As the war begins, Nick Denton points out that the Reuters online coverage is much better than the Soft-Warnography being pumped out by the cable channels.
I am already bored with CNN’s war jargon, sweeping platitudes, vapid pundits and pictures of silhouetted minarettes, but the problem I have with all the online sites is that there is no real sense of breaking news, without constantly hitting refresh like a laboratory animal in a Skinner box.
Here’s what I would like: the top 100 online newspapers with dynamic loading of new headlines in near realtime. Amazingly this simple thing does not seem to exist in any of the news aggregator client interfaces.