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My most frequent sources for cribbed links:

Slashdot: http://www.slashdot.org/

Be sure to register and customise your configuration.

Drudge: http://www.drudgereport.com/

I wish he was more like a weblogger, but he finds great stuff, for a rightwinger.

Progressive Review: http://prorev.com/indexa.htm

I never follow Sam Smith's links because he extracts them so well, but I agree with his politics 99.9%.

Haddock: http://www.haddock.org/

This mailinglist project finds tons of good stuff but describes it only minimally, with heavy attitude. UK-oriented.

[RBuzz] Research Buzz: http://www.researchbuzz.com/weblog/index.html and http://www.researchbuzz.com/news/

Tara Calishan (formerly CSky for CopperSky-- her company) has an awesome coverage of research-resources on the Web. She does three weblogs, one on research, one on publishing, and one general.

LarkFarm: http://www.larkfarm.com/weblog.asp

Mike 'Factsheet Five' Gunderloy's extremely exemplary weblog, several per day.

Flutterby: http://www.flutterby.com/

Dan Lyke is a new-media insider, working on games, etc. Also a sexual-freedom advocate and generally literate guy. A halfdozen entries per day, lo-bandwidth design.

GeneHack: http://www.azstarnet.com/~jacobs/

John Jacob Anderson is a heavy-duty geneticist with a personable style, a halfdozen a day usually.

Lake Effect: http://www.wwa.com/~dhartung/weblog/

Dan Hartung and I used to be on Chinet together, before there was a Web. Excellent weblog writing style, many links.

rc3: http://www.rc3.org/rc3.php3

This one fell off my radar, probably because the name is obscure. Tech-oriented but generally high quality and very frequent.

null device: http://dev.null.org/

Andrew Bulhak is an Australian net.oldtimer, wit and hacking wiz, only a halfdozen links per week though.

Ed's: http://www.generation.net/~calebos/

I dunno who this is, but it's interesting and plentiful.

[HG] Honeyguide: http://www.chaparraltree.com/honeyguide/

Raphael Carter has great taste and deep science, but posts only a halfdozen per week.

[SB] NowThis: http://nowthis.com/log/

Steve Bogart creates lovely, thoughtful single-day pages, far too infrequently.

WebWord: http://webword.com/

John Rhodes is a young usability specialist, a halfdozen links each evening.

UseIt: http://www.useit.com/hotlist/spotlight.html

Jakob Nielsen's infrequent log of usability links is great, though I give him a hard time for his vast ego.

OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/news/index.html

Even though it's updated infrequently, this one finds lots of operating-system stories that I find interesting.

Daily: http://dailyweblog.com/

Sean Murphy covers mainstream stories in weblog fashion, halfdozen per day.

iBoy: http://aaronland.net/weblog/

Aaron Straup Cope is a Perl hacker, Canadian and French-language links, a few smart entries per day.

WHump: http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis/index.php3

Bill Humphries drives me crazy with his textbook liberalism, but aside from that he's topnotch, a few per day.

Renegade: http://www.powerbase-alpha.com/renegade/

I haven't figured these guys out, but they punch my buttons in a good way-- science, alt culture, hacking.

eatonweb: http://www.eatonweb.com/weblog/index.shtml

Brigitte Eaton is a California web info-design specialist, a few links a day, interesting comments.

Screenshot: http://www.io.com/~amh/screenshot/

New to me, interesting, halfdozen a day.

LinkWatcher: http://www.linkwatcher.com/metalog/

Michal 'Sabren' Wallace is a young, likeable AI-hacker with self-improvement inclinations, and a growing system of weblog services.

[zero] synthetic zero: http://www.syntheticzero.com/

Reminds me of lemonyellow (below) but more usable links, more often.

Referer: http://www.refererlog.com/

Rogers Cadenhead has lots of attitude plus several good links per day.

Dan Bricklin: http://danbricklin.com/log/

More journal than log, but interesting and innovative. Several long entries per day, from the inventor of VisiCalc and other smart software.

[NTK] Need To Know: http://www.ntk.net/

A way-hip weekly newsletter of links written in a funny, cryptic style, heavily UK-oriented.

dsl: http://dsl.org/

Way too infrequent, but topnotch stuff from etext-hacker Michael Stutz.

Acq: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/ms_acqs.html

Just a few per week, library-oriented, interesting to me.

YAWL: http://www.users.interport.net/~vr/yawl.html

I don't know anything about Vicki Rosenzweig except she finds interesting stuff, a few links per day.

Bump: http://www.bump.net/

Robert Occ-something is in Atlanta, is a Mac person, has been logging forever.

Bouzou: http://www.bouzou.com/

One a day, but choice.

Windowseat: http://www.windowseat.org/weblog/

Laurel Krahn is likeable, Midwestern, tv-oriented, unpredictable posting-frequency.

lemonyellow: http://www.lemonyellow.com/

Heather Halpert's links are usually too poncy for me (academic, wordy), but when she waxes poetic or personal I think she's fantastic. A few items per week, lovely design.

kottke: http://kottke.org/

Jason Kottke offers a halfdozen interesting things a day.

Vacuum: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~emv/project/vacuum/weblog.html

Ed Vielmetti is an oldschool (pre-web) net.culture enthusiast, just a few links per week.

Bird on a wire: http://students.washington.edu/lwinn/bird/

Interesting, a few per day.

John Sherburne: http://www.smart.net/~sherburne/link.html

Interesting, a few per day.

Noise Between Stations: http://www.noisebetweenstations.com/index.shtml

Interesting, a few per day.

Medley: http://www.io.com/~millett/weblog/

Lively, active, many per day.


Older versions

(This mostly doesn't include the content-publishers themselves, only eclectic sources of links. For the former, try my portal.)

NewsHub: http://www.newshub.com/world/bytime.html

Brilliant multipage headline aggregator, run as a Perl program.

NewsLinx: http://www.newslinx.com

Tech headlines aggregated by hand with help from bots. Extremely slow-loading table.

[OSRR] Obscure Store: http://www.obscurestore.com/

A daily burst of well-chosen gossip links.

[Slashdot] http://slashdot.org/

The Linux community's interactive weblog. Rather slow-loading.

[SN] Scripting News: http://www.scripting.com/

Dave Winer's tech newspage, hi-energy but culturally out-of-touch. His disdain for his readers is expressed by frequent links with no descriptive text, and by frequently, arbitrarily rearranging the day's links.

[CDreams] Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/

A great daily news portal for progressives.

[HG] Honeyguide Web Log: http://www.chaparraltree.com/honeyguide/

A beautiful weblog, mostly science but also widely literate.

[AAN] Association of Alternative Newsweeklies: http://aan.org/

The best of the alternative press. Unfortunately only headlines as anchor text, no descriptions.

[Drudge] The Drudge Report: http://www.drudgereport.com/

I was a charter subscriber to this back when it was email only. A lot of his rumors don't pan out, but when he's right he's usually got a 24-hour lead on everybody else.

[Whump] Bill Humphries' More LIke This: http://www.whump.com/news.html

Good stuff.

[NTK] Need To Know: http://www.ntk.net/

A way-hip weekly newsletter of links written in a funny, cryptic style, heavily UK-oriented.

[NASA Watch] http://www.reston.com/nasa/watch.html

Very well-connected space gossip and muckraking.

[Spike] http://olj.usc.edu/sections/

A dozen links a week, aimed mostly at infrequent surfers. Horrible slow-loading site design.

[Explorator] http://web.idirect.com/~atrium/commentarium.html

Archeology news links. The only way I know to get this is in sci.archeology.moderated.

[AIC] Ain't It Cool: http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/news/index.html

Pre-release movie gossip. Slow-loading, loud.

[HtB] Hacking the Buddha/ Manifest Station: http://www.linkwatcher.com/metalog/

Thoughts and links from a young devotee of neuro-linguistic programming.

[Windowseat] http://www.windowseat.org/weblog/

Laurel Krahn's warmly personal weblog

[SB] Steve Bogart's Now This: http://nowthis.com/log/

More good stuff.

[UseIt] http://www.useit.com/hotlist/spotlight.html

Jakob Nielsen's three links a week, mainly about human factors and web design.

[OneWorld] http://www.oneworld.org/news/today/front.html

Almost daily progressive news items. Nice keywords. Humorless.

[OS] OS News: http://www.osnews.com/news/index.html

Operating-system related news links.

[OLB] Online Books Page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/booknew.html

Several dozen new online-book links per week. A huge page.

[McOS] MacOS Rumors: http://www.macosrumors.com/

Mac-OS related gossip and links.

[Coppersky] http://www.coppersky.com/ongir/news/index.html

Well-done log of news about search-engines and other net.research resources.

[CG] Chris Gulker: http://ww2.gulker.com/news/

Occasional links, plus a good list of other 'news pages'.

[anw] artnetweb: http://artnetweb.com/newsletter/index.html

Infrequent newsletter of avant-garde web projects.


These are older:

[YMMV] Your Mileage May Vary: http://www.ymmv.com/daily.html

Late, lamented log of tech news.

[ALD] Arts and Letters Daily:

Three poncy humanities-links a day.

[Feed] Feed: http://www.feedmag.com/lofi.html

I used to love this, but something about their redesign has put me off. Daily links and culture criticism.

[AW] Andy Williams: http://www.raggedcastle.com/andyjw/news/

[McR] MacRonin: http://www.macronin.com/news.html

[P&F] Pigs and Fishes: http://www.users.interport.net/~avram/links/weblog/index.html

[DP] Digital Prairie: http://www.circumtech.com/prairienews/

[McNN] MacNetwork News: http://www.macnn.com/

[McRs] MacResource: http://www.macresource.pair.com/mrp/main.shtml

See also: those listed on Chris Gulker's page

If you have such a page, or know of others, let me know.


I also chase down links via newsgroups:

(asg): alt.showbiz.gossip

A wild group, with a culture all its own.

(agc): alt.gossip.celebrities

Almost as wild, but features Pusssykat's convenient daily reposting of all the gossip pages around the Web.

(ark): alt.religion.kibology

Inexplicable community of very smart, very funny net.veterans.

(map): misc.activism.progressive

No discussion, only press-release-style progressive-activist stuff.

(afc): alt.folklore.computers

Old-timers' computer nostalgia, often very well-informed.

(cis): comp.infosystems.search

Search-engine gossip and theory.

(chf): comp.human-factors

A solid community of mostly-software designers and critics.


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