>We all have our favorites but I'm looking for some consensus on what would be considered the top 10 or 20 websites dealing with current news and issues in information technology. Any suggestions?

I'm a news junkie, and was the UT news collector for years. Best at the top:

http://news.google.ca/?ned=ca&topic=t
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/default.stm
http://slashdot.org/
http://www.digg.com/view/technology
http://news.zdnet.com/