Previously my developer-centric (aggregated) feed of choice came from javablogs.com.  However it’s signal to noise ratio has been on a downward spiral as of late.  It’s increasingly difficult to find any useful nuggets amongst all the foreign (and graphic/non ascii character posts) and the off-topic ‘this is what my life is like’ posts.  I want concise, to the point tech discussions and java.blogs isn’t cutting it (I’ve been reading it less frequently the past couple months, perhaps it’s gotten better?).

Enter the DZone. 

I’ve been a subscriber for since it’s inception and although it got off to a bit of a rocky start, I’m quite impressed with the quality of the feed now.  It’s doesn’t specifically target Java and perhaps it is a bit too focused on ‘framework X vs. framework Y’, but it does generally deliver interesting aggregated content.

Check it out.

According to my Google Reader trends, java.blogs still has far higher daily traffic.  ~156 items/day vs. ~29 items/day.  In fact, that’s even higher than the digg feed (~103 items/day). 

UPDATE:  As pointed out by Rick in the comments, DZone is a community, not unlike digg, where users submit links and are able to vote on submissions.  Higher votes translates to a front page spot.  Java blogs is a basic aggregator where it will implicitly pickup all posts from any feed you provide.  Thanks Rick and Tim for commenting.