What News.... (2 Viewers)

[Cornu Ammonis]

I don't really buy magazines or newspapers but will bear it in mind if I find a copy in a waiting room.

 

[rettucs]

Sunday Times of a sunday. Barely read anything in it and it makes me angry every week, without fail.

I'd get the Irish Times a handful of times a year. I've stopped going to their website since it went paywall. I browse the Indo website for about 30 seconds a day before abandoning it cos its trashy shite.

And I have the Guardian app on my phone and will occasionally check articles when headline alerts are sent. I read the Guardian's music pages when I'm at a gig on my own (almost every gig I go to) cos I have no mates.

 

[pete]

Independent.ie is the pits

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Sunday Times of a sunday. Barely read anything in it and it makes me angry every week, without fail.

I'd get the Irish Times a handful of times a year. I've stopped going to their website since it went paywall. I browse the Indo website for about 30 seconds a day before abandoning it cos its trashy shite.

And I have the Guardian app on my phone and will occasionally check articles when headline alerts are sent. I read the Guardian's music pages when I'm at a gig on my own (almost every gig I go to) cos I have no mates.

The Sunday Times is angrifying? I'm most bothered by how it's so thick that it can't be folded and tucked under the arm.

Independent.ie is the pits

But they have all the Victorias Secret fashion show photos.
(Yeah, it's dreadful).

 

[Lili Marlene]

When the Economist got in trouble for their outrageously racist review a few years back I stumbled across this article in the Atlantic from 1991. Worth a read.

Short version: the Economist is a weird magazine written by 23 year old British Oxford Graduates who believe in their own grandeur for American Businessmen who wish they could be royalty.

 

[therealjohnny]

Independent.ie is the pits

Once they stopped featuring Glenda in every article it was dead to me

 

[therealjohnny]

I get the Sunday Times because I enjoy flipping through the Style magazine while on the toilet, AA Gill's restaurant review from The Magazine if nature demands a longer seat time.

I need a "dislike" and a "meh" on this to complete my collection

 

[therealjohnny]

I need a "dislike" and a "meh" on this to complete my collection

thanks guys

 

[therealjohnny]

ah now

 

[Theseus Mock]

Re: online news reading, don't you guys use RSS?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

What News....

.. ON THE RIALTO!

Jesus, I needed that out really badly

 

[pete]

Re: online news reading, don't you guys use RSS?

I've a few feeds set up in work for some work related stuff, but that's it.

 

[Unicron]

I get the blizzard

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Re: online news reading, don't you guys use RSS?

Where does one read RSS?

 

[Unicron]

Re: online news reading, don't you guys use RSS?

Only use it for podcast management

 

[pete]

Where does one read RSS?

You can add RSS feeds to outlook.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

You can add RSS feeds to outlook.

So it would look like I was reading email?

Damn

 

[pete]

So it would look like I was reading email?

Damn

Exactly.

 

[Theseus Mock]

Where does one read RSS?

RSS is a feed that offers an almost real-time of which new articles are published. I'd generally recommend using a web based feed reader so that it keeps track of the read/unread feeds across all devices (Most of my internet time wastage starts from web RSS client/iOS RSS client). RSS is basically twitter for seeing what new articles are published but a lot older and mostly used by news junkies who track a lot of sites. Google Reader used to be pretty much the best & only web client but when they killed that, Feedly.com has now taken prize spot. I *think* it's free to use although you can bump up to premium to get faster feed polling/better search.

I've been using RSS since about 2005, wouldn't be able to sanely use the internet without it. (Otherwise I'd have to check about 200-300 odd websites by hand every day).

Here's what my Feedly looks like for my (Irish) news - I follow pretty much all the big sites.

 

[Theseus Mock]

So it would look like I was reading email?

Damn

NO! Don't go there. Using Outlook to read RSS would be the worst thing imaginable.

Feedly.com - Web Client
Reeder - iOS Client
(no idea about Android clients but use a web backed RSS client i.e. Feedly to ensure your read statuses are synced across devices)