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I've been doing this for a long while. I don't see any value in the typical "daily news". Instead I read books, or articles from a selection of sites. And of course HN. Daily news is a waste of time.
Hacker News doesn't fall under "daily news"?
You don't need technology to do that.
You can just stay informed by buying a high quality newspaper or news magazine and read that. For example, (personal choices ahead), you could read The Economist once per week. Or, since he appears to be in the UK, you could have a quality daily paper (e.g. Daily Telegraph weekdays and the Observer on Sundays).
I remember laughing at the story about the judge who asked "Who are the Beatles?". Now I find them a very wise person indeed :)
Ahh: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1340891/Judge-James-...
Doesn't say when he said it though.
There are lots of new ways of filtering and understanding the news emerging so that you don’t have to suffer the constant barrage, and yet still be informed enough to be able to understand. You don't need technology to do that. You can just stay informed by buying a high quality newspaper or news magazine and read that. For example, (personal choices ahead), you could read The Economist once per week. Or, since he ap…
There are lots of new ways of filtering and understanding the news emerging so that you don’t have to suffer the constant barrage, and yet still be informed enough to be able to understand. You don't need technology to do that. You can just stay informed by buying a high quality newspaper or news magazine and read that. For example, (personal choices ahead), you could read The Economist once per week. Or, since he ap…
On the subject of your personal choices: why the Telegraph/Observer combination, when both papers have more similar sister publications to cover the other days? I would imagine than Daily Telegraph + Sunday Telegraph or Guardian + Observer are much more common combinations.
The Telegraph is pretty conservative and the Observer fairly liberal. The two views are interesting. I don't think I could take The Guardian every day. And given that I also have Le Monde as well that's plenty of centre-left stuff.
I remember laughing at the story about the judge who asked "Who are the Beatles?". Now I find them a very wise person indeed :)
link? If he'd said this in 1964, yeah, it might make sense. Otherwise, probably not so much. Ahh: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1340891/Judge-James-... Doesn't say when he said it though.
It seems that if James Pickles did ask that question, it was probably later than that, since he was a judge from 1975 to 1991 (and that Daily Mail obit. says "From the mid-1980s onwards, he became a household name for his colourful opinions and remarks").
Interesting side-notes that his sister was the actress playing the mother of Ross and Monica on Friends, and he seemed to have a rather modern view on drugs: "Cannabis never killed anybody and it's use is widespread. You can’t stop it. The law defeats itself because all the efforts to stop drugs coming in only drives up the prices and then gangsters move in to push the drugs. If they legalised there wouldn't be gangsters and huge profits..."