Blog Diet: A Starter List For Your RSS Reader (Updated Spring 2022)

(Updated Jan 2024 at this link here.)

People keep asking me where I find stuff, or where to start with an RSS reader.

I exported my subscriptions, and damn, there are a LOT of dead blogs out there. I’m actually shocked at how much of my list is now gone. (And how many sites have shut off their RSS!) Here is a selection of blogs from the list of ones I think are still active. Like I say, it’s just a bit of my active subscriptions list, but maybe you’ll find something you want to follow.

• [RSS] Film Ruminations (only occasional posts)
• [RSS] Contemporary Art Daily
• [RSS] Real Men Sow
• [RSS] Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture
• [RSS] Blog – Journal of Futures Studies
• [RSS] The Art(s) of Slow Cinema
• [RSS] ribbonfarm (philosophy and digital tools)
• [RSS] Tokyo Fashion
• [RSS] David Allen Green (British law, very good)
• [RSS] CineVue
• [RSS] The Quietus | All Articles (music)
• [RSS] Graphic Journey Blog
• [RSS] James Bridle | The Guardian
• [RSS] Centauri Dreams — Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration
• [RSS] Disquiet (sound)
• [RSS] Fluid Radio
• [RSS] Interconnected (Matt Webb, technologist)
• [RSS] Pulp Covers
• [RSS] Subtraction.com + Feed (very occasional, film reviews)
• [RSS] The Casual Optimist (very good at book covers)
• [RSS] Uses This
• [RSS] The Verge – What’s in your bags
• [RSS] Colossal (arts)
• [RSS] Everyday Carry
• [RSS] Lines and Colors (art)
• [RSS] Artzine
• [RSS] Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home
• [RSS] LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
• [RSS] Hi-Fructose Magazine (arts)
• [RSS] bookforum.com
• [RSS] ARTnews.com
• [RSS] Artsy News
• [RSS] Sean Bonner (tech/art)
• [RSS] Literary Hub
• [RSS] { feuilleton } (the gold standard – artist/designer John Coulthart’s blog)
• [RSS] Study Hacks – Decoding Patterns of Success – Cal Newport
• [RSS] Wyrd Britain (Ian Holloway’s very fine blog about strange British culture)
• [RSS] Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer (the huge production of an immense artistic mind)
• [RSS] Minimalist Baker
• [RSS] BLDGBLOG
• [RSS] blissblog (Simon Reynolds, a longtime favourite music writer)
• [RSS] Monument – Connecting people through Techno music 🖤
• [RSS] Hermitary – hermit’s thatch
• [RSS] SPINE (book design blog)
• [RSS] 70s Sci-Fi Art
• [RSS] The Nordic Kitchen
• [RSS] Physics News – Physics News, Material Sciences, Science News, Physics
• [RSS] Film and Furniture
• [RSS] PublishersWeekly.com News Articles
• [RSS] Hermitary – hermits around the web
• [RSS] grugq’s domain (cyberwar and law)
• [RSS] Destroyed and Abandoned
• [RSS] José Naranja (guy draws the most fantastic things in notebooks)
• [RSS] The Pen Addict
• [RSS] Publishing Trends
• [RSS] Notebook Stories
• [RSS] Publishing Perspectives
• [RSS] Neural (blog of magazine)
• [RSS] Badspace (excellent short comics)
• [RSS] Space News – Space, Astronomy, Space Exploration
• [RSS] Daily Philosophy