Ranking -- and Ranting About -- the News
On any given day, there are a dozen different ways to deliver a roundup of the top stories. How do you get your news? Do you spend most of your time on traditional news sites, or do you take cues from the crowd, following links from social news sites, blogs and discussion threads?
I check out social news sites a couple times a day, mainly to satisfy my curiousity about what stories have gained a wide following outside the newsroom where I work, and to see what readers are saying about them. I also love their unpredictability -- you never know what fascinating, off-beat topics you're going to find.
Do you contribute to social news sites, or do you mainly check them for a few good reads? Let me know -- as editor of this topic, I'm interested in how you see this phenomenon, and how it shapes your daily life online.
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I look at straight news sites, not social networking sites. I often compare what the editors use as the main stories with the most emailed. If I am pressed for time, I scan Yahoo! News.
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I too follow those lists -- most e-mailed, most popular, etc. -- on many of the mainstream news sites. They're kind of like Social News Lite -- a quick glance at a site's most popular stories, without the vote tallies and commentary you get from places like digg.