There just isn’t any real home sites that could give you all your stuff on one page, is there?
Do you have one that comes close?
In a way, the Internet’s greatest feature is also its weakest. Think about it. Newspapers are supposed to be has-beens by now, being replaced by the Internet. But they are not. Going to news.google.com reveals that almost all of the stories there come from newspapers. Some of the stories there are rather stale.
Oh, there are other, more up-to-date places to go on the web. You can even have your own RSS or XML feeds to alert you if anything new happens, but these make for poor home pages.
So I stick with the news page from google for my home page.
But I wish for something better. Surfing a dozen or more sites all the time is not much fun. You can imagine what it would be like to do this if you were shut-in or home bound most of the time. And the weekends are far worse, when all your buds online are off to live normal lives out in the real world.
The sites I surf are here at mymac.com, slashdot, engadget, gizmodo, mocoloco, wired, google news, and half a dozen forums I blog at.
But if I really want to see what is happening in the world, I turn on the TV.
I do this because there is no real-time, interactive website that does it all. No site that shows the up-to-the minute stuff that I get from engadget, or CNN.
It is like there is really no place “live” to go on the web. I continue to look for one. A place where I can configure what is presented to me, and where I can see instantly what is of interest, discarding the rest if I want to. A place where I can interact with the news there and make comments about it too.
Such a site would have a dozen small screens at the top, showing live feeds, with scrolling lines of text and information. Below that would be bullet points of headlines limited to the kinds of information I want to know about (world news, entertainment, and technology, but not sports or financial news)
You get the idea.
Such a place to go on the web does not exist yet. Oh, I know about cbs.com, and abc.com, and reuters.com. All of these are pretty good, but no cigar. They are not someplace I want to spend my whole day visiting.
If there are any moguls out there reading this, or CEOs of news companies, perhaps you could be interested in creating a cool, informative and interactive place to go on the web, that would instantly become everyone’s new home page.
Gotta go now. Time to surf all my favorite sites, and look for a few more new one.
Regards,
Roger Born
“Always drink upstream from the herd.”
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