/tpatel/

I subscribe to a few Yahoo groups and I can subscribe to the RSS feeds for this. Keeps me updated on the latest post.

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