Your personalized newspaper

infooverload.jpg Jessica Mintz from the Wall Street Journal wrote an article titled Me, Me, Me. The article presents a few websites that help keeping the deluge of online information easy to deal with by organizing and personalizing the news based on your interests.

The article mentions a few popular news websites like Rojo.com, Newsvine.com, Findory.com, Reddit.com, Digg.com and Memeorandum.com.

I believe, and I’m sure you do too, that there is too much information and too many sources of information. This overload of information leads you to make choices on what information you want to consume (topics that interest you) and how.

Since I am interested in Oracle and ColdFusion, I subscribe to many Oracle and ColdFusion blogs. I read these blogs via my feed Reader. For my other news, I unsubscribed from all the Google News feeds, and I just started to use Findory.com. From their Help section:

Findory brings you news articles from thousands of worldwide sources. We build a personalized newspaper for each reader. The more articles you click on, the more personalized Findory will look. Our Personalization Technology adapts the website to show you interesting and relevant news based on your reading habits. There is too much news out there for anybody to keep up. We’re here to help. Sound complicated? It isn’t. Findory is really easy to use: just click on the articles which interest you. We’ll do the rest. No signup, no complicated configuration.

Findory was founded in 2004 by Greg Linden, the engineer behind Amazon’s recommendations engine.

There are many news stories I could care less about. Findory offers exactly what I need, a personalized newspaper. It also has a clean, clutter free interface, which I like too.

How do you keep up with the flood of information? What is your favourite news website? How and when do you read your daily news?

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