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

John — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:14:56 -0000

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.

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

Patrick LaForge — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:38:07 -0000

This works too, includes everything, including NYT blogs

http://facebook.beta.nytime...

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

Guest — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:57:18 -0000

Off topic, but if you can't make money off this stimulus plan, you have no business being in business.

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

justcorbly — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:01:51 -0000

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.

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

dave — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:59:13 -0000

Okay it's *something* like a teletype. :-)

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

Ed Vielmetti — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:57:22 -0000

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

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

Johan van Rooyen — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:04:37 -0000

Even older than the teletype, it resembles the scroll which predates books. ;)

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

Vasudev Ram — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:50:59 -0000

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.

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

marshal sandler — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:37:05 -0000

How about Kindle2.0

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

dave — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:34:50 -0000

The RSS feeds were new in 2002 -- about 7 years ago. :-)

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

malatmals — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:19:02 -0000

Ya, that new API addition looks helpful. http://www.poynter.org/colu...

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

Matik72 — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:03:17 -0000

I like this a lot! :-) Thanks, Dave!