Bloglines

It’s not often that I rave about a website, but bloglines.com is truly life-altering technology. The time will come when most of us will rely on blogs as our primary source of information - rather than the Inquirer or Philippine Star. Why? Because blogs are news that have been filtered by people whom we know to be authorities in their own fields. PDI, on the other hand, as well as most of the local press, does very cursory fact-checking on its stories. (I learned this first-hand when the local press would write about me). So if I hear a story in PDI about a new rule on VoIP, I prefer to wait and see what my brother’s blog would have to say about the issue.

Today, about 40% of my news comes from blogs. 40% comes form online sources like cnn.com, bbc.co.uk, and - of course - espn.com. The other 20% comes from print (Time, PDI, etc). I think the time will come when 70% is derived from blogs. With technology like bloglines.com (which is an RSS-feed aggregator), I’m able to read far more blogs than I normally would have time for.

Check it out!