So enter TweetNews

Twitter is a fantastic place to find breaking news, but Twitter posts are short and sometimes ill-informed. Or even wrong. So, while Twitter is an amazing tool for finding the story, it isn’t the best place to get the whole story.

For comprehensiveness, most of us turn to traditional news outlets, such as those aggregated by Google News. But Google News relies on algorithms to rank stories, and while the algorithms are pretty good, they aren’t necessarily as fast as the news.

That’s why Yahoo BOSS engineer Vik Singh created TweetNews. TweetNews takes Yahoo’s news results and compares them to emerging topics on Twitter, in effect using what’s most popular on Twitter as an index for determining the importance of news stories.

In other words, TweetNews uses Twitter to rank stories that are so new they may not have enough inbound links for algorithm-based ranking systems to prioritize them.

The result is a search engine mashup that tracks breaking news stories ranked by Twitter search results, offering faster updates, better relevance and more in-depth coverage than either source by itself.

So really do not understand it, but if I substitute my search in this link, it works.

Katie Kouric Outdated News Format

Read in the NY Times Magazine article, Multiscreen Mad Men, the following:
Rasmussen: I’m embarrassed to say that until last week, I had never watched Katie Couric in my life. So the other day I TiVoed the CBS news. And I gotta tell you, sitting in front of the TV for that long watching news was painful to me. I realized that I never get a half-hour’s worth of predigested content from one source anymore.

The interview went on to say that what was missing from the tradition news format is interaction. So much of social networking revolves around what someone is doing. I agree entirely. It would be great to know what Katie was doing, who she was interviewing to know whether I want to invest any time in watching.

I still hang onto watching the Evening News but it's not for learning the "news" as such. I hear the key headlines on NPR driving home first. It's for having Brian William's friendly persona quite literally greet me and set the stage for arriving home. I realize that if I miss the news, there is not enough there to bother watching what I prerecorded.

It's so much nicer to get the news I want: every morning I open multiple tabs and scan through the NYT, the BBC, and NPR. I have a Twitter account but have not integrated that into my life yet. Ditto, my RSS reader. Need an extended amount of free time to delve into their value as daily fodder.