digital news
By chad257
@chad257 (152)
United States
January 7, 2011 7:49pm CST
I live in the states and have seen where many companys are putting subscriptions online where you can get the news off line but I dont think people should waste there money because there. I usaly just stick with a basic website or channel like Cnn to get news from . how do you get it?
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4 responses
@topffer (42156)
• France
8 Jan 11
Hello chad,
I changed my internet subscription to get more mobile options, including many news tv channels -- not CNN, but I noticed that CNN was present in KeyHoleTV, freely available for many smartphones --... Well, I am never watching tv on my phone, but I continue to do what I was doing before : taking a selection of rss feeds from my favorite newspapers. A rss reader works when there is no phone signal or wifi available -- in the countryside or a metro -- ! The feeds are freely available, and I have the unpleasant sensation to waste my money with this subscription.
To sum up, you are completely right : we don't really need that, but the seller was very good to persuade me that I needed it .
@rog0322 (2829)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
8 Jan 11
Hi chad,
In our place we get news by listening to the tapping of the drums on the bush (just kidding).
That's just an approximation of our news media here in this faraway world. We just listen to the transistor radio, or watch TV broadcast, or read three-day old newspaper if we ever get one intact from the garbage bin. You would not believe me if I say thirty years ago, a transistor radio is the biggest thing in the neigborhood.
No digital news, no mobile, no cable/satellite TV news for most of us here. The news subscription company would have to figure that out. I managed to have a 20-30 kbps online connection on a five-year old computer (I have no interest to discuss how I did it) but for the majority of us here, we're cut off from the cyberworld. For you, I may a voice from the wilderness.
Isn't it weird?