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Before they had their news aggregator there were several others such as NewsHub and even Yahoo had one for a little while (though recently NewsHub's server performance is much slower, it started when Lycos became more visible on the home page). I agree with others that more filtering features needs to be added or publicized at the Google one to search by region, by newswire, etc.

newshub been doing news gathering for a long time..

google came and did it better..

Now MSN is throwing its hat in the ring. AOL will provide a web page with news/ other stuff based on what you want to see which is oddly good (It shows movies playing at the closest movie theaters..)

There a probably lots of others I'm missing.

Competetion is good. Hopefully everyone competes and makes theses sites better.

Win Win Win...

No one has claimed that the Atkins diet makes you immune to all forms of heart disease. It scores a 2 out of 3: raises good cholesterol, but raises bad cholesterol, and lowers triglycerides. The thing is, the ratio of LDL/HDL is considered more important than the absolute values, so it's not such a problem. I'll try to find you the article if you want to read it, it came across Newshub a few months ago. If you have any studies which argue your point about Atkins not being good long-term, I'd like to read them. No FUD please!

I'd be interested to know exactly how different this 'really really complete' genome is from the fakety-fake 'complete' genome they announced a few years back.

The rumor then was that it was the egomaniac Venter's own DNA they were using, so calling it 'the' human genome is another big lie-- one of the most interesting uses for the data is to cross-compare different ethnicities (and different species) and use this to reconstruct the human family tree. So the fact that one person's genome is the first to be sequenced will quickly become insignificant to the overall picture.

The links are just abbreviations, so you have to explore to discover what they mean, but the advantage to this is that I can cite the abbreviation easily each time I link a story found via that source.

The idea of putting them in rows at the top is so that frequent visitors to my blog can jump to other sources if they don't find anything new/interesting at mine. (I call them 'jumpbars'.) Lately I've started adding little asterisks for sources that have recently done especially noteworthy updates.

My local startpage duplicates the jumpbars, and adds less-frequent sources like monthlies. When I started blogging I made a serious effort to learn the update schedules of every online periodical, and I created a generic startpage that summarised these. (It's badly out of date now.) The idea was to encourage people to copy this page and customise it to their interests. But knowing when zines usually update makes it easy to prioritize my surfing-schedule. (I wish all periodicals spelled this info out on their front page, eg The Onion comes out late Tuesday.)

I think NewsHub still isn't appreciated for its headline-aggregation pages. I'd use NewsLinx too except that most all the tech zines have decided to use obnoxiously junky html-design, so I stick with Slashdot and the Register for tech news.

My politics are lefty, and Sam Smith's Progressive Review gives a very deep daily summary with links, while Common Dreams reprints full articles from many major sources. A newcomer is Memory Hole that specializes in stories the mainstream media tries to suppress/ignore.

For space news, NasaWatch is tops. I've mostly given up on Drudge and Salon, and am having doubts about the BBC science page.

Other daily faves include the AstroPic of the Day, two poem-of-the-day sites, Zippy the Pinhead, and various blogs. A weekly that I think is underappreciated is Dean Baker's Economic Reporting Review that gives a very dry weekly critique of economics-propaganda in the NY Times and Washington Post. (They very systematically distort the facts with the obvious goal of redistributing the wealth upwards.)

I've been using Newshub for 2 years now, does essentially the same thing.

newshub.com

The real reason portal sites die, is that there useless.

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