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“The media can attack me. But where I draw the line is when they attack you, which is what they do. When they attack the decency of our supporters… You’re taxpaying Americans who love our nation, obey our laws, and care for our people. It’s time to expose the crooked media deceptions, and to challenge the media for their role in fomenting divisions.” — Donald Trump, 8/22/17, Phoenix, AZ
And then the rejoinder, via bios of all-to-realistic journalists. For example, close to my pained heart:
Beth Weller is so introverted that her tenth grade teacher once observed that “the dry erase whiteboard makes more of an impression.” Because of her antipathy towards people, Beth decided to study English literature and become a writer only to discover that this was not so much a profession as a trust fund hobby. She ended up taking a job in business journalism writing about Blockchain Technology. She has two cats.
Take a moment to think about these fake but hype-realistic stories.
You can now save a search as a saved search feed. This works for individual sites, folders, All Site Stories, saved stories, and blurblogs.
Saved searches are great for creating custom feeds with just the stories you want. Think of these new feeds as spotlights on parts of a folder or feed, ways to keep track of stories that share a theme across different sites.
Or use saved searches to keep a single tag together for handy reference.
This is a seriously cool feature and I’m glad it’s ready to launch. The dashboard river, the real-time stream of the top five stories of All Site Stories, is now on the dashboard of the web app.
After testing this feature for the past few weeks I now realize that I could not live without it. By having the latest stories always loaded and instantly ready to go, I leave NewsBlur open and just take a quick glance to see if the top of my list is interesting.
It also loads instantly, which means that if you see a story you want to read, clicking on it brings up the text without taking a single moment.
One big change that this necessitated was the handling of the Text view when reading by folders. Used to be that a folder got its own feed/text/story view and every feed had to stay with the same story view. But on iOS and Android it’s different. Every feed gets to keep its own feed/text/story setting.
This is now how it works on the web. If you read on feed by its Text (extracted original text) view and another by its Feed view, then you are automatically switched between the two views. Quite a bit of logic had to accomodate scrolling (you don’t automatically switch, since that would throw you from one scroll viewport into another) and switching between stories.
Enjoy the dashboard river. And if you look closely you might even see the next big feature that itself is about to launch soon.
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