RSS & News

[entipy]

So, I have just recently begun making use of Thunderbird's built-in RSS abilities. I've been seeing RSS stuff all over the web forever, but I always thought, "Meh. That's too much techie shit for me to even try to understand or work with, so... no."

Well, I bit the bullet and added some RSS feeds, so now all my blogs I read and my news stuff and even Flickr pics are all right there in my email program. WOO!

Now, here's my question. What online news source do y'all prefer?

[Poseidon]

news.com.com (C|Net news) , Wired News, BBC , Ars Technica, that sort of stuff

[Amaurote]

I must say, I've never liked news portals or RSS feeds. If I want to read salon, I'll go there - I don't want to read a precis or a mutilated first paragraph.

At the moment, I don't really have a favourite: salon is starting to be dominated by its entertainment section, the Guardian is good but a bit worthy at times, and the BBC is too bland. I also prefer the offline New Statesman to the online NS - it's less prissy.