I used to read digital news from feeds and folks used to write blogs but those means of disseminating information have changed a lot in the past few years. Blogs have been reduced to very private affairs or marketing clickbait. Neither use is bad but I'm looking for localized and personalized digital news. News that matters to me when I walk down the street. Tweets and similar, brief updates are the norm now and I wanted to get a handle on personalizing any source of relevant news. In comes http://paper.li/. Paper is nothing more than a news source aggregator with a twist. It combines the old school feeds like Google's Reader with the new snippets from Twitter -- yet it also filters and trends. Plus it's online interface and freemium model make getting setup a breeze. My only feature request is an "Offline mode" like other news readers but otherwise Paper is great. I can read news that really matters to me and get the rest from the old TV.
And despite last year's hoopla that NBC had killed EveryBlock, their feeds are still very active in my hood. :)
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