The thing is this.

What I've always wondered about the serious bloggers is, where on earth do they find the time? I mean, bloggers are by definition not journalists, right -- the fundamental difference is between the mainstream media (which I swear I've seen called 'MSM') and the 'blogosphere' -- (so, yes, I have a difficult time with 'blogs' like those hosted at washingtonpost.com, but that's probably a conundrum for another day) so presumably at least some percentage of them have jobs or other responsibilities, and the mad news-breaking bloggers are obviously reading tons of things I'm not reading, and I'm already a slacker. So it's really where do they find the time and where do they find the things to read that enable them to make the connections and break the news which is then carried all around the Intarweb at the speed of data by all the rest of us you.

Now that I think about it, I have that question about a lot of grad students, as well. So it's a worldwide conspiracy -- not that everybody knows something I don't, that's a given, but that everybody knows where to look for stuff. Huh.