So, something that needs to be said; You really should not be relying on a single service for your news. Especially a curated one like Google/Yahoo/AOL news. Both Tildes and Reddit are great...
So, something that needs to be said; You really should not be relying on a single service for your news. Especially a curated one like Google/Yahoo/AOL news.
Both Tildes and Reddit are great sources for news, if you are looking for discussion on news topics obviously Tildes would be the better option (and it is our most active group).
The only real way to have good access to news is to build a bookmarks folder with reliable news sites and browse their front pages. You have to become the curator yourself. It allows you to get information from multiple sources, with different biases and reporting styles. You see multiple views on the same stories and keep the reporting you are consuming honest.
As an example, here is my folder. I keep it in order from most frequently visited to least and visit the first seven sites daily. It might seem like a lot of work, but my news browsing still only takes me 10-20 minutes and I definitely feel like I am getting a perspective on stories with very little bias.
I always liked that aspect of the /r/politics megathreads. The content was all bullshit, of course, but it was nice seeing dozens of links reporting the same story - you could get an actual...
You see multiple views on the same stories and keep the reporting you are consuming honest.
I always liked that aspect of the /r/politics megathreads. The content was all bullshit, of course, but it was nice seeing dozens of links reporting the same story - you could get an actual forest-not-trees view of the media sphere's reaction to a given event. What started as a way to keep the hot page from getting cluttered turned into a strangely intriguing media watchdog view of the news.
I can't wait to see how that plays out here with systems to help it along. Merging multiple topics, being able to submit multiple links to the same topic, and perhaps even some form of voting on all the submitted links to the same story, putting them in competition with each other to be the best and hit the top.
The New York Times has a nice "daily briefing" email list, sends out a nice overview of what they consider the "need-to-know" news every morning. Outside of that I get my news using RSS feeds on...
The New York Times has a nice "daily briefing" email list, sends out a nice overview of what they consider the "need-to-know" news every morning. Outside of that I get my news using RSS feeds on my start.me page.
Despite its imperfect image, reddit allows customizing feed pretty well for content discovery. Its popularity yields sheer amount of diverse content, efficiently readable on phone in a fast, third...
Despite its imperfect image, reddit allows customizing feed pretty well for content discovery. Its popularity yields sheer amount of diverse content, efficiently readable on phone in a fast, third party app.
Besides reddit, I regularly check YouTube, a few tech review and art websites, tildes, and local forums related to profession. Manually - automation is very difficult. Most other information is googlable on demand.
I have to preface this by saying I’m definitely ingrained in Apple’s ecosystem, esp. macOS. Accessing new content: RSS feeds via Feedbin and ShowRSS and consumed via Reeder [iOS|macOS] and Catch...
I have to preface this by saying I’m definitely ingrained in Apple’s ecosystem, esp. macOS.
Save page to read later: I’ve used Safari’s 'Reading List' feature on occasion, but really not often. I typically just mark things as unread if I plan to come back to them later, or leave a browser tab open (since I can access browser tabs across iOS/macOS and multiple devices via iCloud, keeping state in open tabs works well enough).
Following people: I don’t do this, so N/A.
Getting news: Mostly from Reddit/Tildes/RSS/The News Hour on PBS
Community interaction: Reddit/Tildes/Discord/Slack (used to use AIM, freenode, and 4Chan, but not for a decade or more now)
For me, the basic unit is the week when it comes to reading news. Every day I check my RSS feeds (I use Elfeed on Emacs) and look through my mail which includes many newsletters I'm subscribed to,...
For me, the basic unit is the week when it comes to reading news. Every day I check my RSS feeds (I use Elfeed on Emacs) and look through my mail which includes many newsletters I'm subscribed to, some daily some weekly some monthly (and I use Rmail on Emacs for that). I read a few things that are interesting for the day, then open the rest in tabs in Firefox where they'll wait for the weekend (I open mailing lists' html parts in the browser instead of particular links in them). In total this takes around 10-20 minutes per day, but sometimes I watch some Youtube videos from the channels I follow w/ RSS or a particularly interesting event or news appears and thus I spend a bit more time.
In the weekends I schedule a task in my agenda called "tabocide". I generally accumulate around 50 tabs during a week, and the task is to close as many as possible. I don't really read news but skim quickly to get a sense of what's going on. This is especially for political and tech stuff. If I have some particular events or stories I want to read in detail I set them apart. I generally bookmark quite a bit of stuff. In around 1--3 hours I only have around 10 tabs left, which are stuff I care about. I read some of those throughout the next week at random times or leave to the next week. If such a page remains for too long (two three weeks) I bookmark and close it, it's apparent that I won't read it but I want to keep it.
Apart from these I check out Tildes and Youtube at random times when I feel like procrastinating a bit. I used to follow HN for tech news and discussion, but I have mostly left visiting that site because I'm more focused on non-tech stuff these days.
It's actually a procrastination thing: I tend to loose too much time if I read my news daily jumping from this to that, so I condense it to the weekend. I used to read news daily and I too dislike...
It's actually a procrastination thing: I tend to loose too much time if I read my news daily jumping from this to that, so I condense it to the weekend. I used to read news daily and I too dislike having too many tabs open (*) but for me it ends up being a nicer trade off. I save quite some time each day.
* One solution to this is to bookmark the tabs in a certain folder, last week I tried doing this and put those pages into "Bookmarks Toolbar > This Week", which worked fine. This week I was too sick to try it again, but I'll repeat that experiment for the coming week.
So, something that needs to be said; You really should not be relying on a single service for your news. Especially a curated one like Google/Yahoo/AOL news.
Both Tildes and Reddit are great sources for news, if you are looking for discussion on news topics obviously Tildes would be the better option (and it is our most active group).
The only real way to have good access to news is to build a bookmarks folder with reliable news sites and browse their front pages. You have to become the curator yourself. It allows you to get information from multiple sources, with different biases and reporting styles. You see multiple views on the same stories and keep the reporting you are consuming honest.
As an example, here is my folder. I keep it in order from most frequently visited to least and visit the first seven sites daily. It might seem like a lot of work, but my news browsing still only takes me 10-20 minutes and I definitely feel like I am getting a perspective on stories with very little bias.
I always liked that aspect of the /r/politics megathreads. The content was all bullshit, of course, but it was nice seeing dozens of links reporting the same story - you could get an actual forest-not-trees view of the media sphere's reaction to a given event. What started as a way to keep the hot page from getting cluttered turned into a strangely intriguing media watchdog view of the news.
I can't wait to see how that plays out here with systems to help it along. Merging multiple topics, being able to submit multiple links to the same topic, and perhaps even some form of voting on all the submitted links to the same story, putting them in competition with each other to be the best and hit the top.
The New York Times has a nice "daily briefing" email list, sends out a nice overview of what they consider the "need-to-know" news every morning. Outside of that I get my news using RSS feeds on my start.me page.
Despite its imperfect image, reddit allows customizing feed pretty well for content discovery. Its popularity yields sheer amount of diverse content, efficiently readable on phone in a fast, third party app.
Besides reddit, I regularly check YouTube, a few tech review and art websites, tildes, and local forums related to profession. Manually - automation is very difficult. Most other information is googlable on demand.
I have to preface this by saying I’m definitely ingrained in Apple’s ecosystem, esp. macOS.
For me, the basic unit is the week when it comes to reading news. Every day I check my RSS feeds (I use Elfeed on Emacs) and look through my mail which includes many newsletters I'm subscribed to, some daily some weekly some monthly (and I use Rmail on Emacs for that). I read a few things that are interesting for the day, then open the rest in tabs in Firefox where they'll wait for the weekend (I open mailing lists' html parts in the browser instead of particular links in them). In total this takes around 10-20 minutes per day, but sometimes I watch some Youtube videos from the channels I follow w/ RSS or a particularly interesting event or news appears and thus I spend a bit more time.
In the weekends I schedule a task in my agenda called "tabocide". I generally accumulate around 50 tabs during a week, and the task is to close as many as possible. I don't really read news but skim quickly to get a sense of what's going on. This is especially for political and tech stuff. If I have some particular events or stories I want to read in detail I set them apart. I generally bookmark quite a bit of stuff. In around 1--3 hours I only have around 10 tabs left, which are stuff I care about. I read some of those throughout the next week at random times or leave to the next week. If such a page remains for too long (two three weeks) I bookmark and close it, it's apparent that I won't read it but I want to keep it.
Apart from these I check out Tildes and Youtube at random times when I feel like procrastinating a bit. I used to follow HN for tech news and discussion, but I have mostly left visiting that site because I'm more focused on non-tech stuff these days.
It's actually a procrastination thing: I tend to loose too much time if I read my news daily jumping from this to that, so I condense it to the weekend. I used to read news daily and I too dislike having too many tabs open (*) but for me it ends up being a nicer trade off. I save quite some time each day.
* One solution to this is to bookmark the tabs in a certain folder, last week I tried doing this and put those pages into "Bookmarks Toolbar > This Week", which worked fine. This week I was too sick to try it again, but I'll repeat that experiment for the coming week.