Few days ago my girlfriend has asked me how I track what's going on in our country. I had no answer. It's pre-election time and whole country is covered with posters of mostly bald headed political star wannabe's (I have nothing against bald headed people, just to be sure). How can I not know what's going on?
Well, I don't watch TV, don't read local newspapers or listen to local radio stations. All I see are these posters standing by the road while driving to work and back home. How can I know who's saying what and who did what to whom. Frankly, I don't even care too much. It's all just different tones of color yellow press for me.
When she mentioned, I should be more aware of situation around me, I instantly and maybe even subconsciously started thinking how I could get relevant info with minimal effort. Browsing all news related web sites was out of the question. While they deliver, it's still too much noise around and it's hard to separate good content from weed. What is kind of strange is that all major news web sites provides RSS feeds. Strange because they're relaying on page views and ads sold. So I figured, they want users clicking on the web site to generate page views, not getting news from RSS feeds and bypassing their money making machinery. Good for me.
So I've writen my own little digg/reddit/YCnews like news page. A barebone and minimalistic news site with relevant information about my country lined up in order of creation. No noise, just pure info, updated every 10 minutes. With only minimal CSS and html, it's perfect for mobile browsing. Just what I wanted.
I've been using this site for a few days now and result is obvious. Now I usualy know about things way before everyone else around me. What's confusing is that they know I didn't start reading local newspapers or watching news on TV, but I still know what's going on. How can that be? :-)
I just love web and it's usefullness.
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