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
• AnandTech: news & reviews on computing technology
• Ars Technica with numerous individual feeds
• Coding Horror and stackoverflow: Jeff Atwood’s weblog and book reviews
• The Ed Bott Report on Microsoft and other IT companies
• Eric Sink: Thoughts about software
• I Programmer: an online magazine for programmers
• Joel on Software with rare but sometimes brilliant essays
• John C. Dvorak at MarketWatch and PC Magazine (strictly for amusement…)
• Lambda the Ultimate on programming languages
• Microsoft Watch on our favorite monopolist
• Picture’s Up: Gordon Cameron’s thoughts on movies & television
• Schneier on Security by Bruce Schneier
• Software Engineering Radio: CS fundamentals and interviews with (more or less) famous developers
• The TWiT Netcast Network: This Week in Tech and other podcasts with Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Steve Gibson et al.
• Tim Anderson’s ITWriting on software development
• X3 on Mevio (also on iTunes) is John C. Dvorak’s new video show, the spiritual successor to Cranky Geeks

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
• F# Team Blog
• IanG on Tap: Ian Griffiths' Weblog
• Is This Things On? Visual Studio 2010 tips by Zain Naboulsi
• 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
• Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) on Silverlight and WPF
• The Old New Thing: Raymond Chen on Windows arcana
• Precision Computing: Lee Holmes on the Windows PowerShell
• Riagenic: Ex-Microsoftie Scott Barnes trolls his former employer
• Rico Mariani’s WebLog on Visual Studio, performance & profiling
• Sutter’s Mill: Herb Sutter on C++ and other things
• Tomáš Petříček on F# and asynchronous programming
• Visual C++ Team Blog on Microsoft’s one performant language
• Visual Studio Blog on all aspects of the IDE
• Wintellect Weblogs: Jeff Prosise, Jeffrey Richter, John Robbins et al. on .NET programming and other things

Video Games

• bit-tech.net with news, reviews & podcasts about hardware and games
• Bitmob with community-generated content, and podcasts featuring veteran writers Dan Hsu, Ryan Scott, et al.
• 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.
• Finger Gaming, Slide to Play, and Touch Arcade: gaming news & reviews for Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
• 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
• Games, Dammit! features several 1UP writers talking at length about a single game each week
• Greenspeak by Jeff Green of CGW/GfW fame
• Idle Thumbs: A Video Game Podcast with Chris Remo (formerly with Gamasutra) and others
• Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Alec Meer, Jim Rossignol, Quintin Smith & John Walker on PC games
• Weekend Confirmed: gaming podcast on Shacknews with Garnett Lee (formerly with EGM and 1UP), Brian Leahy, and Jeff Cannata