Daylife - Fancy new news aggregator (but missing RSS)

It's not like RSS hasn't been around for awhile now. For me it's become ingrained in my web usage so completely that when a new site comes along that wants to aggregate news for me, if it doesn't have RSS I'm not going to take another look.

Well, at least that's what I thought.

Unfortunately, Daylife came along and showed me that as much as I'd like to think I'm an info-snob (give me my feeds, I don't need no stinkin' formatting!), pretty pictures and effortless design do tend to make me turn my head.

The concept behind Daylife is that they intelligently aggregate news from sources around the world, and give users an easy way to track and follow photos, articles, publications, and people in the news that are important to them. It's a neat concept, and brilliantly executed; the site feels fresh and quick. Of course, after playing around in their interface for awhile, I was longing for the comfort of my Google Reader account, with my hotkeys to let me go zooming past articles and pretend I've "read" 25,000 this month. Real news presented in a compelling way really slows down my information consumption.



But I think I like it.

Hmm, maybe that's the idea.

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