Network catalyst twitter has made connecting with friends incredibly simple but if you want to use the social service as a news notifier, finding a way to filter through all the feathers is essential. Making time to read every tweet and possibly post a few becomes even more of a challenge when you are following hundreds or even thousands of like minded bird bloggers. Twitter is a useful informant once you refine your reading list and improve your information architecture.
How to find good feeds to follow
Compare feeds with tickery.net a site that uses FluidDB query language to compare and identify potentially valuable feeds to follow. FluidDB (fluidinfo.com) is a shared database that allows people to build applications which benefit from co-operation (view slideshow description). To transform your feeds into a newspaper style format for easy reading visit paper.li and it will organize the links for you.