Blogs and feeds

[triskellian]

I've been vaguely using LJ as an RSS feed reader for ages, but have just started moving over to Google Reader, and am trying to impose some order on the non-LJ stuff I'm reading. And part of 'imposing order' means gathering up new and exciting stuff to read.

So! Please recommend me some feeds! What's the best non-LJ blog you read? What do you think everyone [who is/does x] should read? What's your favourite web comic? Do you have your very own non-LJ blog?

Thanks :-)

Comments

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

1. Language Log
2. xkcd :)

[triskellian]

Got 'em both, and you're quite right :-)

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

I've just got into the comic Gunnerkrigg Court, which is pretty, and has gods and magic and robots.

[triskellian]

Ooh, I'll have a look at that, thanks! (The first page, as just opened in a tab, has a girl with long red hair, so that's always a good start :-)

[several-bees.livejournal.com]

I delete everything from my RSS reader every 18 months or so, to stop it getting overburdened - the theory is that I'll only remember to re-add the stuff I actually found useful, and have space for new things, and not for ever have more to read than I can possibly manage. And I'm at a fairly low ebb at the moment. But off the top of my head, and in a sort-of thematically linked ramble...

Things is collections of links about interesting stuff, very irregular, no real consistent theme though some skewing towards architecture; Strange Harvest is more commentary, less links, more architecture-and-design focused; City of Sound is all design and cities and books; Infovore is mostly links with brief commentary, lots of design and game stuff; Raph Koster is lots of game-related stuff from a designy angle. Hm, it's fairly clear where my obsessions are these days. Mimi Smartypants is not connected to any of my current obsessions but is great, very personable and cheerful-cross-cheerful, and writing in the kind-of "here are some things that happened that were amusing for these reasons, here are some links, hello, conversation conversation, HOORAY!" tone that is part of what I like about many people's livejournals.

Things I am involved in: The Sandpit is allegedly Interesting Games+Cities Stuff from a few people involved with the Hide and Seek festival, but we have been very lax about ever actually writing anything. But we had a meeting last week where we sternly resolved to do so. We'll see. Minor Delays is (in the process of becoming) a short story for every tube station, in alphabetical order - currently up to Barkingside.

[triskellian]

Lots of interesting stuff - thank you!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I think people should read fewer mediocre feeds and update their LJs more. ;-P

If you don't already follow it, you might enjoy Hathor Legacy. I find it a bit hit-and-miss, but still more than worth following for the better entries. Their feeds page is here.

[triskellian]

This is me updating my LJ ;-)

(I already read the Hathor Legacy, so well spotted!)

[white_hart]

Blogs - Shapely Prose, Neil Gaiman, Already Pretty, Fashion for Nerds, Ysolda and Needled are all more-or-less daily reads. Shakesville is good although I stopped reading it a few months ago due to US election fatigue and haven't restarted (really should do).

And I have two active non-LJ blogs and one semi-defunct one, but I think you know about all of them.

[triskellian]

I had SP and NG already, AP and FfN are new, the knitting ones I was reading from your knitting blogroll the other day but had forgotten about, and I'd forgotten Shakesville, too - thanks!

I have all three of your other blogs on the list already, and was in fact wondering about the fate of the semi-defunct one while I was adding it.

[white_hart]

I'm not sure what we're going to do about the semi-defunct one. If we come back, I think it will be as something slightly different to what we had before, but I don't know if we will.

[white_hart]

Oh, have you got A Dress a Day?

For Pony!

[sosoclever.livejournal.com]

Looking for Group is one of my favorite webcomics. I want to be just like Richard (see icon) when I grow up.

Re: For Pony!

[sosoclever.livejournal.com]

Ummm . . . oops? That wasn't all meant to be a link. I guess it works anyway.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Not sure what's really worth recommending.

http://leninology.blogspot.com/atom.xml is a laugh a minute if you like vitriolic socialism. The best non-LJ blog I read is either that (for tenacity) or http://feeds.feedburner.com/schneier/excerpts. http://www.badscience.net/?feed=rss2 is good too.

http://www.idlewords.com/index.xml is usually great when it happens, but very irregular. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/rss/articles/editorials/zeropunctuation is usually good, but not technically a blog. I read http://docbrite.livejournal.com/data/rss because it's a lot about New Orleans.

Regarding comics, http://feeds.feedburner.com/freakangels is pootling along, but nothing spectacular yet. http://irregularwebcomic.net/darthsanddroids/rss.xml used to be good, but just moved onto the second film. It's worth reading up to now, but I may soon ditch it, since I can't remember anything about Send In The Clones except that as predicted Yoda fighting looked like Kermit fighting in Muppet Treasure Island. The other comics I read you've heard of.

LibraryThing has feeds of new items from each user, for example, http://www.librarything.com/rss/recent/triskellian

Everyone who programs C++ should read http://herbsutter.wordpress.com/feed/. Like you care.

I don't have another blog, but http://howtomakeadifference.net/feed/ and http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/feed/atom/ are by people you know.