1. Unified Coverage
2. Story Summary
3. Story Developments
4. Various levels of detail
5. Prioritization of story developments
6. Remembering what the user has read

Today, I learned that ‘The Daily Show‘ has a new website.  Hallelujah.

Currently searching using the timeline doesn’t return much results before 2005.  But the timeline extends all the way back to 1999 so I’m staying hopeful.

The new site looks so much better than the old.  More importantly, it signals that execs up there are finally realizing that the net is the distribution platform for people in my generation or rather those who like me have the same online usage behavior.  Even my mom started using YouTube to get videos of church concerts.

The thing about ‘The Daily Show’ is that it is actually the only news show I enjoy watching.  I know it is supposed to be fake news, parody and satire but often their insights and analysis beats anything that I get from the local news.  In fact, I don’t even think local news provide much analysis.  They just report.

Maybe this article from the New York Times will help explain why I love ‘The Daily Show’ and ‘The Colbert Report’ so much – The Gospel According to Mr Colbert.