Limes with Orange

I keep having ideas about current topics that I want to blog about (such as Democratic Senator Barack Obama throwing his hat in the presidential ring, or George Dubya's insane "troop surge" plan, or the death of tabloid princess Anna Nicole Smith… okay, I don't really want to blog about that last one, but you get the idea). But I keep not getting around to writing those posts. Why? Partly because I'm really busy, partly because I feel like everyone else is already blogging about it and partly because I want to know the facts about something before I form an opinion that I'm going to be posting on the internet for all to see.

Don't get me wrong… I love research. But when life gets crazy busy, it would be nice to do a little less. I already have headlines emailed to me from my local paper and from CNN, but that hardly represents a wide variety of sources and perspectives. Which is why I end up spending so much time searching the internet in a variety of ways, looking for that new angle or some interesting aspect of a story that I moves, inspires or vexes me. Some way to write about it that would only be written by me.

So today I checked out this website called Newscribe that provides an avenue for news readers to obtain unbiased, quality news articles from multiple news streams. You can also comment on articles, read other people's comments, read reviews about articles, rate the reviews and, to top it off, you can also customize it to your tastes and needs. For example, you can click to "keep" interesting news articles for quick reference and then you'll receive recommendations based on those stories that you chose to track.

I'll have a better idea of how it all works once I've had a chance to play around with it for a while, but it seems like an intriguing idea that has a lot of potential. Whether it lives up to that potential partly depends on the people who end up using the site and the quality of their comments and reviews. So I'll definitely follow up and let you know who's using it and how it's working for me.

Labels: news, politics, pop culture