Thing 3 - RSSing

I've had a RSS aggregator (Google Reader) or two (iTunes for podcasts) over the last few years, and I've found them to be wonderful in the sense that they cut down on surfing from site to site. As an avid fantasy sports player, I've found them to be particularly useful in gathering dozens of sports player and team news in one place, and I've also used RSS readers to subscribe to music blogs (reggae and British folk rock blogs, for example). I tend to not subscribe to CNN-type news, because there are so many stories and I end up marking everything as read just to clear out my unread list. I'm more of a newspaper (or online newspaper) reader anyhow.

If you haven't checked out some of the widgets that add mini RSS aggregators to your compuer desktop, you might want to try it. I like having a little window pop up on my desktop when I turn the computer on that gives me the headlines of the posts I subscribe to - I just double click the widget and get my list of feed entries, and it helps to minimize the number of windows I have open (yes, I'm one of those neat freaks who takes the obsession against clutter to his computer - give me a break - aren't librarians supposed to be organized?).