I recently found a site called Twitter Local, which offers a way to generate an RSS feed that filters out tweets around a certain area. Who knows, I might be able to find a nice girl I could get together with for snugglies and lubs this way.

I narrowed the search parameter to within five miles, and the first Twitterer I found went by…..

Pownce. Bah. Just another Twitter-like fad that would ultimately serve me no purpose. Why would I want to join yet another network of butt ugly geekballs, none of whom I even knew personally, much less would share anything with?

But then I got some Pownce referrals, which led me to …..

One of the growing trends I’ve been observing in the blogosphere lately has been the arrival of social networking and Web 2.0 sites that all seem to have one thing in common: they’re all designed to encourage you to store your content on THEIR networks, rather than on your own site. Got photos you want to show the world? Upload them to Flickr. For videos, there’s…..

…run through the fields, and scaled every corner of the Internet.

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for…

I have abandoned my desktop news aggregator for Google Reader, searched for every module I could find to add to my brand new Netvibes Start Page, and surfed for every known newsfeed in the universe that I could add to my personal collection.

But I…..