Best Bets: Places I visit regularly... and recommend
This page of shortcuts has some overlap with my general bookmarks, which are here mostly for my own use, and with the Born on the Web page, which is mostly a list of publications for classroom discussion.
- Alta vista - DEC's search engine; it's big, it's fast, it's usually good enough to find what I'm looking for.
- Communication Technology & Policy division of AEJMC.
- Newspaper Divisionof AEJMC.
- Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, because online or off, journalists should stop and listen. See, for instance, McChesney on Ownership, and other gems from the archives of its magazine, Extra!.
- The Onion is funny, offensive, smart and has enough attitude to convince me it's secretly owned by Bill Gates.
- Adbusters with its charming campaigns that use advertising techniques to fight the culture of greed.
- Daily web irreverence from Suck.com, and you can drag the page down to the bottom of the screen so you don't have to watch the ads blink on and off. (The old Suck used to remind you of things like that more, or is that just my imagination?)
- Salon magazine and its MediaCircus column.
- Feed magazine and trying to catch up with what I've missed.
- American Journalism Review's Newslink including Eric Meyer's column and listing of online newspapers.
- Wired magazine's WebMonkey because it's an island of often good design advice in the middle of Wired's annoyingly overdesigned site. Go figure.
- Jacob Nielsen's UseIt.com for hypertextual elegance and a scientific approach to information design. Even testing things. And a conclusion that my years writing in newspaper style might not be wasted. Ohmigosh.
- Arachnophilia and the CareWare concept of author Paul Lutus, as well as a lof of his observations on life and learning.
- Whois will tell you names and addresses behind Internet domain names like "Yahoo" or "Nando," among other things.
- Electronic Policy Network and
- EPN Idea Central's list of media links old & new.
- The latest Edupage technology news
- C|NET for industry news, reviews & more
- The WWW Virtual Library journalism page
- Computer Mediated Communication Magazine
- Online North Carolina newspapers from E&P listing.
- The Online-news mailing list, discussions by folks seriously interested in news-publishing on the Web. One of Steve Outing's projects.
- Steve Outing on electronic publishing, and the neighboring material at E&P.
- The Netday News.
- The New York Times, including its Cybertimes pages.
- The Irish Times, for a different daily. Especially on Bloomsday.
- The Yomiuri Shimbun, which I've seen referred to as having "the largest daily newspaper circulation not only in Japan but also in the world." This Web site is in English.
- Finally, Web Pages That Suck, because they haven't found me yet.
And Elsewhere on the Web...
- There is another Carolina - news from the Czech Republic.
- And then there is Oz...
Last revision: 1 Jun, 1998