Blogs bore me. I get my news from Google News and Yahoo mostly. I have Google Tool bar installed on both my browsers (IE 7 & FireFox) I also get some stuff in my mailbox from Huffington Post. I’m even signed up there but have posted nothing. I find it intimidating somehow and worse yet, there is so much being posted there who will even bother with my insignificant posts?
I’d be interested to know some of the other blogs and websites folks visit for news-related info and dialogue.
(no, sorry, not porn or stupid videos of kittens playing basketball)
Scroo-hoo?
Drudge report?
theglobalreport.org?
I’m actually an editor with The Global Report….We’re basically an aggregator (like the huffpost) and try to gather overlooked and under-reported news…
here’s a brief list of some sites I look at every day…
The Guardian
The Independent
Inter Press Service
Democracy Now!
The New York Times
Rawstory.com
Salon.com
Huffpost
Wired
Mother Jones
Infoshop.org
McClatchy
Women’s eNews
Labour Start
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
Conservative sites:
Hot Air (Allahpundit is the best blogger on the web, hands down, except for Jason Bugg)
Ace of Spades
Black Five
National Review Online (especially Mark Steyn)
Michelle Malkin
Lib sites:
Scru Hoo
HuffPo
Crooks and Liars (John Amato is the worst blogger on the web, but I like to read him and laugh at his righteous indignation)
Sadly No!
Salon
Entertainment:
Ashvegas
What Would Tyler Durden Do?
Dlisted (Both gossip sites, but I find the writers hilarious)
destructiod
Comic Book Resources
Harley forum
Film Drunk
Pajiba
Go Fug Yourself
Most hated:
DailyKos
Debbie Schlussel
Perez Hilton
Andrew Sullivan
Occasionally, I peruse the tepid Mountain X forums.
I use Netvibes as my RSS feed reader/personalized start page, I have 8 tabs of feeds, and each tab has about 30 feeds on it. The topics range from web development to security to news to sports. The list is ever-evolving as I discover new blogs/feeds around the net which look interesting.
Using an RSS aggregator has enabled me to shove the most amount of information into my little brain in the least amount of time. I love it. And you should try it yourself if you haven’t already.
Thanks, The (PFKaP), for starting this thread. Lots to learn in this brave new world, and each of us is out there applying their own strategies ... even Bugg, whose approach wisely includes vacation.
willc, I use Bloglines as an aggregator. It is helpful, but puts me in an ADD mode, so sometimes I feel a bit calmer going directly to favorite sites, where the experience is a little more like being in the Hundred Acre Wood, and wandering around, I find I’m in familiar territory and it’s time for a little something special at Pooh’s house.
...it’s time for a little something special at Pooh’s house.
Whatever floats your boat!
The thing I like about Netvibes is all the other widgets they offer, such as GMail, Twitter, and Notes widgets. It turns an RSS reader into a virtual desktop.
I use Netvibes as my RSS feed reader/personalized start page, I have 8 tabs of feeds, and each tab has about 30 feeds on it. The topics range from web development to security to news to sports. The list is ever-evolving as I discover new blogs/feeds around the net which look interesting.
Using an RSS aggregator has enabled me to shove the most amount of information into my little brain in the least amount of time. I love it. And you should try it yourself if you haven’t already.
I use Netvibes as my RSS feed reader/personalized start page, I have 8 tabs of feeds, and each tab has about 30 feeds on it. The topics range from web development to security to news to sports. The list is ever-evolving as I discover new blogs/feeds around the net which look interesting.
Using an RSS aggregator has enabled me to shove the most amount of information into my little brain in the least amount of time. I love it. And you should try it yourself if you haven’t already.
That sounds like something I’d like to do, if only I understood what you were talking about. I’m a luddite at heart. Tiny TV, tube-driven speakers, I roll down my window and drive a stick with no cruise control. Where’s the primer on this stuff and how do you choose what you choose?
Pre-web, I had a job that let me listen to the radio all day while I worked. I was in a city with plenty of good stations and I was happier and better informed then.
Me? I’ve got the NYT and BBC on my homepage. Then I’ve customized the Google news to areas of interest. Every so often an Asheville Disclaimer article sneaks into my Asheville newsfeed as a real story and gets me all riled up for a few seconds.
Before I joined MtnX, the only forum I was a member of was Paradox in Sweden. They have a nice balance of well-educated posters from all over the world and a quick look at the most recent posts there usually told me everything I needed to know about the world and the opinions of the spectrum of people in the affected locales. We’ve been inundated with teenagers lately, so the quality has been in decline for a while.
Then dude, you really have to check into Allahpundit on HotAir. He’s hilarious and smart as hell. It’s light posting because of the slow news period during the holidays, but usually he posts upwards of 10 times a day. All good stuff.
AoS has dropped since the election, so no argument there. There’s a general malaise on the site.
Local:
Mountain Xpress
BlogAsheville
Ashvegas
Asheville Beer Blog
Scrutiny Hooligans
The Hangover Journals
ummmm, Edgy Mama
Non-local:
Mother Talkers (they occasionally link to my columns on Mt. X)
Citizen of the Month
Babble
I have about 50 blogs favorited, but I probably don’t get to most of them more than once or twice a month. For news, I’m a fan of The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Guardian.
I also spend a bit of time trolling on Asheville Mamas. I don’t read other “Mommy” blogs that often, unless I’m desperate for ideas. Sadly, I find most are poorly written and consist mostly of rants. As I know, balance is a problem for moms. Dude, that may be a column!
