Jill, I'm living proof that Stephan understands the principles behind the aching actions one has to (okay, attitude shift - GETS to) go through daily as a professional blogger. I especially chuckled at the word "overwhelming" as it referred to reading habits!

One role I have as a blog network editor is to prepare new bloggers for their first posts. To do this, I must do a ton of what Stephan describes as culling, aggregating and prioritizing content, and then I offer that in a neatly wrapped package for the new blogger to help him or her get started for Know More Media.

Easton

And a great job you do too.

I think that all this blogging gives us a new sort of mind, one that can cull and prioritize quickly and separate our views from that on which we comment

Thanks Jill! I agree. Sometimes I find myself doing things unconsciously that are difficult to explain to others - opening a bunch of sites at once, sorting through piles of information, deciding what to say and where to say it, using different bookmarklets and readers and other tools - hopefully someone will come up with a better way to teach others how to accomplish all this!