Slashdot was sufficiently lightweight and special-interest to stay usable. My hero of the day - because I did not have cable, and the major networks were not t

Slashdot was sufficiently lightweight and special-interest to stay usable. My hero of the day - because I did not have cable, and the major networks were not too wonderful on reporting - was someone at CNN who hacked together a system that spat out the closed captions onto a moderated IRC channel. You could at least stay up with what was happening, scrolling back up to catch more info. Read a lot of European newspapers as well.