From: Christopher Whipple (crw@well.com)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 16:48:16 MDT
On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 01:26 PM, Samantha Atkins wrote:
>> For instance, would you rather:
>> 1) Go to "tv://cnn.com" and be presented instantaneously with a
>> fullscreen HDTV-quality pointcast of the night's headlines, as
>> personalized for your interests;
>
>
> The personalization agents should scan all the worlds news feeds and
> web sites and present me with news. I am not a consumer for some one
> source's pap. CNN is egregiously offensive imho.
>
Amen, re: CNN. Add FoxNews and MSNBC. Unlike the masses, I don't need
my news to also be my entertainment, thankyouverymuch.
The good news is there are online services currently available that seem
to be antecedents to what you're describing.
Most notably, http://news.google.com, though still in beta, it's amazing.
And for technology news, my current favorite is
http://www.dailyrotation.com, which allows you to pick which news
sources you want to monitor and it keeps that information in a cookie so
that each subsequent visit to the page displays your own personal tech
news-sheet.
Also, Mozilla has recently implemented tab-group bookmarking... while
not as elegant as the two previous solutions, is still pretty darn cool.
-crw.
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