I skim the NYTimes.com frontpage headlines twice daily to get a sense of what's going on. It my way of maintaining a "news diet" without completely losing touch with the world.
Instapaper is a good alternative too. I personally stopped using Pocket due to its insistence on adding social-network features that I neither want nor care about in a bookmarking/read-it-later service.
Dashboards: Google Analytics, Adsense, Server Status
News: Flipboard (mobile), Feed Reader, weather.gov
Weekly: Bank and credit card sites to monitor usage and pay bills
Seasonal: Sports
I've become very fond of the Blendle news site (www.blendle.com) since discovering it on HN. It's still the beta version and might not be currently taking new customers, but it's definitely worth a visit.
and if I were limiting myself to non aggregators: atlantic, newyorker, bloomberg, avclub, indiewire, arstechnica, mit technology review, techcrunch, anandtech, nautilus, npr, rolling stone, wsj, nyt, guardian, wired, vice, foreign policy, the kernel, stratechery, harvard business review, variety, birth movies death, priceonomics, poynter, digiday
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work related sites
Hackernews
Mr Money Mustache
Ars technia (once a week)
Bank of America: To see if I got charged yet another fee
Reddit: mostly r/programming r/videos r/cscareerquestions
MSDN: To read .NET documentations
Youtube: To listen to background music while coding.
/r/programming and various language-specific subreddits such as /r/python
Github
Stack Overflow
Facebook & Instagram
BSDNow for the podcasts. YouTube for watching old conference talks.
GitHub
Google Drive
The Verge
Gizmodo
* Reddit (mostly Linux- and music-related subs)
* Twitter (my go-to social network)
* GitHub / (our company's) GitLab
* Spotify and/or SoundCloud
* Pocket (I'm madly in love with their service)
That's pretty much it.
* MacRumors
* 9to5Mac
* The Verge
* Electrek
* Reddit
Feedly (fresh articles): Ars Risk Assessment, Bloomberg, The Atlantic Business, various friends' and food blogs
Pocket (older articles)
If I have more time: HN, r/crypto, sometimes Medium
To waste time: Sporcle, Instagram, Foodgawker
http://arstechnica.co.uk/
https://phoronix.com/
http://xkcd.com/
https://stackoverflow.com/
http://osnews.com/
https://kernel.org/
http://slashdot.org/
https://lwn.net/
http://www.erfworld.com/
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog
HN
Reddit (/r/askhistorians, various space subreddits)
Real World Technologies forums
Ars Technica
Piperka
http://lobste.rs
http://barnacl.es
http://slashdot.org (most days)
http://dilbert.com (most of the time)
Reddit (http://reddit.com/r/machinelearning, http://reddit.com/r/artificial, http://reddit.com/r/semanticweb, etc.)
http://arxiv.org/corr
http://www.jmlr.org (maybe not every day, but close)
http://www.jair.org (maybe not every day, but close)
http://news.google.com
http://www.youtube.com - for music and for various tech videos
http://www.coursera.org - I'm working my way through a couple of Coursera Specializations, so I'm on there pretty much every day.
http://www.phins.com/phins-urls.html - to catch up on the latest Miami Dolphins news
I think that covers most of them. I'll check http://theregister.co.uk quite often as well. Oh, and the main social networks too... FB, Twitter, G+
Seriously, drop your email address here, or email me directly if you'd prefer, and I can invite you.
http://techmeme.com http://techmeme.com/river
http://mediagazer.com http://mediagazer.com/river
http://hckrnews.com
http://redef.com/channel/media http://redef.com/channel/tech/feed http://redef.com/charts/popular/total http://redef.com/charts/shared/total
http://www.aldaily.com
http://www.producthunt.com
http://readability.com/topreads
http://longform.org
https://longreads.com
http://thewirecutter.com http://thesweethome.com
and for everything else there's http://www.usepanda.com
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and ones I never seem to make it to
http://www.metafilter.com/
https://thebrowser.com/
http://www.isitfunnytoday.com/
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and if I were limiting myself to non aggregators: atlantic, newyorker, bloomberg, avclub, indiewire, arstechnica, mit technology review, techcrunch, anandtech, nautilus, npr, rolling stone, wsj, nyt, guardian, wired, vice, foreign policy, the kernel, stratechery, harvard business review, variety, birth movies death, priceonomics, poynter, digiday