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Thursday, August 03, 2006

Blogoscopy


"Years ago, I paid for the New York Times and Barron's and spent Sunday mornings reading them to get caught up on the past week and prepare for the new one.

Other than having a cup of hazelnut coffee, my Sunday morning ritual of news absorption has been dramatically transformed.

Besides discovering news from a whole host of free Internet sites, I search for particular topics in Google News, and increasingly blog search site Technorati to see what the bloggers are saying. My latest habit is to check out which blogs are the most influential by seeing how many blogs link to them.

What I once would have ignored and considered mindless noise, I'm now fascinated with. I'm reading the unfiltered thoughts of so many people, often with nuggets of good information or observations.

Apparently I'm not alone. About 57 million Americans, or 39 percent of Internet users, read blogs, according to Pew Internet & American Life."


The only reliable paper element of my Sunday morning news ritual these days is the New York Times magazine crossword puzzle. And the acrostic.
Posted at: 8/03/2006 08:54:00 AM