As a nerd I find much of the daily news to be rather trying. Much of it is of little interest and impact on my day to day life. I send a lot of time reading about technology and developments in our industry and almost no time on regular news.
That said, as someone who likes to be well rounded, I think this is a woefully inadequate state for myself. I'd like to be aware of what is happening in the world, financially, politically, and internationally. I yearn for a concise distillation of the torrent of news that most sites provide. I don't have time for nor desire to read all of that.
Right now I've got the following in my feed reader to try and fulfill this:
I'm not overly happy with this, I might like a second take from an alternate source similar to the evening edition. The brief is delivered somewhat irregularly and I find the morning news to be just generally lacking, but enjoy some of the frivolous fun that they have with it. Perhaps an evening edition that has a little fun... hmm.
Given all of this, I'm quite interested in this service.
Sorry to drive this off topic. I run The Brief, and to date I've published every week day by 10am, with the exception of two days where I had to delay it to later in the day due to a hurricane doing its best to destroy my city. What is it about that schedule you find irregular? I welcome any feedback. Feel free to email me (the address is listed on the site).
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As a nerd I find much of the daily news to be rather trying. Much of it is of little interest and impact on my day to day life. I send a lot of time reading about technology and developments in our industry and almost no time on regular news.
That said, as someone who likes to be well rounded, I think this is a woefully inadequate state for myself. I'd like to be aware of what is happening in the world, financially, politically, and internationally. I yearn for a concise distillation of the torrent of news that most sites provide. I don't have time for nor desire to read all of that.
Right now I've got the following in my feed reader to try and fulfill this:
http://www.themorningnews.org/ - two times daily, kind of a lot of content, no summarization just links http://evening-edition.com/ - dialy, summaries of 4-6 of the days top news, I like this very much http://thebrief.io/ - tech oriented top news, seems to be delivered somewhat irregularly
I'm not overly happy with this, I might like a second take from an alternate source similar to the evening edition. The brief is delivered somewhat irregularly and I find the morning news to be just generally lacking, but enjoy some of the frivolous fun that they have with it. Perhaps an evening edition that has a little fun... hmm.
Given all of this, I'm quite interested in this service.
Sorry to drive this off topic. I run The Brief, and to date I've published every week day by 10am, with the exception of two days where I had to delay it to later in the day due to a hurricane doing its best to destroy my city. What is it about that schedule you find irregular? I welcome any feedback. Feel free to email me (the address is listed on the site).
Orofino, I run http://skimfeed.com. It's a news dump site, currently in beta. Give it a shot.