There are soooo many different ways to track news, memes, conversations, chatter, and just plain old noise throughout the blogosphere, the webosphere, and beyond. However, a number of my most successful tracking mechanisms usually lead back to… Google.

According to a Reuters news item—Google Leads Web Search But Challenges Loom -S&P: "Forty-eight percent of search engine users … use Google most overall, compared with 20 percent for Yahoo Inc. ... , 14 percent for Microsoft Corp.'s … MSN and 7 percent for AOL" (survey results courtesy of Standard & Poor's and InsightExpress).

One of the many tools that I utilize is Google Web Alerts—which notifies me whenever new pages, related to my searching interests, float to the surface of the Googlesphere.

This morning—while peeking at the shavings from the Internet iceberg tip that Google continuously mines and deposits into my Gmail account—up popped an old bit on Socialtext.

Back on December 30, 2003, Neil J. Rubenking for PC Magazine rated Socialtext four out of a possible five bullets—making it a PC Magazine "Editors' Choice" product. (Don't think I blogged this one.)

 
PS: Hey Marc Canter—there are 16 entries in "My Workspaces" on Socialtext. Could one possibly be ahead of you in just this one area?:-)