A lot of people say “River of News” is a preference.

River of News is a preference like a Microbrewed beer is. Once you’ve acquired a taste for it, you’ll never switch back to Bud.

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Chicago: http://chi.riverofjobs.com

LA: http://la.riverofjobs.com

SanFran: http://sanfran.riverofjobs.com

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This is New York river of jobs. Other cities and job category specific to come any day. API available if you are ineterested.

http://ny.riverofjobs.com/

In fact this is the whole web page. One Rest call:

note: no line break here. I was having trouble with Wordpress blowing out the template

include_once(’http://freecruiter.org/rest/?method=getFeedListItems
&format=html&countryid=1&stateid=33&cityid=1&jobid=0′);

For fun just change the format=html in the URL to format=rss and you’ve got the rss version of the river for yourself.

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My big push this week was for full-text feeds in the RSS feeds from all Tribune newspapers sites.

Not a new argument by any means but . . .(cue up quotable excerpt)
In the light of the blogosphere going apeshit over Dave’s “mobile river of news,” I think it’s more critical than ever that media companies stop clinging to the out-dated page-view model and begin offering full-text feeds.

Added: See what I mean? If we concentrate on relationships and not traffic, we will get paid more. Huh? The doctor uses a scalpel not a cave-man club. Whuh? The graduate student studies The Battle of Gettysburg, the 8th grader studies American History (And never gets past World War I). Is it clear now?

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I found this Craig Barnes  of Attensa post about the River of News style aggregators very interesting. Since they have a great understanding of Attention in his company, it doesn’t surprise me that they want to apply that to NewsRivers in order to make our feed reading more efficient.
I’m not sure Craig gets river of news. I’m not quite sure I get it, but I’m a wee bit closer, methinks. But he does pose a good question of whether the river of news will  cause production slow down like email has.

Probably, but you can’t say that any reader has solved that one yet.

I guess he’s saying that he has some go-to blogs that he can’t miss, but others that are must reads.

I never know where the day’s gem will be. Sometimes Dave Winer has nothing for me and James Corbett does, other days it’s reversed.

I do think Craig confuses  the method of reading all your feeds, ordered by date, but in a three-pane window with a true news river that flows title, description, links and all into one pane. That makes a huge difference.
The River of News style of feed consumption leverages the best computing resource available. The human brain.
Without it, I scan headlines, but often click to find it wasn’t worth it after all.

On a side note, I’m glad to see Craig looking at Open Source . If you read this Craig, just go for it. Actually, I’d like to talk more about it with you later, cuz this post is done.

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