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I try to religiously follow planet sysadmin as well as IBM developerworks.

Which ones do you read and advise to other system administrators?

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tomdeb
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Since every modern System Administrator should be using a feed reader, here's my selections from Google Reader [NOTE: These are RSS feeds, not the standard viewable sites themselves!]:

System Administration and Storage:

Security:

Tech/IT News:

Others that are important and popular among sysadmins:

Zoredache
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Christopher Cashell
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I'm subscribed to the following in my feed reader:

There are a few others I have in my sysadmin category, but they may not be generally applicable. I'd also suggest reading a lot of sites that would be considered 'sites programmers should read' - hacker news, programming.reddit etc., but then I tend to have an interest in both programming and systems administration.

Mark
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On a regular basis? None.

In the end, most sites just end up being a time suck (like Server Fault?)

Doug Luxem
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For some light reading you can't beat BOFH ;->

Dave Ganger
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Why slashdot.org of course!

Josh Brower
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For when you just need to know that you're not the only one...

http://www.thedailywtf.com

squillman
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No one has mentioned Microsoft's Sysinternals Blog, which has the best advanced Windows troubleshooting information anywhere.

Carl C
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I read Hacker News. The name is misleading, as it rarely has any hacker news, but very informative stories on every tech-subject imaginable.

http://news.ycombinator.com/

Peter Mortensen
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cop1152
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I subscribe to several of the planet aggregators.

Zoredache
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Of course this site !!!

Ok ! I'm leaving =====>[]

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Kortex786
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If you are linux-y: http://freshmeat.net (turn up the odd free software gem)

If you work in a school: http://edugeek.net

If you want to be secure: http://isc.sans.org

Tom Newton
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The BOFH!!

Zoredache
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Nick Kavadias
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I have gazillions of technology and vendor specific feeds in my RSS reader. Too many, perhaps.

Those that haven't yet been mentioned and are relatively generic:

Datacenter Knowledge and Royal Pingdom often prove an interesting outlook about what's going on.

Not strictly websites, the NANOG and Outages lists can be helpful weather reports.

Dan Carley
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I highly recommend Ars Technica in general, but a daily digest of the Server Room forum on their site is just awesome:

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/833003030931

Just tons of great info, especially on VMWare etc.

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My regularly read sysadmin related RSS feeds, excluding those listed above:

Mike Pountney
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If you want to keep an eye on security issues you can check out:

SANS Dshield

Darkreading

Websense Security Labs

McAfee's TrustedSource

US Computer Emergency Readiness Team Vulnerabilities Listing

David Yu
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HackADay is one of my favorites! It is good for killing time at work.

Peter Mortensen
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bsdjunkie
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The "Serious Hardware/Software Crap" and related forums at Something Awful I've found to be a source of solid advice, both for sysadmin and coding questions.

Darth Continent
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The Joyeur blog, by Joyent. Sadly they don't seem to be posting much content these days. Are they even doing the podcast anymore ?

Dave Cheney
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asktheadmin.com always has good content. petri.co.il also has some awesome Windows articles and a large and active forum.

Zoredache
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Fishwalker
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I've cut back on my RSS reader dramatically. Mostly it's web comics, which is about 8 or 10 sites now.

I try to follow high quality content sources and interesting people on Twitter. Most of the blog authors I had in RSS are on Twitter and link their latest post. A lot of colleagues, friends and acquaintances I know in Ruby on Rails and Web Operations are on Twitter, and post links to blog posts, news articles and other sites I find valuable and interesting.

It's like getting a "best of" without having to sift through all the crap. Other people did it for me. It's the ultimate in laziness.

Peter Mortensen
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jtimberman
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I usually visist OSNews to see whats going on in the OS world (allthough it's a bit Linux-aimed)

pauska
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I try to visit XKCD, Sinfest, Something Positive and Questionable Content daily.

Zoredache
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Rob Moir
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For getting a grip on the technology, digital life, and political zeitgeist, you might try popurls. The site is nicely designed and gives a reasonable way outside of a feed reader to grab quick look at the state of things. The advantage over a feed reader is that there is less of an urge to "deal" with everything and get it out of your "inbox" because there is no "inbox."

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