Newspaper for One
I am fairly regular in my Internet viewing habits. That is, every morning I check the same web sites, sometimes even in the same order, for what has happened over night. Indeed I will return to those sites during the day. It’s not just news – as in newspapers – it’s also hobbies/interests.
Nearly every one of these sites also offers their information as an RSS feed, that is a formatted summary of their items. It’s like the headline and the first few paragraphs.
As mentioned earlier, I now use Google Reader to manage and read these summaries. Unlike earlier RSS Readers, this one has a Home page. It shows you a summary of the summaries, which isn’t as silly as it sounds. It shows about 3 items from all of your feeds. All in the one place.
As I wrote in an email yesterday these are “my topics and sub-topics, my sources, my organising tags/folders: My newspaper.”
And here’s a (shrunk) screen capture of my very own Newspaper for One. You can, of course, ‘drill down’ and read each individual feed, like Lifehacker.
David’s Google Reader main page.
