MODERN DAY NEWS

Staying On Top of the News While Not Getting Bogged Down In Garbage

THE PROBLEMS WITH NEWS• Traditional news sources becoming obsolete• Morning and evening news pandering for ratings• Journalistic integrity is lacking and highly biased• Social media breeding ground of ignorance• Web is packed with clickbait and garbage

WHAT’S MY SOLUTION?• Only subscribe to topics, people, organizations,

and institutions that I want to follow• Query for short summaries of content they publish• Coalesce all content into a single place• Organize that content into categories• Quickly glance over all of the titles/headlines• Only drill down into articles that pique my interest• Use the lost art of LOGIC draw my own conclusions

and opinions

HOW DO I MANAGE IT?• ANSWER:– RSS aggregation tools

• BENEFITS:– Up to the moment– Plethora of information from multiple sources– Organized how I like it– Provides different perspectives– Sources may have more talking points and competing

facts

SO WHAT IS RSS?• Rich Site Summary• Really Simple Syndication• Most modern websites offer an RSS feed option• Provides a real-time summary of on page topics• Allows quick incremental updates without having

to repeatedly visit the websites one at a time

RSS Feeds Logo

HOW DOES RSS WORK?

(TRADITIONAL WEB BROWSING)

HOW DOES RSS WORK?

(RSS AGGREGATION)

RSS Application

HOW DO YOU SUBSCRIBE?

RSS Application (Leaf)

Look for the RSS logo

STEP 1 STEP 2

Visit your favorite website(s)

STEP 3

Add the RSS link/URL to your RSS application

STEP 4

http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/usatoday-newstopstories&x=1

WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?

WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?

WHY DO ALL OF THIS?• It’s important to stay informed on current events• Critical to have access to accurate information• Shouldn’t rely on a single source for your news• Don’t want to be a news parrot or sheep• Live a busy life and need to be high speed low drag• Get more accomplished with less effort

QUESTIONS?