CmdrTaco Launches Trove, a Curated News Startup

jigamo writes "The Verge reports on a new app from Slashdot co-founder Rob Malda, a.k.a. CmdrTaco, which aims to provide a user-powered and -curated stream of news. It's called Trove, and it's currently available on the web as well as iPhones and iPads. From the article: 'Trove basically lets users opt in to feeds of stories that align with their interests. Users are encouraged to curate "troves," collections of stories that relate to a particular theme.' You can also read CmdrTaco's announcement post." Rob says, "At its simplest, Slashdot combines editor quality control and insight with crowd-sourced harvesting to cover the 'News for Nerds' space. Trove uses automated harvesting and machine learning to simplify a workflow for curators interested in ANY topic. The idea is that this opens up non-nerdy subjects. This will let us maintain a strong signal/noise ratio for casual users less interested in expending effort to get their news across diverse subject matter."

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Rejection of science

[SuperKendall]

there is tonnes of ignorance and rejection of science.

Very true, but what can you do about those nutty climate change alarmists? They refuse to accept real science, open debate, common sense, or historical data.

The problem is it's hard to keep religious fanatics out of anything, because they will work much harder than people that are merely indifferent.