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help me make sense of the news, or, don't fuck in the front hole

OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
edited March 2010 in Social Entropy++
i have a SHITLOAD of arts and design feeds on my RSS bookmarks, but i have no idea how to manage the endless stream of information that is the news. before now, i've been using Charlie Brooker's newswipe as the primary source for my news, but he only does a couple seasons every year. i need to stay more current than that.

how do, SE

alternatively talk about charlie brooker, who rules, or doug stanhope even

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I use www.google.com/reader for all my RSS needs

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  • KrunkMcGrunkKrunkMcGrunk Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    NPR has a pretty awesome news site.

    http://www.npr.org/

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  • .avi.avi regular
    edited March 2010
    i got aje, the nation, guardian set to open on chrome startup and i skim them

    works pretty well

    is this what you mean

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  • FrylockHolmesFrylockHolmes Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I love charlie brooker's various wipe series

    though I guess I miss out some on when he's talking about stuff that happened in the UK

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  • StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I used CBC radio 1 for most of my news

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  • risumonrisumon Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I have my google reader set with BBC, NY Times, Top in Google, NPR, Al Jazeera and a couple local ones. Works pretty well. I mostly just scan it for interesting headlines.

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I only find out shit has happened when someone comments about it on Facebook or Twitter.

    No joke.

    (okay a little bit of a joke, the news is on pretty much 24/7 on some TV backstage at work)

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I've printed some tickets for that stanhope fella

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2010
  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Disturbing thing is I often get my news first on these boards.

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Jordyn wrote: »
    I've printed some tickets for that stanhope fella

    me too!

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  • redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited March 2010

    never before have i wished so fervently for a virtual play button to turn opaque

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  • ScrumScrum __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2010
    I suggest using Fox news, they seem to know what's what

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  • QuirkQuirk Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I'm reading Charlie Brooker's screenburn right now, which is a collection of a buch of his guardian articles on the subject of tv. It's really fucking funny, and was only £3

    I missed most of the last series of newswipe due to not having a telly license, aerial, or internet connection until the day the last episode came on, which was really really annoying

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I don't do the rss thing

    is it convenient

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  • marty_0001marty_0001 I am a file and you put documents in meRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    PLAYTIME IS FUN

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Skull Man wrote: »
    I don't do the rss thing

    is it convenient

    Basically any site that you like that uses it feed all of their updates to a central thing. It's kind of like your own person Digg. You tell it what to send you, and when to update you.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2010
    The Daily Show

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    doug stanhope is bill hicks without any integrity

    for example, an instalment of the girls gone wild series featuring doug

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  • BedlamBedlam Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Doug Stanhope?

    One of the guys who tried to do the Man show after Kimmel and Carola?

    The guy who directed a GGW in what was possibly the least erotic commercial Ive ever seen?

    FUCK that guy!

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I do not even know how to use RSS feeds.

    They make me feel not smart.

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  • ackack Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    sometimes i'll go through phases where i read alot of news but then i stop

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  • risumonrisumon Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    If you have gmail, go to google.com/reader.

    The upper left button is new subscriptions or something. Search for what you want there, BBC, penny-arcade, cute overload, etc. You can make folders to organize things and then you just need to check there for all your updates. Has helped me kick some bad webcomic habits that didn't support rss feeds since I only check there now for comics.

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  • DrswordsDrswords Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    doug stanhope is bill hicks without any integrity

    for example, an instalment of the girls gone wild series featuring doug

    Dude likes the pussy.


    And if i recall... some of Hicks' humor... he liked it as well. Enough to dream of wetting a cigarette closed by smearing it with the juices from betwixt Claudia Schiffer's labia.

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Google Reader on desktop, organized into a few different folders, stuff I want to save or can't read at work gets starred, I run through those eventually and clear out the stuff that isn't going to be useful; Reeder on iPhone.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    oh of course that absolves someone of shitbird activity

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  • DrswordsDrswords Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    oh of course that absolves someone of shitbird activity

    No... it doesnt.

    Just... dude likes the pussy.

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Also this is the best thing.

    http://vimeo.com/9917412

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  • ackack Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    doug stanhope just sucks

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  • BedlamBedlam Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Drswords wrote: »
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    oh of course that absolves someone of shitbird activity

    No... it doesnt.

    Just... dude likes the pussy.
    Along with half the world's population.

    Dogg aint gotta be talkin about it.

    it is known

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  • DrswordsDrswords Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Here is my theory on pussy. Most of us have been there at one point in our lives. Usually birth. We have at least been there in conception.

    And apparently, a lot of people liked the view so much... that they decided to go back there.

    Its a work in progress. But i think basically.. a lot of people ... like pussy.

    I could be wrong.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    99% of what I read is technology or politics related, so I use Memeorandum and Techmeme.

    Similar aggregators probably exist for art blags and news.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2010
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    doug stanhope is bill hicks without any integrity

    for example, an instalment of the girls gone wild series featuring doug

    well, until bill hicks' corpse is featured in an entertaining segment about overpopulation then i'll stick with newswipe

    i mean, i agree

    but it's still a good bit

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    it's a good bit yeah

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  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    i use google reader for everything

    i should probably clear out some of the feeds i never read that update constantly. i mostly love it for smaller/rarely updated blogs, so i don't have to go to each individual site and hope for something. apparently i have 37 subscriptions, but at least ten of those probably update less than once a month.

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  • ASimPersonASimPerson Cold... ... and hard.Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    risumon wrote: »
    If you have gmail, go to google.com/reader.

    The upper left button is new subscriptions or something. Search for what you want there, BBC, penny-arcade, cute overload, etc. You can make folders to organize things and then you just need to check there for all your updates. Has helped me kick some bad webcomic habits that didn't support rss feeds since I only check there now for comics.

    Conversely, there are crappy webcomics I still read because they have RSS feeds.

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  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    i have achewood on my subscription but i should probably just remove it

    not because i don't like it, but because i like it so much that i still can't help but check the site once or twice a day with high hopes for at least a witty line at the top or something

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I add people's twitter feeds who don't toot much or infrequently enough that they get lost in the shuffle, but that I want to see what they're doing.

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