Comments on: Show off your front pages

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:28:50 +0000

NYT
Gmail
Facebook
LiveJournal
LA Observed
College newspaper Web site
College newspaper blog
misc. news sites: LA Times, SF Chron, Washington Post, CNN (if I even get this far)

By: Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:08:21 +0000

I’ll bite:

1) My Outlook mail (work, students)
2) Gmail (almost everything else)
3) Google Reader
4) iGoogle (other news feeds here)
5) Third e-mail app (old listservs)
6) del.icio.us network (about twice a week)
7) Google News (occasionally)

And NPR’s Morning Edition (daily), PBS’s News Hour and the woefully brief 30-minute BBC news shown on my PBS station.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:55:29 +0000

@Howard — Let’s put it this way: I’ve tried those sites out but they don’t have any traction with me. But the users are there — especially at Newsvine.

Don’t overestimate the value of these “News” sites.

I get “news” from all over the place: The members of my social network do the filtering for me, posting links and notes on Facebook, linking to stories and video and multimedia from their blogs, sending me links to articles in e-mail and text messages.

So I think you’re right — Social news sites are best left to the niches; but social news is happening far away from those sites.

By: Howard Weaver

Howard Weaver — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:40:04 +0000

Ryan, I’m curious: do you know whether Newsvine, Daylife or any of their siblings is getting much traction?

Digg and Slashdot obviously work splendidly for their core users, but I’m not aware of a more generalized news site that mirrors them. Huffington Post is a good example of selection and editing, but it’s hardly reader-driven.