It's actually more like sitting down with friends for a beer and listening to them talk about the news. This way I get to hear about things that the people I fi

It's actually more like sitting down with friends for a beer and listening to them talk about the news. This way I get to hear about things that the people I find interesting think are important. It serves exactly the same purpose that visiting this site does, and just as I often read the comments on a post here before clicking the link I often read the Twitter conversation that's developing around a piece of news before deciding if it's important to know more about it. I use an RSS reader as well but that I use solely for keeping track of interesting blogs, mostly about programming related topics.