A post over at Joe Wikert’s blog talks about the decreasing relevance of online news resources, particularly those offered by newspapers. Living in Argentina, I’m very dependent upon online news sites for what’s happening back in the U.S. But I don’t find any of the new sites very useful. Out of habit I check CNN.com online daily but find it frustrating as many of the headlines don’t change too often, particulary those in the lower sections of the main page. Some of these headlines seem to stay the same for a couple of days. I like for my news to be updated daily, if not several times a day.

On many occasions I hear about breaking stories from entries on blogs, just regular, ordinary blogs where someone thought it relevant to post about something happening in the world. More than once, I’ve seen something on a blog and went to a news site for more info only to find that nothing was available. I ended up going to Google news for the latest info.

Perhaps I just haven’t figured out how to customize the offerings of online news so that it works for me. Indeed, writing this post made me think about going to check the CNN page just to finally notice that CNN does offer headlines via RSS. I’m going to try that and see what I think. I’m also going to examine some of the online news sites closer to see if I can a good solution that keeps me informed. I’m a news junky and always watched a lot of news on TV back in the U.S. But, somehow the online world just hasn’t yet satisfied me in the same way even with all the online video that’s available.

Anyway, I feel like I have to go searching for the best online news solution rather than having good options easily presented to me. I’m lazy and so are a lot of people. So, it does seem like the online news services have more work to do.

I’ll post more on this topic as I explore the options.