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Published online 25 June 2008 | Nature 453, 1149 (2008) | doi:10.1038/4531149b
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Scientists get online news aggregator
Canadian researcher launches science version of Google News.
A Canadian graduate student dissatisfied with science coverage on online sites such as Google News and Yahoo News has created a news aggregator especially for scientists.
Michael Imbeault, an HIV researcher at the Université Laval in Quebec, launched his fully automated site called e! Science News ("http://esciencenews.
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interesting stuff. I have been running a medical news and research analysis portal for a year now (MediNEWS.Direct!, http://www.medinewsdirect.com). When I started the portal, I had one big question in my mind: whether readers are happy getting news aggregates from various sources or if they would appreciate original content with some cross referencing and research on the topic better?. Ofcourse, over the last several months, MediNEWS itself has been aggregated by several news sources, including Google News.
It works very well, it is nice and smart. It is really convenient way to get the scientific news - it's great!!! Many thanks to Michael Imbeault.
Congrats on this release Michael. The site is pretty cool. Like a spiffier/cleaner version of Science Daily. My only gripe is that it posts EVERYTHING from EurekAlert www.eurekalert.org (Site name just a coincidence Michael?) and makes the site visitor sift through a lot of press releases that aren't very good. The main stream news ranking system is really nice though. A release like this for my site would have been nice, but I guess Nature isn't a fan of competition ;) Keep up the good work! Your friend at Labspaces.net, Brian
Following the previous comment (by Brian K), I actually thought that "e! Science News" was just an aggregator of EurekAlert news! That was my impression when I visited it a few days ago -- I only found EurekAlert stuff (and the site name contributed to my confusion). Now I'll give it another try.