Online Media Cultist

Ever since I switched over from Bloglines to Google Reader several months ago, I’ve been making more and more use of RSS as a part of my daily online information intake.

I did muse a little while back that Techmeme and Twitter/FriendFeed were eating into RSS’ usefulness for me, but I’m changing my mind on that point. And I’m not running for president, so I have much more leeway on such things! I’m starting to believe that a healthy combination of RSS consumption and Techmeme scanning along with social media participation on Twitter/FriendFeed is a pretty great way to interact with friends, colleagues, and those you think are rad/cool/admirable while gaining access to the stories and information that’s most useful to you.

That’s all prelude to saying that I was thinking about sports today. I’m watching a show called CostasNow right now on HBO – it’s a town hall special with some of baseball’s living legends, looking at the history and future of the game. And I’ve been thinking about sports in general lately, about how I used to be a pretty big sports fan but have let my attention slip as to the goings on in the sports world with the exception of football.

Part of it has to do with the fact that I’m a native New Yorker who is inching dangerously closer to being a longtime Californian with each passing year. And part of it has to do with all the shenanigans going on with social media obsessions and online media cultery mentioned above. There’s only so much time and attention in the day!

One way that I keep in touch with both my New York roots and with sports is to track the feed of Mike Lupica, columnist for the New York Daily News and flat out one of the best writers and sports journalists in the country.

But watching the Costas special and realizing with some dismay that at the baseball all star break I have no idea what’s been going on all season (aside from the vague knowledge that the Yankees are stinky), I decided to take some action.

I headed to ESPN.com, grabbed a few general sports headlines feeds, plugged them into Google Reader. Boom. Now I can have half a clue of what’s cooking in the sports world at large.

A small thing, a small way in which RSS can aid your life to be sure. But a pretty nice thing all the same.

Anyone have any sports blogs that they consider must reads (or must feeds)?