If you're a reader in the US then I don't need to tell you that the fourth estate is down for the count. As part of the technoratti, you might not feel the pain yet. You're skimming through hundreds of feeds in your RSS aggregator and you're bouncing around the web like a ferret on crack. However, you probably know a few holdouts who still read news on paper with their morning coffee.
Those people are suffering and it's your responsibility to help them. Their papers are shrinking in size and content, if not dying altogether, but when they look at the flock of available services out there for reading the news they prefer to stick with their withering pulp.
Enter Acrylic Times:
This is an aggregator which takes a few interaction techniques of newspapers and brings them to your laptop. So, if you have someone who needs a gentle push onto the web of news, try prepopulating Acrylic Times with feeds from the newspapers they read and then sit them down with their morning coffee and your laptop.
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