News/Blogs: I’ve tried several solutions and prefer a web-based reader. Currently, I use bloglines to track about 300 blogs and comices; and I use rojo for ‘real’ news and engadget/slashdot/etc. I’m always on the lookout for a better solution – I’m not very happy with bloglines.
Search: I still like google best for casual searching, but I use gada.be a lot now too. It is especially handy for continued monitoring of topics. For example, if I want to track mentions of Xbox 360 on blogs, I browse to xbox360.gada.be/b/opml, save the file, import it into Feedreader and follow the topic from then on in Feedreader.
Of course, my browser if FireFox. :)
I use several extensions, but my favorites are TabbedBrowserPreferences, ColorZilla, Linky, and ieview.
I use del.icio.us for sharing links and Furl for my personal bookmarks and I’m getting into Kaboodle some now too.
