If staying current on what is going on in the world is important to you, as it is for me, then be sure to spend a few seconds at www.wikirage.com each day.

The site polls wikipedia.org for article changes from unique visitors, over a variable time frame, and ranks the entries, so you can find out what the event of the minute is.  It's an alternative way to receive media, for those tired of biased decisions of what 'today's top story' is.

I should also mention how easy it is to make a customized/personalized/romantisized blog now.  GoDaddy has a Quickblog package that works out to about four dollars a month, gives you your own personal URL, and a really cool background application with loads of tools that makes blogging simple.