Giving up my newspaper
Tags: General InternetToday is day three of my experiment of giving my my daily newspaper, the Boston Globe. I've been reading the Boston Globe for... well, longer than I can remember. I don't love the paper, but it's the best choice around here and it pretty much gets the job done. I don't watch any TV news. I'm spending more and more time in front of the computer (I didn't think that was possible, but it's true) and my latest deal with the Globe is over so the newspaper is now costs over $35/month. And a lot of days I don't even get around to reading it. So it's on hold for a week while I experiment with replacing the hard copy with the Internet. Of course this opens up all kinds of possibilities - I don't just need to rely on the Boston Globe website for news - there are far better options. But for right now I'm going to stick with this to see if it's a direct replacement. So far the results are obvious - not as easy to skim and I'm probably not quite as well-informed as I had been. If I continue with this I'll add other news sources to my morning read, in addition to all the blogs I follow, which are in a different category.
Of course the biggest problem was.... what do I do about the comics??
Actually, they're all online
too, if you can find them. They're all over the place, including
some "comics aggregators." But I found it was easiest to
find what I wanted, bookmark them all in one folder, then open all those
bookmarks in tabs.
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