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I’m not entirely sure how or when it happened, but in the past year I’ve weeded almost all primary sources from my personal news intake. Pretty much everything I care about will get picked up or commented on by one of my secondary sources.
I never gave much credence to the folks who talked about blogging replacing traditional journalism, but perhaps there is something to that - at least to a degree.
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Posted September 2nd, 2005 @ 8:42 AM
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Watching Katrina from your Xbox?
There area couple of interesting posts on the aggregator.. neither of which deals directly with Katrina but with the way people are choosing to get their news and other entertainment these days. First, Alex King notes he’s just about given…
September 2nd, 2005 at 2:34 pm
Kerim Friedman adds this Comment:
When I try to sell people on the idea of using news aggregators they tend to tell me that they already feel overwhelmed with information. The point I make is that the time the spend reading the NY Times headlines for interesting stories could be better spent reading a few blogs by people they trust who have already scanned the headlines for them and picked out the best stories. The good bloggers usually tell you enough about the stories that you know if it will be worth your time to read them more in depth. The only down side is that the higher concentration of stories that are worth reading means that you end up with too many things you want to read. But, personally, I’d rather have too much than too little.
September 2nd, 2005 at 3:48 pm