As a preamble: I was really struggling to keep up with the news. There is just so much, and so much noise. It’s not easy to find out what articles are the most important ones and it’s time consuming.
I thought a simple and efficient approach would be to analyze what the leading experts themselves read and recommend. And Forereads was born :-).
Forereads generates specialised “news round-ups" to help people navigate the constant flow of stories published every day. The curation is done by the best experts on the premise that if several of them share the same article on social media, it is likely an important read. And Forereads does not just feature links, it adds context as well: what did these experts say when they shared a specific link? Can it help me understand the article better?
Let me know what you think. Thanks!
So I like what you have done here a lot. Congrats.
Interesting news in West Coast/SV is published right around the time we settle down for bed in the UK so when I wake up I check my inbox and get a snapshot of what happened which saves me scrolling through Twitter and checking other sites.
In short, it looks at a bunch of social media signals to see who interact with who among people in a certain industry.
How they range from helpful, extracting the key data, to.... just plain b!tchy and cynical :)
But what I like about it is - I think - it gives a good "idea" of the general feeling about a certain piece of news. Sometimes a bit of irony is... welcome!