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Ask HN: List your favourite social news sources

8 points by megatron ↗ HN
Another post on HN compared HN to Reddit and Digg, so I thought I'd ask people to list your favourite social news sources.

In no particular order:

http://news.ycombinator.com - :)

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shafqat
I heard NewsCred.com is full of awesomeness. In all seriousness, we have thousands of visitors a day loving it, so something must be good about it.

Personally, my day consists of Hacker News, NewsCred, some Google News, and a sprinkling of the Onion.

_b8r0
Wow, can't believe I've never come across NewsCred before...
shafqat
We just launched recently, so maybe that's why. I've bounced around a ton of ideas and got a lot of help from the HN community over the past year so you might have come across related posts before. Anyway, do let us know what you think - always looking for feedback!
_b8r0
It might be an idea to put down (possibly here, maybe a separate post) what it provides over Google News and My Yahoo - that's what I saw as the main competitors.

I'll definitely go back though and have added it to my list of daily things to check :D

shafqat
Good point. Will do a post on our blog about in the next few days.
endlessvoid94
I really like the ability to filter what news sources I want to see.

Excellent job with the site, all around.

shafqat
Thanks a lot... That's my favorite part of the site, and the feature that eventually became NewsCred.
brandnewlow
I've checked out Newscred before. As a journalist, I'm always interested in new news sites (working on one myself). While I'm very skeptical that newscred ratings actually represent what you say they represent, I'm all in favor of you giving it a shot and seeing where it leads..

One question, though: How are you dealing with copyright issues? For instance, this article featured on your front page appears to be a complete lift of a Gizmodo article, photo and all.

http://newscred.com/article/show/title/iowa-state-researcher...

What's your policy on that? Are you hoping to sneak under the radar? Are you only lifting stories from people who publish full feeds?

shafqat
Our policy is quite clear - we respect the copyrights of our content providers and do everything in our power to drive traffic to them.

We currently take whatever is in the feeds. Some feeds (less than 5%) have the full content in the feed. In this case, we have a dilemma - what we've done is reach out to the feed providers to ask them what they want us to do. We offer the option of removing them from our site (no one has opted for that), revenue sharing on ads on that page, or we offer to do a bit of development to manually extract just the first paragraph. Its a bit more work on our part, and we'd rather not tinker with the feeds.

Until we figure out an optimal solution, we're not yet running ads on NewsCred (out of respect more than anything else). I've found that starting a dialogue with content producers is the best way forward, and 100% of those who we've reached out to have respected that.