Around the world, people protest various causes. These protests are reported by numerous news sources. If you would like to check out these reported protests, visit a site called World At Protest. WorldAtProtest is a simple site that collects protest-related articles from numerous news sources. You can look for protests by setting a time period [...]
Journalism has been commercialized so much that most of the news articles we read today are based on some other articles/press releases rather than being original pieces of writing. This method of journalism has been accurately titled as Churnalism by media gurus. The tool Churnalism helps you in identifying such instances. When you copy paste [...]
Fresh USA News is a pretty cool site if you want to play a prank on an unsuspecting friend. It lets you quickly create fake news stories. The stories automatically get published on their site complete with headlines, pictures etc, which makes it look like real reporting. You just need to enter your friend’s name, [...]
Given the real-time activity by millions of daily users, Twitter is an excellent source of news. However, all the irrelevant and redundant tweets make it hard for anyone to filter out the noise from the actual stories. Smartr is an iPhone app that does the job for you by filtering the news from your tweets and presenting [...]
Many of us do not have the time to regularly watch television. The only reason we have television and a cable subscription is to catch an informative news report every now and then. But thanks to Tilt View, watching the latest news broadcast no longer requires a television. Tilt View is a free to use [...]
If you want to hunt down the latest information from and about Wikileaks, but are stuck finding a good source, then you should check out Wikiriver. This website sources several online publications, blogs, and news outlets to provide a portal for news and information on Wikileaks’ materials. Wikiriver uses RSS to source these materials so [...]
If you keep track of world news, you would know that the hottest story at the moment is the massive release of data from US embassy diplomatic cables that’s planned by the website Wikileaks today (by the time this post is published, they would have released the docs.) Some top newspapers around the world will [...]
Looking for online articles and websites that you will find interesting can be a very time consuming process. Due to the sheer amount of data on the web, you really do not know where exactly to start and stop looking. Webtasty is here to help you out with finding interesting pieces on the web from [...]
There are an increasing number of online tools that explore how the Twitter stream can be made more fun. Adding to this list of tools is VisibleTweets that creates animated twitter stream, perfectly suited for large screen displays. Visible Tweets lets you search for things on the Twitter stream ““ all Twitter search operators are [...]
Social networks have become one of our most used news source . The logic goes ““ if your friends care about a certain news, then you should care about it too. But too many news and updates will only give you lots of noise, which limits your ability to find the news that is the [...]