“Do you respect Media Snackers? Tell me why” is a post that many of my blogger friends are talking about today, and Susan Getgood and Kevin Dugan asked me for my two cents. So here it is.

Media Snackers are defined as Web-gen folks who like to get their news, information and entertainment in bits and bytes at a time, from many different sources. They don’t want to read a whole newspaper, or even watch an entire half-hour television program, to get what they want.

Another way to put it: Everyone has ADD today — and most of them are damn proud of it.

Too much Media Snacking, and too few healthy meals, leads directly to this. Do you know that a substantial percentage of high school students think that we fought with the Germans against Russia in World War II? I guess Ken Burns’ The War isn’t “snacky” enough for them.

Ideally, snacking should be part of a balanced diet that includes reading a book and watching the news on BBC every now and again. But you know, once reading becomes broccoli in the public’s mind, it’s probably a lost cause.

Having issued those cranky caveats — yeah, I snack, and I know my readers snack, too. So here are four ways I pander to snackers:

1. Spin Thicket. It’s a community for snackers interested in news related (sometimes vaguely) to marketing, media and entertainment.

2. Pick of the Thicket, formerly Pick of the Orchard. A daily link fix culled from Spin Thicket.

3. The Dirt 100. I created this as a quick way for snackers to find top celebrity and entertainment blogs, ranked in order of popularity.

4. Photochops. Almost every day, I see something in the news that ticks me off, and I want to write a rant on it. Because I know that most people don’t want to read a thousand-word rant, and because I rarely can take two hours to write one, I usually go with the picture’s worth a thousand words approach.

OK, enough of all that. Here’s the fun part — who should I torture by tagging them? How ’bout: Paul, Cam, Rohit, Colin and Mack.