If you are like me you want to keep track of what various Web sites are posting about your field, your competition, and just general technology news that is specific to your business. As the number of online sources for information continues to spiral upwards – one place quotes more than 20 million Americans post at least weekly to their blogs – you want to have an organized plan of attack so you aren’t buried in data. And as you can imagine there are dozens of different Web-based services that you can use to filter and organize things.

I mention a few of the potential alternatives, such as Pageflakes, Bloglines and Google Reader, in my latest column for PC World.