Daily information

Here’s an interesting question: Where do you get your news? When the Daily Show used to be on, I actually used to rely on it for news. Mostly because I don’t read the newspaper, and it’s a lot more palatable than the dreck they show on the 24-hour news networks. News feeds are fine, but feeds tend to be a giant flood of unimportant and important information all mixed together in one giant feed soup, so I’m often in a desperate need for a filter. Every once in awhile I’ll launch SFGate.com for local stuff or check out the New York Times, but I’ll admit I don’t check those sites as often as I should. Sometimes I just want a quick and easy hit that I can digest easily while I go about my daily activities.

More and more, I turn to NPR’s 7AM ET News Summary podcast. All it takes is 5 minutes of my time, and I’m done. My only complaint is that it tends to be a day behind, but it’s better than nothing. Now, I’m not talking about technology stuff, because for that, I just tend to go back to the feeds. Though, when I’m reading about technology news, I tend to spend a LOT of time on it instead of just a few minutes, so that’s not exactly a great solution either. Then again, I like reading the geek stuff, but I’m weird that way.

So, where do you get your news?

WoW Dorkism 1: PUG Psychology

As many of you know, I play World of Warcraft quite a bit. In game, I’m a level 70 shadow priest, and though I don’t consider myself a hardcore raider per say, I do enjoy playing the end-game stuff. Now, from here on out, I’m going to be using heavy WoW jargon, so feel free to tune out if you don’t want to read all this dork stuff. If you’re already a WoW nerd, read on after the jump.
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