Which road should I take?” she asked the cat.
“Where do you want to get to?” the cat asked helpfully.
“I don’t know,” admitted Alice.
“Then,” advised the cat, “any road will take you there.”
from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (full text)
Sometimes, when I’m on the web and don’t know where to go it helps to see a list of sites I like. Since the purpose of this page is to join mood with site as quickly as possible I won’t annotate the entries. I will, however, divide them into strange and wonderful (okay, pretty average) categories.
General News
LA Times
NY Times
AV Press
The Onion
La Opinion
The Center for Public Integrity
ProPublica
FactCheck.org
California Watch
Around-the-World News
The Guardian (of London)
The Copenhagen Post
Issues / Civic Engagement / Open Government
PublicAgenda.org
Californians Aware
Library-Related (that aren’t in my Google Reader)
Will Unwound
The Ubiquitous Librarian, Next Steps
Annoyed Librarian
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) wiki
Library and Information Science News
American Libraries Direct
Open-access Journals (LIS and others)
Journal of Library and Information Science (JOLIS)
Collaborative Librarianship
International Journal of Library and Information Science (IJLIS)
Code4Lib
B-Sides
Journal of Library Innovation
Library Philosophy and Practice
Urban Library Journal
Library Trends
Libraries & the Cultural Record
Library Leadership & Management (LLAMA’s journal)
First Monday
Game Studies
For a directory of open-access LIS journals from all over the world, visit the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Project MUSE, and Open-J Gate.
Visual / World
National Geographic
Smithsonian Magazine
Tech
NY Times – Technology
Better Place
One Laptop per Child
MIT’s Technology Review
Personal Finance
The Simple Dollar
Quick Hits
FML
Passive-Aggressive Notes
Savage Love
The Oatmeal
Other Blogs (that aren’t in my Google Reader)
Boing Boing
Consumerist
50 Best Blogs for Industrial Design Students
Poetry
Poetry Foundation
Poetry News from the Poetry Foundation
Poetry News from Poets & Writers
Poets.org
Public Domain Images
Clipart ETC
Karen’s Whimsy – Public Domain Images
Wikimedia Commons
Last Updated: 14 December 2011
