Started out by looking at Topix. Actually, news.google has a similar feature that allows you to search for all items on a particular topic. However, one cool feature of Topix is that it gives a graph of how frequently your chosen subject has appeared in the news in the last year. It may be very useful to discover this, as it will allow you correlate it with other events or even show how long a particular event "echos" in the public's attention.
From Syndic8.com I added Wired News to my feed. There are so many feeds available that it would not be realistic to think you’re going to really see them all. There was a choice to click on the British flag to see feeds from that country, but it turned out there was only one from an individual. I guess the key to remember here is that the site has user contributed feeds.
Technorati reminds me of a spaghetti bowl. One strand leads deeper and is next to a lot of other strands. You can keep taking strands and end up no where near where you started. Recently I saw an article about "Facebook fatigue" and how usage is falling off. I can well imagine before long there is going to be "blog fatigue." Of the three sites, this is the least attractive to me.
Actually, for fairly raw news, just getting a feed from Reuters or the AP would do well. However, it appears these days most people like a predefined "spin" to their information.
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