Thought it would be cool to find out what RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds WGBers are subscribing to.

RSS Background Info
RSS readers for FireFox
Free RSS reader for Intenet Explorer
Publish an RSS feed from a blogger page

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WG Blog :
http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/blogger_rss.xml

Bruce Sterling Blog:
http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/sterling/rss.xml

Yahoo Technology:
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech

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None.

Ahem: http://bravus.port5.com/blog/wp-rss2.php {/straight pimpin'}

Bravus has company on the cutting edge of blogging technology:

digitalprimate's RSS feed
http://digitalprimate.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Yeah, the primate needs to be better about content generation the last month or so. It's coming; it's a birthday resolution. I've also been working on a new template to replace the plain jane (and unreadable) blogger interface, but I edit CSS with all the dispatch of glacier, so it may take awhile.

Anyway, some of my favorite rss feeds are, in no particular order:

Metafilter
bOINGbOING
Slashdot
Wirednews
WaPo
BBC Int'l News
Memoryblog (the Memory Hole's blog)
Cryptome
We make money not art
The Smoking Gun
The Agonist
Daily Kos
Schneier on Security
New Urban Legends
Fark
The Smirking Chimp

..and of course the Bravus.

I just deleted all my NYT feeds, and I'm seriously thinking of canceling my Sunday subscription. I beginning to feel it's immoral to support them any longer.

remotepush @ 1000

remotepush's xml feed
http://remotevoices.blogspot.com/atom.xml

I don't understand what's so exciting about RSS. It seems like the poor cousin of Usenet or boards like this one, where you only listen to a handful of people and can't talk to them and their sites can be censored out before you have a chance to see anything really interesting. What's so superior about this to keeping a list of bookmarks in a WWW browser?

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Originally posted by banshee:
I don't understand what's so exciting about RSS. It seems like the poor cousin of Usenet or boards like this one, where you only listen to a handful of people and can't talk to them and their sites can be censored out before you have a chance to see anything really interesting. What's so superior about this to keeping a list of bookmarks in a WWW browser?

It's not really designed to be communication, so
it is very different from both usenet and other
types of online fora.

From what I've seen there are basically two
key uses for RSS. One is as update notification
(my preferred use), so it tells you when a site
you like to read has been updated. The other,
more popular use, is aggregation. It takes all
the new data from your feeds and puts it so you
don't need to hit up the individual websites. I
believe they can stick it all on one html page
so you can get all your news in one place. A
spinoff of this is podcasting, where the clients
will automagically stick the updated file on
your mp3 player.