On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Gadi Evron<[email protected]> wrote: > I am lazy with reading magazines, but here goes. > > For my daily news and cool I have my RSS feed, friends, and > facebook/twitter. I am lazy on watching them, but I see enough. > > For security news, I get the raw data rather than any publication. I > often miss stuff outside of my interest fields and hear about them from > friends, facebook, twitter, or not at all. > > My favorite publications are: > > - The Economist (weekly) -- it gives a neutral to left-wing view of news > from the whole world in 80 pages or less. While it used to be better, it > gives a perspective on world and business matters which are beyond who > did what. Business, international law and historical perspective all > over the place. > > - New Yorker (weekly) -- started reading it this week, and I am very > pleased with the fun style, serious research and well-balanced thinking. > > - Wired (monthly) -- Fun. Geek. Good stories on the world around us to > enrich us beyond just the news. From the story behind trying to make the > iphone happen to the business behind Marvel comic book movies. > > - Blazer (monthly) -- Israeli Maxim-type publication I nearly never get to. > > I make a good effort to read the Economist, but it comes and goes in > cycles. I always enjoy reading the rest but don't get to them as often > as I'd like. My reading time is limited and my Internet access and 1000 > unread books keep me busy enough. > > Radio: > When in the States I like listening to NPR on the road. > > TV: > BBC and similar are almost as biased as Fox News in my opinion, only to > the left. With much greater ethos to carry the b/s. > > It is unfortunate that left-wing news sources are as a rule of thumb > better than right-wing ones, but not by much. Fox News is just Really > That Bad. > > What are yours? > > Gadi.
These are technically publications, but they serve the same purpose for me. Funsec :) - For stuff I'd probably not read otherwise (time poor) *NOG@ for all things network FD for entertainment (well, sometimes) MegaTokyo (http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/9 - classic!) to break up the monotony. Slashdot occasionally. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
