Sites and other good stuff worth a click
"Blogrolls" are so 2003; they're too static and don't tell you anything about why the writer picked those sites. So here's an annotated list of what I'm reading on the web and why.Instapundit Glenn Reynolds is the pope of the Internet. What he finds important drives on-line commentary and coverage. Just ask Dan Rather. To ignore him to is to be willfully ignorant of the web around you.
Jay Rosen's Pressthink and Jeff Jarvis's Buzzmachine should be read in concert. They are two New Yorkers with attitude and fine understandings of Big Media and how it works.
Craig Newmark Craig speaks!
Doc Searls The nicest man in the tech business explains how geeky guys like him see the world. Invaluable.
Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo is well on its way to becoming an invaluable site for Democrats of all persuasions. It's partisan, sometimes disagreeable so, but usually insightful.
What Marshall is for Democrats, Redstate is for conservatives. Read them. They're often very funny. And while they'll make your blood boil, you'll learn a few things.
Andrew Sullivan Big thinking on gay marriage and other issues of importance to the gay community. Sullivan is a little sexist and a touch too in love with himself but he's an elegant writer.
Roxanne Cooper may be one of the funniest writers on the web. Enter the caption contest and take part in a fine newsroom tradition.
Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon's Global Voices is an invaluable resource for anyone wanting to know what's being said in other parts of the world. But for my money - and time - Rebecca MacKinnon's Rconversation, particularly her commentary on China makes stopping by both sites necessary.
Dan Weintraub This "blog" was better when it started; when it was an experienced political writer holding forth. These days, Weintraub is edited but if you're interested in California politics, he's the main man on breaking news.
Usual Suspects Alex Clemens may be the funniest man in San Francisco politics. Insightful, too.
Gawker Naughty Nicky's first site, still his best.
The Note Insider action just as it's breaking to us outsiders. They're the first of the last to know.
The Chron Because I live here. They publish, I read it.
LA Times Because I live here and because Maggie Farley works there.
SF Weekly For Matt Smith and the occasionally well-written media critiques.
And no, life is not all seriousness. The Manolo, a reforming "flaneur," gives himself the job of demonstrating why this is not so.
Updated October 22, 2005