Want to know secrets on finding the best news sources? Take hold of the most vital, breaking, and through information through a variety of resources that new media has to offer.
Twitter: I can not overstate the vital importance of Twitter as the best direct source of information available. Anyone interested in following the news should have a twitter account.
Quick Twitter Training:
# hashtag followed by a search term makes an active link searchable to other Tweets with the same term. @ followed by a username makes an active link and is a reply to a specific user.
RT means toretweet. Trending topics based on an algorithm of the most tweeted about topics currently on twitter.
Consolidating information on Twitter: Twitter can at times be overwhelming, but you like other things can hook up important accounts tweet directly to your cell phone. You could also get a program like TweetDeck that helps you condense and consume information. Don't forget to follow public resources, sometimes Google's blog will talk about their speak to tweet, or YouTube will usher people to their CitizenTube. 
RSS Feeds: or Rich Site Summery allows you to syndicate news to your taste. Web browsers have the ability to utilize RSS feeds, along with RSS feed readers. Here is an article I wrote about adding RSS feeds to an iGoogle hompage. Try to find a spotlight page from a news page and look for the RSS feed icon. Facebook Pages: Facebook groups, and pages allow people to join up and share information. You might also want to consider adding some friends that you talk to on the pages comments as they may post even more articles and videos. YouTube: Subscribe to users that post information that is valid to you. Set up email alerts when new videos are posted. Always read the supplemental description for the video as it may contain more messages and useful urls. The more active you are the more likely you are to find useful information, such as reading user generated comments, joining groups, adding friends and arranging your homepage to fit your needs.
Google Alerts: Google Alerts will send articles based on search terms specified to your Gmail account. It is quite useful. Google News: RSS feeds, Google Alerts can have processing lag time, cut it down and search right away with Google News. Google Reader Play: a fun site that personalizes your feed based upon what you like star and share. Google Reader: is also a great way to read your RSS feeds.
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Open Office: is an open sourced equivalent to Microsoft Office
Zoho Writer: offers more features then Google Docs, saves your writing securely online for easier access anywhere.
Of course their are many other sources to utilize: Newsletters, Forums, IRC, Other social networks, Digg sites
Tips for Bloggers:
Formatting: Zoho writer for working online, or Open Office offline. Writing on a fully functioning word processor rather then a blog composition in your browser will simply allow you for better tools to create your article with. Don't forget to spell check, and read articles back to yourself. Highlighting spotlight positions, such as the beginning and end. Utilizing colors, italics and bold and other formatting options. Creative Commons: Share and share alike, don't forget to specify if your articles are in the creative commons. Creative commons varies, but the use age is usually specified. Normally you have the right to recopy the information, may or may have the right to alter the content. Creative commons almost always comes with a clause to link back to the source material.
How to use press releases: Press Releases are information send from a specific company or organization similar to an open letter. Traditional press releases are meant to be rewritten, and used as a source of information about a product, service or organization.
Copyright information: Copyright generally works as such; as soon as you write the information it is automatically granted a copyright to you. For the most part big media and non-specified material are all rights reserved and you can get sued for stealing their articles in full. There is something that helps in copyright called 'Fair Use'. Fair Useapplies to news writing depending on if you have cited the source material, and how much information was used.
Follow links to source. Most news writers rewrite a from another source material. Most have links, if not sources are usually quoted, scan for those and then Google for the original article, if available. If you display images or videos on your site, consider manually backing them up in case it goes down. Export your blog regularly.
Don't forget to pace yourself. Its pretty easy to tell whats valid, and what is a confirmed source material. Be responsible in your spreading of truth and power, link and credit the source material. Stem the flow of misinformation and distorted fact. Fact check, by comparing articles to other articles. Remember that many articles are based off of what may be a faulty source material. Check check and then check again. You just might get lucky while examining material and get a breaking story for yourself!
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