[Discuss] what news do you read?

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:26:19AM -0500, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> I usually start my day with a cup of coffee and read through about a
> half dozen sites before starting work.  The technical websites I go to
> generally keep me happy.  The general news websites do not.  I hate
> the design.  I hate the writing.  I am annoyed by the marketing.  Pay
> walls suck.  For example, boston.com is practically unreadable without
> add blocking software and if you read too much they want money.  Even
> the great New York Times looks like crap in my not so humble opinion.
> I wish somebody local would step up and make something.  I see they
> have changed USA Today's site a lot but it's way too busy and the
> stories seem trivial.  The Economist isn't too bad.  I live in Quincy
> and the Patriot Ledger's site (really "wicked local") is a nightmare.
> The Huffington Post looks is kind of ugly and is a bit liberal for my
> taste but I'm heading there now.  So what do you read?  Am I missing
> something good?

To consider methods rather than sources -- I run an instance of tiny-rss
on one of my house servers. It provides 98% of the functionality that
Google Reader did, before they decided that the two million people using
it weren't a sufficient justification.

As a side benefit, I got to learn more about postgresql
administration, though not much -- it all works very nicely.

-dsr-