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Dave Pell
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Dave Pell writes NextDraft, a personal blog at nextdraft.com about culture and writing. Since 2012, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers recommend Dave Pell's NextDraft, a daily email that summarises the day's top news with short commentary. Commenters describe it as useful, funny, and a top read for general news.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Real News Daily by Dave Pell, Managing Editor, Internet
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What Hacker News says?
I also cut out mainstream news consumption. For the most part, I simply haven't missed it. Events worthy of my attention (i.e. that will change my behavior) tend to bubble up through more specialized news sources (like Ars Technica or my Twitter feed) anyway. That said, I have found NextDraft ( http://nextdraft.com/ ) very useful.
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on “Good News You May Have Missed in 2014”Submitted You Kids Stay Off of Mark Zuckerberg's Lawn as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere's an eclectic list to get started: Company intel: http://mattermark.com Hacker Newsletter: http://www.hackernewsletter.com Curated design links: http://sidebar.io Minimalism: http://nosidebar.com Daily news and culture: http://nextdraft.com Random pub trivia: http://nowiknow.com Curated design and dev: http://mergelinks.com Metal trivia: http://www.skulltoaster.com Music mixes: http://noonpacific.com Front end…
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on “Ask HN: What newsletters do you read every day or week?”Submitted JayZ, Tidal, Beyonce, Apple: a future of streaming music post that goes to 11 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI second https://www.brainpickings.org/ and also would like to add http://nextdraft.com/ (though it is more "general news") - other than that I can't help, because I actually prefer to use rss-feeds over Newsletters. Some RSS-Feeds I follow and which might be of interest: http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/ - http://www.rand.org/blog.html - https://blog.codinghorror.com/ - https://bsdmag.org/ (PS: You can also get rss-up…
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on “Ask HN: Best curated newsletters?”Submitted Let's Give Em Something to Talk About (Or Why Periscope Matters) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttp://nextdraft.com/ is a pretty awesome source of news delivered by email. A good smattering of non tech articles to augment my hn binging.
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on “Email, an idea so old that it's new”Submitted Solid List of Longreads for the Holiday Break as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI really like this idea too. A curated content newsletter a la http://www.nextdraft.com is a concept that is still under-utilized.
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on “Steal These Freelance Business Ideas”Submitted Can Using the Wrong Emoji Land You in Jail? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI subscribe to NextDraft, which sends me a daily email with top stories. One of the few newsletters I enjoy. http://nextdraft.com/
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on “Ask HN: How do you curate and keep up with general news?”Submitted The Internet Is Not Stressing You Out as a story · 1 points
HN discussionthe premise has merit ... but i already get it from Dave Pell at http://nextdraft.com/
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on “‘This.’ Has People Clamoring for an Invite”Submitted The Most Fascinating News of 2014 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://nextdraft.com/ i look forward to next draft hitting my inbox each afternoon
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on “Ask HN: What Newsletters are Actually Useful?”Dave Pell's Next Draft is the best place to find interesting news. It's a newsletter: http://nextdraft.com/
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on “Ask HN: Best compact news sources outside tech news?”I love the http://nextdraft.com/ daily email. Short paragraph summaries of the day's news, funny, and with links if you want to read more.
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on “Ask HN: What other sites do you use to get reliable news?”I have a few I love! NextDraft https://nextdraft.com is written by Dave Pell. Dave is from the 90’s-era “digerati,” folks like Kevin Kelly and Louis Rossetto. He signs each newsletter “Editor, Internet.” He surfaces the news of the day and provides hilarious and sometimes poignant commentary on it. He has a decidedly “San Francisco left-wing” viewpoint. If that’s your jam, his newsletter is an absolute treat. I trul…
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on “Cal Newport: Overstimulation Is Ruining Your Life”Dave Pell, NextDraft - https://nextdraft.com/
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on “Ask HN: Which personal blogs or websites do you follow and read regularly?”Dave Pell runs a top 10 news aggregation mailing list with commentary that sends every day. It is the only one I subscribe to and I have been directed to amazing journalism by him. He really is a top read. http://nextdraft.com/
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on “I Am Spartacus: A guide for journalists”I subscribe to http://nextdraft.com/ and love the daily email
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on “Ask HN: where do you get your non-tech news?”I ended up skimming a lot of this, because the author got a bit long winded. I got down to the five choices and had to wonder to myself which of them Dave Pell made, because he still publishes NextDraft today: http://nextdraft.com It has not, however, been in continuous publication. At any rate, Mr. Pell seems to have kept the lights on producing online content.
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on “Five Choices: Or, Why I Won't Give Dave Pell Twelve Dollars (2002)”Dunno about that. I subscribe to several newsletters. Dave Pell puts out NextDraft almost every weekday. https://nextdraft.com/ . Also available on a website and via an iOS app. There are several others I subscribe to, not all of which release daily (though I wish some of them did). So "no one" is the wrong term to use here.
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on “Personal newsletters as a calmer alternative to social networks”
