News overload solution

I had to share this site I came across the other week. The ingenius folks at the computer science department at Columbia University have come up with a software program that somehow takes up to two dozen news stories from a wide variety of mainstream sources and summarizes them automatically somehow. Computer programmers and code writers! Jeesh!

A friend who is a student at Columbia reacted to this “news” I presented to him by saying those geeks had too much time on their hands.

Maybe so, but it’s a rather interesting idea in this day and age when there are so many hundreds of free news sources on the Internet. Now instead of wading through tons of sites, we can have Newsblaster present us with a nice, neat little summary paragraph. Perfect for the current events-jaded among us.