Bloglines has put together a list of the top 1000 blogs. I had no idea how some that I read regularly ranked among the world’s best. Check it out and see where your blog or the bloggers you admire ranked.

For one, I didn’t realize that Mark Cuban’s Blog Maverick was as highly read as it is–ranking it at 114–or that the Dilbert blog feed was ranked so high–number 2.

Interesting to check out. Add some links if you want to fill up your feed reader.

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If you are still in the dark about RSS readers, Small Business Trends linked to a little video that could help you understand it all.

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Twittervision. I am not sure where I came upon this link now…probably one of my various RSS feeds, digg surfs or podcasts. I just bookmarked it in Firefox at the time and have since come back to it two or three times to see what the latest developments are.

At first, it was just a cool way to visually see where all the public twitters were in real time. It makes Twitter–which for all its great attributes is a pretty bland site for decorative content–into a more visual experience. Then I noticed this link at the bottom that took me to the really cool feature–Flickrvision.

I can’t say that I have signed up and tried out the site myself. I am not a big photosharer on the Web more than just the occasional flickr album to share photos with friends. From the looks of it, it is a cool little system for sharing photos with friends and vicariously living in other locales.

I have played around with the RSS fees through the Google screensaver and wish there were more ways to take advantage of RSS feeds of photos. This app is a very nice addition to the mix.

Imagine journalistic coverage of the next Katrina or tsunami if this app is in existence. Rather than wait for news and sights on the Web, you could watch a flood of photos in real time to see what was happening and have them marked on the map. You could track the spread of a hurricane across the state through those members taking photos and uploading them.

If someone was truly ingenious, they could develop a way to place a snippet of this system of just one part of the map into a news story online instead of a photo. As the readers find the story, they could see updated shots of the lastest news story and get a greater, deeper feel for the story. The captions can even be added by actual citizens who are uploading the photo and could narrate the story as it happens. A really cutting-edge interactive news service should jump on this bandwagon. All that you would really need would be some kind of tagging system to categorize the feeds coming into your story.

Another possible use could be live photo feeds from actual soldiers in Iraq or other foreign engagements. Granted, the news wouldn’t really be able to get access to all of these photos, but the military could have some Metal Gear Solid kind of real-time mass army control going on if they could get some system like developed.

The app seems pretty heavy on my computer, which usually runs pretty well, but the photos right now are pretty weak as far as content–mostly just family albums and posed pictures that should be on cuteoverload.com. Nothing live and controversial. Just wait til the paparazzi gets a celebrity tracker like this put together. You could see where Paris and Britney Spears are doing simultaneously wherever they happen to be getting arrested around the globe.

Can’t wait to see what people could actually use this for in the event of the next worldwide news event.

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I may be in the minority in the way that I consume media.

When I am reading a book, magazine or even checking out things in email, I tend to keep a pen and pad or at least some sticky notes handy to write down quotes or questions that I want to look up later, songs that I might want to check out or links to Web sites I might want to visit when I get a chance.

It goes back to the way I consume online media. In my RSS feeds in Google Reader, I can star articles that I need to check back on and share everything after I have processed it so that I can find it later. It makes the whole process much more digital, but I do the same thing just on paper when I read a magazine or book.

As a side note, I wrote down a note to write this post while I was reading the latest issue of Maxim. There wasn’t too much to note out of it considering it was such a slow month for gaming that they reviewed Ultimate Duck Hunting for the Wii with 3 stars. Not that it doesn’t deserve 3 stars, but I can’t really see that game being at the top of the charts as the only Wii game reviewed for August.

I never realized the connection between my online habits changing my offline habits, but how do you consume media? Has online media changed it?

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