Your top RSS feeds?

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Just wondering what OcUK members class as your top RSS feeds..

Looking to broaden my horizons :)

Mine currently are:

Rotten Tomatoes
Ars Technica
digg
Wired
Slashdot
MacRumors
MyVue (cinema times)
MacWorld
BBC News
Engadget
Gamespot
Game Trailers
IGN
Anandtech
 
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BBC News
BBC Sport
Sky News
CCN
Reuters
Reuters "oddly enough" <<always end up having a laugh at this one.
Twelvestone
postsecret
 
I wish I knew how to set them up. The only one I have is the default one that came with firefox (BBC News). Would be nice to get Digg feeds fed into the Vista sidebar or something.
 
YoungBlood said:
I wish I knew how to set them up. The only one I have is the default one that came with firefox (BBC News). Would be nice to get Digg feeds fed into the Vista sidebar or something.
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Usually you get a little // looking icon in the taskbar (with Firefox), click it and add it to a bookmarks folder :)
 
YoungBlood said:
I wish I knew how to set them up. The only one I have is the default one that came with firefox (BBC News). Would be nice to get Digg feeds fed into the Vista sidebar or something.
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I set mine up via google personalised, and have that as my homepage.
So I just hit the home icon to see whats new.
 
I am yet to find an RSS Aggregator which has the right user interface for myself.

I am still considering getting a PSP in order to be able to read RSS feeds at school during the break. Has anyone used the PSP for this purpose (or a similar one)?

Angus Higgins
 
BBC news
Fox news
CNN news
Channel3000 (local news)
BBC Football
Gamespot
Empire movie news
Wisconsin severe weather alerts

And I use Windows Live for all my feeds.
 
Got a lot. My client reports most viewed as BBC FP news, CNN and Blabbermouth (lol).

I recommend the OP check out Ars Technica and to a lesser extent BBC tech news.
 
Angus-Higgins said:
I am yet to find an RSS Aggregator which has the right user interface for myself.

Angus Higgins
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I hate to be a geek but it was because of this ive started writing my own...
 
I don't use and RSS feeds, I'd rather just go to the site in question and have a good old fashioned browse :)
 
0Shorty said:
I hate to be a geek but it was because of this ive started writing my own...
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I started writing my own, but I stopped after I couldn't get the interface perfect.

I have considered starting again (in C++ this time [but that means I have to learn a new language :p]).

Angus Higgins
 
Angus-Higgins said:
I started writing my own, but I stopped after I couldn't get the interface perfect.

I have considered starting again (in C++ this time [but that means I have to learn a new language :p]).

Angus Higgins
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The one im working on is in php sitting on my web server at home. Basically the best of both worlds then - just stuck on a web interface. That way i can combine it with other elements i want (query google, links to other sites i use etc) on the one page.

At uni i were taught java which i hate so i cant be bothered to write a feed reader in that, but C++ is pretty similar just without the libraries so that is always an option for the future.
 
0Shorty said:
The one im working on is in php sitting on my web server at home. Basically the best of both worlds then - just stuck on a web interface. That way i can combine it with other elements i want (query google, links to other sites i use etc) on the one page.

At uni i were taught java which i hate so i cant be bothered to write a feed reader in that, but C++ is pretty similar just without the libraries so that is always an option for the future.
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I could do it in PHP, which would be fun. :p

(I am probably going to go for the PSP option simply because I can get the feeds and then read them offline).

PHP is a good idea. I did have a few ideas for some form of community based RSS reader. Basically a person could make a group of feeds (for instance, "Technology News" [probably more specific than that]), and then other people would be able to download this package with a few clicks, and have it aggregated to a specified area of the reader (possibly a different folder or something). People could rate the packages, and thus it would be easier to judge what is good and what isn't.

Thinking about it now, this would be fun. :p

I might think about it, but I don't think my host is willing to upgrade to PHP 5 for some reason, so I believe I am missing out on XML features. (I might convert and old computer into a PHP 5 server that I could use if I think I might try this out).

Angus Higgins
 
Angus-Higgins said:
Basically a person could make a group of feeds (for instance, "Technology News" [probably more specific than that]), and then other people would be able to download this package with a few clicks, and have it aggregated to a specified area of the reader (possibly a different folder or something).
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That'll be OPML. It's a crap standard, but quite universal amongst aggregators and it's pretty easy to parse.

I had an almost identical idea to yours but ended up ditching it.
 
Engadget
n4g.com
majornelson
Playstation Blog
Slashdot
NY times
WSJ
FT
SI.com
ESPN:NFL
ESPN:MLB
BBC news

All in the google reader which i've very been impressed with so far. I just wish all websites did their feeds like Engadget giving you the whole story rather than just headlines, though I understand why most tend to give you stories in headline form.
 
Doesn't it annoy people to keep seeing the same stories? Having 4-5 news feeds seems pointless to me. Just have one or two reputable sites.

Digg | Science is usually an interesting read.
 
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