Linking to the Wheat
Ole Eichhorn: “Bloggers are interesting sources of information and analysis, and entertainment as well. But did you ever think of them as filters?” Yup. A couple days ago, I whittled down my blog reading list by dumping those that haven't done anything for me lately and keeping those that are basically filters as well as a very few that deliver original analysis and comment. I also eliminated all newspapers except The Christian Science Monitor (the bloggers who filter for me seem not to have this excellent paper on their radars) and The New York Times' Opinion page. (Brief one-sentence summaries of articles from those papers are delivered to my news aggregator of choice, SharpReader.) I did this in part because of an anticipated severe reduction in free time, but also because I'm a lazy, lazy man.
The definition of a good weblog, for me, is one that separates the wheat from the chaff then links to the wheat.
The emphasis in the quote at the top has been removed, and the weblog entry in question was found via a rather reliable filter of late, makeoutcity.
