yes you are right but none of the sites I mentioned are trying to give you customized, personal news... I was mostly referring to them rather than the customize

yes you are right but none of the sites I mentioned are trying to give you customized, personal news... I was mostly referring to them rather than the customized version And to be honest I am not sure if it is a good idea to go really customized based on my preferences, since I really think there might be stuff that I should know about, but I just have no idea what they are and someone or something needs to point them out to me. But to be customized at a more general level, would in fact give you what the current sites are (but are doing a somewhat poor job at it as we mentioned). For instance, you come here for startup and hacker news, and you go to techmeme for tech, and you could find yourself on reddit for politics and so on. So to some extend they are customized, since they are more focused, but not so focused. Its all about filtering the noise, but thats very subjective, as any news on Paris Hilton might be noise to me but must read for someone else!