Let me tell you about a website that I visit nearly everyday. It is my primary source of news and interesting things on the internet. This website is jimmyr.com. The title of the site is "Technology and Programming News". That is what it primarily consists of, but includes other sections that usually include top national and world news, as well as some really obscure news that you won't find anywhere else.
The site is basically a bunch of links to interesting news. The links are updated automatically through a number of other sites such as Digg and Reddit. Digg and Reddit are websites where users post links to articles, pictures, videos, etc. and then other users upvote or downvote the links based on preference. News items that are of high general interest tend to rise to the top and the boring ones sink to obscurity. Jimmyr.com takes these top stories and puts them in an easily readable format. Clicking on the actual headline of the story redirects you to the site where that story originated. Clicking on the little icon next to the headline takes you to the original aggregator site, whether that is Digg, Reddit, etc and you can see comments on the story from thousands of users.
I prefer websites like this over mainstream media (MSM) websites because there is less advertising and sensationalism. Small news agregators like jimmyr.com draw from a large number of sources around the world and all of the items are there because they are interesting to normal readers like you and I. MSM websites tend to focus on things that advance their agenda rather than what is important to readers. For example, at posting time MSNBC's top article was about the pending US-Russian nuke treaty, while a number of articles on jimmyr.com are about the new draconian TSA regulations. Which affects normal people more? A nuke treaty with a dying superpower, or the latest violation of our rights by the TSA?
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