As someone who primarily uses Google Reader (RSS feeds include Gothamist), his news gathering process is interesting: Jake starts with: Facebook Twitter

As someone who primarily uses Google Reader (RSS feeds include Gothamist), his news gathering process is interesting: Jake starts with: Facebook Twitter Google+ Flickr Stellar Then he goes to RSS, organized by: Aggregators (Techmeme/Mediagazer) Local Competing Sources (NYTimes local blog, etc) National News (NYTimes, etc) In my own experience, Twitter is good for quick news scanning, whereas RSS is great for reading "everything".