[LINK] Whatever happened to Fairfax?

[andrew clarke]

On Tue 2012-06-19 03:18:57 UTC+1000, Frank O'Connor (francisoconnor3 at bigpond.com) wrote:

> An application that freed consumers from relying on single sources for
> continuously updated news and current affairs (for example that
> allowed me to plug in Reuters for economic and business affairs,
> numerous local sites for local and Australian news, various overseas
> publications for news of the world, various specialist sources for
> sports news on AFL, Cricket, MotoGP, Grand Prix etc etc) through a
> single UI ... in effect providing an individually tailored news source
> ... is probably not far off being realised.

This is possible now.

News aggregator apps (for both desktop & mobile) have existed for
several years. Google Reader (launched in 2005) is very popular.

The majority of news web sites & blogs have an RSS or Atom feed (or
multiple feeds) that people can subscribe to using their aggregator
app.

Also, to some degree Twitter can also provide a kind of "tailored"
news service in the sense that many news outlets post headlines &
links on their Twitter feed, and you can "follow" those feeds.