RevRico
RevRico PowerDork
9/18/20 4:37 p.m.

I'm looking for an app or website or something that will let me pick topics I'm interested in and ONLY shows me news articles related to those topics.

Any ideas?

Streetwiseguy
Streetwiseguy MegaDork
9/18/20 4:54 p.m.

That sounds like every algorithm already in use by everyone on the internet.  I know I read all the F1 and Nascar articles, but that doesn't mean that I don't want to know about the forest fires, or the nuclear treaty...

Give me all the headlines.  I will determine what is worth reading.

RevRico
RevRico PowerDork
9/18/20 5:18 p.m.

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

Well it seems no matter how many times I hit "not interested" or "don't show me stuff like this", or just flat out ignore the headlines, I get MORE of the celebrity sleaze, political doublespeak, or bizarrely local international news (seriously, why should I care about a shoplifter being caught in Zimbabwe?), and less of the outer space, 3d printing, silicone casting, videogame, bands, and car news that I'm interested in and click on repeatedly.

I've reached a point where I only want to see and learn about things I care about because I consider everything else inconsequential bullE36 M3, and I'm sick of having it shoved down my throat. 

Fueled by Caffeine
Fueled by Caffeine MegaDork
9/18/20 5:29 p.m.

Google news will do this. 
 

news.google.com

noddaz
noddaz UltraDork
9/18/20 5:55 p.m.
RevRico said:

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

Well it seems no matter how many times I hit "not interested" or "don't show me stuff like this", or just flat out ignore the headlines, I get MORE of the celebrity sleaze, political doublespeak, or bizarrely local international news (seriously, why should I care about a shoplifter being caught in Zimbabwe?), and less of the outer space, 3d printing, silicone casting, videogame, bands, and car news that I'm interested in and click on repeatedly.

I've reached a point where I only want to see and learn about things I care about because I consider everything else inconsequential bullE36 M3, and I'm sick of having it shoved down my throat. 

But you might click on it.

frenchyd
frenchyd PowerDork
9/18/20 6:01 p.m.
RevRico said:

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

Well it seems no matter how many times I hit "not interested" or "don't show me stuff like this", or just flat out ignore the headlines, I get MORE of the celebrity sleaze, political doublespeak, or bizarrely local international news (seriously, why should I care about a shoplifter being caught in Zimbabwe?), and less of the outer space, 3d printing, silicone casting, videogame, bands, and car news that I'm interested in and click on repeatedly.

I've reached a point where I only want to see and learn about things I care about because I consider everything else inconsequential bullE36 M3, and I'm sick of having it shoved down my throat. 

I'm just the opposite. I like to learn things I didn't know. I'll listen to those with opposite political views of my own and find out sometimes they have good ideas or ideas that have some value.   I get tired of hearing the same old narrow points. 

Since I hunted submarines I like to know that there have been 2 successful Submarine attacks sinceWW2.   That the Soviets have a new airplane 

The Navy's anti Covid 19 techniques. That some states have abandoned their rules about restaurants selling liquor with either take out or delivery food. Now you can order Taco's and get a margarita delivered too. 

I need to know that Vapping has more than doubled in my state with high schoolers. I didn't know about Covid parties where the goal is to get Covid 19 That Florida swamps have a Boa Constrictor problem. 

 

OK I don't care about which actor did something wrong or is going- engaged to- married another actress.   Yawn. Same with the Gotcha of politicians, ministers, celebrators etc. but that stuff is like listening to commercials. The cost of being informed 

Curtis73 (Forum Supporter)
Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
9/18/20 6:22 p.m.

I was talking with a guy today about polyurethanes for hardwood floors.  Guess what flooded nearly half of my Google headlines?

The algorithms for every one I've tried just suck hardcore.  It guesses vaguely on some, so when it actually gets a hardcore lead, it goes a little nuts.  Of the 20 headlines in my feed this evening, 8 of them were about Polyurethane.

It happens all the time.  The other day I googled where Mick Fleetwood was born because I was trying to guess from his accent.  Suddenly, my news feed thinks I'm a hardcore Fleetwood Mac fan.

I switched to Bing as my default search provider, but they must share info with google because it didn't help.

RevRico
RevRico PowerDork
9/18/20 6:25 p.m.
Fueled by Caffeine said:

Google news will do this. 
 

news.google.com

Hasn't been working for me, just keeps shoving stuff my way. Whether I use the site, the app, or the new tab button in chrome, it's always the same. One article I'm interested in, 86 I don't give 2 craps about

Stefan (Forum Supporter)
Stefan (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
9/18/20 7:18 p.m.

Reddit.

tailor the News section to your desires, get multiple sources, lots of interesting commentary (both funny, highly detailed, etc.)

Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter)
Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) PowerDork
9/18/20 9:29 p.m.

I'm old school, I still use RSS feeds. Eventually I imagine they'll stop working, but for now, they do exactly what you're describing. Check out feedly.com.

aircooled
aircooled MegaDork
9/19/20 1:20 a.m.

I don't know if I would not trust any "feed". (RSS Maybe?)  Any of the big one (Google, Facebook YouTube etc.) are heavily AI involved and are tuned to hype, clicks, what they think you want to hear etc. Reddit is a rather scary tyranny of the majority many times and seems to be heavily infiltrated by foreign influencers. The specific areas, as mentioned, might be better, but I would not really trust them that much.  Lighter stuff might be OK though.

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