Personalized News Sites

Marc Glasser at MediaShift offers some hindsight to Cass Sunstein's article on personalized news. The majority of the companies that Sunstein mentioned in her article were either dead or acquired by Yahoo! (broadcast.com). Glasser points out some good counterpoints to Sunstein's pessimistic extrapolation of what personalized news may mean and he offers a good survey of sites. Glasser wrote this in 2006, so he has some more contemporary sites to evaluate. A few are already dead in less than a year, but the most interesting ones may be topix.net, newsvine.com, and netvibes.com.