RSS Feeds greenhorn

November 8, 2013 4:26 PM

So, I love checking news and at last I have an RSS feed in my browser. What RSS news feeds do you recommend?
posted by bearwife to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

So, for me, RSS is great for things that update irregularly. I used to just open dozens of browser tabs and scan them to see if they looked like they updated.

So, it depends on what you're interested in. I am a gamer, a music fan, a techie, and I like some web comics.

I have feeds I like from bands that update when they add items to their schedule. I have a TV program's taping blog's feed. I have my live journal friends so I don't have to actually read LJ. I have feeds from blogs that don't update until March of an election Year.

I make my own feeds with pipes.yahoo.com

So, I dunno. What do you want to stop looking at obsessively just in case it has updated?
posted by Mad_Carew at 5:01 PM on November 8, 2013

I like National Geographic Found for a few cool pictures a day.

The Big Picture for more cool photosets that are often current-news-relevant.

The American Civil Liberties Union has a bunch of different newsfeeds for civil rights/social justice type stuff.

The rest of my feeds are comics or esoteric geeky stuff... :)
posted by The Biggest Dreamer at 5:17 PM on November 8, 2013

With a client such as feedly or in my case newsblur you can easily add most web sites as an rss feed. I think both of these clients also offer some "social network" function to share and follow what others are reading. It is really up to your taste and interest. I tend to use newsblur exclusively to follow news and even ask metafilter.
posted by nostrada at 8:14 PM on November 8, 2013

I am big on the local news feeds, so what I like won't necessarily translate to your location, but the general idea could be useful to you--local newspapers, free weeklies, a "business times", a major-media related political bloggy thing, and lastly a local real-estate blog (because it satisfies my curiosity about "what they're building in there").

I also get articles-in-press from various academic journals, and I have a weird fascination with the rss feed for Retraction Watch.

If environmental news is of interest, Environmental Health News offers about a billion different "curated" feeds on a variety of different environmental-ish topics.
posted by gubenuj at 11:58 PM on November 8, 2013

Response by poster: All news is of interest. But especially of the political, or breaking, or technological, or crime ilk.
posted by bearwife at 2:29 PM on November 9, 2013

Well, obviously MeFi and AskMeFi

Comics: xkcd and What If?

News: National Geographic, Laughing Squid, Kottke, BldgBlog, Longreads, Engadget, Wired, Brain Pickings, Ted,

Any apps you use to keep up-to-date on developments: Instapaper, Feedly, Plex, Trello

Give me a shout if you want a URL for any of these,
posted by chrispy108 at 2:23 AM on November 12, 2013