Subscriptions

This page lists a selection of the weblogs, newsfeeds, and podcasts I’m subscribed to. The links point to regular HTML pages; usually there’s an XML feed on the page as well.

There are four sections on this page:

• Science
• Technology
• Windows Development
• Video Games

Science

• The Christian Science Monitor, a (quite secular) digest of science and general news
• The Naked Scientists, a podcast by the University of Cambridge and the BBC
• Nature.com with the Nature podcast and other specialized podcasts
• Science Magazine with daily news and a weekly podcast
• The Science Show with Robyn Williams from Australia’s ABC Radio National
• Scientific American with Science Talk and other podcasts and newsfeeds
• This Week in Science with Kirsten Sanford and Justin Jackson

Technology

• All About Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley
• Ars Technica with numerous individual feeds
• Coding Horror and stackoverflow: Jeff Atwood’s book reviews, weblog, and podcast (with Joel Spolsky)
• Cranky Geeks podcast with a hilarious John C. Dvorak and guests who occasionally have a clue
• Deep Fried Bytes Technology Podcast
• Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report
• Eric Sink: Thoughts about software
• Joel on Software with rare but sometimes brilliant essays
• John C. Dvorak at PC Magazine (strictly for amusement…)
• Lambda the Ultimate on programming languages
• Pixel Corps TV: This Week in Media and other podcasts about media technology
• Schneier on Security by Bruce Schneier
• Software Engineering Radio: CS fundamentals and interviews with (more or less) famous developers
• Sutter’s Mill: Herb Sutter on C++ and other things
• The TWiT Netcast Network: This Week in Tech and other podcasts with Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Steve Gibson et al.

Windows Development

This section contains weblogs on all things Windows, including Microsoft employees posting on the company’s MSDN Blogs service and elsewhere, but also independent bloggers focused on Windows development.

• BCL Team Blog on the .NET Base Class Library
• Chris Burrows’ Blog on C# 4
• CLR Team Blog on the .NET Common Language Runtime
• CodeCast by Code Magazine for .NET developers
• Don Syme’s WebLog on F# and related topics
• Eric Gunnerson’s C# Compendium, mostly about other things
• Fabulous Adventures in Coding: Eric Lippert on programming
• IanG on Tap: Ian Griffiths' Weblog
• Is This Things On? Visual Studio 2010 tips by Zain Naboulsi
• JIT, NGen, and other Managed Code Generation Stuff by the CLR Code Generation Team
• Joe Duffy’s Weblog on concurrency and parallelism
• Jon Skeet’s Coding Blog on C#, .NET, Java, software development etc.
• Kirill Osenkov on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4
• Larry Osterman: Confessions of an old fogey
• Mark Russinovich tracks down spyware and other misbehaved applications
• Peter Ritchie’s MVP Blog on C# and .NET development
• The Old New Thing: Raymond Chen on Windows arcana
• Pluralsight Blogs by Don Box and colleagues
• Precision Computing: Lee Holmes on the Windows PowerShell
• Rico Mariani’s WebLog on Visual Studio, performance & profiling
• Sam Ng’s Blog on C# 4
• Sara Ford: tips for Visual Studio and CodePlex
• .NET Security Blog by Shawn Farkas
• Visual Studio Blog on all aspects of the IDE
• Windows 7 Team Blog and the more specialized Developing for Windows subfeed
• Wintellect Weblogs: Jeff Prosise, Jeffrey Richter, John Robbins et al. on .NET programming and other things

Video Games

• 1UP News and 1UP Radio Site hosting various podcasts
• bit-tech.net with news & reviews for hardware and games
• Dubious Quality, a mostly game-related weblog by Bill Harris
• Edge Online, the website of the British print magazine with additional industry news and commentary
• Eurogamer and GamesIndustry.biz, two sister websites with consumer and industry focus, respectively
• Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry is a dedicated weblog for gaming technology, with a well-hidden separate RSS feed.
• Fidgit, a general gaming weblog by veteran freelancer Tom Chick
• Flash of Steel, a weblog and podcast on strategy games by Troy S. Goodfellow
• Gamasutra, industry news and articles by & for professional game developers
• Game Architect: Kyle Wilson's Musings on Game Engine Structure and Design
• Greenspeak by Jeff Green of CGW/GfW fame
• Idle Thumbs: A Video Game Podcast with Gamasutra’s Chris Remo and others
• Improbable Insights by tech writer Loyd Case, formerly at CGW and ExtremeTech, whose veterans also include Jason Cross and Joel Durham Jr.
• PC Gamer Podcast, featuring the staff of the American and British print magazines
• Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Kieron Gillen, Alec Meer, Jim Rossignol & John Walker on PC games
• Slide to Play and Touch Arcade: gaming news & reviews for Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
• Technotainment by Chris Morris, formerly with CNN
• Weekend Confirmed: gaming podcast with Garnett Lee, Brian Leahy, and Jeff Cannata