Towse: views from the hill

Some other sites of interest

• http://www.idea-a-day.com/ Idea A Day “will publish an original idea every day for the rest of time. The ideas published will be free of copyright, however valuable they may be. They are there to be read, to be enjoyed, to be exploited. Whatever.” … and boy-howdy are some of these ideas “original.” Need a whack ‘longside of the head, creativity-wise? Here’s your site. [seen in BoingBoing]
  
• http://www.umva.com/~clay/money/index.html Money Origami [seen in BoingBoing]
  

Blog/blogger links I used for the February article for Computer Bits (http://www.computerbits.com ) that weren’t listed here before include the following —

• http://www.w3.org/News/9201.html Tim B-L’s WWWNews. The “first” blog?
  
• http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/old-whats-new/whats-new-0693.html NCSA Mosaic’s “What’s New” log
  
• http://scriptingnews.userland.com/ – Dave Winer’s Scripting News – “the longest-running weblog on the Internet”
  
• http://www.robotwisdom.com/ – Jorn Barger’s Robot Wisdom Weblog – first use of “weblog” term
  
• http://www.mamohanraj.com/Diary/diary.html Mary Anne Mohanraj’s blog
  
• http://www.camworld.com/ – Cameron Barrett’s CamWorld since June 1997
  
• http://web.siliconvalley.com/content/sv/opinion/dgillmor/weblog/ – Dan Gillmor’s blog
  
• http://slashdot.org/ – SlashDot – “News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.”
  
• http://www.fuckedcompany.com/ – FuckedCompany – entertainment for those who like to swap stories about companies headed for never-never
  
• http://www.evhead.com/ Evan Williams co-founder/CEO of blogger (which brings you this blog)
  
• http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/special/attack/blog.html – The Merc’s blog with links to info about September 11th and its aftermath
  
• http://www.blogger.com/botw.pyra – Blogger.com’s “Blog of the Week” list
  
• http://www.readjacobs.com/ – Joanne Jacobs’ meanderings — where you can get your fix, now that she’s not writing a column for the Merc anymore
  
• http://www.poynter.org/medianews/- Poynter’s Media News blog
  
• http://utne.com/webwatch/ – Utne’s blog
  
• http://www.artsjournal.com/ – ArtsJournal.com – “The Daily Digest of Arts and Cultural Journalism”
  
• http://www.aldaily.com/ – Arts & Letters Daily – an excellent blog: Our motto, “Veritas odit moras,” is a line from Seneca’s translation of Sophocles’ Oedipus. It means “Truth hates delay.”
  
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/ – Guardian Unlimited Weblog
  

Some of the blogs listed earlier (Judith’s Calamondin, f’rex) didn’t make it into the Computer Bits feature. Some other blog/blogger links I didn’t have room for in the February article for Computer Bits include the following (in no particular order) — mayhap another article somewhere else?

• http://www.nextdraft.com/today.html – Dave Pell’s Next Draft
  
• http://www.anywherebeyond.com/index.html Saundra’s HeadSpace – journal/musings from a writer
  
• http://boingboing.net/ – BoingBoing – A Directory of Wonderful Things – brought to you by Cory Doctorow, Mark Frauenfelder & al.
  
• http://www.schoolblogs.com/ – Weblogs in Education
  
• http://booknotes.weblogs.com/ – Craig Jensen’s Book Notes “Books, libraries, preservation, digital convergence, music, politics”
  
• http://radio.weblogs.com – Top-100 Most-Subscribed-To Feeds in the Radio UserLand community
  
• http://radio.weblogs.com/0001013/ – Lawrence Lee – Lawrence’s notebook
  
• http://webword.com/ – WebWord Usability Consulting
  
• http://ojr.usc.edu/content/spike.cfm – Online Journalism Review’s Spike Report
  
• http://ojr.usc.edu/content/ojc/ – Online Journalism Review (from the University of Southern California)
  
• http://www.kottke.org/ – Jason Kottke’s blog
  
• http://www.peterme.com/ – Peter Merholz’s peterme.com “Thoughts, links, and essays”
  
• http://www.onfocus.com/ – pbausch’s photo blog
  
• http://www.webslice.com/webslice/” – Jeff Chausse’s WebSlice
  
• http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp – Neil Gaiman’s blog (thanks to Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little for the pointer)
  
• http://mrcook.net/weblog/ – Mr Cook’s blog and rants
  
• http://www.harrumph.com/ – Heather Champ’s Harrumph
  
• http://keeptrying.blogspot.com/ – Mike Sanders’ Keep Trying blog
  
• http://tirade.weblogs.com/faq – Mike Murray’s Tirade – seems to be timewarped in 2000
  
• http://www.clip2.com/ – Clip2′s blog portal “Clip2 has ceased operations.” Alas.
  
• http://www.ahapoetry.com/bloghmpg.htm Jane Reichhold’s Writer’s Blog at AHA! Poetry
  
• http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/ – MIT’s Blogdex – tracks links referenced by blogs to track pop culture
  
• http://www.zeldman.com/ – Jeffrey Zeldman’s Daily Report
  
• http://www.photographica.org/ – a photographic blog – really!
  
• http://diaryland.com/ – DiaryLand.com – a bit too cool and self-indulgent for my taste
  
• http://www.dailypundit.com – The Daily Pundit: Bill Quick’s blog