Other than NPR in the mornings I don’t really follow the news. I never have. My RSS reader is subscribed to mostly religious blogs and Apple blogs. I have got to start reading the news. So beyond the two obvious ones (BBC & CNN) what do you guys suggest?
While we’re at it – what are some of your other daily reads? Two of mine are Seth Godin and John Gruber.
[Yes Sean, I too am a DF fan. Even a member.]
20 comments
John Stansbury said:
Gruuuuuuuber.
And to answer your question, Fark.com. Endless source of the most important news you could need to know. Sometimes, anyways.
Posted on June 4, 2007 at 10:40 pm
loud said:
nytimes.com and washingtonpost.com are my dailies. They have the best human interest stories of any American newspaper, hands down.
Posted on June 4, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Sean S said:
My RSS reader is mostly full of design/web oriented geekdom. I get my Mac news from the aforementioned Gruber guy, as well as TUAW, MacRumors and MacMinute. My US/world news comes from CNN.com (and the new beta.cnn.com) and Newsvine.com. IHT is also a great source for less US-centric news.
I recommend Newsvine, though, because of its tag-based feeds. Say, for instance, you want to track all stories about the politics of abortion. Subscribe to: abortion+politics
You get the idea.
Posted on June 4, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Randy said:
Primarily through the modern miracle of Google Reader, I skim about 25 assorted personal blogs, the NYT, The Washington Post, the SF Gate, the LA Times, the Las Vegas Journal, the Des Moines Register and fifteen to twenty other sites, including Truemors, LifeHacker, InstaPundant, and, of course, the Secret Blog of (fake) Steve Jobs.
Posted on June 4, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Sean S said:
Oh yeah, and Digg.
Posted on June 4, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Adam Parker said:
Google News. You can use their standard news feed as well as create custom news feeds from topics that interest you. I used to read it all the time, but I don’t really read the news daily anymore.
Posted on June 5, 2007 at 1:13 am
Esther said:
What do you all do for local news?
Posted on June 5, 2007 at 5:24 am
{Shawn} said:
@ Randy: I was hoping I’d get some feedback from you. You always know seem to know what’s going on.
@ Esther: I used to get the local Kansas City Star but it’s a pretty depressing newspaper. In fact so is the local TV news in KC. I don’t really follow the local news. I keep up more with what’s happening in Denver than in KC.
Posted on June 5, 2007 at 8:29 am
Randy said:
Esther. There is no local news. Really.
Posted on June 5, 2007 at 8:44 am
Idhrendur said:
I read a large assortment of personal blogs and webcomics. I tend to get my news when logging out of hotmail. I can’t really recommend that method, but its what I do.
Posted on June 5, 2007 at 9:01 am
joshua longbrake said:
get XM Radio. i have 30 available presets in my car, and about 7 or so are dedicated to news channels. NPR, BBC, CNN, Fox, ABC, et cetera. For $10 a month it’s completely worth it.
Posted on June 5, 2007 at 9:09 am
Ryan Couch said:
Drudgereport.com is a good quick source of the latest headlines without all the flash.
Breitbart.com is also a good up to the minute source.
I remember when Art Katz came to IHOP in 2004 he said that “2 hours a day in the New York Times was a definite recommend and not a waste of time.”
Posted on June 5, 2007 at 11:18 am
Michaela said:
I have Google News’s Top stories, MSNBC & USA Today headlines as well as Dallas News for what is going on back there. I keep trying to get into KC’s news but I have to agree it is a pretty poor offering for a local paper.
I also am using another tab on Google’s homepage to pull News info for Zimbabwe, Iran & Israel – esp. helpful for intercession for the nations.
For weather I have Google’s 3 day forecast for KC, DFW, Houston, and Orleans, MA (my grandmother’s house). They seem to be more consistently accurate than weather.com – which seems weird to me, but it works.
My main blogs in addition to various IHOP blogs are Problogger, Joel’s Trumpet & Joel Rosenberg, a couple sound engineer blogs, and then I skim through others like LifeHacker, Simply Recipies, Homesick Texan (the best expat Texan food blog I’ve found), and various others once a week via Google Reader.
I like Google Reader alright but I prefer to skim the headlines all at once on a homepage.
Posted on June 5, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Troy said:
Under a “News” tab in Google Reader, I have one good news feed for each of the three concentric regions–these particular feeds seem to me to carry the best percentage of relatively meaningful news (although you have to rifle through quite a few European football and cricket headlines from BBC–but the quality of the rest can’t be denied):
GLOBAL–BBC World Service @:
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml
NATIONAL–MSNBC U.S. News @ (best overall quality headlines–WAAAY better than CNN, I think):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032524/device/rss/rss.xml
LOCAL–The KC Star @ (what else are you gonna do?–it’s our neighborhood, and a quick skim doesn’t take too much time):
http://www.kansascity.com/116/index.xml
I also get some Christian (and baseball) news feeds, but they aren’t very good. I use Weather Channel Desktop for weather.
Maybe most of all, I subscribe to some great news podcasts, but that might be another subject.
Posted on June 5, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Troy said:
Another note, as far as paper goes, the hands-down greatest news mag EVER is THE WEEK. I recommend anyone go out and subscribe to it now, if you have any interest in something like this, because it’s the best.
It reprints summaries of the biggest news and best articles from the previous week, culled from newspapers around the U.S., and the world. It’s very “user-friendly”, and could make the most news-ignorant person look like the most well-read and well-informed. But I like it ’cause it’s really the most balanced news mag I’ve ever seen; and it’s very well-designed, simple, informative, easy to find your way around for what you care about, and very interesting. The editorial cartoons they select really run the gamut politically, and those two pages alone might almost be worth the price of a trial subscription, at least.
For what it’s worth.
Posted on June 5, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Esther said:
@Shawn & Randy – my local news is your international news & your local news is my international news. Funny, eh?
I don’t watch the tv news and just skim the NZ Herald which is the only major paper in Auckland. They are also our largest customer, so we feel like we have to subscribe to their paper.
I get most of my news from other people telling me what is going on in the world. If it’s a big enough story, someone will tell me about it and if it is interesting enough, I will research it on the internet (Randy’s blog).
Posted on June 6, 2007 at 4:56 am
Stephan said:
I read the Washington Post, BBC, Wall Street Journal, and the Houston Chronicle (local). Among papers I can’t stand, the New York Times and the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Posted on June 6, 2007 at 12:43 pm
wonderbox said:
i go in cycles. i get on these “i have to know what is going on in the world” kicks so i usually pull up cnn.com or msnbc.com, i am embarrassed to admit. npr is a constant on the morning drive as is the balance in the afternoon – conservative talk radio. i am pretty much all over though. worldnetdaily is interesting – i mean for real… chuck norris writes a column! for local news, i just read the local paper – it’s pretty decent for what it is.
Posted on June 6, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Sharon said:
I read the Omaha World-Herald everyday that my dad brings home from work. It can be kind of sensational, but I like the format and the comics selection. The rest I see on Yahoo headlines or drudge report. I used to get the Christian Science Monitor. I really liked that but I couldn’t keep up with it everyday because it was all so interesting.
Posted on June 7, 2007 at 12:21 am
Jeff said:
I’m like you in that I just don’t watch or read the news much at all. A new daily read (in the last month) has been Monday Morning Insight.
Posted on June 11, 2007 at 8:50 am