Smoothly keeping up with the news
I must admit I read a lot of stuff online. I don't like being in front of my big computer screen and wish I could afford a laptop and a quiet machine. I have a hard time with the confinement in one room where I keep the machine. At least I can close the door when I don't want to hear its rumbling.
So in a way reading on the screen is a pain in the neck. Yet it is fabulous. I keep myself 'informed' even though it is a futile exercise. I'd rather be part of the make up of the world instead of being this onlooker. At this point though I have no such ambition, being in limbo, not knowing exactly how I want to participate for real.
One can easily be inundated by news, especially on-line news which abound. One could spend one's lifetime being in front of the screen and reading the bloody news 'cause in this wired world one knows everything there is to know before it even happens! It gets that insane...
Among all the newswires agencies, sites, etc. keeping track of everything that's happening there, we find some sites/organisations having a specially refreshing and relaxing way of looking at things. My treats: two sites I find less harmful to my brain bringing a daily content of news in a finer setup, free also of flash/ing advertisements.
Arts & Letters Daily distincts itself right away by its layout. It looks much like a newspaper layout of the late XIXth century. Its masthead reads philisopy, aesthetics, literature, language, trends, breakthoughs, ideas, criticism, culture, history, music, art, disputes, gossip.
On that front page lays the summary of news items which can be delved further by clicking on each which bring you to the actual source of that news. On the left side, it has most online news agencies, dailies, etc. where you can directly go to.
Arts Journal may not look as ambitious but its content is as original as Arts & Letters. The layout is more contemporary but it does attrack your intention with catchy titles. It brings about news items either left out by the big medias or that you wouldn't noticed so much they are drowned in the rest of the news items. Its concern also deals with arts and culture in a broad meaning of the word with topics such as dance, ideas, media, music, people, publishing, theatre, visual arts.
Both are digests, meaning they gather stuff from other sources to make it accessible by topics without the interference of images, bold types, etc. Digests speed up the process of getting informed without the hassles of searching ad nauseam and beyond any editorial policies or politics of any one source. At least one has a broader scope to choose from. And they both are rss syndicated.
So in a way reading on the screen is a pain in the neck. Yet it is fabulous. I keep myself 'informed' even though it is a futile exercise. I'd rather be part of the make up of the world instead of being this onlooker. At this point though I have no such ambition, being in limbo, not knowing exactly how I want to participate for real.
One can easily be inundated by news, especially on-line news which abound. One could spend one's lifetime being in front of the screen and reading the bloody news 'cause in this wired world one knows everything there is to know before it even happens! It gets that insane...
Among all the newswires agencies, sites, etc. keeping track of everything that's happening there, we find some sites/organisations having a specially refreshing and relaxing way of looking at things. My treats: two sites I find less harmful to my brain bringing a daily content of news in a finer setup, free also of flash/ing advertisements.
Arts & Letters Daily distincts itself right away by its layout. It looks much like a newspaper layout of the late XIXth century. Its masthead reads philisopy, aesthetics, literature, language, trends, breakthoughs, ideas, criticism, culture, history, music, art, disputes, gossip.
On that front page lays the summary of news items which can be delved further by clicking on each which bring you to the actual source of that news. On the left side, it has most online news agencies, dailies, etc. where you can directly go to.
Arts Journal may not look as ambitious but its content is as original as Arts & Letters. The layout is more contemporary but it does attrack your intention with catchy titles. It brings about news items either left out by the big medias or that you wouldn't noticed so much they are drowned in the rest of the news items. Its concern also deals with arts and culture in a broad meaning of the word with topics such as dance, ideas, media, music, people, publishing, theatre, visual arts.
Both are digests, meaning they gather stuff from other sources to make it accessible by topics without the interference of images, bold types, etc. Digests speed up the process of getting informed without the hassles of searching ad nauseam and beyond any editorial policies or politics of any one source. At least one has a broader scope to choose from. And they both are rss syndicated.
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