23.14 Old-school Mashup You Can’t Beat: Google News

Mashups are not that new (Shakespeare’s tragedies are mashups of historical sources, perhaps), and even on the web some have been around for awhile. I really can’t live long without Google News, which mashes together content from newspaper/news websites into a straightforward, easy to grab list of headlines. It doesn’t replace the newspaper itself (too many good or important stories don’t appear unless you search for them), but for a quick check of the headlines? A look at the zeitgeist? What’s hot in technology and new in science? Google News can’t be beat. Check out the other nation’s Google News pages at the bottom of the US page … interesting to see how Canada, Australia, and the UK look at US stuff. Also check out the News Archive Search near the top of the Google News US page. But before you pay for an old newspaper article…