Sometimes the Web even startles ME!
Most of the time I use the Web to find things specifically about what I'm working on at the time or because of a specific question from a customer.
Recently I've been spending some time doing research on SEO - Search Engine Optimization, something I've mostly left to others of our group, especially Doug Cook of DigiCom WebDesign who does such a wonderful job for our various clients. In my search I've been looking mostly at the 'BLOG phenomenum - how to deal with growth of thousands per day, winnow the wheat from the chaff, and raise the profile of specific 'Blogs within this mess.
I've been a subscriber to /. (http://slashdot.org/) for a couple of years now - watching the technologies and tech-related articles flow past by looking there each morning and sometimes later in the day. I moderate and sometimes submit articles.
I've set up my Thunderbird news and e-mail program to watch RSS feeds from some of the most relevant security and high-tech sites on the planet. I look at the feeds most mornings and use the information to tell my customers what they should be aware/afraid of and to plan what updates I need to do to the systems I directly administer.
Yesterday I came across what one blogger said was a rival to slashdot - called Digg.com
Today they added what has to be the most interesting feature I've seen in today's "real-time" web BLOG-sphere - "spy" as in http://digg.com/spy
SPY shows in real time the activity on one or more of 4 categories of "diggs":
Watching the stories fade into existence, scroll down the screen and then fade out at the bottom gives a whole new insight into the ephermal section of the Web called Blog-space.
If I'm ever bored, I can always watch the world flow by - at least the world according to the blog-watchers at Digg.com :)
The only problem I have with it is that sometimes I want more info and the stuff scrolls by too fast for me to get a link to open in a new tab on my Firefox :(
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