Staying Healthy with Live Bookmarks

Live Bookmarks Prevent E. Coli Infection?
Though I know the odds that I would be one of the few to get E. coli from the recently tainted batch of spinach were minimal, I can't help but thank my live bookmarks for decreasing those odds. I regularly buy the Ready Pac Spinach, and actually had some in my refrigerator when I was perusing my live bookmarks. The words "e. coli" and "spinach" caught my eye in the NPR links. After reading the article I immediately threw away the rest of my spinach and kept an eye out for follow-up stories. As of right now, the organic company is refuting the claims that it came from the way they grow their spinach. They use cow manure instead of processed fertilizers and e. coli lives in the intestines of cows, which is why the FDA linked the E. Coli to this particular spinach grower. Anyway, without the live bookmarks, I would most likely have finished the spinach and could possibly have ended up quite sick.

And now, the news...
Keeping up with the current news was not something I regularly did in the past. I don't watch the local news because I find it to be too sensationalist. But with the live bookmarks I can read the headlines and keep up that way. I subscribe to three, currently, one more than originally assigned. I first chose cnn.com and BBC news. I have since dropped CNN, but now watch Headline News on TV, something I hadn't done before. I added NPR and local newspaper The Arizona Star's hourly update, to stay in touch with local news. Overall, I believe I am much more informed than I ever was. I would go to great lengths to avoid seeing the news, since I found it to be very depressing. Now, though, I think it is an advantage to be informed. I also find it nice to be able to converse about local and world news in an intelligent and informed manner.
I have certainly grown accustomed to the Live Bookmarks. When I'm on a computer at work I find myself looking for and missing them. Though we use Firefox, the computers are used by a number of people, so I try to avoid any customization. Because of that though, I do go to the websites to look for the headlines. I also find myself paying more attention to the news headlines on my email homepages, like Yahoo and MSN's Hotmail. The Yahoo news headlines are very catchy, like this story on recently reunited Holocaust survivor siblings, but unlike the television news, I can pick and choose what to read.

Conclusion
Firefox's Live Bookmarks have helped me to become current in world and local news. I feel that knowing these things helps me to become a more informed consumer, and when the next elections come around, a more informed voter. In this way then, I can contribute to society in a positive manner. I do not know if I will add anymore live bookmarks, but I am interested in what I have read for this section on aggregators. The only thing I don't like about the bookmarks is that they are not all displayed in the bar at the top. I like to be organized, and I think that the aggregator may make that possible. I am looking forward to finding out more about them.