RSS Feeds, what do you view?

Shryke · 31-10-2010 8:30pm #1

I like the idea of them but never bothered with them until now! Downloaded FeedDemon and decided not to take the preset feeds and see if I could build a proper custom list for myself.
Wouldn't mind anyone pointing out some cool or informative stuff?

Stercus Accidit · 31-10-2010 8:31pm

I have no idea what they are.

MagicMarker · 31-10-2010 8:31pm

I still don't really know what they are.

Mr Benevolent · 31-10-2010 8:32pm

RSS feeds? Do you really need your news that urgently?

starbelgrade · 31-10-2010 8:33pm

You can download food now?

Stercus Accidit · 31-10-2010 8:34pm

starbelgrade wrote: »

You can download food now?

Downloading food is a crime and takes away from legitimate farmers.

GLaDOS · 31-10-2010 8:34pm

Mostly webcomics

Pherekydes · 31-10-2010 8:34pm

Really simple stuff.

MGMTea · 31-10-2010 8:34pm

http://feeds.gawker.com/gizmodo/full Gizmodo

Diabhal Beag · 31-10-2010 8:35pm

Only good for itunes podcasts

Adyx · 31-10-2010 8:37pm

Lifehacker, RTE News, Explosm and XKCD. Just use Firefox though, not a reader. Does anyone use the Boards ones?

alwaysadub · 31-10-2010 9:16pm

Don't use any of them

Mint Sauce · 31-10-2010 9:20pm

Have feeds for the BBC, RTE, and This is London (evening standard). But always forget to view them and go straight to the website.

omahaid · 31-10-2010 9:25pm

BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml

Crypto-Gram Security Podcast
http://crypto-gram.libsyn.com/rss

Cryptology ePrint Archive
http://eprint.iacr.org/rss/rss.xml

Dilbert Daily Strip
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DilbertDailyStrip

IMDb News
http://rss.imdb.com/news/

New Urban Legends
http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.xml

RTE News
http://www.rte.ie/rss/news.xml

Slashdot
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot

XKCD
http://xkcd.com/rss.xml

Shiny · 31-10-2010 9:28pm

Here is a screen shot from my feeds:

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/6602/capturegs.png

I didn't know what RSS feeds were for years until I spent a bit
of time reading about them and realised how much time they
would save.

I used to go to all my favourite websites several times a day to
check for news or just general reading info. This would take up
a good bit of time if you are checking around 10-20 different sites
every day.

What I did instead was, add the feeds from all my sites to Google Reader
and now any time one of them updates, the article is available from
the reader rather than going to the actual website. So now I can
check 20 websites at once which saves a huge amount of time.

I also have it synced with my phone so I can read on the bus/train
without having to get pissed off with any sites that are unreadable
due to resizing issues.

Mr E · 31-10-2010 9:32pm

RSS feeds are great when you know how to use them. They're a real time-saver when used with sites like Netvibes and iGoogle. I have Netvibes as my browser homepage, and feeds setup for over 20 sites. I can quickly scan all of the articles on a single page to see if there is anything I want to read (it's much quicker than visiting each site one by one)

Some of the feeds I have are: Ain't It Cool News, Comingsoon.net, iBood, Lifehacker, Nialler9, Eurogamer, Kotaku.... there are hundreds out there.

If you want to know if your favourite site has an RSS feed, there is usually a link on the footer of the page (look at the bottom of Aint It Cool News and Eurogamer as an example)

Conor108 · 31-10-2010 9:39pm

I just use Google reader and some feeds on it are:

Lifehacker
Gizmodo, Engadget, i09
NASA
Popular Science, Popular Mechanics
Wired Science, Wired Danger Room
And some twitter feeds for Mars Exploration Rovers, Brian Cox, UCD.

SAVES TIME GODDAMIT

Shryke · 31-10-2010 9:56pm

Some good stuff there. Now to add a few...

RSS Feeds, what do you view?

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