Newspond leaves me dry

Newspond is the latest of the “Techmeme/Digg Killers” to appear on the scene and I’m frankly just not impressed.  A first glance at the homepage (so the default is All news and most popular now) gave me an “eh” feeling.  Nothing jumped out as “news” to me.
Fine, let’s try Tech.  Pretty much the same.  It wasn’t until I chose Tech, Most Recent, that I got any headlines that I found even remotely interesting.  This is not a good sign for a purported Techmeme/Digg killer.

Arr Ess Ess?The other glaring omission is RSS.  It just isn’t there.  Huh?  I’m not going to …read more