Why is it interesting? Some examples?
A problem with keeping on top of emerging news/rumors/topics is you don’t know what’s trending until you see it appearing on numerous sites - and there’s far more sites to keep up with than you can keep up with. I come to FR and Drudge primarily to see what other people find notable and gather into a one-page summary list ... but that relies on people choosing to report it.
Emergent.info is interesting because it automatically watches many sites, identifying emerging topics AND evaluating as uncertain/proven/disproven, displaying the summary & conclusion in a very terse form.
Example: top one now is
CONFIRMED FALSE
Claim: Fort Carson is locked down because of a missing nuclear weapon
Originated: October 13th 2014
...well, I hadn’t even known that was a topic, nice to know it’s both trending and false before I encounter discussion of it elsewhere.
It does what numerous other “news aggregator” sites do, but without the weird biases (Drudge tends toward pet outrages), messy formats (Google News kinda splatters a topic), and mobs (FR can get kinda overwhelmed with won’t-die petty arguments).