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Ask HN: What are the small to medium size blogs you go to daily?

13 pointsby lenkendallabout 12 years ago

4 comments

leephillipsabout 12 years ago
Maybe not "daily", but very frequently: here is a small selection of some of the small sites on my newsblur newsfeed list: [0]<p><a href="http://www.jamesaltucher.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.jamesaltucher.com</a> : Much self-pity, but also sometimes quite funny.<p><a href="http://www.astrobio.net/latestnews_rss/news.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.astrobio.net/latestnews_rss/news.xml</a> : Is there life on other planets?<p><a href="http://kaygun.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow">http://kaygun.tumblr.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.friday.com/bbum" rel="nofollow">http://www.friday.com/bbum</a> : Coding, hardware projects, generally interesting.<p><a href="http://bestyoucanbe.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://bestyoucanbe.blogspot.com/</a> : Insights into the education system in regard to the raising of his neurologically non-typical son.<p><a href="http://blog.lmorchard.com" rel="nofollow">http://blog.lmorchard.com</a><p><a href="http://ex-muslim.org.uk" rel="nofollow">http://ex-muslim.org.uk</a> : Oppression of atheists in the Muslim world.<p><a href="http://clojurefun.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://clojurefun.wordpress.com</a> : Clojure!<p><a href="http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath" rel="nofollow">http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath</a> : Bad science, denialism.<p><a href="http://blog.willbenton.com" rel="nofollow">http://blog.willbenton.com</a> : Music, logic, programming, etc.<p><a href="http://www.groklaw.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.groklaw.net</a> : Maybe not "small"; detailed analysis of important legal cases.<p><a href="http://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal" rel="nofollow">http://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal</a> : Web design.<p><a href="http://www.holovaty.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.holovaty.com/</a> : "I'm co-creator and co-Benevolent Dictator For Life of the open-source Django Web framework"<p><a href="http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones" rel="nofollow">http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones</a> : Combines talented photography, photoessays, and study of the retina.<p><a href="http://lee-phillips.org" rel="nofollow">http://lee-phillips.org</a> : I regularly check my site to see if it's still working.<p><a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca" rel="nofollow">http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca</a> : Language issues; can be amusing or stupid.<p><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/maryamnamazie" rel="nofollow">http://freethoughtblogs.com/maryamnamazie</a> : Freedom for women in the Muslim world.<p><a href="http://math-blog.com" rel="nofollow">http://math-blog.com</a> : Infrequently updated, but often great.<p><a href="http://www.norvig.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.norvig.com</a> : See above.<p><a href="http://morepypy.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://morepypy.blogspot.com/</a> : Keep track of progress on the pypy Python JIT compiler.<p><a href="http://www.realclimate.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.realclimate.org</a> : Climate denialism and research.<p><a href="http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/</a> : They find many new comets (I curate a newsfeed for a planetarium website).<p><a href="http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks" rel="nofollow">http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks</a> : The venerable Risks Digest lives on.<p><a href="http://intertwingly.net/blog/" rel="nofollow">http://intertwingly.net/blog/</a><p><a href="http://stevelosh.com" rel="nofollow">http://stevelosh.com</a><p><a href="http://tug.org/pracjourn" rel="nofollow">http://tug.org/pracjourn</a> : The LaTeX user group publication.<p><a href="http://the.taoofmac.com" rel="nofollow">http://the.taoofmac.com</a> : Interesting take on technology; not particularly focused on Macs.<p>[0] Note to "bloggers", etc: if you don't have a newsfeed (RSS, atom) I'll probably forget about your site and never go there again, even if I like it, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
jackjeffabout 12 years ago
Security <a href="http://krebsonsecurity.com" rel="nofollow">http://krebsonsecurity.com</a> <a href="http://www.schneier.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.schneier.com</a> <a href="http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org</a> <a href="http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/</a><p>Apple <a href="http://www.marco.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.marco.org</a> <a href="http://daringfireball.net" rel="nofollow">http://daringfireball.net</a> <a href="http://www.mondaynote.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.mondaynote.com</a> <a href="http://reverse.put.as" rel="nofollow">http://reverse.put.as</a><p>Programming <a href="http://blog.barthe.ph" rel="nofollow">http://blog.barthe.ph</a> <a href="http://herbsutter.com" rel="nofollow">http://herbsutter.com</a> <a href="http://thedailywtf.com" rel="nofollow">http://thedailywtf.com</a> <a href="http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog/</a> <a href="http://mrale.ph" rel="nofollow">http://mrale.ph</a><p>Other <a href="http://torrentfreak.com" rel="nofollow">http://torrentfreak.com</a> <a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk</a>
gwernabout 12 years ago
Going to blogs is, with the exception of very busy aggregators like Reddit or Hacker News (so, not 'small to medium size blogs'), for chumps. That's why we have RSS!
dataminerabout 12 years ago
contemporist.com