NewsForge is new and improved! Customized news feeds and email, new cartoon! Act now!

(Please, load a cheesy TV announcer voice into your
head now.) You’ve been pining for years — OK, days at least —
for an Open Source news that will cater to your needs,
your desires, your interests, and yours only. Maybe
you love FreeBSD
but you couldn’t care less about Linux news. Maybe you
want news about ReiserFS
and dynamic dns tool, and nothing else. Maybe you’re a
press
release junkie, but other news seems so ….
newsy. (For the “official” press release about these NewsForge features, check out LinuxPR.)

Boy, does
NewsForge.com
have a deal for you, starting this week!

NewsForge, the comprehensive Open Source news site
brought to you by the fine folks at OSDN and VA Linux,
has launched keyword customizable daily headlines for
users and customizable news feeds for other Web
sites.

That’s right, you heard it correctly, you decide which
of the dozens of daily NewsForge stories you want in
your email inbox or on your Web site through an RSS
feed. You get both our groundbreaking original
reporting and our links to the articles on the
hundreds of Web sites we scour for all the Open Source
news that’s fit to print. But instead of wading
through dozens of stories a day, you get only the news
you want!

Think of NewsForge as your personal Open Source news
tracker and time saver. You decide what keywords to
include, and our NewsForging technology, conceived by
editor-in-chief Robin Miller and created by
programmers Jamie McCarthy and Cliff Wood, will hunt
it down like the dog it is. Or choose one or two or
five of the two dozen broader topic areas from
NewsForge, and we’ll deliver Open Source news about
“government,” “mulitmedia,” or “patents and
trademarks.”

Said McCarthy, “This thing where readers can pick what
keywords they’re interested in, and only get mail or
an RSS feed on those stories, that’s pretty cool. I
hope VA patents it. I figure, if US5443036:
Method of exercising a cat gets a patent, we
deserve two or three.”

Added McCarthy, “Maybe four.”

All this for the low, low price of … zero. Nothing,
zilch, zip, free as in beer and as in speech.
Take our links, please.

NewsForge managing editor Grant Gross, when called at
9:50 a.m. Monday to be told of the new features,
added: “Ummmm, yeah, who is this? Let me wake up …
Ohhhh, that soooo rocks! This is the best thing that’s
happened to Open Source news, ever!”

But, wait, there’s more! Act now, and NewsForge will
throw in a new cartoon, the popular BadTech, joining
our current cartoon lineup, Kevin and Kell, at the
bottom of the NewsForge front page. BadTech joins the
NewsForge family this week.