Around the Planet

Carleton College (my Minnesota alma mater)has launched an interesting online service called Planet Carleton. Carls--whether alum, student, or faculty--can get their blog's RSS feed onto the site (after a quick review by a staffer) who then adds the feed to their site.

It creates a hodge-podge of information that has no connection between the posts, except that its author is somehow tied to the school. This is one of the great joys of reading the page, of course. It's similar to reading the Top Stories of the Day on the NYT page on the Trib. It's a great way to get news and information that you otherwise probably never would have seen. Or notes about a freshman's new dorm.

This probably isn't that interesting if you're not a Carl. But if you're not, try to find something like it (like The Most E-mailed List on the Times, for example). It's a good way to learn a few new things every day.