Hacker News, through RSS feeds. Wikipedia is always fun to browse. I used to browse slashdot but once the shill epidemic kicked in, it started to become a complete waste of time.
I used to keep up with tens of blogs and sites via RSS, as I got busier it became obvious I couldn't possibly keep up with all of them. Now HN & NYTimes is the only place I visit and occasionally Lifehacker. HN filters out most of what I don't care about.
I went over to Pinterest and took a look at the popular and found nothing worth looking EVERY DAY. That's when I realized you said PinBOARD and not PinTEREST.
I stopped using Dzone ages ago. It has become a mixture of spam and dangerously stupid disinformation. It's being heavily gamed and the owners don't care.
http://www.contemporist.com
Daily routine because of my obsession with architecture, home design and styles.
http://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/
Hours and Hours of video on how things are built, by hand. I'm utterly fascinated by the craft of building tangible objects with your hands.
I don't have particular must-read sites so much as collection of sites with potentially interesting material set up in Pulse which I scan through twice a day or so.
I end up reading stuff from HN [1], The Verge [2], Wired[3], A VC[4], VentureBeat[5], AllThingsD[6], Technology Review [7] and Ars Technica [8] most often.
They aren't strictly digital related, but I get a lot out of Archinect [9] and core77 [10] for design interest.
I use Prismatic (http://getprismatic.com) which gives me more than enough to read on a daily basis. I also use Zite on my iPad (because Prismatic doesn't have an iPad app -- yet?).
O'reilly radar - 4 daily links is what I read when I don't even have time for HN. If it's one of the things I really care about, it usually ends up on there. http://radar.oreilly.com/
Reddit, for starters. There are a lot of great sub-Reddits you can subscribe to and you can remove a lot of the pointless default ones (/r/atheism, /r/politics, /r/aww, etc.) so you end up with a feed that really suits you.
http://inbound.org/ is basically HN for people also interested in online marketing, SEO, etc - lots of great practical stuff ends up on there that never makes HN.
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HNsearch.com, Topsy.com, pinboard.com, stackoverflow.com, getprismatic.com, subreddits for specific topics.
Sometimes, delicious.com, which i used to go every day.
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I open chrome and firefox pages to manage extensiosn/addons and those are the only pages i let myself open (my version of no-procrast)
http://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/ Hours and Hours of video on how things are built, by hand. I'm utterly fascinated by the craft of building tangible objects with your hands.
http://wireframes.linowski.ca A legend in the Interaction Design field
http://sidebar.io/ ..and most recently, I enjoy getting my design related digest from Sacha Greif & Co.
By the way, the HN crowd might be interested to know Sidebar is built with Meteor (on top of Telescope actually: http://telesc.pe).
I end up reading stuff from HN [1], The Verge [2], Wired[3], A VC[4], VentureBeat[5], AllThingsD[6], Technology Review [7] and Ars Technica [8] most often.
They aren't strictly digital related, but I get a lot out of Archinect [9] and core77 [10] for design interest.
1: http://news.ycombinator.com/newest, 2: http://www.theverge.com/, 3: http://www.wired.com/, 4: http://www.avc.com/, 5: http://venturebeat.com/, 6: http://allthingsd.com/, 7: http://www.technologyreview.com/, 8: http://arstechnica.com/, 9: http://archinect.com/, 10: http://core77.com/
1: http://getprismatic.com/ 2: http://hackerwebapp.com/
http://inbound.org/ is basically HN for people also interested in online marketing, SEO, etc - lots of great practical stuff ends up on there that never makes HN.
Are there other similar HN-type sites that are business-oriented?