News and current events seem to be on everyones mind. Some newspapers find they can no longer survive financially. They are shutting down and/or going strictly online. Reading the newspaper is traditional for many. What has this to do with simplifying geekdom? If you are new to computer use or lack confidence in your skills to "surf" around, don't worry. You can become "tech savy" in this too. The search engine is your friend.
Go to your favorite search engine. (i.e Google, Yahoo, Dogpile, MSN, etc.). Run a search on news. You will come up with links for CNN, Fox News, Google News, ABC News, and Yahoo News, etc.
Next run a search for online newspapers. You will find links to newspapers worldwide. You will find pages with links to US newspapers. (LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Kalamazoo Gazette, Detroit Free Press, NY Times, Greenville Daily News, and many more)
It is possible to get RSS feeds from your favorite news sources and have those feeds brought together in an aggregator. ( for exampleGoogle Reader, and Feedreader). Once you set up a feed aggregator, you will discover there are many things more than newspapers on the web that have RSS feed. You will save a lot of time being able to go to one place to catch up with the things you want to know.
Imagine the possibilities of using this with your student (child or grandchild). Current events couldn't get any easier to find. Search for your sources, look for their RSS feeds, then begin aggregating (collecting your news).
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