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

13 points by lenkendall 13y ago

leephillips 13y ago
Maybe not "daily", but very frequently: here is a small selection of some of the small sites on my newsblur newsfeed list: [0] http://www.jamesaltucher.com http://www.jamesaltucher.com : Much self-pity, but also sometimes quite funny. http://www.astrobio.net/latestnews_rss/news.xml http://www.astrobio.net/latestnews_rss/news.xml : Is there life on other planets? http://kaygun.tumblr.com/ http://kaygun.tumblr.com/ http://www.friday.com/bbum http://www.friday.com/bbum : Coding, hardware projects, generally interesting. http://bestyoucanbe.blogspot.com/ http://bestyoucanbe.blogspot.com/ : Insights into the education system in regard to the raising of his neurologically non-typical son. http://blog.lmorchard.com http://blog.lmorchard.com http://ex-muslim.org.uk http://ex-muslim.org.uk : Oppression of atheists in the Muslim world. http://clojurefun.wordpress.com http://clojurefun.wordpress.com : Clojure! http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath : Bad science, denialism. http://blog.willbenton.com http://blog.willbenton.com : Music, logic, programming, etc. http://www.groklaw.net http://www.groklaw.net : Maybe not "small"; detailed analysis of important legal cases. http://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal http://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal : Web design. http://www.holovaty.com/ http://www.holovaty.com/ : "I'm co-creator and co-Benevolent Dictator For Life of the open-source Django Web framework" http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones : Combines talented photography, photoessays, and study of the retina. http://lee-phillips.org http://lee-phillips.org : I regularly check my site to see if it's still working. http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca : Language issues; can be amusing or stupid. http://freethoughtblogs.com/maryamnamazie http://freethoughtblogs.com/maryamnamazie : Freedom for women in the Muslim world. http://math-blog.com http://math-blog.com : Infrequently updated, but often great. http://www.norvig.com http://www.norvig.com : See above. http://morepypy.blogspot.com/ http://morepypy.blogspot.com/ : Keep track of progress on the pypy Python JIT compiler. http://www.realclimate.org http://www.realclimate.org : Climate denialism and research. http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/ http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/ : They find many new comets (I curate a newsfeed for a planetarium website). http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks : The venerable Risks Digest lives on. http://intertwingly.net/blog/ http://intertwingly.net/blog/ http://stevelosh.com http://stevelosh.com http://tug.org/pracjourn http://tug.org/pracjourn : The LaTeX user group publication. http://the.taoofmac.com http://the.taoofmac.com : Interesting take on technology; not particularly focused on Macs. [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.
jackjeff 13y ago
Security http://krebsonsecurity.com http://krebsonsecurity.com http://www.schneier.com http://www.schneier.com http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/ http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/ Apple http://www.marco.org http://www.marco.org http://daringfireball.net http://daringfireball.net http://www.mondaynote.com http://www.mondaynote.com http://reverse.put.as http://reverse.put.as Programming http://blog.barthe.ph http://blog.barthe.ph http://herbsutter.com http://herbsutter.com http://thedailywtf.com http://thedailywtf.com http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog/ http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog/ http://mrale.ph http://mrale.ph Other http://torrentfreak.com http://torrentfreak.com http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk
dataminer 13y ago
contemporist.com
gwern 13y 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!

13 points by lenkendall 13y ago

Maybe not "daily", but very frequently: here is a small selection of some of the small sites on my newsblur newsfeed list: [0] http://www.jamesaltucher.com http://www.jamesaltucher.com : Much self-pity, but also sometimes quite funny. http://www.astrobio.net/latestnews_rss/news.xml http://www.astrobio.net/latestnews_rss/news.xml : Is there life on other planets? http://kaygun.tumblr.com/ http://kaygun.tumblr.com/ http://www.friday.com/bbum http://www.friday.com/bbum : Coding, hardware projects, generally interesting. http://bestyoucanbe.blogspot.com/ http://bestyoucanbe.blogspot.com/ : Insights into the education system in regard to the raising of his neurologically non-typical son. http://blog.lmorchard.com http://blog.lmorchard.com http://ex-muslim.org.uk http://ex-muslim.org.uk : Oppression of atheists in the Muslim world. http://clojurefun.wordpress.com http://clojurefun.wordpress.com : Clojure! http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath : Bad science, denialism. http://blog.willbenton.com http://blog.willbenton.com : Music, logic, programming, etc. http://www.groklaw.net http://www.groklaw.net : Maybe not "small"; detailed analysis of important legal cases. http://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal http://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal : Web design. http://www.holovaty.com/ http://www.holovaty.com/ : "I'm co-creator and co-Benevolent Dictator For Life of the open-source Django Web framework" http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones : Combines talented photography, photoessays, and study of the retina. http://lee-phillips.org http://lee-phillips.org : I regularly check my site to see if it's still working. http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca : Language issues; can be amusing or stupid. http://freethoughtblogs.com/maryamnamazie http://freethoughtblogs.com/maryamnamazie : Freedom for women in the Muslim world. http://math-blog.com http://math-blog.com : Infrequently updated, but often great. http://www.norvig.com http://www.norvig.com : See above. http://morepypy.blogspot.com/ http://morepypy.blogspot.com/ : Keep track of progress on the pypy Python JIT compiler. http://www.realclimate.org http://www.realclimate.org : Climate denialism and research. http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/ http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/ : They find many new comets (I curate a newsfeed for a planetarium website). http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks : The venerable Risks Digest lives on. http://intertwingly.net/blog/ http://intertwingly.net/blog/ http://stevelosh.com http://stevelosh.com http://tug.org/pracjourn http://tug.org/pracjourn : The LaTeX user group publication. http://the.taoofmac.com http://the.taoofmac.com : Interesting take on technology; not particularly focused on Macs. [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.

jackjeff 13y ago

Security http://krebsonsecurity.com http://krebsonsecurity.com http://www.schneier.com http://www.schneier.com http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/ http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/ Apple http://www.marco.org http://www.marco.org http://daringfireball.net http://daringfireball.net http://www.mondaynote.com http://www.mondaynote.com http://reverse.put.as http://reverse.put.as Programming http://blog.barthe.ph http://blog.barthe.ph http://herbsutter.com http://herbsutter.com http://thedailywtf.com http://thedailywtf.com http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog/ http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog/ http://mrale.ph http://mrale.ph Other http://torrentfreak.com http://torrentfreak.com http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk

dataminer 13y ago

contemporist.com

gwern 13y 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!