When I was a kid, Craig Capitani and I used to go exploring. We’d go across my backyard, down the riverbank, around end of the slough, into the woods on the other side. We got really good at exploring. We went places other kids in our neighbordhood didn’t know about. We could walk right up to the most interesing things by second nature. We found dead fish and arrowheads. We even found a farm with cornfields the other kids didn’t know was there.

We were the Lewis and Clark, the Marco Polos, the Leif Ericsons of our corner of the world. We were always on a quest of some sort. It made life fun. Fun is a good thing.

This week, in his post on the Blogosphere, David Sifry said about Technorati

We track about 1.2 million posts each day, which means that there are about 50,000 posts each hour. At that rate, it is literally impossible to read everything that is relevant to an issue or subject . . .

Here’s my response to that statement. I still see my role as to provide some of that content, but also more than ever as to find out where well-written content already exists . . . to do what my pal, Craig, and I used to–turn over leaves to see what’s under them and kick trees to see what falls out of them.

The more I sift through (ahem) read to find quality, the less you have to.

There’s great content out there, and as David Sifry said, it’s impossible for anyone to read it all.

You do what you usually do. I’ll go on a quest, and maybe I can bring you a Great Reminder, a Great Find, a Blog Worth Checking Out, even something that might knock your socks off every now and then. No dead fish I promise.

In the meantime, if you have an idea about what you’re looking for . . .

you could turn this quest into a MISSION, just by telling me what you need.

–ME “Liz” Strauss