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I subscribe to a magazine called The Week that operates on this premise. It's a weekly that summarizes top stories (general news, editorials, columns, business

by catone 18y ago

I subscribe to a magazine called The Week that operates on this premise. It's a weekly that summarizes top stories (general news, editorials, columns, business, tech, reviews of art, music, books, films, theater, etc.) by drawing a few key sentences and quotes from multiple mainstream sources. They have a daily online version here: http://www.theweekdaily.com/ http://www.theweekdaily.com/ None of the stories are generally more than 4 paragraphs or about 12-15 sentences and usually draw on 3-4 sources with varying takes on an issue.

jasonlbaptiste 18y ago
what drove you to subscribe? simplicitiy i assume? do you think something less than 4 paragraphs, more like 4-5 sentences would work?
- catone 18y ago
  In the world of Twitter ... even 4-5 characters could work. ;) I actually subscribed because I had expiring airline miles that I had to use up on something and it was one of the options. That said, I'm planning to renew. I've found that I am so overloaded with information on a daily basis that the shorter summaries are a lot easier to keep up with -- and because the summaries quote their sources anything that I want to delve into deeper I already have a short list of good articles to check out. (Side note: I'm a tech blogger, so I spend my week immersed in tech news and The Week magazine allows me to catch up on all the other news I may have missed, which is nice.)
  - jasonlbaptiste 18y ago
    haha, please don't encourage a twitter competitor with a 4-5 character limit. :-o Yup, the goal is to make the consumption of tech news simpler. Definite links back to other valuable sources + analysis for those who want to dig in deeper. Not sure if you saw it earlier in the thread, but this site Brijit is similar to TheWeek. Sadly, they just closed shop. Wait... you mean there's "other news" out there besides tech?
    - catone 18y ago
      Ah yes, I remember Brijit. Even longer ago, in the late 90s/early 00s there was a site called BriefMe that did email newsletters based around the same concept. Similarly, it also closed up shop -- possibly for the same reason (it was paying people $5 per short summary and I guess couldn't break even on the other end).

by catone 18y ago

jasonlbaptiste 18y ago

what drove you to subscribe? simplicitiy i assume? do you think something less than 4 paragraphs, more like 4-5 sentences would work?

catone 18y ago
In the world of Twitter ... even 4-5 characters could work. ;) I actually subscribed because I had expiring airline miles that I had to use up on something and it was one of the options. That said, I'm planning to renew. I've found that I am so overloaded with information on a daily basis that the shorter summaries are a lot easier to keep up with -- and because the summaries quote their sources anything that I want to delve into deeper I already have a short list of good articles to check out. (Side note: I'm a tech blogger, so I spend my week immersed in tech news and The Week magazine allows me to catch up on all the other news I may have missed, which is nice.)
- jasonlbaptiste 18y ago
  haha, please don't encourage a twitter competitor with a 4-5 character limit. :-o Yup, the goal is to make the consumption of tech news simpler. Definite links back to other valuable sources + analysis for those who want to dig in deeper. Not sure if you saw it earlier in the thread, but this site Brijit is similar to TheWeek. Sadly, they just closed shop. Wait... you mean there's "other news" out there besides tech?
  - catone 18y ago
    Ah yes, I remember Brijit. Even longer ago, in the late 90s/early 00s there was a site called BriefMe that did email newsletters based around the same concept. Similarly, it also closed up shop -- possibly for the same reason (it was paying people $5 per short summary and I guess couldn't break even on the other end).