BTW, if you don't already Czech them ~OUTT, you might want to glance at the Hindustan Times for some interesting stories that are generally well-written.
Of course the Financial Times is very good and their comment sections (which I also participate in) have some very sharp folks with stunningly insightful comments. I've learned a lott from the comments posted on FT online.
Reading and posting on iHub is one of my 'slumming' hobbies. Just as in real life, when I travel I love to visit and hang ~OUTT in some of the very worst areas. I guess I am kind of a ghetto tourist. I've always been like that. In college and grad school I'd dumpster dive, and to be honest, I have harvested computers, displays, and similar that were discarded in dumpsters at certain apartment complexes around end-of-month when people move ~OUTT and often toss valuable stuff just because they don't want to pay to ship it (apartment complexes that cater to temporary housing for overseas employees and are often near major airport hubs are good spots - temp executive apartments around SFO are good hunting grounds for great stuff that works fine and is often only a year or two old). I loved to go to Weirdstuff Warehouse and peruse the junk.
Now that I'm older, I use iHub to fulfill my needs to go slumming. Although when travelling, I almost always seek ~OUTT some of the worst areas. There is a lott more interesting stuff and people there than in more upscale areas. For example, Midtown is a lott more homogeneous and boring than say some parts of Queens or Brooklyn. And you haven't lived until you've eaten at the Brazilian dive restaurant in Elizabeth, NJ or bought takeout at midnight at the Yoshinoya on the corner of Century and Hawthorne in Inglewood when arriving late into LAX, or getting a very late night snack at the McDonalds on 51st St near the U of Chicago and the old housing projects on the South Side of Chicago where you're the only non-black and you cannot understand a single word that anybody says, including the person taking your order.
Now THAT is how to have fun when travelling - at least for me.
Some foreign places are a bit daunting for me to go slumming though, as the language and culture difference is a bit intimidating.
