Esther Dyson helps us evaluate Socialmedian and Indaba We’ve come a long way from getting the news dropped off at our doorsteps. Even though I still read the paper version of the Wall Street Journal, most of the news is coming from emerging aggregators, such as Alltop, Socialmedian and even Fark. These days, news is created by everyone and anyone with an online connection. It's not a surprise therefore that the business of aggregating that news - however worthy of being collected - has become an opportunity. Just recently, Tina Brown launched The Daily Beast, a political news aggregation site, similar to other news aggregation sites Huffington Post and Drudge Report. Other emerging news aggregation sites include Socialmedian and Alltop. and, sites like Publish2 and Zemanta are helping ... [ read more]