Slate - Kinsey's Microsoft online magazine

Terry, you shameless huckster! Michael Kinsley, isn't it? Not the same guy who wrote The Kinsey Report. But with a topic named that, there should be a stampede to check it out. The Hite if clever promotion...

Really, folks should be beating a path to the door of this topic.

Huh-huh, you said "beating." At any rate, I was all hyped up about Slate. Then I read it, and it turned out to be little more than the New Republic online. Call me old-fashioned, but I don't want to read a 2,000 word story online. Just don't. I've also noticed there is very little on there that relates directly to the Net or digital culture, which got me thinking--are such topics necessary? Nearly every other Net zine/hangout has some focus on talking about virtual this or digital that. Is Slate ignoring the revolution? Or getting beyond it?

Hmm, you know, I haven't been reading Slate lately. I know there have been a bunch of parody spinoffs. What's the best thing you've seen on Slate?

There was a pretty good piece trying to cut Stephen Jay Gould down to size, but like I said, way too long for an online piece, IMO.

What's your favorite online source of news, Josh?

I usually use Yahoo, which is customizable and gives you access to the Reuters wire. Tho sometimes that can be pretty slow, even at 28.8, and I use CNN's text-based wire service.

What's the all-in-one website called? Where you can get digests of all the other web news sources? I have it book marked at home.

Hmmm. You might be thinking of Pathfinder, though I"m not sure (don't even know the URL for it).

That's not it. I can almost pull it out of the memory banks, but not quite.