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What "News for Nerds" Sites Should I Use?

posted by mattie_p on Monday February 17 2014, @04:04PM   
from the certainly-not-here dept.

stderr writes: "I used to visit a certain website quite often, but if Dice Holdings decide to switch the interface to what is currently known as "Beta", I'll have to find another site for my "stuff that matters" fix. So, SoylentNews, what sites can you recommend for a "maybe-ex" /. user?"

• Sites Sites (Score: 5, Interesting) by mattie_p on Monday February 17 2014, @04:07PM

  by mattie_p (13) on Monday February 17 2014, @04:07PM (#1018) Journal

  So, hopefully we'll get some interesting feedback here in what sites people can go to. And then as you go to those sites you can submit articles for this community. This is the main reason I accepted this question for publication. If you have a question that you think the community can help you answer and will benefit the community to hear about, please ask!

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• Sites worth a visit Sites worth a visit (Score: 5, Informative) by janrinok on Monday February 17 2014, @04:44PM

  by janrinok (52) on Monday February 17 2014, @04:44PM (#1056) Journal

  My own finds during the last week or so:

  • http://www.sciencedaily.com/
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_and_environmen t/

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  • Re:Sites worth a visit Re:Sites worth a visit (Score: 2, Informative) by Blackmoore on Monday February 17 2014, @08:04PM

    by Blackmoore (57) on Monday February 17 2014, @08:04PM (#1183) Journal

    Boing Boing - site deals frequently with Security / NSA / Digital Liberties topics.

    Ars
    .. google news.

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    • Re:Sites worth a visit Re:Sites worth a visit (Score: 1) by KibiByte on Monday February 17 2014, @09:06PM

      by KibiByte (1024) on Monday February 17 2014, @09:06PM (#1240)

      I can't second Google News as they seem to be PRWeb whores, and PRWeb reprints just about anything.

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      • Re:Sites worth a visit (Score: 1) by Blackmoore on Monday February 17 2014, @11:03PM

        by Blackmoore (57) on Monday February 17 2014, @11:03PM (#1328) Journal

        i dont blame you, i have to filter out all the damn gossip and politics

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• Re:Sites Re:Sites (Score: 5, Informative) by AudioGuy on Monday February 17 2014, @08:13PM

  by AudioGuy (24) on Monday February 17 2014, @08:13PM (#1191) Journal

  I'm sure you will get lots of good suggestions for sites here.

  One of the ways I find good sites is by tracing back where stories come from.

  For example, for my last submission, I started at

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/ [sciencedaily.com]

  which I originally got from some Slashdot article,

  Where I found

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/14021 2183713.htm [sciencedaily.com]

  which led me to

  http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2014/02/12/a ncient-settlements-and-modern-cities-follow-same-r ules-development-says-cu [colorado.edu]

  which finally led me to the original at

  http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.137 1%2Fjournal.pone.0087902 [plosone.org]

  Each step gave me more detail, and a less 'popularized'(i.e., dumbed down) version.

  Each site may have other interesting articles.

  One of the common complaints on slashdot articles was that there were too many from secondary sources, or blogs. Or really dumbed down ones.

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  • Re:Sites (Score: 2, Insightful) by Blackmoore on Monday February 17 2014, @08:31PM

    by Blackmoore (57) on Monday February 17 2014, @08:31PM (#1214) Journal

    I appreciate the effort - and if we can keep providing submissions with quality we can get back to what we liked about slash when it was good.

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