The Push for News Returns. Remember the late lamented PointCast (actually, I thought it was much better as a concept than a reality…)? I’ve been looking at Columbia Newsblaster recently; essentially a natural language summarizer and agggregator of online news sources. This Wired article explains how it does its stuff, as well as pointing to several related concepts:

• Google’s News Search beta
• NewsInEssence from the University of Michigan