Looking for a new home page

[Larry Browning]

I have been using excite as my homepage for several years and it hasn't changed much over that time. I find myself getting more and more of my news from the internet these days and I have been thinking there might be something better than Excite. I have looked at MSN, CNN, Yahoo, and a few others. So far I liked CNN pretty well, but I was having a hard time finding how to customize it. I'm sure it can be done, it just wasn't obvious to me as to how to do it.
So what do you use as your homepage?

Larry

[Karl Laustrup]

I use MSNBC as my home page. I like it because I can go to any of the cities that have a NBC affiliate to get more local coverage of news or weather.

If you haven't tried it I think it's worth a look see. My .02 cents.

[Jim Becker]

Mine is "Blank". I really don't like my browser going to a specific place automagically...never did. But for news, I tend to go to MSNBC.com first, just out of habit. CNN is too cluttered for me...

[Bart Leetch]

Sawmill Creek af course. :D :D :D

[Kent Parker]

Larry,

Try Google. There is a "news" button that will take you to a page with current news from an amazing selection of new sites. Gives you a get sampling of world news from a variety of sources.

KP

[John Shuk]

Mine's Google.

[John Hart]

Yahoo has a "my yahoo" feature that you can customize with any or all of the news sources so their headlines will be a part of your homepage. The fact is, you can customize it to accept any RSS feed so any website that supports RSS can be added to your homepage....I believe you can even include SMC New Posts into it. I find it very convenient.

[Bruce Page]

I have mine set to Google News.

[Tim Morton]

I get my news first from Drudge (ducking for cover)...but I have boston.com's Red Sox page as my "HP"

[Frank Pellow]

I pick a different newspaper each Monday and keep that as my home page for a week. For the last week, because of the election in the UK, my home page paper has been The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/).

[Bob Yarbrough]

Mine is set to sawmillcreek.org :D

[Vaughn McMillan]

A couple of my computers are set to homepage on Google, and one is set to the Astronomy Picture of the Day (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/) (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/%29). I tend to use Google News as a starting point for new bits, and fall back on CNN and MSNBC. And I read it all through a fairly skeptical eye.

SMC, while not a homepage on any of my computers, is definitely turning out to be a well-used bookmark/favorite. You guys are great.

- Vaughn

[Bob Nieman]

I too used excite for a long time

I now have a couple set to www.weather.gov, the National Weather Service. I'm a little weather junkie and managed to find a way to make it part of my work as well. At a glance you can see watches, warnings, advisories across the country. click on the map and get details. I rarely use weather.com

For news I would use google news, which now has added customization
http://news.google.com/

unrelated, but I have to say something (pardon the threadjack, but I couldn't justify a new thread)

amazing discovery! I went to a lumber yard here looking for 3/4 baltic birch plywood. They didn't have it, but would I like to look at the birch they had (real Pacific Northwest) Sure!

It is $$$ compared to the borglings (sutherlands. McCoy's), but beautiful. NO voids. He offhandedly mentioned that he had birch lumber and then he took me to a space with many, many board feet of maple, ash, birch, oak, red cedar. might be some walnut, cherry and mahogany if I look hard enough.

When I mentioned ordering mahogany they started talking about how they couldn't get the phillipine mahogany, only the honduras stuff (roll eyes, yes, I *know* it is expensive)

you have to understand--2 years ago I was told that they only had basically scraps of hardwoods (that's all they showed me, anyway). They obviously had bunches just sitting there. I have made trips hundreds of miles out of town for hard maple over the last two years!!!!!! I must have asked the wrong question.

wish they had walnut and cherry, but birch and maple for $3something and red oak for $4something a BF sure beats the redoak and poplar form the borglings.

(too bad there's no money for wood at the moment)

[Kurt Voss]

I usually have mine aimed at www.foxnews.com (http://www.foxnews.com) as I think they lean a little less to the left than most of the national news corps. I also have a my.yahoo.com site set-up and use it a lot for yellow pages, local news, maps, and package tracking. I have a smaller window open all the time to www.wunderground.com (http://www.wunderground.com) for local weather and advisories and feed that site info. from my weather station (http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KTXFORTW18) as well which they format and display. If you have a compatible weather station and software it is easy to set-up. I use an Oregon Scientific WMR-968 and Virtual Weather Station as a front end for it.

[David Klug]

Thanks guys, I have yahoo mail for my home page so I can check it right away, but I have the google tool bar on top because I find it very useful for doing searches. I clicked on the google icon and lo and behold it has a drop down with a whole bunch of goodies that I didn't know about. I'm glad you gave me a heads up on the info.

DK

[Frank Pellow]

I usually have mine aimed at www.foxnews.com (http://www.foxnews.com) as I think they lean a little less to the left
...
Now, there is an understatement if I ever heard one.

[Larry Browning]

Now, there is an understatement if I ever heard one.
Frank,
I was thinking that, but didn't say anything :eek:

[Jim Becker]

Now, there is an understatement if I ever heard one.

I'm with Larry...I was going to say that, too, but uncharacteristically held my tongue! Then again, most of the media irks me because of the "all sensationalism, all the time" direction things have gone. Hence my "blank screen" home page...

[John Hart]

A couple of my computers are set to homepage on Google, and one is set to the Astronomy Picture of the Day (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/) (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/%29). ....- Vaughn

Vaughn...I just want to thank you for posting this. I switched my homepage that day and now, after a couple months, find that it is such a pleasure every day to open my browser and learn something new. Tremendous idea!

[Frank Hagan]

My dial up ISP gives me some webspace, so I have a page of favorite links set up as my home page. I can click the "Home" button, then select the next site I want to go to ... really makes surfing easier.

I also have Drudge, Fox News, CNN, Jewish World News, and CSICOP on my page of links ... so at least I get a variety of views!