This past month I’ve made a concerted effort to find newsources that I will check more than a couple times a week to stay up-to-date on the world. I’ve felt ashamed of myself ever since Hurricane Katrina. I didn’t realize New Orleans had been evacuated till a week after the fact.

 If the Blue Man Group is to be believed, then I use them as my credible excuse: Modern society people like me are bombarded with information and things daily. We can’t cope. We shut it out and watch reality TV instead, hoping that Tyra Banks will let fall a few crumbs of wisdom. (And oh, she does.)

The fast-paced life of an L.A.ian doesn’t help too. “Success” is the name of the game in this city, which means multitasking, iPhone carrying toddlers are commonplace. So the dilemma that I had to solve was this: Where could I find quick, fast, thorough news, which will not require a lot of reading unless I so desire.

Here’s what I’ve come up with so far:

L.A. Observed for its writing-ness: www.laobserved.com

L.A. Now, www.latimes.com/lanow, for its now-ness

Broadsheet at Salon.com, http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/, for its I-am-woman-powerfulness in a not militant way

Notice how they are all blogs. Yep, blogs are the future. And that’s sad. I used to read magazines like Harper’s and etc., but the only time life allows me the mental serenity is when I’m at the airport. It looks like the bloggers at Jacket Copy (another L.A. Times blog) are right: the friendly skies are the last true reading room.

The Lede at the New York Times is also amusing for people who like newslite.

How do you kids handle the situation of being cosmopolitan and aware?