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"News Roundup" in 2008 (even the fish image has not changed since)



Summary: Our tradition of collating "Daily Links" (also known as "News Roundup") is an old, very old tradition with 4,669 batches to date; the "Daily Links" have broad circulation and are open to contribution

THE "Daily Links" as we call them have gone on for about 12 years, non-stop, ranging from technology issues to human rights and sometimes politics. We're aware of people who use the Daily Links as an all-in-one gazette by which to keep abreast of technology news and world affairs. In the very early days (2008) those picks were limited to GNU/Linux and Free software; we later expanded somewhat and the links are nowadays curated by multiple people. At one point, a very long time ago, those were also edited by several parties and by multiple people. We spend an extraordinary amount of time putting these together. It's not automated and organising the lot takes great care. Readers who wish to participate in the effort can do so over IRC; batches are published at least once a day, sometimes twice per day (very rarely thrice). Links do not imply endorsement (of articles or sites), they're meant to highlight stories of significance rather than gossip and trolls. Sadly, a lot of the 'news' nowadays (mainstream and local media) is stuffed with noise and clickbait rather than concise information people actually need. This is why we've made this alternative and it's also why "Open Source" news was worth dumping (far too much noise and spam to be found in these; firms that spread FUD to sell their services and large corporations that push an openwashing agenda).



"Readers can recommend to us sites that contain accurate reports and have very high s/n ratio. Those aren't easy to find as many good journalism sources perished in recent years."For those who want to know more about the EPO and USPTO affairs, there's a section at the bottom called "Patents"; we shelve there stuff which isn't sufficiently interesting/important for us to cover in blog posts. We recently added a bunch of reasonably trustworthy sources; we're still assessing them for quality or accuracy, knowing that some sites can go astray after a while (or become entirely inactive like TruthDig). Readers can recommend to us sites that contain accurate reports and have very high s/n ratio. Those aren't easy to find as many good journalism sources perished in recent years.

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