# Recommend some interesting RSS feeds **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 25, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-interesting-rss-feeds/409362 "2007-06-25T18:02:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-interesting-rss-feeds/409362/1 "2007-06-25T18:02:41Z")
Me and Bloglines are getting pretty hot and heavy these days, so I’d like to expand the experience. These are my current subscriptions: News - NYT, Wapo, USAToday, CNN, WSJ, BBC News, AJC, Google News Politics - Little Green Footballs, Wonkette, Daily KOS, Crooks and Liars, Drudge, Memeorandum, The Daily Dish Sports - CBS Sportsline, ESPN Misc - Original Signal, Slate, Freakonomics, Fark, The Onion, Digg, Rotten Tomatoes, local surf report, Boing Boing, Slashdot Productivity - lifehack, 43 folders Honestly, my list is a little news / politics heavy right now, and I’d like to venture into other areas. (Example: I’ve just recently gotten into the productivity blogs, and I find them really fascinating). What I really like to see in an RSS feed is one that’s updated often and consistently engaging. So Dopers - Any recs for interesting reads? What are your favorite feeds? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-interesting-rss-feeds/409362/2 "2007-06-25T18:16:25Z")
I love **MAKE magazine** in general. **Ars Technica’s** detailed (and well-written) reviews of PC hardware/software are usually on the money and avoid the horrific clearly-purchased reviews and clearly-not-spellchecked fanboy articles. **The Consumerist** is generally a savvy producer of consumer protection articles and “save five bucks on X” advice. **Wonkette** is a foul-mouthed and sassy reporter of DC politics with more cynicism per paragraph than even the BBQ pit – fair warning, Wonkette is not afraid to use _highly_ polarizing language which might be considered NSFW: the word “c\*nt” appears regularly, Barack Obama is called “Barry Hussein Osama”, and while she was in office, Katherine Harris was regularly mocked with words like “batshit insane”. Gay-bashing and hate speech (usually as punchy “what they really mean” versions of Republican talking points) appear regularly. I also like Warren Ellis’s blog, and JWZ’s livejournal – they frequently carry shocking/bizarre headlines or photos that add a little twist of WTF to my browsing day. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-interesting-rss-feeds/409362/3 "2007-06-25T18:26:59Z")
[QUOTE=Jurph] I love **MAKE magazine** in general. [/quote] In the same vein, I love instructables - although I don’t really like their RSS feed. (Seriously - I can spend eight hours just wandering through that site). I’m going to try the Make blog for a week or so and see how I like it. > [@](#): > > **The Consumerist** is generally a savvy producer of consumer protection articles and “save five bucks on X” advice. Great rec. I actually had bookmarks to Clark Howard and the Simple Dollar, but I hadn’t thought to see if they had RSS feeds. All three are now on my subscription list. I listed Wonkette in the OP, but that’s a pretty good description of the site. I’ve been a big fan for a long time. As for the rest — I’ve never been able to get into Warren Ellis’s blog, and I had a subscription to Ars Technica, but I found it didn’t interest me enough to keep me reading. Thanks for the recs! ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-interesting-rss-feeds/409362/4 "2007-06-25T20:57:25Z")
My Bloglines is pretty full of knitting and science fiction-related blogs. Here are a couple of non-knitting, non-sf feeds I follow: I’ve recently been enjoying [Beach Walks with Rox](http://www.beachwalks.tv/). It’s a video podcast from the beaches of Hawaii. (I love Hawaii.) [Geoffrey Chauce Hath a Blog](http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/) is occasionally really hilarious, but they don’t post that often. If you like photography, [Daily Dose of Imagery](http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/) has some neat stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-interesting-rss-feeds/409362/5 "2007-06-25T21:12:52Z")
I just recently discovered [LiveLeak.com](http://www.liveleak.com/), a video website which is heavily oriented towards combat videos from Iraq & Afghanistan, as well as other newsworthy (and not so worthy) videos. ---
**Author:** ![Dunawake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dunawake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunawake)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-interesting-rss-feeds/409362/6 "2007-06-25T21:38:14Z")
I would have figured having Little Green Footballs and Daily Kos subscribed in the same program would cause it to spontaneously combust. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-interesting-rss-feeds/409362/7 "2007-06-25T22:36:59Z")
[QUOTE=Dunawake] I would have figured having Little Green Footballs and Daily Kos subscribed in the same program would cause it to spontaneously combust. [/QUOTE] I come from the “differing viewpoints never hurt anyone” school of thought. (It does smoke a little when I start up bloglines, though 😛 ).