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 The Web Usenet FTP Newswires and then The Web Usenet FTP Newswires STOP
   wait a maximum of 10 20 30 40 50 60 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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