God, wish I could sum up the full impact of RSS. I think it will change things quite radically and contribute to make society more fragmented, I guess. I mean this in a good way though, following on the hypothesis of the Day of the Longtail, which I assume you've read (if not, go read).

With RSS you can choose to a much greater extent than before what news you want to subscribe to, so media junkie that I am I religiously subscribe to the media sections of my favourite newspapers/ trade journals, and on busy days I don't read anything but this. I also subscribe to a number of blogs that I appreciate very much, and now that you mention it, when I'm not too stressed, I find reading those blogs more important than all the 'mainstream news'. Key here though, is that you can diversify, you don't have to read that whole blody paper (which I still enjoy on my rare slow days), just what you're interested in.

On the blogs that I read, I guess I read them mostly for good and provocative perspectives on issues I'm passionate about, like media, philosophy, the changing world, politics etc, with media taking precedent. I do like those blogs that make me think, but on my most busy days I often feel like I'm too busy to do exactly that, to think. I'll blog more about thinking blogs soon though, time allowing.