I'm looking for a news site with decent international and regional coverage, but text-based or at least free of the current "video feed everything" trend. I'll be traveling a bit this summer and won't always have high-speed internet. I've heard of Newsmyway.com and some others, but I'm open to your suggestions. Bonus points if it's an objective media service and not a partisan blog.
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Have you tried viewing news via RSS feeds? I'm not an expert on this, but I have several RSS feeds that I check up on via igoogle oin a daily basis. For some of them I can read the full text without going to the parent site. This way you can access a lot of news from sites that would otherwise be bandwidth heavy in an almost all-text way (unless google isn too bandwidth heavy for dial-up... but even then, there must be other ways to use RSS feeds that are more direct than viewing them through Google).
I don't know of any sites like that, but my solution would be to grab a new browser, configure it to disable everything that takes up bandwidth, rename its shortcut to "News" and use it just for that. I'd suggest Opera, or a browser designed to run off a USB thumb drive, for being efficient, quick software without the whistles and bells. From there, news.google.com's text-only version is probably good.
Or there's RSS feeds, yeah, and the Wii's News Channel.
Edit - Just checked, and BBC has a "text-only" setting here (it has small images). Very little formatting, even. Unfortunately, I didn't see any other major news companies with a similar feature.
I don't know of any sites like that, but my solution would be to grab a new browser, configure it to disable everything that takes up bandwidth, rename its shortcut to "News" and use it just for that. I'd suggest Opera, or a browser designed to run off a USB thumb drive, for being efficient, quick software without the whistles and bells. From there, news.google.com's text-only version is probably good.
Or there's RSS feeds, yeah, and the Wii's News Channel.
Edit - Just checked, and BBC has a "text-only" setting here (it has small images). Very little formatting, even. Unfortunately, I didn't see any other major news companies with a similar feature.
Yeah, no, other news services get a premium for getting you to download their media viewer or visit their video uploader. Even if it's actually just Youtube, it exposes you to a lot of flash ad banners and whatnot you wouldn't necessarily get on a low-bandwidth page.
Please think before you post, don't just drop in and spam "lol buy a newspaper".
http://shortnews.com/
Or there's RSS feeds, yeah, and the Wii's News Channel.
Edit - Just checked, and BBC has a "text-only" setting here (it has small images). Very little formatting, even. Unfortunately, I didn't see any other major news companies with a similar feature.
Yeah, no, other news services get a premium for getting you to download their media viewer or visit their video uploader. Even if it's actually just Youtube, it exposes you to a lot of flash ad banners and whatnot you wouldn't necessarily get on a low-bandwidth page.
They also don't seem to be keen on less interesting stories so most of it is meant a bit for humor.
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