“…in my opinion there is nothing — so far — that even comes close to Tweetdeck.” – via “Tweetdeck rules — that is all”
The search feature in tweetdeck lets me keep track of items I’m interested in (ces, dell, linux, os x, windows 7… etc). And I’ll either have a second screen just running this in the background, or I’ll be running it on a netbook on the side. Occasionally I’ll look through to see if their is an interesting tweet. Suddenly twitter is really useful for finding news items of interest.