Now that I’m at work from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., I’m starting to think seriously about how I consume media. What’s important? What’s junk? How can I choose what’s important and what’s not? Who can I trust to do most of that filtering for me?

I haven’t figured it out yet. I’m guessing I’ll settle on a combination of Twitter Lists and a few trusted news sources. I’ve been subscribing to a daily issue of the NY Times on my Kindle for a few days, which I read on my way to and from work, but I can hardly get through a few top and national stories (and I’m a quick reader! And it’s a fairly long commute — half an hour both ways.) 

My alarm clock sounds like one of those bright-red bells that might ring in a firehouse to signal an emergency, aptly setting the tone of my morning, which is a bleary scramble to answer: What did I miss?