Adam Rifkin: Bits

If you're not sure where to start, try CRAYON's news sources, an extensive list of links-to-check-everyday in a variety of topics. Also, I moved my search links to the end.


Infosoak: Meta News

  1. The FoRK personal favorite search tool is SpaceSearch
  2. FoRK Recommended Books and FoRK Recommended Music
  3. Slashdot.org , the ULTIMATE geek news site
  4. !!! - Today's Papers / Editor & Publisher's Database of the World's Online Newspapers
  5. !!! - Search with Metacrawler / Magellan Search Voyeur / Excite / Newbot / Shortcut to Dogpile:

    Search and then
    wait a maximum of seconds.
  6. $$ - Quicken / Briefing / FreeRealTime / Wall St Research Net / Schwab / Motley Fool / Daily Dow / CurrentDowOrder / eTrade / Earnings / Investor.Msn / Daily Stocks / E-Analytics / INVESTools / IFC Stocks / DBC / Quotes.Galt / Stocksmart / Money Quick Quotes
  7. Anchordesk
  8. Angle - customized news service
  9. Biztravel.Com bitful ezine of travel news
  10. CNN / CNN Quiz / CNN fn Financial Network / Digital Jam
  11. CNET (daily news) / News.Com (daily Technology) / Radio / Resources
  12. CNET Reviews / Comparisons / Best of the Web / Hot List / Just In / CD ROM Central / List All
  13. CNET Features / Techno / How To / Digital Life / List all
  14. Cringely
  15. Daily Telegraph and The Times , both out of England
  16. Drudge Report / Ain't It Cool News
  17. Ecola's Newsstand - daily updates from a plethora of sources
  18. Essential Links
  19. FoRK
  20. GeeK
  21. InfoTech Newswire
  22. Internet Herald - monthly GenX web zine
  23. Internet Movie Database / IMDB Search / Washed-Update / Mr. Cranky / Mr. Showbiz Teen Movie Critic / Studio Briefing / Roger Ebert - movie ratings
  24. LA Traffic / Big Map Realtime / Highway Info / Southern California Traffic Report
  25. Mercury Mail - custom news
  26. Mr. Showbiz - entertainment news and reviews
  27. MS NBC / Slate / Stale
  28. NandoNet / Entertainment
  29. Need to Know
  30. Newslink - newspapers, broadcast, magazine, etc links
  31. NewsPage - daily business, categorized
  32. News of the Day - in Haiku format
  33. New York Times / Search / CyberTimes / Financial / Banking Center
  34. New York Times Fax / Computer News Daily / Your Health Daily
  35. Packet / Hotwired Flux
  36. Pathfinder / Entertainment Weekly / Biz Entertainment / Fortune / Time / Sports Illustrated / People / Money Daily
  37. Quotes of the Day
  38. Rapidly Changing Face of Computing
  39. Rapture Index , the PropheZine
  40. Red Rock Eater Digest / FAQ
  41. Search.Com / Entertainment / Sports
  42. Sidewalk / Los Angeles / Orange County / San Diego / Las Vegas / San Francisco / Seattle
  43. Snap
  44. Tasty Bits from the Technology Front / TBTF Sources / Britain's Need to Know
  45. TechDirt
  46. That's Useful, This is Cool
  47. The Onion
  48. Today in History / Anyday in History / Quotes of the Day
  49. U.S. News
  50. Yahoo Tech Headlines / Yahoo Headlines / My Yahoo / My Excite / Yahoo Search
  51. Your Personal Net - customized daily

Infosponge: News

  1. ABC Radio Net - hourly news
  2. AP Wire from trib.com - daily news
  3. Bloomberg Personal - daily financial
  4. Boston Globe / AP Online / GlobeWire
  5. Box Office Online - monthly movies business
  6. Business Wire / PR News Wire Reuters - wires as they come
  7. Canada's National Newspaper Globe and Mail
  8. Channel Zero - propaganda free news
  9. Christian Science Monitor / AP Feed
  10. Chronicle of Higher Education
  11. Clari Net eNews
  12. Cybersleaze by Adam Curry
  13. Denounce - all the news that never happened
  14. Direct Hit daily polls, archived
  15. Economist weekly
  16. E! Entertainment Online
  17. Environmental News Network daily news
  18. Gate - SF Chronicle and Examiner // Craig Newmark
  19. Global Change
  20. Hollywood.com - entertainment daily
  21. Holt daily stock report
  22. Infoseek Personal News Service
  23. Lead Story - daily from AT & T Business Network
  24. Los Angeles Times / Postcard from Cyberspace Hunter / AP Online
  25. Muchmusic - entertainment news
  26. NewsBytes - daily news network
  27. Palo Alto Weekly / Classifieds
  28. Pasadena Weekly
  29. Philadelphia Inquirer
  30. Politics USA / Politics Now / All Politics / CQ's American Voter 96 - daily politics fix
  31. Pollstar - the latest concerts
  32. Quicken Financial Network News
  33. San Jose Mercury News / Rentals
  34. Seattle Times
  35. United Media comics / Dilbert
  36. USA Today - the fast food of daily news
  37. Wall Street Journal
  38. Washington Post / Opinion Columns / Style / Business Columns / Stories by State
  39. Washington Times

Bits about Bytes: Computer & Technology News

  1. ActiveXtra.com
  2. Annals of Improbable Research - monthly AIR
  3. Byte
  4. CMP Publications (Techweb): CommunicationsWeek / CommunicationsWeek International / Computer Reseller News / Computer Retail Week / Electronic Buyers' News / Electronic Engineering Times / HomePC / Informatiques / InformationWeek / InteractiveAge / Max CD-ROM / NetGuide / Network Computing / OEM Magazine / VAR Business / Windows Magazine
  5. Computer Intelligence
  6. Computer World - daily IT
  7. Digital Espresso - Java news
  8. Educom / Latest Edupage / Edupage Archives
  9. Electronic Business Today - daily
  10. FoRK Archives
  11. Forum on Risks
  12. Harvard Computer Review - bimonthly
  13. IDG Publications : CIO / Computerworld / Computerworld Client/Server Journal / Digital Video Magazine / DOS World / Electronic Entertainment / Federal Computer Week / GamePro / InfoWorld / Macworld / Maximize / Multimedia World / NetSmart / Network World / PC World / Publish / S.W.A.T. Pro Magazine
  14. Information Week
  15. Infoworld / Cringely
  16. Infrastructure - weekly info, semiconductor companies
  17. Interactive Age daily / Interactive Age Digital / News Now / Click Stream / Media and Marketing Report
  18. Internet Index - monthly Harperslike stats
  19. Interactive Media comprehensive weekly recap
  20. Internet News daily
  21. Internet World monthly, but man do they have lots-o-links
  22. iWorld daily / Netday News / Events
  23. Java News daily
  24. JavaWorld monthly / Search
  25. MacUser / MacWeek
  26. Mad Scientist Network - current queue of questions
  27. McGraw-Hill Publications : LAN Times / Open Computing / UnixWorld
  28. Media Daily
  29. Microtimes
  30. MMWIRE /
  31. Ijumpstart weekly media and technology
  32. NetGuide - daily news
  33. Netscape World monthly
  34. Net Watch - weekly updates
  35. Netrepreneur News - weekly summary of articles about the web
  36. PC Computing / PC Magazine ( Dvorak ) / PC Week ( Opinion - see Burst ) / PC World / Home PC Magazine
  37. Red Herring / Red Herring Direct - weekly technology news
  38. RISKS
  39. Science - global weekly of research
  40. Scientific American
  41. Shareware.Com
  42. Sun World
  43. TechWeb / TechWire - daily technology
  44. Tip World - technology tips o' the day
  45. UniSci - university science research
  46. Web Developer bimonthly
  47. Web Master monthly
  48. Web Review weekly, including Net Daily News
  49. WEBster
  50. WebOvision - media links around the world
  51. WebSmith - bimonthly
  52. WebWeek biweekly
  53. What's New - American physical society weekly
  54. World Wide Web Journal quarterly
  55. Ziff-Davis Publications : The Cobb Group / Computer Life / Computer Shopper / Inter@ctive Week ( Internet Stock Index ) / MacUser / MacWeek / PC Computing / PC Magazine ( Dvorak ) / PC Week / Windows Sources /

Infosphere: eZines

  1. Ad Age - daily web marketing news
  2. All Star - daily music magazine
  3. Carville - weekly
  4. Crisp - ezine for the under 30 crowd
  5. Dave Barry - weekly column; Archives
  6. Dave Siegel's Diary
  7. eZines Online - my collection
  8. First Steps - Marketing and Design Daily
  9. Maxim - monthly for guys
  10. Mississippi Review monthly ezine
  11. Mother Jones - monthly opinions
  12. Music News of the World by ATN - music
  13. Netly News - gossip
  14. Page Six - weekly web column
  15. Public Life - weekly humorous advice column
  16. Salon 1999 - zine
  17. Stating the Obvious - changes Monday
  18. Straight Dope - Cecil Adams' weekly
  19. Suck
  20. 10 Things punk zine
  21. Ticketmaster Daily Tipsheet and New Events
  22. Traffic - an eZine in the Suck genre
  23. Weekly Web Poll
  24. Yahoo Internet Life daily ezine
  25. Zine Scene - the "Talk Soup" of the Web

Infotainment: Websurfing

  1. Alterworld - alternative music news and reviews, weekly
  2. Book of Days - literary
  3. Chami's Tip of the Day - Internet, Programming, Web
  4. Chat Soup - best of celebrity chat on the Net
  5. Chiphead Harry - episodic adventure
  6. Cool Homepages - lots of places to check
  7. Cool Site of the Day at InfiNet - web surf
  8. DuJour - daily prizes, history, wordangst, trivia, riddles
  9. ESPNET - sports
  10. Firefly - entertainment media
  11. Hitlist - charts
  12. Hot 100 Websites - web surf, updated weekly
  13. HD Hunter - new quote and Op/Ed piece daily
  14. Internet Mall - shopping
  15. Joke of the Day by Scott Anderson
  16. Justin Hall
  17. Keepers of Lists - humor
  18. Links R Us Daily Fix - a listing of to-check-everyday links
  19. Mediocre Site of the Day - web surf
  20. Mirsky's Worst of the Web - web surf
  21. Netsurfer Digests (Cowabunga!)
  22. Next to Nothing - weekly freebees
  23. Promote It! - many sites of the day
  24. Reference Desk - info tools on the Web
  25. Spider's Pick of the Day - web surf
  26. Spot / University Center / SF Blend / East Village / Grape Jam - episodic Web series
  27. Top Five - daily Lettermanlike list
  28. What's on TV tonight
  29. Word a Day
  30. World Village daily interests page
  31. Yahoo X Site of the Day
  32. Yecch - Yahoo parody

Infosearch: Search Tools

  1. The FoRK personal favorite: SpaceSearch
  2. "Metasearch"
    1. Dogpile
    2. Inference Find
    3. Metacrawler
    4. Metasearch (Web, software, and thesauri search)
    5. Northern Light (custom folder search)
  3. Web Search's "Magnificent Seven"
    1. Alta Vista
    2. Excite
    3. HotBot / Inktomi
    4. Infoseek / InfoSeek 2
    5. Lycos
    6. Web Crawler / Search Ticker
    7. Yahoo / Yahoo Search
  4. Asylum
  5. Broadcaster sends your page to 235 search engines at once
  6. Cosmix Mother Load
  7. Did-It.Com searches search engines
  8. EINet Galaxy
  9. Eureka!
  10. FAQ Finder
  11. FindMail checks email archives Internet Movie Database Search
  12. Inference
  13. Internet Research Pointer
  14. Liszt / Tile Net / Nova
  15. Magellan Internet Guide / Voyeur
  16. Mindvox searches dictionaries, factbooks, and Internet
  17. Point searches Pointcom 5% sites using Lycos
  18. Reference.Com searches newsgroups and mailing lists
  19. Search.Com
  20. Search Lists of Discussion Groups
  21. Sleuth
  22. URL Minder
  23. WebSitez does URL and domain name searches
  24. Worm

Infofilter: News Services

  1. Answers.Com
  2. Classmates.Com
  3. DejaNews - also for Usenet searching
  4. EI Village , a compendium of engineering sites that includes Compendex*Web, a multidisciplinary engineering article database
  5. eLibrary
  6. Farcast
  7. Filtering research
  8. IBM Infomarket
  9. Idea Lab
  10. Infoseek
  11. Khare's LinkBase
  12. Knowledge One
  13. Learn2.Com
  14. Library Gopher at University of Michigan
  15. Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Internet
  16. MathSciNet searchable database
  17. Microsoft Library
  18. NewsCast real-time, custom filtered news via www, email, and Lotus Notes
  19. NewsPage
  20. NPAC Usenet Search
  21. Reference Sources collected by yours truly
  22. Research-It!
  23. Site Seer - lets you create your own hotlists
  24. Study Web
  25. Sum of All Human Knowledge
  26. TV1 - customized TV listings
  27. WWW Virtual Library Subject Catalog


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From Rifkin's List of Links, by Adam Rifkin.
Last modified: Sat Oct 10 20:26:22 PDT 1998