Another Attempt to Match Readers and Relevant News
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A new Web site, Thoof, is an attempt to improve on sites like Digg and Reddit, where users filter and rank links to articles and blog entries.
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Reader Sameer Shaikh sends us a picture.
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USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but donÂ´t really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their smog statistics shown in pie charts.
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By Emma D. Sapong, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Feb.
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By Kenneth C. Crowe II, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Jun. 8--Editor's note: This story first appeared on timesunion.com Wednesday night.
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Hoping to rise above "macaca" moments, the popular site offers presidential hopefuls a direct line to voters. By the Associated Press.
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Doc: "A year from now every newspaper will have a newsriver." I think so too because: 1. The idea is so compelling and 2. It's so easy to implement. Thanks so much to Doc Searls for writing a great evangelical piece about the power of rivers. The stream is turning into a current, and soon really will be a river.  It&#185;s so weird to see rivers show up in Facebook, and Twitter is just a big river of all the people you&#185;re following. The idea is actually a descendent of the teletype terminals that used to be in the movies (and for all I know in actual newsrooms). The news would be printed on scrolls of paper, and when a new story would come in it would push all the older stories onto the floor. You could catch up on the news by scrolling back through the news. Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Katherine Hepburn did it. We&#185;ll all be doing it soon enough. And it really helps to get other people singing the song, esp from within the hallowed halls of Harvard. The more attention we get focused on it, the more other developers will tune in. And what may not be so clear from the narrative is that this project got its start from a meeting I had with some technical people at the Times last week in NY. Like most organizations, it's not of one mind, there are people who are scared of what comes next but there are others who know that the Times has to change. By opening up their internal data to me, all kinds of interesting stuff can happen. We've been here before. The Times are the unsung heroes of RSS, without them it never would have solidified, with the publishing industry falling in behind the Times. It was this consensus that created critical mass for RSS 2.0 in 2002 and 2003. I really hope some of this stuff feeds back into the Times support of RSS. And as you have seen, there are now lots of new opportunities in user interface for news. This is what I do, when I'm in my "flow" -- we're there now again, with a new toy to build and then play with, every day.  Betsy Devine: "Dave Winer has been improving the New York Times for as long as I&#185;ve known him." Phil Windley: "With more sources, who are themselves continuously updating, the keyword river could be as dynamic as you&#185;d want it to be."
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Target to the blogosphere: youâre irrelevant.
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The stories readers have been talking about this year.
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Read full story for latest details.
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Portals and news sites have work to do, new study suggests.
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Text of report by Estonian newspaper Postimees website on 5 September  [Commentary by Rein Veidemann: "Media Circus"]  Elections make for fatty raw material to the free media. The supply of news and opinions is far greater than the demand.
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About this time last year, I wrote a column following up on some pieces I'd written earlier to see what if anything new had happened to those topics. The reaction I heard afterwards convinced me that revisiting old news was a worthwhile exercise -- in general, it's too easy for tech reporters to lose sight of how a product works over time in the real world, as opposed to a brief trial in a reviewer's hands.
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Blog: Google News shows images linked with article extracts
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News, Infocus, Columns, Vulnerabilities, Bugtraq ...
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A US study compares the news agenda of the mainstream media with that of three user-driven sources.
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Also: Paul Allen project maps the brain. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.