It happened in increments. I am fully loaded with Roger’s digital cable. It used to be all I needed.

Just last week I spent more time being entertained online than I spent watching TV. Clarkandmichael and Collegehumor are good but follow more in the style of old-fashioned TV shows (albeit in 1-10 minute commercial-free chunks). Being online, though, I have come to prefer new kinds of “shows.”

When I was ten and living on the farm and surrounded by cows and chickens the problem was I couldn’t find anything I liked.

The problem now is I don’t have time to filter through all the things I might like. Five billion websites. One me.

What I need is ten — no! — twenty monitors with automatically updating lifestreams from soup, twitter, popurls and profilactic.

These are places where everyone collects all the best things they read and write, listen to and overhear into one place. Aggregated for themselves. For their friends. Or, into lifestream-show, for me.

But now there are so many aggregators, I need a final repository for the accumulation of everything:

2008 will be the year of the Social Network Aggregators, and 2009 will be the year for the Aggregators of all the Social Network Aggregators! (snarky Slashdot comment)

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