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Hi Guys, Soylent's Editors do a lot behind the scenes to keep the community going. As a gift idea for them this year, please consider submitting lots of stories over the next two days to get the queue nice and full. Then they'll be able to schedule in their appearance on the home page ahead of time and take Christmas (or Hanukkah) off to spend time with their friends and families.
If you've never submitted a story before, here are guidelines for composing a story submission. You submit it here.
My own method is to find tech/science articles from SN's RSS-bot or a dozen other sources like the BBC or sciencenews.org, grab the title, and a couple of paragraphs that communicate the gist. Often I'll add a quip, question, or note of my own, but that's up to your personal taste. It's easy and takes under 5 minutes per story.
Thanks for reading, and have a happy holiday!
[Ed Note: The week between Christmas and New Years is always slow for submissions and time is a precious commodity for all of us. The more subs in the queue, the further out we can get the story queue, and the more time we have to spend with our loved ones. Any help you can give would be appreciated!]
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday December 23 2016, @07:10PM
Right now I have the Anandtech, Ars Technica, EFF/Deeplinks, HPCwire, KurzweilAI.net, Next Big Future, The Register, Tom's Hardware, and TorrentFreak RSS feeds open in Claws Mail.
I would also consider adding Futurity, The Intercept, NPR, NYT, The Platform, and Reuters.
Although Science Daily [sciencedaily.com] is a news reprinter, it does a better job than Phys.org because it usually links directly to the university source ("Materials provided by" link). Don't forget the DOI/Journal Reference. I've seen that Phys.org does have some original reporting from time to time, however.
For space, Space.com, Universe Today is alright. NASA/JPL news release RSS feeds may be preferred. Spaceflight Insider is well-written. nasaspaceflight.com is also pretty good and its forums host the infamous emdrive-related threads with some of the Eagleworks scientists posting updates there frequently.
Avoid Wired, the Financial Times, and Forbes, which have pay/scriptwalls.
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(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Friday December 23 2016, @07:15PM
Double posting? How rotten!!!11!
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