The Note and TheRegular
It's hard to choose between The Note and TheRegular. The Note has the political junkie voice of Mark Halperin, lionized in this week's New Yorker. TheRegular has a slashdot approach to political news — and although it's just starting, it's going to be great. The Note is (in a sense) a slashdot affair as well, but the collaborative filtering is done by Halperin and his team. TheRegular has all of us (as soon as we start participating) helping out.
We're still at a primitive state when it comes to online blog-like news. Why can't we see issues coming towards us, in a radar-screen-like way? Why are we so tied to text and comments — things that disappear “below the fold” if we're not watching every minute of the day? Why don't we have structures for our obsessions that allow us to wield large amounts of data visually and gracefully? When will our screens become pliable and musical?
On the other hand, the nation is TheTired of electioneering. Maybe it's just as well that TheRegular and The Note are just sending us text and friendly static colors. Maybe more multimedia approaches to deliberation are overwhelming. Let's get this election over with and then move on to changing our relationship to the screen.
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