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Two news sources that I'd like to see added are memeorandum.com (the best algorithmicly generated news feed I've found) and drudgereport.com (whose politics I d
by yodon 9y ago
Two news sources that I'd like to see added are memeorandum.com (the best algorithmicly generated news feed I've found) and drudgereport.com (whose politics I disagree with but it's a hugely influential site and I try to avoid trapping myself in a bubble).
I haven't found a news reader type app that handles those two sites, so I find myself wasting huge amounts of time hitting those two pages and trying to skim their entire link list looking for the couple new articles since the last time I visited, guessing wrong, and re-opening articles I've already read twice before. I'd love to be able to use your site to newsreader those two.
(Memorandum is tricky, as it groups related articles together because so many news articles feed from the same source report, and that greatly reduces needlessly redundant reading. Even if you could only easily add drudge, that would be a huge time savings for folks like me)
- meteor333 9y agoLooks like both are news aggregators themselves. It kind of makes it tricky. Let me look into it.
- aaronhoffman 9y agorealclearpolitics.com would be another good source. re: these being difficult because they are aggregators, could you just scrape the sites to find what they are linking to, then perform the same "social share is rank" logic to them? newswhip.com is a site that does something similar, but it's very expensive. I would love an alternative! I read many different sources, but I'm always curious what the "average" person is reading. What was the most shared/read article yesterday/last week, etc.
- meteor333 9y agoSo currently it does fetch most of the sources aggregated there such as NYT, Washington Post and Im working on adding more, but doing one more hop with another news aggregator sounds less efficient.
- aaronhoffman 9y agoThose aggregators linking to the article could be counted as a "super vote"
- adamrezich 9y agoBefore I scroll down, every story on the page is similar perspectives on the same event (Trump at the UN), and the top story is posted by Shareblue. Maybe this is a fluke, but it's a terrible first impression for me as a user, and I won't be checking it again anytime soon.
- meteor333 9y agoSorry about that. Thats what is trending at this point. Im looking into ways to group similar news to avoid these echos
- adamrezich 9y agoAh, I was talking about memeorandum.com, not your site. Sorry for the confusion!
- yodon 9y agoCorrect, memorandum is designed for an audience that is sufficiently familiar with the reporting process that it understands and values that presentation.