News aggregation has been done with much success at Techmeme, Digg and Netscape. So who is this newcomer and what do they want and will they be a valuable top news source?Newser is layed out nicely, with top stories and pictures on the home page, and categories for World, US, Politics, Business, Science and Health, Technology, Sports, Culture and Society. A convenient, yet sometimes annoying feature is the expanding content on rollover. Great for testing the waters on story importance, but bad for load times and accidental mouse over's. No worries though, this can be turned off in preferences. Newser's news sources tend to stick to the major media outlets like Reuters, Associated Press, CNN, Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, totally shunning the blogs of the world who drop news as it happens.
This is defiantly a website for image and major media lovers. If you are trying to get the top news now, without distracting pictures and a little more text and a lot more articles, stick with the diggs of the world. Although it does provide some really great information, the fact is that blogs are a major part of media these days, breaking news at the second it happens, and to only have major media outlets highlighted drop this aggregation site lower on the list of importance for us.
