GIVE THEM TEN SECONDS AND THEY'LL TAKE YOU FOR A WHIRL:

Our friends Kevin Whited & Alex Whitlock have a new blog, Ten Second News, the premise of which we're very much in agreement with. They'll gather and post stories that they think you might find interesting and offer comments sufficient to say why that's so, instead of assuming that you'll find their every stray thought or incident from their personal lives fascinating. This model--as a kind of intelligent news aggregator--has always struck us as the proper role for all but a very few bloggers.