Since I now have a broadband connection, it no longer takes me 12 hours to download all of my news feeds using my favorite RSS aggregator, Newzcrawler. Obviously, by the time my downloads finished it was no longer news and worth blogging about. But now that I’ve finally hit the fast lane, I’m face with yet another problem: Too MUCH content. WAAAAYY too much content. I mean, where the @#$% do I begin???!? I checked out some blog directorys to get started, but the listings just go on, and on… and on… and on….

And on.

I guess I could narrow it down by blogging only about those things that interest me the most, such as politics, religion, justice and the law, entertainment, and what’s been happening in the world lately. Unfortunately that covers just about 99% of what everyone else blogs about. Uh, maybe I need to try a different approach here.

What I’d like to do is be able to extract all the relevant signals from the mass of white noise out there, so that my beloved reader is spared the task of doing it himself.. It not only adds value to my site, but it enables me to keep my researching skills sharp and fresh, which is an absolute must if I’m to thrive in the legal profession (assuming that’s where I’m headed).

Which brings me back to my original question: Where the @#$% do I begin???!?

It’s a good thing at least that I still have a smattering of old but active news feeds that I can start out with. Google News also has some monstrous feeds I can peruse of, and so does Yahoo. But I can see this is going to be a personal project that could go on for months before I finally build up a sizeable database of truly invaluable feeds. Ick. I’d much rather be doing other things, like oh say, fighting terrorism, saving the world, and dating smokin’ hot girls. I guess that’ll have to wait till next year.