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Summary: Google News (whether as RSS feeds or a Web interface) is a source of misinformation/disinformation; we're glad to have dumped it and we're already seeing significant gains in our efficiency or productivity levels

"Daily Links" or "News Roundups" have been an essential part of the site since 2008 or thereabouts (we didn't start this until a couple of years down the line). But a lot of tooling was required to do a batch rapidly and frequently, so traditionally we have had one or at most two batches per day. Everything is curated manually.

Recently we took things to the next level by adding a lot more RSS feeds and dumping Google (as in Google News). We're better off, having just dumped Google completely.

"Now we're fully liberated from the whole lot and the net result will be more posts per day."The number of batches isn't some objective yardstick; they're not all of equal length, but posting them within short intervals means putting out there the latest news before it ages a bit (every hour matters). So if we can post more "News Roundups" per day, the site will be quicker to mention some breaking news (relatively recent announcements).

As noted in the video above, one major benefit of abandoning Google News (as RSS feeds) is that anti-information (or misinformation) becomes a lot less visible, e.g. anti-Linux FUD from Microsoft-connected publishers and a lot of time is spared by not paying attention to misinformation/disinformation. A few years ago we stopped following "Open Source" over Google News (after 15 years!) because it had become an ocean of marketing spam and openwashing. Now we're fully liberated from the whole lot and the net result will be more posts per day. ⬆