DayRiffer (a one way ticket yeah)

So, I want to take this opportunity to recommend to you my friend Andrew Postman's new website, DayRiffer.com. It's subtitled, Aggregating with Attitude, and that's what it is, an aggregator.  You know what an aggregator is, right.  No, not this:

That's an alligator, not an aggregator.  Now, don't get aggravated, just having a little fun here.  

So, according to good old Wikipedia, an aggregator is "a web site or computer software that aggregates a specific type of information from multiple online sources."  And they list six types of aggregators:  news, video, poll ("aggregates polling data for upcoming elections"), review ("reviews of movies or other products or services"), search ("organizes a specific search from various search engines"), and wellness ("a virtual clinic that integrates a variety of Health and Wellness modalities for people seeking to improve their health and wellbeing").

So, Andy's site is a news aggregator, which puts it in the same category as the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post, and Google news.   Some, like Google news, are based on search algorithms and crowdsourcing and/or ranking, others like Drudge and Huffington, reflect some kind of individual editorial vision, although they have long been collaborative efforts.  Postman's DayRiffer.com is pretty much a one-man show, or one-man aggregation, put on by a highly talented writer and creative mind.


Here's what he says about it:

It's an aggregator with attitude; an attempt to have a human being select the stories of the day that are most interesting, meaningful, counterintuitive, provocative, odd, moving, funny, with commentary reflecting a certain sensibility, accompanied by a longer, daily "riff." I don't know why I put riff inside quotation marks but I did. So be it.

Andy goes on to say

Any comments or recommendations you may have about the website are most welcome - specifics, you'd visit it daily, you loathe it, etc. It's a work in progress. Then again, so are we all.

So, it's kind of like a blog, kind of like I do here, but better, more reliable, and with a purpose, and linked to all sorts of cool items found elsewhere on the web, so really, it's not so much like this.  But well, why don't you go on, take a look, and make it a part of your daily routine.  Tell him I sent you.

Oh, and the title of this post alludes back to what I take to be the allusion behind the name of the website, that is, the Beatles song, "Day Tripper".  Here are the lyrics, and imagine them applied to the art of the aggregator as you read them:

Got a good reason, for taking the easy way out
Got a good reason, for taking the easy way out, now


She was a day..... tripper, one way ticket, yeah!
It took me so..... long to find out, and I found out


She's a big teaser, she took me half the way there
She's a big teaser, she took me half the way there, now


She was a day.... tripper, one way ticket, yeah!
It took me so.... long to find out, and I found out


Tried to please her, she only played one night stands
Tried to please her, she only played one night stands, now


She was a day.... tripper, Sunday driver, yeah!
It took me so.... long to find out, and I found out


Day tripper
Day tripper, yeah!


Day tripper
Day tripper, yeah!

And, oh yeah, now I just gotta hear the song...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's much better now!  So now,  Aggregate!  Aggregate!  Dance to the music!  Or something like that...