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The Memeorandum family of products have been the foundation of my media diet for more than a decade now: Memeorandum (general news): https://www.memeorandum.co

The Memeorandum family of products have been the foundation of my media diet for more than a decade now: Memeorandum (general news): https://www.memeorandum.com/ https://www.memeorandum.com/ Techmeme (tech news): https://www.techmeme.com/ https://www.techmeme.com/ Mediagazer (media sector news): https://www.mediagazer.com/ https://www.mediagazer.com/ I’m constantly amazed at how many people have never heard of them. To me, they are indispensable.

arkades 7y ago
What’s the political slant? I’m working my way down the memorandum front page articles and getting a very distinctly right wing vibe. Is that the norm, or just a momentary trend?
- smacktoward 7y ago
  I literally have no idea how you're getting that. They play it pretty straight down the middle.
  - samrosea 7y ago
    are you kidding? The top page is full of Zionist articles.
  - bradknowles 7y ago
    It seems to me to be all-Trump, all the time.
mgreg 7y ago
I'd second Techmeme for tech news aggregation; great site and now with a newsletter too. I actually built a general news aggregation newsletter inspired by Techmeme too (http://enclude.com http://enclude.com) which uses ML to group the leading stories of the day together with the highest quality ones highlighted. My hope was to break people out of their filter bubble by exposing them to high quality coverage on the news of the day. Did it as a daily email because I wanted it to be pushed to me and I wanted it to be limited meaning once you read it you're done. No need to suck up more time. I've had no time to work on it and its in a state of disrepair but if anyone is interested in teaming up on it let me know.
- t_mann 7y ago
  This looks great! Have you considered adding an RSS feed for it?
  - mgreg 7y ago
    No, it designed for email so there's not a public web site for the news itself but it wouldn't be too difficult to make. As I mentioned, however, this is a moribund service :)
basch 7y ago
i prefer the river view for each, similar to hckrnews.com https://www.techmeme.com/river https://www.techmeme.com/river https://www.mediagazer.com/river https://www.mediagazer.com/river they also run one just about baseball - https://www.ballbug.com/ https://www.ballbug.com/ the world would be a better place if someone wrote a platform to make your own platforms of these. i imagine a community, like a subreddit, would have a set of rss feeds etc that it follows, a group of people "swipe left or right" on the stories, and the winners move up the page. the difference from other platforms being that stories dont get direct submitted, and that the editorial boards ranking the stories stay fairly small and specialized. also shoutouts to https://redef.com https://redef.com http://www.aldaily.com http://www.aldaily.com https://longform.org https://longform.org https://longreads.com/ https://longreads.com/ https://longreads.com/ https://longreads.com/
- Breza 7y ago
  I second aldaily. An amazing website that I've loved for many years.

arkades 7y ago

What’s the political slant? I’m working my way down the memorandum front page articles and getting a very distinctly right wing vibe. Is that the norm, or just a momentary trend?

smacktoward 7y ago
I literally have no idea how you're getting that. They play it pretty straight down the middle.
- samrosea 7y ago
  are you kidding? The top page is full of Zionist articles.
- bradknowles 7y ago
  It seems to me to be all-Trump, all the time.

mgreg 7y ago

I'd second Techmeme for tech news aggregation; great site and now with a newsletter too. I actually built a general news aggregation newsletter inspired by Techmeme too (http://enclude.com http://enclude.com) which uses ML to group the leading stories of the day together with the highest quality ones highlighted. My hope was to break people out of their filter bubble by exposing them to high quality coverage on the news of the day. Did it as a daily email because I wanted it to be pushed to me and I wanted it to be limited meaning once you read it you're done. No need to suck up more time. I've had no time to work on it and its in a state of disrepair but if anyone is interested in teaming up on it let me know.

t_mann 7y ago
This looks great! Have you considered adding an RSS feed for it?
- mgreg 7y ago
  No, it designed for email so there's not a public web site for the news itself but it wouldn't be too difficult to make. As I mentioned, however, this is a moribund service :)

basch 7y ago

i prefer the river view for each, similar to hckrnews.com https://www.techmeme.com/river https://www.techmeme.com/river https://www.mediagazer.com/river https://www.mediagazer.com/river they also run one just about baseball - https://www.ballbug.com/ https://www.ballbug.com/ the world would be a better place if someone wrote a platform to make your own platforms of these. i imagine a community, like a subreddit, would have a set of rss feeds etc that it follows, a group of people "swipe left or right" on the stories, and the winners move up the page. the difference from other platforms being that stories dont get direct submitted, and that the editorial boards ranking the stories stay fairly small and specialized. also shoutouts to https://redef.com https://redef.com http://www.aldaily.com http://www.aldaily.com https://longform.org https://longform.org https://longreads.com/ https://longreads.com/ https://longreads.com/ https://longreads.com/

Breza 7y ago
I second aldaily. An amazing website that I've loved for many years.