It's worth noting that the stories I liked best weren't necessarily the first. And while I admire the enterprise that got Ars Technica the scoop on the Chrome news, it really made no difference to me as a reader. I wasn't online at 10:00 pm on Tuesday, so I didn't really need the information then; 9:00 am Wednesday worked just fine for me.

And even if I did get that information eleven hours earlier, what difference would that have made? I wouldn't have been readier to take action, because there was no action to take; even if i wanted to, I couldn't switch to Chrome OS for another year. I certainly wouldn't have done so that night.

But there are people out there for whom even those eleven hours are way too long. This guy at TechCrunch says , because "the lag time between posting a story and seeing it pop up in the RSS feed is usually a few minutes, and then it can take another 10 to 15 minutes or so for it to appear in something like Google Reader." It's news-as-video-game: whoever twitches fastest wins.

Well, this whole Chrome thing has made me twitchy. It's time, once again, for a bit of a news diet. I currently subscribe to a total of about 150 RSS feeds. My resolution: To cut that list in half. (NetNewsWire's feed reports are a huge help.)