I’m feeling a need to get much more structured about how I start my day online. Here are the sites that I visit to start my day, and I’d be interested in how that differs from your Top Ten.

1. ESPN.com I spoke to a friend who is vehemently opposed to ESPN.com and all of their video loading etc that they hit you with.
2. NY Times All the news that’s fit to print. It is a free site now, but I’ve always been a heavy user, including subscribing to the Saturday and Sunday editions in print. I probably should cancel that (I’m not sure if we need any newpapers coming to the house at all), but I still enjoy the times I can sit down to the Times.
3. Wall Street Journal This site is a paid site, and it is a regular morning stop for me. I used to spend much more time searching for business leads here. I get the paper delivered daily but read much more of it online.
4. Schwab I’ve had brokerage accounts at Merrill Lynch, Prudential, and Wachovia. Now, I’ve consolidated everything with Schwab. I’ll check the accounts in the morning, as well as any stocks on my Watch List. We currently have about a third of our holdings in cash, the rest in stocks. Best performer this year: ITT Corporation.
5. Soccernet My source for everything soccer.
6. Flickr I’ve cooled off in the last week or so, but this is still a regular morning place to stop and look around. I check out any comments folks have made, as well as look at my contacts images.
7. C2 Choices Head here to get started with posting.
8. Google Reader I’ve just started going daily to Google Reader, and I need to make this a standard part of the morning.
9. EW.com From Entertainment Weekly, which has to be one of the top five magazines in America. So many good things about this site, with terrific writing and videos. For you American Idol fans or those needing to catch up, they have a great poll where they show the two David’s performances each week, letting you vote for who was best. That includes Cook’s “Billie Jean” performance, which was just terrific.
10. Go Fug Yourself I get to visit my buddy Carmen’s favorite site from two very, very funny ladies. A riot constantly to see what they have to say about any and every celebrity.

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