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Scripting News: The best way to read the NY Times (Scripting News)

  • Matik72 · 10 months ago
    I like this a lot! :-) Thanks, Dave!
  • malatmals · 10 months ago
    Ya, that new API addition looks helpful. http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=15...
  • dave · 10 months ago
    The RSS feeds were new in 2002 -- about 7 years ago. :-)
  • marshal sandler · 10 months ago
    How about Kindle2.0
  • Vasudev Ram · 10 months ago
    Wow, great idea and implementation. Like the clean layout and plain black text on white, same as your blog. Very clear and easy to read. Good for grepping too :-) to find specific topics of interest.
  • Johan van Rooyen · 10 months ago
    Even older than the teletype, it resembles the scroll which predates books. ;)
  • Edward Vielmetti · 10 months ago
    If it was a teletype, Dave -

    you wouldn't have to click on anything, just read
    the teletype would ding when there was a breaking story
    you could read lots of drafts of a breaking story in progress as they went on the wire
    there would be periods of inactivity when you could ignore it
    when there was news, you could hear that there was news by the sound of the teletype
  • dave · 10 months ago
    Okay it's *something* like a teletype. :-)
  • justcorbly · 10 months ago
    Teletypes were big, noisy and unreliable. I once had a job that was dependent on the awful things.

    More RSS feeds are out there than some of us may notice. Many news outlets have an easy-to-miss link at the bottom of their home page to a full roster of RSS feeds, filtered by category, etc.

    The RiverOfNews concept is much like subscribing to a wire service in the old days, if you could afford it, that is. You'd run over, grab several feet of copy off the printer, and see what was going on.

    I can't imagine using the web without RSS. Thanks, Dave.
  • chuckwh · 10 months ago
    Off topic, but if you can't make money off this stimulus plan, you have no business being in business.
  • Patrick LaForge · 10 months ago
    This works too, includes everything, including NYT blogs

    http://facebook.beta.nytimes.com/feeds/nytimes/...
  • John · 10 months ago
    For me, the River concept just doesn't work for something like the New York Times. I don't have the time to scan through 50 articles several times a day just to find something I might like, especially given that I read multiple newspaper sites. That's why the editorial process is important. I will skim through the headlines and then delve in further to a specific area, like Football.

    For feeds where I absolutely need to read or glance at every single item, then absolutely. But not something as voluminous s the Times.