What I'm looking for is simple: quality current news, available online, mostly text, nothing fancy. I'm willing to pay for it, but I want no ads at all.
I created http://tracket.com which you might find interesting. It's a news aggregator / timeline archive. No ads and I don't plan on adding any advertising any time soon. I'd rather find a better business model than selling pageviews. Let me know what you think.
search isn't working for me - all of the links are broken :-(
It's interesting, but I like how google news has different topics and is a bit more compact.