Checking in

One of the bigger changes in my home routine since my non-finishing of the 23 Things is that I've started getting a lot of news online - it used to be maybe 5%, now more like 50%. This started with Thing 12 when I joined Reddit. Later I joined Newsvine. It seems a bit better than Reddit but both sites have a lot of contributors who appear to be more interested in attacking other viewpoints than creating a well-balanced and intelligent news source. One nice thing about these sites is that the links often lead me to other interesting news sources.

Other social media sites I've explored are Times People (from the New York Times), Care2, Hugg, and BuzzFlash. A good local social site is a citizen-run blog about events here in Northfield, Locally Grown. I find the commentary attached to each post much more intelligent than any of the national sites I've explored. So I'm still looking for a high quality social news site for national issues. Any suggestions?

On another note, my attempt to keep up professionally via RSS feeds has crashed and burned. I've been about as successful with it as I have been with email lists; actually less so.