Michael Wolff’s “Burn Rate” epitomized the dot-com of the late-1990s. Now he’s started a news aggregation business newser.com. NY Times: Burned Once, but Starting Up Again.
Newser, which is in a test version and will not be finished until October, uses a proprietary algorithm to select “the day’s most important and most talked about stories from the 100 top news sources,” as the site puts it.