It's a slow news day. Things have happened of course. Muslims are burning stuff because of a cartoon. A major feminist, the first noted one, died. Iran says "Screw you". Lots of people when ferry sank.



These things have been repeating on the cable news for the past 4 or 5 hours, as the news usually does. Seems strange to hear such repetition of the news, these days, where a lot of my news comes from online sources, i.e. information I seek out or pull to me. TV and radio just push news, repeating it so that different people listening at different times can hear. Hence, the whole "Top stories of the hour" idea. But having heard it once or four times, do I need to hear it again? Shouldn't a person be able to move on, maybe mark a story as read, so that when they view the news again they only get new stories and/or updates to stories? Just keep pulling in the new stuff once you've read things, moving ahead to the new news. It's a big world, how can there be a slow news day? Isn't there something happening somewhere?


New devices for tv, web, print (digital paper), radio and ANY OTHER METHOD of delivering information should have this ability, a way to mark stuff as already digested. Should also have the ability to set something aside to look at more closely or recieve specific updates on. Or highlight certain keyords or tags.