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“Blogging isn’t a particularly good training for writing. There’s too much voice, in a way. It’s like Colbert’s truthiness: There’s too much ‘voiciness,’ and not enough fact.” ~ Tina Brown, quoted in New York magazine article by Vanessa Grigoriadis 100 most popular blogs (Technorati's list and links) "Never get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel." ~ Satchel Paige "How can I know what I think until I see what I say?" ~ E.M. Forster Quick Links E-mail Pat About Pat (site host) Help a reporter out (useful for reporters and for sources) Bowling 1, Health Care 0 (Elizabeth Edwards' op ed piece, NYT, on the dismal state of the corporate media) The Onion (if the news is making you sick, try this approach) Truth-o-meter (St. Pete Times on whether, and how much, Clinton, Obama, and McCain are sticking to the truth) Fact Check (Annenberg sorts political truths from half-truths) Telling your life (or family) story Medical links for smart patients Contemporary Latin American Short Stories Blog roll (and other great stuff)

Blogs, gossip, watchdog reports, and daily news roundups The emphasis here is on up-to-date news, opinions, commentary, must-reads, backgrounders, gossip, secrets, rants, and inside information, with links to blogs for special health problems or interests as well. • About blogs • Blog roll (and great stuff) About blogs Amy Gahran on Technorati, BuzzLogic, and the difference between a blog’s influence and its popularity (Poynter) Bloggers bring in the big bucks (John Tozzi, Business Week story) Andrew Sullivan, The Blogging Revolution (Wired, May 2002) Bloglines (an easy way to keep up with your favorite blogs--see RSS explained) Blogging and podcasting tools (links to) Blogging Tips (Keven Ann Willey, as reported in AJR) Blogs to Riches: The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom, by Clive Thompson (New York Magazine) Codswallop, technology + productivity (The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need) Figuring out blogs and whatever’s next (Sree Sreenivasan) Interesting blog about power of authors' blogging (Bookends) Is Your Blog Exposing You to Legal Liability? by Lawrence Savell (law.com) Linkology: How the Most-linked-to Blogs Are Related, by Stuart Luman (New York Magazine), with links Publisher of CNet.com technology review to fill the pages of its print magazine, for free (Evelyn Nussenbaum, New York Times, business section) "Referential" bloggers vs. "experientiak" bloggers (Greg Knauss, kottke.org) Problogger (blogging tips to help you make money blogging) Resources for doing blogs Resources for doing e-zines Resources for doing podcasting 12 traits of successful bloggers (problogger) RSS (your own personal Web butler) explained, by Jonathan Dube (Poynter Online) The State of Blogging at America's Top 100 Newspapers ( Ten tips for improving your karma (Slashdot FAQ; scroll down) WEBLOGS, a history and perspective, by Rebecca Blood, of the blog Rebecca's Pocket Why Ann Logue doesn't blog [Go Top] Blog roll (and great stuff) AlterNet columnists Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish Arts & Letters Daily (great links for those who scorn tabloids) Babel's Dawn (Edmund Blair Bolles on the origins of speech) Bad Science (Ben Goldacre's blog) The Biopragmatist (David Duncan's blog, Technology Review) Bitten (Mark Bitten on food, New York Times) Bookslut BuzzMachine (Jeff Jarvis on new media) CNET.com (tech product news, review, and video) Common Dreams (breaking news and views for progressive community and excellent links) Conscience of a Liberal (Paul Krugman) Consumerist (shoppers bite back) Contentious.com (Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age) Crooks and Liars (a politically left blog) Current Awareness in Aging Report (CAAR) (sign up for weekly e-clips) Cyberjournalist List (links to journalists' blogs) Craigslist (look to the right to find the Craigslist ads for your area) Daily Kos (liberal political blog) Daylife (top news stories, up to the minute) Defamer (L.A. gossip rag) Directory of blogs of technical writers Drudge Report Easily Distracted (Tim Burke on culture, politics, and academia) Economist's View (Mark Thoma) Education blogs (Natl Education Writers Association) emdashes (the New Yorker between the lines),Emily Gordon alerts you to what's worth reading if you can't read it all) engadget (breaking news in techie gadgetland) Extra! Extra! your guide to the latest investigative reporting (IRE) Firedoglake Fishbowl/NY (MediaBistro's blog) 43 Folders (on improving productivity) GalleyCat (blog about books and publishing) Garden Rant Gawker (Manhattan media news and gossip) Gizmodo, the gadget guide Gladwell.com (beyond the Tipping Point) Guerrilla News Network (GNN) Head Butler (books, movies, music) Hear Us Now (Consumers Union, consumer voice for consumer choice) Helen Fisher, The Nature of Love (with side bars on eating tarantulas etc.) Hit & run (Reason, "free minds for free markets") Huffington Post I can has cheezburger? (funny cat pictures) Informed Comment (Juan Cole's blog on the Middle East, history, and religion) The Informed Reader (WSJ survey of media insights from around world) InstaPundit Jalopnik (for car lovers) Jason Kottke, great blog, super links **J-BLOGS, CyberJournalist.net's excellent links to Blogs produced by news sites Jossip (Celebrity + Media + Manhattan blog) The Joy of Autism (Ralph Savarese) The Lede (NY Times blog) Lifehacker, techie tips for making life easier (MB calls it "geek porn") Language Log Literary agents' blogs McSweeney's Internet Tendency Media Bloggers Association MediaPost Publications (daily media news) Mr. Magazine.com (journalism professor Samir Husni's blog on what's new in the magazine business) Neurodiversity (Kathleen Seidel's site on autism) News gems (John Marshall, SPJ, highlighting the best of American, including broadcast,journalism) NewPages guide to literary Weblogs and daily news sites News that comes to you (excellent OJR piece on weblogs and niche news sites) Off the Bus Newser.com (faster, smarter news, in beta version) Newswise (for journalists only) Nieman Watchdog (questions the press should ask) NYTimes guide to blogs Obscure Store & Reading Room (Jim Romenesko’s old blog about normal people doing odd things) Off the Kuff (Charles Kuffner) Online News Association Overheard in New York Placeblogging (blogs about local stuff) Planet of the Blind Pollster.com Poynter stories on blogs and blogging Publishers Weekly blogs A progressive on the prairie Regret the Error (a blog that reports on media errors and corrections) Romenesko (your daily fix of media news, commentary, and memos, Poynter online) Rude Pundit Science blogs Science Daily (Digests of the latest news on health+medicine, mind+brain, plants+animals, earth+climate, space+ time, matter+energy, computers+math) Secrets Share your deepest one Shoe Money (this is one of the moneymaking blogs!) Slashdot (News for nerds. Stuff that matters) Slate Stats.org (checking out the facts & figures behind the news) Sustainable Gardening (Susan Harris, with good links on gardening) Talking Points Memo (politics), one of the big moneymaking blogs Technorati's links to 100 most popular blogs Time Goes By -- Ronni Bennett on what it's really like to get older (check out her blog roll of elderbloggers, on left) The Top 100 Freelancer Blogs (Heather Johnson, Bootstrapper) Toxic Burden (Carol Ekarius on how chemicals affect your health) VideoSift (YouTube videos) Wall Street Journal (WSJ) blog on law Washington Monthly Why Are Women's Magazines So Much Dumber Than Men's? (Faking Good Breeding blogspot) The Why Files (the science behind the news, David Tennenbaum) WSJ blog on health and the health business YouTube Wizbang [Go Top]

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