Funk Babblings

When my mom recently emailed me about some football player involved in dogfighting, and I had no idea what she was talking about because I get no sports news, I was inspired to make a complete list of where I get my non-technical news:

• Associated Press "Top News", "National News", "Tech News", "Supreme Court News" (via http://my.myway.com, though I now see I can get RSS directly from the AP)
• NPR News / Morning Edition
• NPR's "On The Media"
• Harry Shearer's "Le Show"
• The Daily Show (the only TV news I ever watch)
• Daily Kos
• Pandagon
• The Other Paper, whenever I'm in Columbus and get a chance to pick it up; among other things, it has the some of the best coverage of Ohio government I've seen.

(See also "My Internet", now slightly outdated.)

By the way, the most recent "On The Media" had an interesting story postulating self-perpetuating socioeconomic class differences between MySpace users and Facebook users, due to their origins in the L.A. indie rock scene and the Harvard University scene, respectively. Considering I'm an indie rock fan who hates MySpace but got an account there solely in hopes of more easily tracking indie bands there (didn't work out, see "hates MySpace"), but who's spent almost no time on Facebook, this was kind of interesting to me, and I look forward to reading the source article. Too bad the author didn't cover LiveJournal users.

Update Aug 8: Yeah, OK, I did hear about Barry Bonds breaking the home run record. So much for zero sports news. At least it's a sport I used to follow.

For anyone who wonders how RSS/Atom feeds can be used/viewed, or wants more ways of doing so, check out this post on "10 Ways to Look at Feeds".

I suppose LiveJournal's friends list (with feed syndication) could be seen as an implementation of #7, "River of news".

See also Wikipedia's Feed Aggregator entry.