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Slower News
- throwawaysea 6y agoInteresting project, but it comes off as a bit like a personal list. An I supposed to consume this in some order? Would the addition of article dates help? Maybe a TOC at the top?
- codingdave 6y agoI think personal lists of interesting news and articles are good things. I'd much prefer people to go back to this style vs. the algorithmic "feed" we see on the big sites these days.
- masswerk 6y agoInteresting project in low-stress Tufte design. Maybe include the source/origin of the individual stories?
- usr1106 6y agoA BBC article from 2018 covering Navalny. You could call that oldernews.
- lmarcos 6y agoIt's funny; I would classify that article as "new" news because for me it's new, as in I never heard of it before.
- segfaultbuserr 6y agoNot everything on Hacker News is "news", old articles and blog posts are perfectly acceptable. Thus, if "Slower News" is understood as a slow "Hacker News", the name is valid by inheritance.
- webscout 6y agoAlso check out the user-curated section of https://upstract.com https://upstract.com for good and less time-sensitive reads.
- embit 6y agoI do the same [1] but for tech news [1] https://embit.ca https://embit.ca
- throwawaylolx 6y agoMostly sources from left-wing/globalist/neoliberal/progressivist sources and perspectives. The problem is not the quantity of the news, it's the shameless bias and underrepresentation of conservatives and right-wing perspectives in almost all mainsteram areas of society. I'll stick to finding and sorting out my own sources of news, thank you.
- segfaultbuserr 6y agoIt's not a bug, it's a feature. I understand it as the author's own news selection that reflects his interests, it's only published publicly "in the hope that it will be useful to others, but without any warranty" (borrowing the language of GPL). You are free to find and sort out your own sources of news. Author said, > How do you curate articles? > I cherry-pick articles that dissect trends or unveil lesser known trends and interesting edge cases, and are relevant, at least, for some months. It's certainly affected by my biases (I'm aware of these: Western culture (European flavour), loose minimalism, loose intelectualism, centrism, agnosticism and I'm male. Trained as an housing architect) and most articles on main page were on Hacker News. The articles' listing order is, often, not random.
- mckirk 6y agoCould you give some examples of actually 'worthwhile' right-wing/conservative perspectives? I'm genuinely curious, because it's quite hard to tell whether these views get suppressed in my filter bubble, or if there just aren't many worth examining.
- jpxw 6y agoJust as one arbitrary example, perhaps look into Roger Scruton. His work on architecture is a good introduction, for example Why Beauty Matters: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bHw4MMEnmpc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bHw4MMEnmpc. Like most good conservative thinkers, he’s no longer with us. I recommend him because he’s not overtly political. The best conservative thinkers stay out of the boring political quarrelling, IMO.
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- fsflover 6y agoSee also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Journalism.
- aliceryhl 6y agoThis particular selection doesn't seem that interesting to me, but I like the idea.
- paulpauper 6y agomeh. the order should be chronological instead of by category. Given the multitude of content online, the likelihood that someone an curate a list that does not miss stuff I may be interested in, is tiny. People have tired to create aggregators, and with the exceptions of Hacker News and Drudge, they tend to fail.
- timwaagh 6y agoI feel the name is a misnomer. These articles are opinion and analysis. News is different. Slow news would not be very interesting, either.
- smarx007 6y agoWell, I think that's the key observation: when you no longer chase "breaking" news, you have to provide more analysis. When "X does Y", you don't usually need to learn about it within 60 minutes. You usually need to understand "What are the implications of this? Is Y really necessary? What is the motivation driving X?". I can recommend subscribing to the paper version of The Economist, you will see that the "breaking" news section is usually just 2 pages long ("The world this week" in https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2020-12-05 https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2020-12-05). The rest is mostly analysis (of the current events) and opinion.
- fakedang 6y ago> when you no longer chase "breaking" news, you have to provide more analysis Which is why there's a sea of difference in the quality between an Economist opinion piece (which takes a week to craft), a Bloomberg opinion piece (which takes a couple of days unless it's an expert or Matt Levine), or a standard run of the mill media outlet opinion piece (usually the next day).
- laurent92 6y agoProviding analysis is one direction. But there is another: Reporting news that already happened. See, most news report on what will happen today, what is expected to happen within 3 days, 1 month. It builds expectations and stress in the mindset of the listener; It keeps the audience hung to the news stream but I think it is the most toxic characteristic, even before the divisive aspect of current news providers. It’s as if we got so fast that instead of reporting on news « within 1 day! » or « within 1 hour! », we provide the news within « -3 hours ».
- CraigJPerry 6y agoIs news different? If you’re reading the AP wire then yes it is different, it’s just dry facts with limited context or framing. That’s not how most people consume news though. That is far too dry for most and you’ll likely miss key observations because you can’t possibly be up to speed with every context. In mainstream news the correspondent for X will helpfully add that knowledge to the story being reported so you can understand the new facts in context. News as I’m thinking you’re meaning it, would be that model, the facts and a curtailed context, often eliding the “for and against” arguments to go straight to a ready to consume conclusion that should neatly fit the reader’s prior preferences. The exploration of the for and against is usually cut out of news since it sells better and costs less to produce.
- 4k3r4 6y agoUnrelated, but what's the font used on this website called?
- phartenfeller 6y agoIt is called ET Book (https://github.com/edwardtufte/et-book https://github.com/edwardtufte/et-book) Edit: it is under the MIT license so free to use commercially
- fireattack 6y agoTo be honest, this serif font together with underscore makes it a little bit hard to read for me.
- whym 6y agoThere is an RSS feed (linked at the bottom of the page): https://www.slowernews.com/rss.xml https://www.slowernews.com/rss.xml
- divan 6y agoI use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events for keeping track of what's going on in the world without being inundated into short-term reactions, clickbait and hype.
- parhamn 6y agoThis is so cool! Thanks for sharing.
- kickscondor 6y agoA minimalist version of that: https://legiblenews.com https://legiblenews.com
- divan 6y agoThank you!
- jonplackett 6y agoI like this - but where can I find some info about how it works / who is choosing the articles?
- dpcan 6y agoConcept is interesting. Needs an option to remove underlines and no dark mode.
- vulcan01 6y agoIf your browser/OS is set to dark mode, it automatically switches to the dark interface (using CSS prefers-color-scheme).
- Bakary 6y agoMaybe a better question to ask would be why not drastically decrease the amount of news altogether, instead of just switching to opinion pieces or some other gimmick?
- nickthemagicman 6y agoThis is basically the Atlantic.
- balozi 6y agoThe only difference between this and the NYT (or every other mainstream media outlet for that matter) is scale.
- fra 6y agoFor what it’s worth, the New York Review of Books accomplishes this for me. Don’t let the title fool you, they write in depth about current affair topics.
- flother 6y agoI came here to say the same thing. Opening a new issue of The New York Review of Books or the London Review of Books are two of the great pleasures in life. https://lrb.co.uk/ https://lrb.co.uk/ https://www.nybooks.com/ https://www.nybooks.com/
- loughnane 6y agoI looked into them recently but found their tone a bit too partisan than, say, the economist. Which is fine if you’re looking for that sort of commentary, but in terms of news it’s not what I was looking for.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoThe Economist leans status quo. The NYRB leans marxism-aware global left, with a heavy dose of academic anaesthesia. Neither is more "partisan" (I think ideological is likely a better word). You just don't notice it in the Economist because they rarely argue against what already is (since it suits them, mostly, just fine).
- loughnane 6y agoIdeological is perhaps a better word. I guess the point here is to be aware of your news source’s ideology since it will def effect any opinion pieces and even frame the stories they choose to report on. As an aside, do you know anything like nyrob that has something equivalent to the economists “the world this week”? Would be neat to see a similar format from two separate ideologies.
- duriandurian 6y agoCool, I like that it's just links. Actually reminds me of Arbtr, an ultra minimalist curation platform http://www.arbtr.com http://www.arbtr.com
- vuciv1 6y agoah damn. I've been working on a project that is supposed to emulate getting The Sunday Paper. Only updated on Sundays with the top headlines of the week. No annoying pings, no data collection, etc. I was demotivated when I scrolled through this, but luckily I still feel as though mine is different enough.
- xixixao 6y agoIt’s encouraging that others have been contemplating this idea - I have been too. For me the key is that content can come every day, but it is delayed based on it’s importance. So instead of Sunday news printing something that happened Saturday, this model prints about the Saturday event two weeks later on a Tuesday when all the facts are known. But it doesn’t have to be every day. The hard part is that I don’t just want this for myself, I want this for everyone that is currently captured by the toxic 24/7 9/11-style news cycle. The society is in a permanent panic/outrage mode. Breaking that will be tough.
- vuciv1 6y agoAbsolutely, that's a great idea. Only release something when all the facts are known! (Although coding that seems pretty difficult, and curating it seems exhausting) The news cycle is absolutely toxic. People shouldn't have 24/7 access to the news. The pressure to create news immediately, and in turn, to read them it immediately, is harmful for everyone. Plus, with very few exceptions, it doesn't matter if you hear about it in 2 seconds or 2 weeks. I hope to hear about what you're building! Sounds great.
- loughnane 6y agoTo me this is solved for a lot of domains. The economist (and prob some other weekly’s) do a good job for general news, and I’m sure some newsletters do the job for other domains. The key is finding slow news for the niche you care about. Personally I think that a big gap is local news. Would love a site like wickedlocal but where I get things weekly and have no ads or superfluous stories. I’d pay for it. I’m experimenting with some automated scraping of news sources (Twitter, Reddit, town websites, stores, restaurants, etc) for my town. Hoping to be able to get it do a point where I can produce something of value on 1hr a week.
- ralgozino 6y agoI think mailbrew[0] could be of your interest, it lets you add some sources and it will send you a periodic digest of them. Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with them anyhow, nor use their service. [0] https://mailbrew.com https://mailbrew.com
- umvi 6y agoAgree. I'm a big fan of "The New Paper" [0] for "slow news". [0] https://thenewpaper.co/ https://thenewpaper.co/
- golemotron 6y agoI'll pass. "Eating for peace: how cuisine bridges cultures" is not"Geopolitics"
- mjhirn 6y agoUnlike some of those top comments, I actually like your curation a lot. Prefer it to The Economist, New York Book Review, and the other sites ppl linked in the comments. Good job! I know you have an RSS feed, and the crowd here probably is all for RSS, but I would love it if I could leave my email somewhere and get a notification when a new submit was posted.
- exochrono 6y agoI use IFTTT to get RSS feed updates into my inbox! This is the applet I've been using for many years now - https://ifttt.com/applets/rhYv7ixE https://ifttt.com/applets/rhYv7ixE
- carschno 6y agoLooks roughly like https://www.the-syllabus.com/ https://www.the-syllabus.com/, although presumably less firm (no criticism, just a different approach).
- gandutraveler 6y agoI thought of creating something like this back in 2015 and while doing research it ultimately made me realize that slow news always existed in form of biweekly magazines like economist. The main solution for me was to turn off all the breaking news notifications.