Tired of news sites
Written on Sep 05, 2008 // Site.Too much to do, too little time, too much to keep track of. Sound familiar? Yeah, same here. So in the spirit of Getting Things Done I’ve had enough of having to click through lots of sites of interest, news sites where 75% of the news is of no interest to me and I want to do something about it. I want to make a new site this weekend where I have a frontpage that gives me a quick and easy to read overview of all the news that I like. News meaning new stuff online that is of interest to me. So that means WordPress news, photography tips and tricks, Photoshop tutorials, web design related info, a bit of gaming, a spot of weirdness around the world and sprinkled with a drop of randomness for good measure.
So here we go.
And while we’re on the subject, feel free to post a comment with any sites you keep track of. If I like them, I’ll add them, assuming they have an RSS feed.
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Saint
Sep 05 2008, 19:15man..i thought it was americans who were supposed to hate reading real news :P
SlugMan
Sep 06 2008, 1:27actually, there are websites currently out there similar in practice to what you’re looking to do. Check out these posts from Lifehacker:
http://lifehacker.com/software/homepage/alpha-geek-start+page-showdown-246843.php
Netvibes seems to be the favorite due to it’s customability:
http://lifehacker.com/software/netvibes/alpha-geek-trick-out-your-netvibes-248671.php
Or maybe you’re just following more than really is necessary? I mean, if most of the news isn’t of any real interest, then why bother returning? Of course there’s always that chance you could miss that one really interesting topic, but does it really matter at the end of the day? That’s at least the question I ask myself when I’m adding a news site to my (small) list of sites that i frequent these days.
On that note, I follow:
Gizmodo - gadgets! and more gadgets!
Lifehacker - for my daily tweakage
Kotaku - for my gaming news
….and that’s all i really have time for. Clearly I’m biased with the Gawker crew, but I enjoy their blogs, so why change?
XIII
Sep 06 2008, 9:52Come on, using one of those isn’t the ‘geek’ thing to do. You have to make it yourself. I’m still undecided on sites like Gizmodo et al. On the one hand some of their posts are really interesting or entertaining, on the other hand I think their quality would go up a lot if making money wasn’t their first objective.
Ingrid
Sep 07 2008, 16:01Hey!
You know that it’s a great idea that you have got there, and for the record I have been thinking of making something like that for myself too! But I have never come around to do so.. and I just don’t know where to start, thehee.. :D
But good luck with your idea..
Ingrid
SlugMan
Sep 07 2008, 18:39well i can’t argue against the geek factor of making ones own super news page :)
XIII
Sep 08 2008, 13:29That took surprisingly less effort than expected. I hope to clean it up a bit more and then officially announce it either today or tomorrow.