New media experts in the US like Dan Gillmor and Jeff Jarvis cheered yesterday as the news aggregator Daylife joined the online mayhem promising to be better than Google News. Since Google has changed the way I look for information so dramatically, that looks good news and I tried to compared both services in the way they provided current news on China.
Daylife - still in beta - did perform worse technically. Because the ongoing connectivity problems caused by the December earthquake, Daylife was very hard to get to. Is it not fair to blame Daylife for the broken internet cables? For one reason ot eht other Google is able to overcome that problem.
The news selection was another problem: Daylife had only three China-stories of the past 24 hours(two not relevant), while Google News offered over twenty clusters. Daylife does not offer RSS-feeds, at least my RSS-reader could not locate them.
I do believe that this is an important element in a new architecture of news, which I’ll write about more later. The service gathers, analyzes, and organizes the news. That analysis will enable us to show news from a high altitude — who’s covering what, where — but also, even more important, it enables you to see the connections in stories among people and topics. Making those connections is what news is all about.
For the time being, finding the relevant news seems the largest challenge for Daylife before they can move out of beta.
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