Get your Newz?
I know I’ve asked this before but where do you get your news? One of the things I’m real bad about is getting the news; on anything. Realistically I get all my news from you guys. From your blogs, your photos, from Digg, and from Twitter. I never really find anything out first hand or even hear it from the source. And usually I don’t get the full story a few days later once I get to your blog. So where do you get your news from? What sites do you rely on? I know I can always go to CNN or Fox News and for local I have AZ Central but I know there are some really good places out there to get the news and get it in a form I’m going to love.
So far the places I check from time to time are of course Google News, Mashable, and Tech Crunch. Now I know I’ve been to others but can’t remember any off the top of my head. I’m looking for both something I can subscribe to via RSS and a place to find out whats going on in the world. Both tech and non tech.
As a side note, when you search technorati do you put in spaces or do you type the words in a string? Does it matter how I tag my posts?
[tags]news sites[/tags]
I usually use http://news.bbc.co.uk and http://www.engadget.com... I’m too lazy to type in the URL of other sites that aren’t in my bookmark toolbar.
Digg definitely, Google News, Stumbling for news, Yahoo news, Tech Crunch, Jaiku, Twitter, and yes…even Newsvine even though I’m to be seen and not heard there. (grr)
Wired and Slashdot for me.
“I’m too lazy to type in the URL of other sites that aren’t in my bookmark toolbar.
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I do the opposite, I used to bookmark lots of sites, and then I tried bookmarking just sites I’d check on a semidaily basis.
Now, I don’t think I get true news from anywhere. I mean I read digg, /., and arstechnica, and I post to those, but I’d consider most of the things I view on those sites as an opinion and not news, news is essentially a fact sheet, here’s what happened, and when it happened. Then everyone talks about it.
I just think of most news as paid adverts now, very rarely do I see something that I’d consider news, and if I do, it’s simply everywhere, most of the time as reposts of an AP article. And even AP articles can be adverts now.
I used to have BBC News Worldwide set as a link in the links bar and I’d click it all the time, whenever I’d reach a pause – it has great layout, gives amazing world and tech news, best quality and breadth of any news agency in the world. Now I have iGoogle as Home, with BBC news, Google Reader, Digg widgets on it – which is good, but i find i look at BBC less and now get nowhere near as much sense of what’s going on in the world as I did when I checked it all the time.