More ideas than time: Last week’s news

marco:

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I want last week’s news, but only what I need to know, and only if it has proven to have relevance beyond the day it was published.

Tell me an overview of what happened in a given field, like technology, but with the hindsight of a week to sleep on it and evaluate what really matters. The delay also provides more time for investigation and analysis to reduce blind speculation, promote thoughtful writing, and encourage big-picture perspective.

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Someday, maybe I’ll start this site for technology news. But I bet I’ll never get to it, and I’d love for someone else to beat me to it.

1. This would be a great site to subscribe to indeed. Alternatively, I can see this being done as an iPad publication, with it being somewhat community-driven, in that a community / the people determine the lasting significance of news but with an editorial staff doing the picking and choosing, and being tasked with writing the actual pieces and the whole thing being published in a well-designed manner.

2. Don’t you [anyone reading this] just get so frustrated and yet also delighted when you have an idea that you know is really great, but you can’t go and make it yourself right now (or anytime soon)? It’s the desire that if someone else gets to it, they execute on it really well, and if not, that you’ll find the time to make it happen yourself one day. Either way, it’s the hope that the product will one day see the light of day, and solve that distinct problem it would solve, that I enjoy about such ideas.

Anyway, I snipped half the post for brevity, but you should read the whole thing.

Source: marco

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  1. kurafire reblogged this from marco and added:
    1. This would be...indeed. Alternatively, I can see this being done as an iPad...
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    Has anyone jumped...would definitely subscribe...like this,...
  3. shitiwanttobuild reblogged this from marco and added:
    Recently I read a post by Marco Arment, one of the cool developers of this even cooler Tumblerthing, about an idea he...
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  5. loader reblogged this from marco and added:
    Week (print edition).
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    The problem goes back...fact Google CEO Eric Schmidt pointed out as recently as...
  9. brianpan reblogged this from marco and added:
    great job of this. As an example, if you...current top story which is the violence in...
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  11. robohit said: I think “The Week” does a pretty good job of what you’re looking for, Marco. Here’s my writeup about it: robohit.com/post/50…
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  13. steampoweredmedia said: If I ever resurrect IndependentReport.org, I plan to create this kind of site—measured, researched news items that aren’t the latest and greatest but have some depth to them. So, actually, little summary, but much more context and measured reasoning
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    online newspaper I’ve told...you) about so often—the one