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I listen to NPR on the commute. Since I'm focused on driving, any newsworthy event has to be mentioned a dozen times before it gets through to me. A sort of low pass filter for news. I tried to follow newspapers and the Economist, but it was wasted time brushing up on trivia that doesn't affect 99% of my life (edit: and that I have no reasonable chance of changing).
I signed up for Bit of News. It sends me a daily email with the important five or so topics of the day.
The Economist has the same thing, I think, but they're more expensive, and probably somewhat overlapping the NYT service.
And HN. In fact you could use HN as in the old saw, "If it's important, the waiter will mention it." I first heard about the black and blue dress on HN.
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I know that much, but when socializing, I still want to be able to not be like "huh?" when someone brings up, say, Russia's suspension from the G8/G7 over their annexation of Crimea.
Any issue with letting _them_ be your news source? "Really, I haven't been following, could you explain what's happening?"
Unless there's a natural disaster nearby, news doesn't really matter to me. My life is affected much more by the next release of io.js than by some Russian G8 membership dispute.[1] And I don't mind being clueless about current events or media. Typically, people are more than willing to summarize important news in conversation, or I can get the gist as others discuss it.
1. Which I only learned about because gravedave mentioned it.
Since I saw you mentioned wanting to be able to talk about whatever other people are bringing up in conversation or just having a basic awareness of what's going on in the world, you might want to try thebrowser.com. It usually links to a handful of high quality articles each day about topics related to what's going on in the world.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know that much, but when socializing, I still want to be able to not be like "huh?" when someone brings up, say, Russia's suspension from the G8/G7 over their annexation of Crimea.
Any issue with letting _them_ be your news source? "Really, I haven't been following, could you explain what's happening?"
I listen to NPR on the commute. Since I'm focused on driving, any newsworthy event has to be mentioned a dozen times before it gets through to me. A sort of low pass filter for news. I tried to follow newspapers and the Economist, but it was wasted time brushing up on trivia that doesn't affect 99% of my life (edit: and that I have no reasonable chance of changing).
Disclaimer: I work on the back end services for the app.
I've not found anything as good in English, but presumably it's out there somewhere.
Otherwise, I find it useful to read through archives. The Guardian does a good job of tagging everything. The New York Times is good for world news by country -- e.g. if you want to know what's been going on in Poland lately, start at http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesan...
Also, Spiegel Online put up some of their best articles in English, though they can be frustratingly pompous and long-winded.
I listen to NPR on the commute. Since I'm focused on driving, any newsworthy event has to be mentioned a dozen times before it gets through to me. A sort of low pass filter for news. I tried to follow newspapers and the Economist, but it was wasted time brushing up on trivia that doesn't affect 99% of my life (edit: and that I have no reasonable chance of changing).
I recommend checking out NPR One if you haven't already: http://www.npr.org/about/products/npr-one/ Disclaimer: I work on the back end services for the app.