I try to keep my subscription to an absolute minimum since I like to leave some time for reading books. After a lot of culling, I'm currently subscribed to some

I try to keep my subscription to an absolute minimum since I like to leave some time for reading books. After a lot of culling, I'm currently subscribed to some popular feeds: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ (general web design / dev) http://www.alistapart.com/ http://www.alistapart.com/ (long form web design / front-end) http://dailyjs.com/ http://dailyjs.com/ (Javascript / node.js) http://createdigitalmusic.com/ http://createdigitalmusic.com/ (digital music / software) http://www.creativeapplications.net/ http://www.creativeapplications.net/ (new-media art) And a handful of unpopular ones: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ (absolutely my favorite blog in the world – self-describes as "refactored perception) http://www.tempobook.com/blog/ http://www.tempobook.com/blog/ (same author as above, posts related to his last book) http://worrydream.com/feed.xml http://worrydream.com/feed.xml (not really a blog, but Bret Victor writes some of the best long-form articles on interaction design around – read all of them) http://www2.technologyreview.com/rss/video_rss.aspx http://www2.technologyreview.com/rss/video_rss.aspx (Tech Review videos, sparsely updated – mainly because the editor's interviews are awesome/hilarious) http://idlewords.com/ http://idlewords.com/ (breathtaking travel blog from the founder of Pinboard) http://www.loper-os.org/ http://www.loper-os.org/ (awesome / hilarious posts by a software heretic on the general terrible state of things in technology – keeps me in touch with Alan Kay-esque thinking) http://we-make-money-not-art.com/ http://we-make-money-not-art.com/ (the only contemporary art blog I like from a very dedicated Italian writer) http://vagueterrain.net/ http://vagueterrain.net/ (occasionally published digital art magazine, themed topics, guest curated) http://theixdlibrary.com/ http://theixdlibrary.com/ (occasional classic UX articles) http://www.markboulton.co.uk/ http://www.markboulton.co.uk/ (occasional forward-thinking posts on web design, focus on layout and grids) http://informationarchitects.net/ http://informationarchitects.net/ (same as above, but focus on typography) All of these feeds have been selected for a very high signal to noise ratio and most of them are updated only occasionally (which I prefer), with the exception of Smashing and DailyJS.