Wednesday, June 11, 2008

NewsJunk offers one-stop shopping for politics addicts Dave Winer and Nicco Mele have a new project: NewsJunk, for political news junkies. It's a continually updated political news blog, but fast and brief -- about 100 items in the past 24 hours, none more than four lines long, linked to full stories on news sites and blogs. A 6 ways to follow NewsJunk link -- it was "5 ways" last week -- offers versions for Web browsers, RSS readers, Twitter (as a feed called NewsJunkies), a mobile version for iPhone, Blackberry and more. "I have never been so informed about political news as I am now that I am involved in NewsJunk," says Winer.   While the main page is strictly last-in/first-out order, there's also a Top-25 page. Where is the best of this junk coming from? Yesterday's top-25 items were from these sites: Wonkette,  Talking Points Memo,  National Public Radio,  Newsweek,  Politico(2),  The Hill,  CBS News,  Weekly Standard,  CNN,  Salon(2),  MSNBC(3),  ABC,  Gallup,  AP(2),  The New York Times, Marc Ambinder, Craig Crawford, Patrick Ruffini, Reuters and Time. Actually, Wonkette's item is a link to Metro UK newspaper, http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=168752 When I decided to list the sources for the other bloggers, I found all of NewsJunk's links of the form http://x.newsjunk.com/JS were offline. They worked yesterday. Either Dave is installing new software this morning or "the force" is telling me to do something else. 8:53:05 AM    comment []

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