Hey! I had never heard of Jaanix. Thanks for mentioning that. It's interesting. Its like some twitter for news, minus the phone syncing(I summed it up like this

Hey! I had never heard of Jaanix. Thanks for mentioning that. It's interesting. Its like some twitter for news, minus the phone syncing(I summed it up like this when I saw the follow button for news keywords). But I couldn't figure out what the "follow [keyword]" button does. I clicked it. AndChecked the FAQs but found nothing. Even their FAQ page has voting system. A bit weird. They should have had a normal FAQ page. The sliding bars on the homepage to customise the news you want is good. But I am able to notice a bug in it. I am using Firefox-3 on windowsXP and when I click on a sliding bar, the marker moves to the position, but the green shade seems to be somewhere else. I had to do around 10 clicks to get the green shade and the marker to coincide (surely had some fun with it). And whenever I changed the slider the news gets optimised by Ajax. That's cool again. I noticed they allow public voting on their news items. They are easily exposed to 'click' spam. Not requiring users to signup to vote actually seems like wanting to be spammed. And I also found out that they don't requires users to signup to comment. Seems like some sort of Open Digg or Open Reddit. But one thing I found nice on Jaanix was that their youtube channel(not sure what they call it) at http://www.jaanix.com/youtube http://www.jaanix.com/youtube they have this 'quick review' kind of feature for the videos. Just place your cursor on the video thumbnail and you will see more thumbnails of the video. Well, Jaanix or Digg or Reddit, they are all cool for user submitted news. Maybe all the other mainstream news might also be subbmitted. But you don't see all mainstream news there. You might surely find out the Release date for iPhone 10G on Digg, but there are surely some news items that don't reach the top stories even in the section news. Those are covered by mainstream news fellas. In simple words, you can make a pizza at home. It'll surely be tasty. But still you will like McDonald's Pizza. It's like... two different good tastes, so you like both :) And still I haven't found any source except Google News Search feeds for personalized mainstream news. What I mean by mainstream news is - news by news agencies like Associated Press etc (I don't know what these agencies are called). But your point is right. People will surely find that they are interested is more stuff when they follow something randomly. Again: all that's going to be featured on the front page of Y! is celeb gossip for sure. Not everyone likes celeb gossip. So its going to be forcing people to read celeb gossip. I would rather read news on any other source like Digg or Google News or Jaanix (as you said random news is good). I have a Q and also and A: Why did Yahoo choose celeb news over any other topic? Because they found that they would get more news news in the celeb news category than any other. Which translates to more links, which in turn translates to more clicks and then more money. On one hand they have a really cool thing like BOSS and the other they have a plain stupid idea of dollars from celeb gossip.