The Redundant Bagel
One of the best ways to get news from all over the Internet is through an RSS reader. I use Google reader and it works very well. When you have all of your news sources from across the vast Internet all in one place, you realize that the Internet isn’t as varied and cool as you thought. I often get the same ‘news article X’ from 5 different sources in a few day’s time. News stories are sensational, they are cool for a bit then fade away, only to appear a year later when someone does a “best of something” and everyone else is reminded to add ‘news article X’ to their “best of something similar” too. Don’t believe me?
I Present to you the Bagel CD Spindle = tote lunch holder thing from:
all from this Flickr photo.
I don’t want to track down who posted it first, but I’m almost positive they all read each others’ blogs, and now I get the same story 7 times! This is a new problem faced by news aggregators. For their next trick, I’d like to see them filter the news so you get the same story only as many times as you want. I understand the importance of getting your news from several different sources so you can get a more unbiased view of the events, but there should be limits. Especially with bagels.
