For a while now I’ve been using some relatively new sites that rank links according to their users’ preferences, such as
With these plus more traditional news sources, I never bother watching television news because when I do it seems like every story I already saw online several days before, often in several versions from several points of view (political, geographical, technical, etc.). Besides, TV gives you the news in brief, while the net gives you the news in multiplex.
Kevin Kelly has come up with a name for these things: Consensus Web Filters.
Meanwhile, Joshua Micah Marshall has come up with some datapoints or at least anecdotes about something that has bothered me about such sites for a while. Is the blogosphere derivative of the Mainstream Media (MSM), in that it just points at content that traditional editors and reporters produce, or does it produce significant content on its own?
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