Blogs & Podcasts

5 Tips for Blogging: blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/
12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know: www.avivadirectory.com/blogger-law/
32 Ways to Keep Your Blog from Sucking: blogs.msdn.com/joshholmes/
41 Blog Success Tips from 10 Years of Blogging: www.chrisg.com/41-blogging-tips/
100 Blogs We Love: tech.msn.com/news/
A Whole Lotta Nothing: a.wholelottanothing.org
Advice To My Child Beginning a Blogging Adventure: spaces.msn.com/members/maryamie/
All About Blogs and RSS: msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/04/XMLFiles/
Articulate Arts Weblog: www.abc.net.au/news/arts/articulate/
Benefits of Blogging: weblogs.about.com
Best War Blogs: www.forbes.com
Bird on a Wire Blog Map: students.washington.edu/lwinn/bird/
Blog basics - Learn how to keep an online journal: www.microsoft.com/athome/intouch/onlinejournal.mspx
Blog Catalog: www.blogcatalog.com
Blog Hop: www.bloghop.com
Blog Interesting - 32 Ways to Keep Your Blog from Sucking: blogs.msdn.com/tess/
Blogdex: blogdex.media.mit.edu
Blogger: www.blogger.com
Blogging 101: whatsyourstory.msn.com/article.aspx?aid=1&src=Self
Blogging boosts your social life: www.abc.net.au/news/
Blogging from Katrina Ground Zero:
Blogging - Win the Heart, the Mind Follows: blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/
Blogniscient - Finding the Needle in the Blog Haystack: www.blogniscient.com
Blogosphere - Wikipedia Definition: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogosphere
Blogs dot USyd: blogs.usyd.edu.au
Blogs in Plain English (Video): commoncraft.com/blogs
Clicked Blog: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6409077/
Dan Gillmor's eJournal: web.siliconvalley.com
Dark Roasted Blend (A Thrilling Wonder Publication): www.darkroastedblend.com
Daypop Top 40 Links: www.daypop.com/top.htm
Eaton Weblog Portal: portal.eatonweb.com
FabSugar - Fashion and Shopping: fabsugar.com
Fear of Writing: www.codinghorror.com/blog/
Feed 2 Podcast: www.feed2podcast.com
Feed Readers: blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/
FeedMap = Blogs + Maps: www.feedmap.net/BlogMap/
Get Rich by Blogging...: blogs.msdn.com/maamktg/
Gimundo - Good News Served Daily: www.gimundo.com
Gizmodo The Gadget Blog: www.gizmodo.com
Good Blog Writing Style: blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-10-11-n47.html
Guardian Unlimited Weblog: www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/
Horsesmouth - Wisdomocracy: www.horsesmouth.co.uk
How Addicted to Blogging Are You?: mingle2.com/blog-addiction
How to be Happy: blog.happinessstrategies.com
How To Choose an Effective Blog Template or Theme: blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/
How to explain RSS the Oprah way: cravingideas.blogs.com/backinskinnyjeans/
How to make time for blogging: blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/
How to set up a videoblog for free: freevlog.org/tutorial/
How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines: www.useit.com/alertbox/980906.html
Hypercubed Blog: blog.hypercubed.com
Improving Your Feed Reading: blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/
Internet Scout Weblog: scout.cs.wisc.edu/weblog/
Introduction to RSS - Really Simple Syndication: office.microsoft.com
Katie's Blog - The Positive Human Network: katieledger.blogspot.com
Kosso's OPML Manager: readerss.com/opml/opmlman1.html
Link Watcher: www.linkwatcher.com
LiveJournal: www.livejournal.com
L.T. Smash Live From The Sandbox: www.lt-smash.us
Microsoft Blogging Case Study: blogs.msdn.com/saraford/
Microsoft Watch: www.microsoft-watch.com
Mini-AOL: miniaol.blogspot.com
More Effective Blog Reading: blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/
More Effective Feed Reading: blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/
MSN Filter: filter.msn.com
MSN Shopping Insider (Blog): blogs.msdn.com/msnshoppinginsider/
MSN Spaces: spaces.msn.com
MSN Syndicated Content (RSS) Directory: rss.msn.com
Must-have feeds: spaces.msn.com/members/webdotwiz/
OpenSearch sites for reference (including RSS feed URLs): blogs.msdn.com/opal/
Paper Forest Blog: www.paperforest.blogspot.com
Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed: performancing.com
Podcasts and Podcasting Software: codeinzen.net
Police Inspector Blog: inspectorgadget.wordpress.com
Ready for Your Close-up? Here Come the Vlogs: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7226225/
RSS Bandit v1.8.0.855 Released: www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/
Schools and Blogging: blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2005/10/27/teach_the_teachers.aspx
Scrapblog: www.scrapblog.com
Should Newspapers Become Local Blog Networks?: publishing2.com
sixtysecondview: www.sixtysecondview.com
Steve Garfield's Video Blog: stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/
Superfuture Supercities - Shopping Reviews: www.superfuture.com/city/home/
Talk Digger: www.talkdigger.com
The FAIL Blog: failblog.wordpress.com
The Portal of Only Weblogs: www.jjg.net/portal/
The race to time-based and blog search: scobleizer.wordpress.com
The Shallow End Entertainment Weblog: www.abc.net.au/news/arts/theshallowend/
The Shifted Librarian Weblog: radio.weblogs.com/0100932/
The Sony Boycott Blog: www.boycottsony.us
Tim Berners-Lee's Blog: dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4
Tips on blogging safely for parents and kids: www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidblog.mspx
Tom's Trucker Blog: truckerphoto.com/blog/
Top 10 Signs That You Are In Need of A Blogging Intervention: blogs.msdn.com/kari_martin/archive/2005/10/23/484052.aspx
Top 10 Tips for Blogging: blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/
Top 100 Blogs in Technorati: blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/
University Podcasts: www.oculture.com
U.S. Department of State Blog: blogs.state.gov
vfxblog - Blogging the World of Visual Effects in Films: www.vfxblog.com
Vlog.com - Video Blogs: www.vlog.com
Vlog It!: www.seriousmagic.com/products/vlogit/
w.bloggar: www.wbloggar.com
What does RSS stand for?: blogs.msdn.com/officeoffline/
World Question Centre: www.edge.org
World's 50 most powerful blogs: www.guardian.co.uk
Writing Tips for Non-Writers...: www.scalzi.com/whatever/004023.html
You don't blog? I'm suffering because you don't blog: blogs.msdn.com/joelo/
Young blog their way to a publishing revolution: technology.guardian.co.uk
YourDailyFeed.com: www.yourdailyfeed.com
yumsugar - Food, Drink, Entertaining: yumsugar.com

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Books & Reading

5 Keys to Improving Your Reading Speed: blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/
ABC's of Reading: abc-read.com
Aesop's Fables Online Collection: www.aesopfables.com
All Sci-fi: www.allscifi.com
Andrew Barton ‘Banjo’ Paterson: whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au
Animated History of Books: www.bbc.co.uk/education/
Arts & Letters Daily: www.cybereditions.com/aldaily/
Audiobooks from Simply - Free Book Downloads: www.simplyaudiobooks.com/Free_Audiobooks/dp/202/
Awesome Stories: www.awesomestories.com
Banned Books Week (U.S.): www.ala.org/bbooks/
BibliOdyssey: bibliodyssey.blogspot.com
Book Adventures: www.bookadventure.org
Book Crossing: www.bookcrossing.com
BookBrowse.com: www.bookbrowse.com
BookRabbit - Create and Share Your Book Collection: www.bookrabbit.com
Books and Spoken Word in MP3: www.mp3.com
Boy Meets Book: www.geocities.com/talestoldtall/BoyMeetsBook.html
British Library books go digital: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7018210.stm
Candlelight Stories: www.candlelightstories.com
Cartoon Bank: www.cartoonbank.com
Children's Book Council: www.cbc.org.au
Children's Reading Room: www.unmuseum.org/crr/
Comics: www.comics.com
Comics Worth Reading: www.comicsworthreading.com
Concorances of Great Books: www.concordance.org
Creative Commons: creativecommons.org
CyberSpace Museum: www.cyberspacemuseum.com
Diffusion: www.diffusion.org.uk
Directory of Free Online Books: 2020ok.com/0.htm
eBook Directory: www.ebookdirectory.com
ebrary: www.ebrary.com/corp
Electronic Literature Organisation: www.eliterature.org
End papers in books: drawger.com/show.php?show_id=27
Fan Fiction: www.fanfiction.net
Free Book Notes: www.freebooknotes.com
Free Online Books - Computers & Internet: 2020ok.com/computer1.html
FullBooks.com - Free Text Books: www.fullbooks.com
Good Old Days: www.goodolddaysonline.com
Guys Read: www.guysread.com
Harry Potter Around the World: www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/rowling/
Harry Potter Selected Links: www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
How Users Read on the Web... They Don't: www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html
Internet Classics Archive: classics.mit.edu
Lewis Carroll Home Page: www.lewiscarroll.org
LibriVox: librivox.org
Library Thing: www.librarything.com
Listening to audio books on a portable media player: blogs.msdn.com/tiptalk/
Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading?: www.nytimes.com
Literature for Children: susdl.fcla.edu/juv/
Magpies.net Guide: www.magpies.net.au
ManyBooks.net - Free e-Books: manybooks.net
Microsoft Reader: http://computingcentral.msn.com/
Microsoft Reader Dictionaries: www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/dictionaries.asp
MSN Book Search and the British Library: blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/
National Book Foundation: www.nationalbook.org
Net Illiteracy: www.msnbc.com/news/470998.asp
NetLibrary: www.netlibrary.com
Nobel Prize - Literature: www.nobel.se/literature/
Ongoing Tales: www.ongoing-tales.com
Online Speed Reading: www.spreeder.com
Open Library: www.openlibrary.org
Page by Page: www.pagebypagebooks.com
PaperPenalia: www.paperpenalia.com
Project Amigo: www.projectamigo.com
Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.net
Pulitzer Prizes: www,pulitzer.org
Read Like Crazy: www.centralbooking.com
Reading A-Z: www.readinga-z.com
Relax with a Book: www.relaxwithabook.com
Review of Academic Life: www.linguafranca.com
Science Fiction & Fantasy: www.sffworld.com
Science of speed reading: sciam.com
Stevenson's Fables: libtext.library.wisc.edu/StvnsnRobL/
Stories of the Dreaming: www.dreamtime.net.au
Strange Horizons - Weekly Speculative Fiction Magazine: www.strangehorizons.com
Teenreads.com: www.teenreads.com
Textbook Revolution: www.textbookrevolution.org
The Best Media in Life is Free - Creative Common Gems: cc-gems.blogspot.com/
The Diagram Prize - Book with the Oddest Title: www.thebookseller.com/Diagram-Prize
The Dickens Project: humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/
The Online Books Page:
The Walk to Rivendell and Beyond: home.insightbb.com/~eowynchallenge/Walk/walk.html
Top 10 Best Places to Get Free Books (Part 1): www.friedbeef.com
Top 100 e-Books from Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
Useless Tip of the Day - There is no Ctrl+F in books: blogs.msdn.com/saraford/
xkcd - Webcomic of romance, sarcasm, maths and language: www.xkcd.com

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Writers & Writing

ABC Arts Online - Winged Sandals: www.wingedsandals.com
Ancient Scripts: www.ancientscripts.com
Australian Society of Authors: www.asauthors.org
BBC Writer's Room: www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/
Blurb - Self publish with free BookSmart: www.blurb.com/home/1/
Burning Press: www.burningpress.org
Communication Writing Skills: www.engl.niu.edu/comskills/
Crunch: nces.ed.gov/nceskids/crunch/
Cure Writer's Block: www.languageisavirus.com
Cyber Journalist: cyberjournalist.net
Daily Writing Tips: www.dailywritingtips.com
Electronic Poetry Centre: epc.buffalo.edu
Endangered Language Repository: www.yourdictionary.com/elr/
English Online NZ: english.unitecnology.ac.nz
FeedJournal: www.feedjournal.com
Global Language Monitor: www.languagemonitor.com
Graphics & Words: www.graphicsandwords.com
Guide to Grammar & Writing: ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
How to punctuate a sentence: www.lifehack.org
How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines: www.useit.com/alertbox/980906.html
Inspirational PDF Magazines: www.smashingmagazine.com
Into the Wardrobe: Devoted to C.S. Lewis: cslewis.drzeus.net
Latin Maxims (Sententiae Latinae): w1.871.telia.com/~u87112797/show-off.html
Letter Writing Tips: www.globalresponse.org/letters.html
Lingo2Word: www.lingo2word.com
Linguistics & Language Links: www.yourdictionary.com/othrsite.html
M is for Nottingham?: califia.hispeed.com/Incubation2/
Medieval Writing: medievalwriting.50megs.com/writing.htm
Melbourne Writers Festival: www.mwf.com.au
Modern Haiku: www.modernhaiku.org
Note taking tips from Lifehacker: blogs.msdn.com/descapa/
OzLit.org: www.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/
Plagiarism.org: www.plagiarism.org
Playwrights' Sites: www.stageplays.com/writers.htm
Power Reporting: www.powerreporting.com
Publishing via Internet: www.slis.indiana.edu
Pure Fiction: www.purefiction.com
Robert Louis Stevenson Site: wwwesterni.unibg.it/siti_esterni/rls/
Science Fiction Writers Who Blog: www.sfsignal.com/archives/002815.html
Sharp Writer: www.sharpwriter.com
Society of Authors UK: www.writers.org.uk/society/
Spell Checking: www.spellonline.com
TextWorx Toolshed: www.burningpress.org/toolbox/
The Writers' Site: www.writers.org.uk
Tips for improving your handwriting: www.paperpenalia.com/handwriting.html
Using Microsoft Word for Academic Writing (Video): content.digitalwell.washington.edu
Victorian Writing Centre: www.vicnet.net.au/~writers/
Who Needs Headlines? - Writing Tips: www.alistapart.com/articles/whoneedsheadlines
Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90: news.bbc.co.uk
Writers' Guild of UK: www.writers.org.uk/guild/
Writing for the Internet - conversations, short documents, and collaborative writing: computerliteracy3.blogspot.com
Writing Links & Links for Writers: www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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The Arts

010101:Art in Tech Times: 010101.sfmoma.org
ABC Arts & Culture: arts.abc.net.au
Ars Digita Foundation: www.arsdigita.org
Art of Site: communities.msn.co.nz/ArtofSite/
Artist's Footsteps: www.artistsfootsteps.com
Australian Museums Online: www.amol.org.au
Bauhas-Archiv: www.bauhaus.de
Berlin Wall - Hope & Anguish: www.microsoft.com/mscorp/artcollection/
Chris Anthony Artist and Photographer: www.chris-anthony.com
Dirty Car Art: www.dirtycarart.com
Fine Art Museums of San Franscico: www.thinker.org
Fine Arts in Hungary: www.kfki.hu/keptar/
Gary Foley's Koori History: www.kooriweb.org/foley/
Gilbert & Sullivan Archive: math.boisestate.edu/gas/
Great Buildings Collection: www.greatbuildings.com
Guide to Fine Art: www.print-art.com
H.R. Giger's Official Site: www.giger.com
Images of Australia: www.iinet.net.au/~mboyle/
Impressionists: www.biography.com/impressionists/
InFront Visual Project: www.australianinfront.com.au
K10K Design Community: www.k10k.net
LACMA Art Collections: mweb.lacma.org
Larry Lessig - How creativity is being strangled by the law: www.ted.com
LEGO artist - Nathan Sawaya: www.cnn.com
Microsoft Art Collection: www.microsoft.com/mscorp/artcollection/
Mini Museum of Modern Art (MiniMOMA): www.flipflopflyin.com
Museum of Mail Art: www.actlab.utexas.edu/emma
Museum of Modern Art: www.moma.org
National Gallery of Australia: www.nga.gov.au
National Portrait Gallery: www.portrait.gov.au
Noise 2001: www.noise.net.au
Opera Hater's Guide: www.wrkf.org/opera_hater_1.htm
Photomosaics - New Art, Timeless Quality: www.geochron.co.uk/photomosaics.asp
Red Studio - Museum of Modern Art: redstudio.moma.org/about/
Russian Art: npocto-kpacota.livejournal.com/2006/05/16/
Splatt - Arts for Kids: www.abc.net.au/splatt/
TED - Technology, Entertainment, Design - Ideas Worth Spreading: www.ted.com
The Arts on VicNet: www.vicnet.net.au/arts/
Victoria Art Trails: amol.org.au/art_trails/
Web Gallery of Art: www.kfki.hu/~arthp/
World's Art Galleries: artatlas.com

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Museums

Australian Museum Eureka Prizes: www.australianmuseum.net.au/eureka/
Australian Museum Online: www.amonline.net.au/features/
Bradman Museum: www.bradman.org.au
Canadian Museum of Civilisation: www.civilization.ca
Canadian War Museum: www.civilization.ca/cwm/cwme.asp
Candy Wrapper Museum: www.candywrappermuseum.com/
DiscoverNet: www.amol.org.au/discovernet/
Franklin Institute Science Museum: sln.fi.edu
Geek Travel Guide: www.sericyb.com.au/geek-travel.html
Hieroglyphs at the British Museum: www.ancientegypt.co.uk/writing/homemain.html
Museum of Broadcast Communications: www.Museum.TV
Museum of Science Educator Resource Centre: www.mos.org/doc/1369
Museum of the Future: www.aec.at/center2/english/
Museum of Victoria: www.mov.vic.gov.au
Museum Stuff: www.museumstuff.com
Museums of the World: www.museum.com
National Museum of Photography, Film, TV: www.nmpft.org.uk
National Museum of Science & Industry: www.nmsi.ac.uk
Science Museum (London): www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
Sigmund Freud Museum: freud.t0.or.at/freud/
The Museum of Hoaxes: www.museumofhoaxes.com
Vatican Museums: mv.vatican.va

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