A quick pointer: If you read blogs and news sites, which is pretty much a tautology given that you’re reading this, you should take a look at Google Reader. It’s a website that lets you subscribe to your favourite blogs and news sites and puts all the posts in one place — like email for the web.
Google Reader has a few nice features. Firstly, it can order posts such that more “important” posts, i.e. those from less frequently updated sites, are shown before those from more prolific sites. You can also share posts, creating your own news stream, which other people can subscribe to and so on ad infinitum.