Comments on: Get your Newz? http://www.idoitdigital.com/2007/05/19/get-your-newz/ Video blogger, Father, Attention Whore Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:26:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Rupert http://www.idoitdigital.com/2007/05/19/get-your-newz/#comment-10368 Rupert Wed, 30 May 2007 09:00:40 +0000 http://www.idoitdigital.com/2007/05/19/get-your-newz/#comment-10368 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. 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.

]]> By: FatHed http://www.idoitdigital.com/2007/05/19/get-your-newz/#comment-9879 FatHed Thu, 24 May 2007 01:12:17 +0000 http://www.idoitdigital.com/2007/05/19/get-your-newz/#comment-9879 "I’m too lazy to type in the URL of other sites that aren’t in my bookmark toolbar. :P" 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’m too lazy to type in the URL of other sites that aren’t in my bookmark toolbar. :P”

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.

]]> By: ryan http://www.idoitdigital.com/2007/05/19/get-your-newz/#comment-9509 ryan Sat, 19 May 2007 18:06:28 +0000 http://www.idoitdigital.com/2007/05/19/get-your-newz/#comment-9509 Wired and Slashdot for me. Wired and Slashdot for me.

]]> By: Gabrielle http://www.idoitdigital.com/2007/05/19/get-your-newz/#comment-9494 Gabrielle Sat, 19 May 2007 14:45:36 +0000 http://www.idoitdigital.com/2007/05/19/get-your-newz/#comment-9494 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) 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)

]]> By: Daniel Causton http://www.idoitdigital.com/2007/05/19/get-your-newz/#comment-9479 Daniel Causton Sat, 19 May 2007 10:02:22 +0000 http://www.idoitdigital.com/2007/05/19/get-your-newz/#comment-9479 I usually use http://news.bbc.co.uk and www.engadget.com... I'm too lazy to type in the URL of other sites that aren't in my bookmark toolbar. :P 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. :P

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