Do you love Google News but wish it was somehow tied up with the Washington Post? Then you will really be delighted to hear that the WaPo is launching something called “Trove,” which is a magical way to apparently personalize the news you wish to see on your screen — sort of the way you’ve been able to do on the Internet, using Excite! News or RSS or Bloglines or whatever, since the mid-1990s. But this will be different! (Right? It has to be different in some way, we assume, even though assuming anything sane is extremely dangerous when discussing the Washington Post.) Let’s take a look at all the personalized options you’ll enjoy whenever the “Washington Trove” appears and is quickly and totally forgotten by the few who bother to look at it, once.
Washington Post Launching Delightful New Personalized ‘Google News’
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Wow, so I can have Pravda on the Potomac streaming to my web browser looking just like a 1990's CGI.pl script? Way to move into the 20th century, WaPo!
Do you love Google News but wish it was somehow tied up with the Washington Post?
I don't know. Do you like unsugared lukewarm oatmeal but wish it were somehow mixed up with bloody diarrhea and corn bits?
Do you like fried chicken without salt but wish it was somehow mixed up with infanticide?
Do you like Santorum? (either definition)
Do you like vichyssoise with Christine O'Donnell's pubic hairs as garnish?
Do you like calamari gelato?
Some chic DC restaurant will feature that on its menu… & get profiled in Wonkabout.
Do you like masturbation but wish it was somehow linked to being skinned alive while writhing in a vat of turpentine?
Do you like missionary position sex, but wish it somehow involved Richard Cohen?
When you put it that way … I think I'll just skip lunch. And dinner.
I like the gray with blue links with such a visually stunning page and Dana Milbank and Richard Cohen, how could I not go and personalize my msnbc page.
Version 1.0 is available on the Apple Newton only.
Damn you! That'll learn me not to read all the comments before posting.
Personalize RCohen's pee? No thank you, rotting corpse of Katherine Graham, but thanks for thinking of me.
Grahams corpse is never rotting, spinning like a top discourages bacteria.
TROVE sounds like HAL's brother.
I thought he was Trig's brother.
I could make a mean joke about the fictional 'DS-TRIG1000', but I just did.
I assumed it was Trig's brother. Equally retarded.
Never thought I'd see the day when somebody was actually ripping off Drudge.
Bet that would zip right through one of them high tech 1200 bps dial-up modem thingies all the kids are using now-a-days.
I think it plays well with DOS too.
As long as none of the file names is longer than eight-dot-three.
But see, unlike with the paper edition, I can't draw an arrow through Richard Cohen's head, or erase his eyes or anything. I prefer a more interactive experience.
True. Also, I've found that although their smoothness is beyond reproach, both desktops & laptops have a serious deficit when it comes to absorbency.
According to the WSJ, initial users "will have to sign up for Trove through a Facebook account, so interests and other information from their profiles, along with fan pages they joined, will be reflected on the news site."
Is the Washington Post really stupid or do they think their readers are more stupid than they are?
yes.
Without question.
If you have seen the shit they've been publishing (e.g., today, a big story about some guy who had a platonic relationship with a co-worker), I would say there is really no floor to the stoopid among the readers.
yikes!
Do you love Google News but wish it was somehow tied up with the Washington Post?
I'm there! Just give me ten minutes to dial up my Prodigy account.
I'll see you and raise a compuserve HA HAAAA
Nelson Muntz or Phil Ken Sebben?
Raul Julia a la Addams Family.
If it was Sebben, we would have to go to threat condition Black Watch Plaid.
Columnists on dowels!
And I'll re-raise with my first computer with the CPM operating system that was going to last as long as DOS.
Don't knock Gregg Easterbrook's in-home e:mail provider.
(I assume he also has e:mail thru coloradocollege.edu, brookingsinstitute.dumb, theatlantic.insufferable, & tnr.eatshitpoorz.)
Does it work on my Newton?
Does anything work on your Newton?
Leading Edge Model D or GTFO.
Looks awesome on palm zire 72 in COLOR
I love my little Palm Z22 (no internet thingy) and use it every day. Also my ten dollar tracfone. I somehow stumble through life, though obviously not as one of the cool kids. Sniffle. I think I'll get off the computer now and go watch something from my cheapskate cable plan (shopping, come-to-Jesus, and rerun channels mostly) on my big heavy not-flat-screen TV.
But goodness gracious, that WaPo thing is hideous!
Needz moar Lynx running on Unix.
It already looks like it.
Only one page to bring me the thoughts of Richard Cohen, David Broder, Charles Krauthammer, Kathleen Parker, AND George Will? Finally, Web 2.0!!
Actually, make that Web. -2.0.
Thoughts?
Twas brillig, and the WaPo Trove.
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the Cillizza-goves,
And the Cohen raths outgrabe.
up thumb for really obscure poetry reference and sooooooooo many PPPPPPPPP's. I will follow you: "willfully, heroic and covered in napalm. Light me. Enflame my heroic spirit, fan the flames of my weeping metaphoric Neil Young , Kent state, flower in a buhddist's gun barrel"
I made that up.
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The editor's pen went snicker-snack!
He left it…
…oh, wait, we're talking about the Washington Post, aren't we? Never mind.
Jabberwocky, eh?
Nice, nice.
Today we are all tied to the Post.
Only in a bondage fantasy of Charles Kraut-hammer.
Who said anything about fantasy, he probably has a second family down in his basement made up of adults who used to be kids on milk cartons.
Off topic but I felt this display of love for
Ronald Reagan should be shared.
Thats it. I'm moving to France.
Oh, win and love! My wench reciev'th a pinch! Cast thy seed into Grendels maelstrom of modern feminineness, preach love peace and justice.
Oh so thats where I should ejaculate.
Or take a giant crap. Or both.
Only if you don't think it will give, er, birth to something hideous.
At least she's in good shape.
…this display of love for
Ronald Reagan should be shared.
Oh, don't worry, I'm sure it will be. Quite extensively.
They buried Reagan in a girls Ass?
It is probably what he always wanted.
You have just won the future, my friend.
I keep telling my students that laser tattoo removal is going to be huge, and there is more evidence of that belief.
I grasped her smouldering young hips gently in both of my trembling hands and roughly turned her around so that her winsome, tear-streaked face was away from me.
"Kneel, woman!" I ordered. With a heavy shove from my hands she instantly obeyed, falling to her knees in luscious, quivering fear.
I slowly reached around and undid the top button of her stone washed blue jeans, and followed that move with a quick down stroke of her zipper. I slid her jeans downward and her creamy white skin appeared in all of its glory.
I unzipped my fly and brought my fully-erect member into the open. I was ready for action.
I pushed upward on her black T-shirt so that I could move my hands beneath her and cup her small breasts encased in a black bra.
There appeared before me a message, tattooed upon the small of her back, just above the hemispheric division of her sweet round ass:
"Ronald Wilson Reagan"
1911-2004"
She yelped in surprise as I projectile vomited upon her. Unable to help myself, I vomited again and again before she could jump to her feet and, with a horrendeous scream, run away, leaving me stunned and alone.
I lay there amidst my stomach contents. "Holy shit!" I uttered to myself. "I wonder what she has tattooed on her lower abdomen! I'll bet it is a photo of The Great Communicator, nibbling her lawn."
Rape prevention methods are cruel at best.
Up until the projectile vomiting, I was thinking Bill O'Reilly or Newt Gingrich.
Mommy! Someone's being nasty on the internet!
Thumbs for slipping in the term "hemispheric division."
Commodore 64 FTW!!!!
Do they support Gopher?
TRS 80. Long live Tandy!
Screw you both. VIC-20's where it's at, yo.
I'm posting this with a Babbage's Difference Engine. Beat that!
Mine was daisy-chained out to 32, had to use both sides of the cassette drive!
Wow. That's sexy–seriously. Dorkgirl nerdgasm!
?SYNTAX ERROR
IBM System 360 w/core memory. PCAM data entry, bitchez!
Unless I can run it off my BASIC cart on my 2600, I don't see what the point is.
Technically, it's IE 2, a reskinned and bugfixed version of NCSA mosaic. One of the first browsers EVAR!
Netscape or GTFO.
Did netscape touch you on the throbber?
Netscape is how I learned to touch my throbber.
rcohen's personalized start page is 'rcohen' stories, reader's digest jokes and an error accessing david denby?
way to appeal to that '71-83' year old demographic, wapo.
Richard Cohen sure reads a lot of Richard Cohen. That explains so much.
WaPo human centipede ouroboros baby! We have the technology, now we just need a creepy German to start.
Dana Milbank's haircut.
Richard Cohen's beard.
David Broder's intelligence.
George Will's personality.
Yes, indeed, a virtual Virtual Treasure TROVE.
"…a magical way to apparently personalize the news you wish to see on your screen…" Hey, they already have that. It's called Fox News.
You have to be a certain type of old nerd to appreciate that "screen". Bravo, Ken! (?)
C:>lame
You may laugh, but "An Error Has Occurred" was the most insightful, interesting article I've seen in the Post all week. And I never would have found it without TROVE.
Well, it IS a trove of male menopause, fo sure! If you like that sort of thing.
Personalized news! Can I make mine filter out any mention of the Palin woman?
Goodness, we are old. Where are the baffled youngs asking "huh?"
Even the name sucks. Sounds like a cross between Troll and Rove.
I guess the Bob Woodward lackeys found a way to block the WikiLeaks content.
All Trove, no Treasure.
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