I think Hendrik Hertzberg’s head may explode. Or maybe that’s my head, I just found Hendrik’s blog and if more journalists like him begin blogging I may never find the time to work again.

First off, like everything Hertzberg writes, his blog is terrific, but how can we add this much media to our day? The need for a better filter is growing by the minute.

One of the great things about reading blogs is that they’re just thoughts on a page. They’re drawn up relatively quickly and while some are more eloquent than others there’s a casualness not found in the New Yorker or the Times which is liberating. This is not as true of Hendrik’s blog.

The New Yorker is the last print publication I still receive and its columns require more focus to consume in one sitting, a good thing. But how long will that patience last? I feel some guilt when skimming an article in the Times or New Yorker. I want to take every added piece of knowledge away, but I read them less and less.

Hertzberg’s first post points to some of the new sources of information he reads. Like many, he starts his day reading RSS feeds, then gets ideas and blogs about them.

It begs the question: with so many of the professional sources so often quoted writing far more specifically on their topic of knowledge than anyone, what will happen to traditional journalism?

If search can more efficiently aggregate relevant content from all sources than a single news organization, why start with the New York Times?

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