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《Time 50 Coolest Websites 2005》
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最近這篇文章很紅，身為平均一天上網時數名列前矛的臺灣人一定要知道一下的，看這些美國人認為哪一些是”最酷的”上的網站呢?
我上的網站有美式酷嘛?
不過全世界都被MSN Messenger、GOOGLE(GOOGLEMAP也來勢洶洶)和Blog給臣服了吧!!
By MARYANNE MURRAY BUECHNER
◎50 Coolest Websites 2005: Arts and Entertainment
A party mix of amusements, from virtual art galleries to TV trivia to talk radio for your iPod, plus some of the best humor writing on the Web
SAY CHEESE: Wallace and Gromit
Animation
Aardman Animations
www.aardman.com
The official site of the studio that created Wallace, the hapless yet well-meaning, cheese-loving inventor, and Gromit, his faithful canine companion, is a treasure trove of video clips (click on Show Reel) and links to character sites including www.wandg.com, where you can get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Wallace & Gromit's first feature-length movie, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, due in theaters in October.
Books
The Complete Review
www.complete-review.com
This well-organized, easy-to-search compendium of book reviews—last we checked, there were 1,430 titles covered—includes editor's picks and bestseller lists by year. The site links to (and vets) dozens of literary weblogs, from Bookninja to Mobylives to its own Literary Saloon. The Review Index lets you search for books by author or title, genre or nationality; you can read the site's own review or click to read reviews published elsewhere.
Classical Music
Opus 1 Classical
opus1classical.com
A rich, expansive resource for music fans more into Handel than hip-hop, Opus 1 provides information on classical music concerts, festivals and opera in dozens of cities across the globe. You can browse by city and calendar month, or try the Venue Finder. Listings include program information and links to where to buy tickets.
Collections
New York Public Library's Digital Gallery
digitalgallery.nypl.org
Lose yourself in this vast collection of rare prints, vintage maps, manuscripts, posters, photographs, sheet-music covers, dust jackets, menus, cigarette cards and other artifacts. There are more than 300,000 digital images of original materials available for viewing. Access is free, and you can download images to your computer for personal or research use. The My Digital page will store your favorite discoveries along with your search history.
Galleries
The Museum of Online Museums
www.coudal.com/moom.php
This elegantly-designed portal links to established museum and gallery sites such as those run by the Museum of Modern Art, The Bauhaus Archive and The Art Institute of Chicago. It will also introduce you to countless other online collections, from Van Gogh's letters to Chinese postage stamps to Manhole Covers of the World. For more, go to the MoOM Annex.
Games
Orisinal
www.orisinal.com
Dozens of free Web-based games, gorgeously designed and relatively simple to play, which is perfect for non-gamers looking for an engaging way to waste time. Choices are presented as icons on the home page (no names, no explanations) but this only heightens the joy of discovery. Keep spiders off your cake, protect dragonflies from rhinoceros beetles, toss tiny umbrellas to baby birds as they fall out of their nest—all you need is your mouse and maybe your arrow keys to maneuver. For more silly diversions, try Little Fluffy Industries, which is part blog, part portal: editors review and link to new online games every day.
Humor
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
www.mcsweeneys.net
This site has amused and delighted fans for years, but has hit new levels of inspiration with funny bits like the recent Baseball Knowledge Will Not Help You Pick Up Girls. There's an archive full of Lists (Embarrassing Things That Might Happen to You While Using a Lightsaber) and Reviews of New Food (on blowing bubbles with Skittles gum: "You would have far better luck coaxing a sphere out of chewed-up crayon and oatmeal"). Affiliated with, but separate and distinct from, the quarterly print literary journal McSweeney's.
More Funny Stuff
Ze's Page
www.zefrank.com
The site began four years ago with "How To Dance Properly," a series of short looped video clips that web designer Frank posted online to amuse friends. The link was passed around like a virus you wanted to catch; within days millions had logged on, and a Web star was born. Today, Ze's page hosts a huge collection of interactive toys and games, comedic writings and humorous video monologues.
Podcasting
Podcast Bunker
www.podcastbunker.com
The Web's best source of talk radio for your iPod. Unlike other sites that offer podcasts for downloading, such as podcastalley.com and ipodder.org (two other good sources in their own right), Podcast Bunker evaluates each feed for audio quality and content and only lists the best stuff. Click the Quick Guide for the full list of recommended programs, plus 30-second previews.
Radio
Mercora
www.mercora.com
Got a fabulous digital music collection, but don't like breaking the law to share it? This peer-to-peer service is legal, because listeners don't actually download any music. Instead, they stream music on their computers that is webcast over the Internet by other members. (The company does have to pay webcasting royalties to copyright holders, and charges some user fees to cover them.) The offerings are listed in the traditional peer-to-peer way, noting artist, album, song title—in this case, the one currently playing—and source. Basic service is free, but limited to 30 minutes of listening a day. For $5 a month ($48 if you pre-pay for the year) you get unlimited listening time and can save up to 10 hours of programming for listening later. Premier members can also download the IMDJ application and create up to five different channels. Honorable mention: Underheard.org, which makes independent and community radio available for streaming or downloading to your portable audio player.
Television
TV.com
www.tv.com
An ambitious guide to what's on television. The All Shows index is organized by category (Comedy, Drama, Children's Talk, Soaps, Reality, Sci-Fi and so on); browse from A to Z or by decade. You'll find everything from the Life and Times of Juniper Lee to The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. But of the 14,000 shows in the database, only 2,500 of them have content that's fully fleshed out, so the idea is to have fans help fill in the rest. Register for a free account to write (or edit) plot summaries and episode recaps, contribute trivia tidbits or write reviews. (The website's editors review every submission before it is posted.) The News page reports tidbits like Patrick Stewart's heart-attack scare and Megan Mullally's talk show deal. For a snarkier take on what's on the tube, there's always televisionwithoutpity.com.
◎50 Coolest Websites 2005: Lifestyle, Health and Hobbies
Eat better. Share digital photos. Network with your neighbors—or your neighbor's dogs
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CHOICES, CHOICES: Flavorpill tells you what's going on
Culture
Flavorpill
www.flavorpill.net
Music, art, fashion and other carefully selected event highlights in five cities: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Chicago. Type in your email address to get the weekly newsletter for the urban mecca of your choice, and you'll always know just what to do with your free time.
Cancer Care
Cancer Nutrition Info
www.cancernutritioninfo.com
"Scientifically sound" nutrition advice for people living with cancer, created by cancer nutrition specialist and epidemiologist Suzanne Dixon. The site's mission is to review and interpret the latest research; it has no corporate ties, doesn't sell anything or push any special program. Some content is free, but to access the rest—including a searchable database of referenced articles, recipes and clinical trial information—you must pay $15 a year.
Digital Photography
Flickr
flickr.com
This public showroom for personal pics just might be the fastest-growing social network on the Web, and it's completely addictive. You upload your images and assign each an identifying tag; these tags help other members find your stuff, and you theirs. You can join groups and create new ones, post comments about particular images and designate favorites. Free membership is limited to 20 megabytes worth of uploads per month. Turn Pro and pay $25 a year for a host of other perks.
Fashion
ZooZoom
www.zoozoom.com
Impressively-designed 'zine featuring high-quality, full-screen photos of beautiful models in designer clothes. Musicians and artists are also featured, along with more serious works of photojournalism.
Food
Food 411
www.food411.com
A huge, searchable directory of food-related websites, primarily where to buy stuff online, whether you need particular items for cooking or serving (meat, cheese, nuts) or complete meals delivered to your door. The main menu on the home page is essentially a list of lists, but it's comprehensive and fairly well-organized—the Food Reads section, for example, is divided into magazines, books, blogs and recipe sites. The Organic Foods page, under Healthwise, has 19 links.
Home Improvement
CNET Digital Home DIY
digitalhome.cnet.com
Interactive video tutorials teach non-geeks how to upgrade to high-definition TV, set up a wireless home network or stream digital music from a computer to another room in the house. The "convince me" pages offer reasons why you should take on a particular job in the first place-which comes in handy if you've got a skeptical spouse with veto power. Visitors are invited to vote on which projects CNET's experts should tackle next.
Longevity
The Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator
www.livingto100.com
Take this quiz to find out how long you will live. You'll also get a full dose of health and nutrition advice based on your answers to the questions. Affiliated with the not-for-profit Alliance for Aging Research.
Pets
Dogster
www.dogster.com
It was only a matter of time before someone created a Friendster for dogs, and this one is too goofy to resist. The site is easy to use—each pup gets a home page, complete with profile, photos and links to all his pals. (What's hard is explaining yourself to the not-so-crazy-about-canines crowd.) Special tool buttons to give a treat, invite friendship, send a message or read a diary.
Social Networking
I-Neighbors
www.ineighbors.org
The brainchild of a group of students and teachers from MIT, I-Neighbors offers a free and easy way for residents of a given community to exchange information (and maybe even bond). Search by zip code to see if anybody's already created a home page for your neighborhood; if not, you can create your own. It takes just a few minutes to register, and your profile can be as vague or specific as you like. Provide an email address to be included in the directory and to receive group emails. You can add events to the calendar, recommend cleaning ladies and handymen, upload photos, even contact elected officials (see GovLink). Of course, whether a neighborhood thrives or dies depends on the participation of its members. Is yours a ghost town? The site provides a ready-to-print flyer for posting at the gym or corner deli to help advertise the link and drum up interest.
◎50 Coolest Websites 2005: News and Information
New ways to search the Web—for fast facts, for jobs, for anything—plus other online resources
TV News
Blinkx.tv
www.blinkxtv.com
Search for TV news clips and other video bits from more than two dozen sources, including ABC News, BBC News, Fox News, ESPN and C-Span. There's plenty of lighter fare, too—a search for Nicole Kidman pulled up a documentary clip from Biography.com and assorted movie reviews and trailers. Blinkx has its own way of indexing clips that makes it more effective than other video search engines for finding particular segments within a broadcast, and each video stream starts off at the point in the segment that's most relevant to your query.
Consumer Protection
Identity Theft Resource Center
www.idtheftcenter.org
A surge of identity-theft crimes in recent months makes this a must-read for consumers looking for tips on how to avoid trouble and what to do if the worst happens (see Victim Guides, under Victim Resources). There are tips for businesses too. Run by a San Diego-based nonprofit organization of the same name.
General Reference
Answers.com
www.answers.com
When you want basic information about someone or something, try plugging your query into Answers.com's general search field, or browse the ever-expanding Directory of reference material. The information you pull up will include dictionary definitions and encyclopedia articles culled from resources licensed from a variety of publishers. The site draws heavily from Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia written entirely by volunteers—anybody can contribute or edit articles, and some 16,000 have (there are 500,000 entries in English; the 2005 Encyclopaedia Brittanica has 65,000). See here for more on the wiki phenomenon. Answers.com also provides free plug-ins you can download to your desktop for even quicker access to these fast facts.
Independent News
OhMyNews International
english.ohmynews.com
This English-language version of the Korea-based "open-source" news organization invites readers to become "citizen reporters" and contribute their own news stories, opinion pieces and photo essays. ("Say bye-bye to the backwards newspaper culture of the 20th Century," beckons the membership registration page.) Use the Talk Back forum to upload.
Jobs
Indeed, SimplyHired, Workzoo
www.indeed.com, www.simplyhired.com, www.workzoo.com
When looking for a job, it's always best to cast a wide net. Each of these job search engines has its own look and feel, but the basic approach is the same: they all trawl the web for relevant job listings based on your search parameters. We ran identical searches on all three, with bountiful results. Each generated a different set of leads, culled from a variety of different sources. including Monster and HotJobs, the two biggest job sites. Might as well have all three help you with the hunt.
Legal Matters
FindLaw
www.findlaw.com
The For the Public section contains a truckload of information and resources on everything from living wills to bankruptcy to divorce. Other areas are designed for students, businesses and legal professionals. Well-organized, and extremely useful.
Politics
Public Agenda
www.publicagenda.org
Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that conducts public opinion surveys on a variety of hot-button issues, interprets mainstream views and then compares them with the political rhetoric on the right and the left. The site's Issue Guides cover dozens of topics, from abortion to immigration to the right to die.
Web Search
Clusty
www.clusty.com
Google, Yahoo and MSN dominate search, but we're always on the lookout for an innovative approach. This metasearch engine from Vivisimo clusters results by sub-category to help you zero in on what you need—an approach AOL will take on the new aol.com, launching in July (see sidebar). For more cool new search tech, try Grokker, where Yahoo Search query results are displayed as a circular map.
Web Exclusive | Business
◎50 Coolest Websites 2005: Shopping
Here you'll find a price-oriented search engine and the best place to buy shoes; a far-reaching travel portal and prime ground for gag gifts.
SENA VIDANAGAMA / AFP / GETTY IMAGES
WELCOME ABOARD: Find great prices on cruises and other travel on Sidestep
Travel Bookings
Sidestep.com
sidestep.com
A couple of years ago we christened SideStep one of the coolest websites around, but since then it has added a whole bunch of new features—including a handy Web-only version of its travel search engine (it started out as a downloadable application for your PC, and that toolbar is still available) and separate search engines for vacation packages and cruises. You can also try newcomer Kayak.com, which promises to scour more than 100 websites to find the best deals on airfare and hotel rooms—but only SideStep includes Orbitz.com listings in its search results. If you're picky about your plane seat assignment, Seat Guru provides detailed information (material, amount of legroom, location of video monitors and exit rows, whether there's a power port for your laptop nearby, etc.) by airline and type of aircraft. Mouse over icons on seating charts to get the lay of the land.
Classifieds
Craigslist
www.craigslist.org
We repeat this previous "50 Coolest" pick because it just keeps getting better—there are separate sites listing ads for bikes, boats, baby gear, musical instruments, jobs, apartments (you name it) in 120 cities in 25 countries. Only certain businesses pay listing fees. LiveDeal.com likewise works to connect buyers and sellers who share a zip code, to facilitate sales of used items that are difficult to ship—or that most people would want to try before buying (furniture, cars)— something you can't do on, say, eBay.
Comparison Shopping
Shopzilla
www.shopzilla.com
BizRate's new-and-improved shopping search engine lets you quickly compare prices from the different online stores that sell the item you want. If your search words are broad, you'll get a list of Departments to choose from, and you can refine your search by price range, brand and other distinguishing features. Merchant ratings, a series of scores based on consumer feedback (we're talking hundreds of responses at least) help with the decision-making. Click the "All Depts." link at the top of the page to find an alphabetized list of hundreds of highly specific product categories, from action figures to yogurt makers. Covers some 30 million products from 55,000 retailers worldwide.
Deal of the Day
Woot!
www.woot.com
Here a consumer electronics distributor unloads excess inventory of a single item each day at a steep discount. One day it could be a home theater system, the next a digital camera. The item is available until it sells out, or until 11:59 pm Central Time that night, whichever happens first. This oddball approach has generated a cult following, which keeps the community forums abuzz with product reviews and other chatter. Selection of one too limited for you? Try Overstock.com, a perennial favorite among bargain hunters that sells excess inventory at great prices. New to that site: auctions.
Kitsch
Archie McPhee
www.mcphee.com
Seattle-based shop hawking all sorts of odd and wonderful things, like Bacon Strips Bandages (see Hygiene, under Lifestyle), Pink Lawn Whirlygigs (Lawn & Garden), Jesus, Beethoven and Edgar Allen Poe action figures (Amusements) and much, much more. Other product categories include Pirate, Hula, Voodoo and Elvis.
Shoes
Zappos.com
www.zappos.com
Positively the best place to buy shoes online. The site's selection is massive, and browsing is a breeze. Click the Women's, Men's or Kid's buttons at the top of the page to narrow your search by type (slingbacks, mary janes, mules...) or scan the list of brands (there are hundreds—everything except Nike). When you see a pair you like, select Multi View to examine it from all angles. Free shipping is a standing offer, and orders arrive quickly. Also check out Zappos Couture.
When Things Go Wrong
Complaints.com
www.complaints.com
Come here to kvetch about a product that malfunctioned or that customer service rep that let you down, or read about other people's experiences. The site, run by Sagacity Corp., will forward your complaint letters to any business, provided you include the email address; it does not act as an advocate or mediator, only as a forum for taking your case public.
◎50 Coolest Websites 2005: In A Class By Themselves
You might be wondering why Google, Yahoo, The Microsoft Network and America Online (the Web version, that is) were nowhere to be found in this year's Coolest Websites roundup. We didn't forget about them—we simply collected all our favorite new features for this bonus section. Here are some cool things you can do at the four of the biggest planets in cyberspace:
Google
Desktop Search
Download the free desktop search application and you'll be able to search your hard drive the same way you search the Web.
Gmail
To snag a free Google email account you must be invited by a current user. (Each new member gets 10 invites; I've got a few left if you're interested.) The service keeps message threads together, so you get the full conversation under one tab. With 2 gigabytes of free storage (the cap on an individual message, with attachments, is 10 megabytes) and a speedy Search feature, you won't ever have to clean out your inbox.
Picasa
Download this free piece of software and it will organize all the digital photos on your hard drive, arranging them in neat folders (just the way you named them) and making them more easily accessible. Everything you might want to do with your images—view, edit, email, print, post to your blog—is within easy reach. You can fix red-eye, adjust color and contrast, or add special tints or a switch to sepia tone. The Order button gives you a short cut for placing a print order with websites such as Shutterfly and Snapfish. The email button automatically downsizes the file before sending it to make it easier on the recipient to view at the other end.
The Labs
A pre-launch look at several new features that are in the works, including:
Maps
The maps are draggable, which means you can use your mouse to move north, south, east or west; you can also zoom in or out, get driving directions and find local points of interest (there's a Local Search button on the top of the page). Plug "pizza" into the local search field, specify where (or just keep it as "map area below") and markers pop up instantly on the screen. You can click the markers to find out more. Google Maps also offers satellite images of the area you're viewing, if they're available; the Satellite link is in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Related blog: Google Sightseeing
Suggest
This feature reacts to what you type into the search field by trying to finish your thought for you, generating a list of possibilities that changes with each stroke. It works like a married couple that finishes each other's sentences—but far less annoying. Tip: you won't see a link to Google Suggest on the Google home page, or even on the "More, more, more" list. Use the link above. GO here for more info.
Personalized Home Page
There's been so much co-opting in the portal wars that we're not surprised to see Google offering custom home pages, a la My Yahoo and My MSN (and soon there will be My AOL too—see below). But Google's version manages to maintain a streamlined design, even with a busier page. You can elect to display news headlines from a few different sources (the New York Times, BBC News, Wired), plus local weather, a Quote of the Day and a snapshot of your Gmail inbox. You must register for a Google account.
Yahoo!
Music
With this service, you don't have to purchase individual tracks before transferring them to your portal music player. Rather, you pay a flat subscription fee—$7 a month or $60 a year—for unlimited downloads. (Of course, if you close your account, the files will no longer play.) Napster To Go and RealNetworks' Rhapsody To Go both work the same way, and like Yahoo's service, cater to the same crowd—namely, consumers who own an MP3 player made by a company other than Apple (like Dell, iRiver, Creative, etc.). You'll need to check the list of compatible devices to see if it includes yours. And while each has more than one million songs in its catalog, selection varies. Our advice: take advantage of the free trials before you commit. And if you have an iPod, stick with iTunes.
My Web
Better than bookmarks, this new service within Yahoo Search allows you to create your own personal web archive that you can search from your desktop and share with others. While you surf, the program saves pages you view for easier access later, and files them under Search History. Click My Web from yahoo.com or download the My Yahoo toolbar.
News
The best place to get all the day's top stories just got better. The new-and-improved version uses the popular tab approach to organize articles into categories: U.S. News, Business, Entertainment, Sports, Tech, Politics, Health, etc. Users can create a My Sources list so those stories appear first, or flip through headlines from several sources. You can also sign up to get RSS feeds.
Storage
Briefcase securely stores your files so you can access them from any computer. Simply log into Briefcase using your Yahoo username and password from any PC to upload, access or share up to 30 MB worth of content for free. More space will cost you: 50 MB runs $3 per month or $25 per year, 100 MB more is $5 per month or $35 per year. If that's still insufficient, try Streamload.The service offers up to 10 GB storage for free with access to 100 MB of it per month; or, for a $10 monthly fee, you get unlimited storage and up to 10 GB worth of downloads.
MSN
Virtual Earth
All the major portals have been busy beefing up their search features, but MSN's Virtual Earth looks like it might top them all. It's due to launch mid-summer, so we haven't been able to test it out first-hand. But if the features work as advertised, you'll get the same navigation and manipulation tools that you get with Yahoo and Google's maps, but with an interesting twist: you will also have the option of viewing an aerial photograph of the local area, or select Hybrid View to see the photo with streets and major places labeled. Going forward, the company says it plans to give users the ability to add points of interest and other details to maps of neighborhoods they know—wiki style—and to add a filtering tool so that you can control how much and what type of data appears on your map. MSN's main search page has already been revamped. When you search keywords, you can click through different sets of results: Web links, news items, images and Encarta encyclopedia entries, as well as a desktop option (which requires a separate download) that lets you search for relevant files stored on your PC. Starting this week, you can select Local to conduct a local search, map the results and view satellite images, all features that will be tightly integrated with the upcoming Virtual Earth.
America Online
AOL.com Portal
For years aol.com essentially functioned as a log-in page for AOL subscribers who wished to check their email when they were away from their home PCs. Not anymore. In an effort to better compete against rivals Google, Yahoo and MSN, AOL is busy reinventing its public page as a portal, unlocking the gates to most of its members-only Web properties and making the content accessible to everybody. The official launch of the new aol.com portal is scheduled for sometime in July, but parts of it are already being rolled out on a test basis. You can view an early version by clicking a link from beta.aol.com. News, Internet Radio (including XM satellite radio stations), Shopping, Travel, Food and other channels will retain an AOLian look and feel; "Maps" will take you to AOL partner site Mapquest.com, Movies to Moviefone.com and so on. A new video hub, complete with a separate search tool, will feature music and comedy performances, news, sports and celebrity gossip, plus exclusive content streamed live and on-demand (Aolmusic.com, for example, will webcast live on July 2 the Live 8 concert series and keep the programs in the archive for six weeks.) A new My AOL feature will let users construct a personalized home page, which, like My Yahoo, can include RSS feeds.
AIM Mail
AOL's new free email service—named for (and promoted alongside) the company's hugely successful AOL Instant Messenger program, which is also free—debuted earlier this month, offering 2 gigabytes of free storage and a clean, straightforward interface (save for the banner-style ads). You don't have to download anything to register—just choose a screen name and password and you're good to go. If you have an existing AIM screen name, you can use that as your email address too.
AOL Explorer
You might call it window dressing for your browser: AOL Explorer (on aol.com, click BETA-AOL Product, or go to http://beta.aol.com/projects/aolexplorer) is an add-on to Internet Explorer—an overlay of sorts designed to steer you to specific AOL features, such as your AIM email account, tabbed browsing and desktop search features. It also adds a layer of spyware protection.
So You Want To Be A Blogger?
It's easy to create your own blog—a good-looking one, with text, photos and links to other sites—in a flash, no technical know-how required. One good, basic service is Blogger.com, which is owned by Google. Blogger will host your site and give you a set of powerful, easy-to-use publishing tools for free. A caveat: Your blog's URL will end in blogspot.com unless you do an advanced setup. Another good bet is MSN Spaces, also free. Yahoo's 360° is still in limited beta-testing mode (you need to be invited by a current user to try it), but it should be open to the public later this summer, according to the company. There's also LiveJournal, which is popular with teens, and TypePad, which offers more advanced features for $5 to $15 per month, depending on level of service. (Both are owned by Six Apart, creators of Movable Type, a publishing platform for more serious users.)
If you regularly read several different blogs, consider using a newsreader such as Bloglines or Kinja. These services let you view content from multiple websites, putting it all in one place so you don’t have to surf around. (There are also newsreader applications that you can download to your desktop. Check out Pluck.)
A newsreader will get a website’s content in the form of a feed—essentially a list of headlines, with summaries, excerpts or the full text of each item, and links that take you back to the source. Feeds come in one of three formats: RSS (which stands for Really Simple Syndication), XML or Atom. If a site offers a feed, you’ll usually see a tiny icon or link on the home page.
But you won’t have to bother with such details if you use Bloglines or Kinja. After you register for your free account, you simply type in web addresses of the sites you like. Bloglines stores your choices in folders, which you can access under the My Feeds tab. (You can also search for specific entries: there are 500 million blog and news feed articles in Bloglines’ database.) Kinja pulls together the latest news stories and blog posts and displays them on one page, which it calls Your Digest. Choose Collapse mode to view only the top post from each site on your list; Expand links to every post on all your sites, in age order (posted 12 minutes ago, posted 8 hours ago, posted yesterday, etc.) and will go back as far as you are willing to go.
If video blogs are your thing, try Mefeedia, a free service that will notify you every time your favorite vlog adds a new clip. Want to see what’s buzzing around the blogosphere? Visit Blogdex or Technorati.
轉自Time官方網站
最近這篇文章很紅，身為平均一天上網時數名列前矛的臺灣人一定要知道一下的，看這些美國人認為哪一些是”最酷的”上的網站呢?
我上的網站有美式酷嘛?
不過全世界都被MSN Messenger、GOOGLE(GOOGLEMAP也來勢洶洶)和Blog給臣服了吧!!
By MARYANNE MURRAY BUECHNER
◎50 Coolest Websites 2005: Arts and Entertainment
A party mix of amusements, from virtual art galleries to TV trivia to talk radio for your iPod, plus some of the best humor writing on the Web
SAY CHEESE: Wallace and Gromit
Animation
Aardman Animations
www.aardman.com
The official site of the studio that created Wallace, the hapless yet well-meaning, cheese-loving inventor, and Gromit, his faithful canine companion, is a treasure trove of video clips (click on Show Reel) and links to character sites including www.wandg.com, where you can get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Wallace & Gromit's first feature-length movie, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, due in theaters in October.
Books
The Complete Review
www.complete-review.com
This well-organized, easy-to-search compendium of book reviews—last we checked, there were 1,430 titles covered—includes editor's picks and bestseller lists by year. The site links to (and vets) dozens of literary weblogs, from Bookninja to Mobylives to its own Literary Saloon. The Review Index lets you search for books by author or title, genre or nationality; you can read the site's own review or click to read reviews published elsewhere.
Classical Music
Opus 1 Classical
opus1classical.com
A rich, expansive resource for music fans more into Handel than hip-hop, Opus 1 provides information on classical music concerts, festivals and opera in dozens of cities across the globe. You can browse by city and calendar month, or try the Venue Finder. Listings include program information and links to where to buy tickets.
Collections
New York Public Library's Digital Gallery
digitalgallery.nypl.org
Lose yourself in this vast collection of rare prints, vintage maps, manuscripts, posters, photographs, sheet-music covers, dust jackets, menus, cigarette cards and other artifacts. There are more than 300,000 digital images of original materials available for viewing. Access is free, and you can download images to your computer for personal or research use. The My Digital page will store your favorite discoveries along with your search history.
Galleries
The Museum of Online Museums
www.coudal.com/moom.php
This elegantly-designed portal links to established museum and gallery sites such as those run by the Museum of Modern Art, The Bauhaus Archive and The Art Institute of Chicago. It will also introduce you to countless other online collections, from Van Gogh's letters to Chinese postage stamps to Manhole Covers of the World. For more, go to the MoOM Annex.
Games
Orisinal
www.orisinal.com
Dozens of free Web-based games, gorgeously designed and relatively simple to play, which is perfect for non-gamers looking for an engaging way to waste time. Choices are presented as icons on the home page (no names, no explanations) but this only heightens the joy of discovery. Keep spiders off your cake, protect dragonflies from rhinoceros beetles, toss tiny umbrellas to baby birds as they fall out of their nest—all you need is your mouse and maybe your arrow keys to maneuver. For more silly diversions, try Little Fluffy Industries, which is part blog, part portal: editors review and link to new online games every day.
Humor
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
www.mcsweeneys.net
This site has amused and delighted fans for years, but has hit new levels of inspiration with funny bits like the recent Baseball Knowledge Will Not Help You Pick Up Girls. There's an archive full of Lists (Embarrassing Things That Might Happen to You While Using a Lightsaber) and Reviews of New Food (on blowing bubbles with Skittles gum: "You would have far better luck coaxing a sphere out of chewed-up crayon and oatmeal"). Affiliated with, but separate and distinct from, the quarterly print literary journal McSweeney's.
More Funny Stuff
Ze's Page
www.zefrank.com
The site began four years ago with "How To Dance Properly," a series of short looped video clips that web designer Frank posted online to amuse friends. The link was passed around like a virus you wanted to catch; within days millions had logged on, and a Web star was born. Today, Ze's page hosts a huge collection of interactive toys and games, comedic writings and humorous video monologues.
Podcasting
Podcast Bunker
www.podcastbunker.com
The Web's best source of talk radio for your iPod. Unlike other sites that offer podcasts for downloading, such as podcastalley.com and ipodder.org (two other good sources in their own right), Podcast Bunker evaluates each feed for audio quality and content and only lists the best stuff. Click the Quick Guide for the full list of recommended programs, plus 30-second previews.
Radio
Mercora
www.mercora.com
Got a fabulous digital music collection, but don't like breaking the law to share it? This peer-to-peer service is legal, because listeners don't actually download any music. Instead, they stream music on their computers that is webcast over the Internet by other members. (The company does have to pay webcasting royalties to copyright holders, and charges some user fees to cover them.) The offerings are listed in the traditional peer-to-peer way, noting artist, album, song title—in this case, the one currently playing—and source. Basic service is free, but limited to 30 minutes of listening a day. For $5 a month ($48 if you pre-pay for the year) you get unlimited listening time and can save up to 10 hours of programming for listening later. Premier members can also download the IMDJ application and create up to five different channels. Honorable mention: Underheard.org, which makes independent and community radio available for streaming or downloading to your portable audio player.
Television
TV.com
www.tv.com
An ambitious guide to what's on television. The All Shows index is organized by category (Comedy, Drama, Children's Talk, Soaps, Reality, Sci-Fi and so on); browse from A to Z or by decade. You'll find everything from the Life and Times of Juniper Lee to The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. But of the 14,000 shows in the database, only 2,500 of them have content that's fully fleshed out, so the idea is to have fans help fill in the rest. Register for a free account to write (or edit) plot summaries and episode recaps, contribute trivia tidbits or write reviews. (The website's editors review every submission before it is posted.) The News page reports tidbits like Patrick Stewart's heart-attack scare and Megan Mullally's talk show deal. For a snarkier take on what's on the tube, there's always televisionwithoutpity.com.
◎50 Coolest Websites 2005: Lifestyle, Health and Hobbies
Eat better. Share digital photos. Network with your neighbors—or your neighbor's dogs
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CHOICES, CHOICES: Flavorpill tells you what's going on
Culture
Flavorpill
www.flavorpill.net
Music, art, fashion and other carefully selected event highlights in five cities: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Chicago. Type in your email address to get the weekly newsletter for the urban mecca of your choice, and you'll always know just what to do with your free time.
Cancer Care
Cancer Nutrition Info
www.cancernutritioninfo.com
"Scientifically sound" nutrition advice for people living with cancer, created by cancer nutrition specialist and epidemiologist Suzanne Dixon. The site's mission is to review and interpret the latest research; it has no corporate ties, doesn't sell anything or push any special program. Some content is free, but to access the rest—including a searchable database of referenced articles, recipes and clinical trial information—you must pay $15 a year.
Digital Photography
Flickr
flickr.com
This public showroom for personal pics just might be the fastest-growing social network on the Web, and it's completely addictive. You upload your images and assign each an identifying tag; these tags help other members find your stuff, and you theirs. You can join groups and create new ones, post comments about particular images and designate favorites. Free membership is limited to 20 megabytes worth of uploads per month. Turn Pro and pay $25 a year for a host of other perks.
Fashion
ZooZoom
www.zoozoom.com
Impressively-designed 'zine featuring high-quality, full-screen photos of beautiful models in designer clothes. Musicians and artists are also featured, along with more serious works of photojournalism.
Food
Food 411
www.food411.com
A huge, searchable directory of food-related websites, primarily where to buy stuff online, whether you need particular items for cooking or serving (meat, cheese, nuts) or complete meals delivered to your door. The main menu on the home page is essentially a list of lists, but it's comprehensive and fairly well-organized—the Food Reads section, for example, is divided into magazines, books, blogs and recipe sites. The Organic Foods page, under Healthwise, has 19 links.
Home Improvement
CNET Digital Home DIY
digitalhome.cnet.com
Interactive video tutorials teach non-geeks how to upgrade to high-definition TV, set up a wireless home network or stream digital music from a computer to another room in the house. The "convince me" pages offer reasons why you should take on a particular job in the first place-which comes in handy if you've got a skeptical spouse with veto power. Visitors are invited to vote on which projects CNET's experts should tackle next.
Longevity
The Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator
www.livingto100.com
Take this quiz to find out how long you will live. You'll also get a full dose of health and nutrition advice based on your answers to the questions. Affiliated with the not-for-profit Alliance for Aging Research.
Pets
Dogster
www.dogster.com
It was only a matter of time before someone created a Friendster for dogs, and this one is too goofy to resist. The site is easy to use—each pup gets a home page, complete with profile, photos and links to all his pals. (What's hard is explaining yourself to the not-so-crazy-about-canines crowd.) Special tool buttons to give a treat, invite friendship, send a message or read a diary.
Social Networking
I-Neighbors
www.ineighbors.org
The brainchild of a group of students and teachers from MIT, I-Neighbors offers a free and easy way for residents of a given community to exchange information (and maybe even bond). Search by zip code to see if anybody's already created a home page for your neighborhood; if not, you can create your own. It takes just a few minutes to register, and your profile can be as vague or specific as you like. Provide an email address to be included in the directory and to receive group emails. You can add events to the calendar, recommend cleaning ladies and handymen, upload photos, even contact elected officials (see GovLink). Of course, whether a neighborhood thrives or dies depends on the participation of its members. Is yours a ghost town? The site provides a ready-to-print flyer for posting at the gym or corner deli to help advertise the link and drum up interest.
◎50 Coolest Websites 2005: News and Information
New ways to search the Web—for fast facts, for jobs, for anything—plus other online resources
TV News
Blinkx.tv
www.blinkxtv.com
Search for TV news clips and other video bits from more than two dozen sources, including ABC News, BBC News, Fox News, ESPN and C-Span. There's plenty of lighter fare, too—a search for Nicole Kidman pulled up a documentary clip from Biography.com and assorted movie reviews and trailers. Blinkx has its own way of indexing clips that makes it more effective than other video search engines for finding particular segments within a broadcast, and each video stream starts off at the point in the segment that's most relevant to your query.
Consumer Protection
Identity Theft Resource Center
www.idtheftcenter.org
A surge of identity-theft crimes in recent months makes this a must-read for consumers looking for tips on how to avoid trouble and what to do if the worst happens (see Victim Guides, under Victim Resources). There are tips for businesses too. Run by a San Diego-based nonprofit organization of the same name.
General Reference
Answers.com
www.answers.com
When you want basic information about someone or something, try plugging your query into Answers.com's general search field, or browse the ever-expanding Directory of reference material. The information you pull up will include dictionary definitions and encyclopedia articles culled from resources licensed from a variety of publishers. The site draws heavily from Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia written entirely by volunteers—anybody can contribute or edit articles, and some 16,000 have (there are 500,000 entries in English; the 2005 Encyclopaedia Brittanica has 65,000). See here for more on the wiki phenomenon. Answers.com also provides free plug-ins you can download to your desktop for even quicker access to these fast facts.
Independent News
OhMyNews International
english.ohmynews.com
This English-language version of the Korea-based "open-source" news organization invites readers to become "citizen reporters" and contribute their own news stories, opinion pieces and photo essays. ("Say bye-bye to the backwards newspaper culture of the 20th Century," beckons the membership registration page.) Use the Talk Back forum to upload.
Jobs
Indeed, SimplyHired, Workzoo
www.indeed.com, www.simplyhired.com, www.workzoo.com
When looking for a job, it's always best to cast a wide net. Each of these job search engines has its own look and feel, but the basic approach is the same: they all trawl the web for relevant job listings based on your search parameters. We ran identical searches on all three, with bountiful results. Each generated a different set of leads, culled from a variety of different sources. including Monster and HotJobs, the two biggest job sites. Might as well have all three help you with the hunt.
Legal Matters
FindLaw
www.findlaw.com
The For the Public section contains a truckload of information and resources on everything from living wills to bankruptcy to divorce. Other areas are designed for students, businesses and legal professionals. Well-organized, and extremely useful.
Politics
Public Agenda
www.publicagenda.org
Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that conducts public opinion surveys on a variety of hot-button issues, interprets mainstream views and then compares them with the political rhetoric on the right and the left. The site's Issue Guides cover dozens of topics, from abortion to immigration to the right to die.
Web Search
Clusty
www.clusty.com
Google, Yahoo and MSN dominate search, but we're always on the lookout for an innovative approach. This metasearch engine from Vivisimo clusters results by sub-category to help you zero in on what you need—an approach AOL will take on the new aol.com, launching in July (see sidebar). For more cool new search tech, try Grokker, where Yahoo Search query results are displayed as a circular map.
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◎50 Coolest Websites 2005: Shopping
Here you'll find a price-oriented search engine and the best place to buy shoes; a far-reaching travel portal and prime ground for gag gifts.
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WELCOME ABOARD: Find great prices on cruises and other travel on Sidestep
Travel Bookings
Sidestep.com
sidestep.com
A couple of years ago we christened SideStep one of the coolest websites around, but since then it has added a whole bunch of new features—including a handy Web-only version of its travel search engine (it started out as a downloadable application for your PC, and that toolbar is still available) and separate search engines for vacation packages and cruises. You can also try newcomer Kayak.com, which promises to scour more than 100 websites to find the best deals on airfare and hotel rooms—but only SideStep includes Orbitz.com listings in its search results. If you're picky about your plane seat assignment, Seat Guru provides detailed information (material, amount of legroom, location of video monitors and exit rows, whether there's a power port for your laptop nearby, etc.) by airline and type of aircraft. Mouse over icons on seating charts to get the lay of the land.
Classifieds
Craigslist
www.craigslist.org
We repeat this previous "50 Coolest" pick because it just keeps getting better—there are separate sites listing ads for bikes, boats, baby gear, musical instruments, jobs, apartments (you name it) in 120 cities in 25 countries. Only certain businesses pay listing fees. LiveDeal.com likewise works to connect buyers and sellers who share a zip code, to facilitate sales of used items that are difficult to ship—or that most people would want to try before buying (furniture, cars)— something you can't do on, say, eBay.
Comparison Shopping
Shopzilla
www.shopzilla.com
BizRate's new-and-improved shopping search engine lets you quickly compare prices from the different online stores that sell the item you want. If your search words are broad, you'll get a list of Departments to choose from, and you can refine your search by price range, brand and other distinguishing features. Merchant ratings, a series of scores based on consumer feedback (we're talking hundreds of responses at least) help with the decision-making. Click the "All Depts." link at the top of the page to find an alphabetized list of hundreds of highly specific product categories, from action figures to yogurt makers. Covers some 30 million products from 55,000 retailers worldwide.
Deal of the Day
Woot!
www.woot.com
Here a consumer electronics distributor unloads excess inventory of a single item each day at a steep discount. One day it could be a home theater system, the next a digital camera. The item is available until it sells out, or until 11:59 pm Central Time that night, whichever happens first. This oddball approach has generated a cult following, which keeps the community forums abuzz with product reviews and other chatter. Selection of one too limited for you? Try Overstock.com, a perennial favorite among bargain hunters that sells excess inventory at great prices. New to that site: auctions.
Kitsch
Archie McPhee
www.mcphee.com
Seattle-based shop hawking all sorts of odd and wonderful things, like Bacon Strips Bandages (see Hygiene, under Lifestyle), Pink Lawn Whirlygigs (Lawn & Garden), Jesus, Beethoven and Edgar Allen Poe action figures (Amusements) and much, much more. Other product categories include Pirate, Hula, Voodoo and Elvis.
Shoes
Zappos.com
www.zappos.com
Positively the best place to buy shoes online. The site's selection is massive, and browsing is a breeze. Click the Women's, Men's or Kid's buttons at the top of the page to narrow your search by type (slingbacks, mary janes, mules...) or scan the list of brands (there are hundreds—everything except Nike). When you see a pair you like, select Multi View to examine it from all angles. Free shipping is a standing offer, and orders arrive quickly. Also check out Zappos Couture.
When Things Go Wrong
Complaints.com
www.complaints.com
Come here to kvetch about a product that malfunctioned or that customer service rep that let you down, or read about other people's experiences. The site, run by Sagacity Corp., will forward your complaint letters to any business, provided you include the email address; it does not act as an advocate or mediator, only as a forum for taking your case public.
◎50 Coolest Websites 2005: In A Class By Themselves
You might be wondering why Google, Yahoo, The Microsoft Network and America Online (the Web version, that is) were nowhere to be found in this year's Coolest Websites roundup. We didn't forget about them—we simply collected all our favorite new features for this bonus section. Here are some cool things you can do at the four of the biggest planets in cyberspace:
Desktop Search
Download the free desktop search application and you'll be able to search your hard drive the same way you search the Web.
Gmail
To snag a free Google email account you must be invited by a current user. (Each new member gets 10 invites; I've got a few left if you're interested.) The service keeps message threads together, so you get the full conversation under one tab. With 2 gigabytes of free storage (the cap on an individual message, with attachments, is 10 megabytes) and a speedy Search feature, you won't ever have to clean out your inbox.
Picasa
Download this free piece of software and it will organize all the digital photos on your hard drive, arranging them in neat folders (just the way you named them) and making them more easily accessible. Everything you might want to do with your images—view, edit, email, print, post to your blog—is within easy reach. You can fix red-eye, adjust color and contrast, or add special tints or a switch to sepia tone. The Order button gives you a short cut for placing a print order with websites such as Shutterfly and Snapfish. The email button automatically downsizes the file before sending it to make it easier on the recipient to view at the other end.
The Labs
A pre-launch look at several new features that are in the works, including:
Maps
The maps are draggable, which means you can use your mouse to move north, south, east or west; you can also zoom in or out, get driving directions and find local points of interest (there's a Local Search button on the top of the page). Plug "pizza" into the local search field, specify where (or just keep it as "map area below") and markers pop up instantly on the screen. You can click the markers to find out more. Google Maps also offers satellite images of the area you're viewing, if they're available; the Satellite link is in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Related blog: Google Sightseeing
Suggest
This feature reacts to what you type into the search field by trying to finish your thought for you, generating a list of possibilities that changes with each stroke. It works like a married couple that finishes each other's sentences—but far less annoying. Tip: you won't see a link to Google Suggest on the Google home page, or even on the "More, more, more" list. Use the link above. GO here for more info.
Personalized Home Page
There's been so much co-opting in the portal wars that we're not surprised to see Google offering custom home pages, a la My Yahoo and My MSN (and soon there will be My AOL too—see below). But Google's version manages to maintain a streamlined design, even with a busier page. You can elect to display news headlines from a few different sources (the New York Times, BBC News, Wired), plus local weather, a Quote of the Day and a snapshot of your Gmail inbox. You must register for a Google account.
Yahoo!
Music
With this service, you don't have to purchase individual tracks before transferring them to your portal music player. Rather, you pay a flat subscription fee—$7 a month or $60 a year—for unlimited downloads. (Of course, if you close your account, the files will no longer play.) Napster To Go and RealNetworks' Rhapsody To Go both work the same way, and like Yahoo's service, cater to the same crowd—namely, consumers who own an MP3 player made by a company other than Apple (like Dell, iRiver, Creative, etc.). You'll need to check the list of compatible devices to see if it includes yours. And while each has more than one million songs in its catalog, selection varies. Our advice: take advantage of the free trials before you commit. And if you have an iPod, stick with iTunes.
My Web
Better than bookmarks, this new service within Yahoo Search allows you to create your own personal web archive that you can search from your desktop and share with others. While you surf, the program saves pages you view for easier access later, and files them under Search History. Click My Web from yahoo.com or download the My Yahoo toolbar.
News
The best place to get all the day's top stories just got better. The new-and-improved version uses the popular tab approach to organize articles into categories: U.S. News, Business, Entertainment, Sports, Tech, Politics, Health, etc. Users can create a My Sources list so those stories appear first, or flip through headlines from several sources. You can also sign up to get RSS feeds.
Storage
Briefcase securely stores your files so you can access them from any computer. Simply log into Briefcase using your Yahoo username and password from any PC to upload, access or share up to 30 MB worth of content for free. More space will cost you: 50 MB runs $3 per month or $25 per year, 100 MB more is $5 per month or $35 per year. If that's still insufficient, try Streamload.The service offers up to 10 GB storage for free with access to 100 MB of it per month; or, for a $10 monthly fee, you get unlimited storage and up to 10 GB worth of downloads.
MSN
Virtual Earth
All the major portals have been busy beefing up their search features, but MSN's Virtual Earth looks like it might top them all. It's due to launch mid-summer, so we haven't been able to test it out first-hand. But if the features work as advertised, you'll get the same navigation and manipulation tools that you get with Yahoo and Google's maps, but with an interesting twist: you will also have the option of viewing an aerial photograph of the local area, or select Hybrid View to see the photo with streets and major places labeled. Going forward, the company says it plans to give users the ability to add points of interest and other details to maps of neighborhoods they know—wiki style—and to add a filtering tool so that you can control how much and what type of data appears on your map. MSN's main search page has already been revamped. When you search keywords, you can click through different sets of results: Web links, news items, images and Encarta encyclopedia entries, as well as a desktop option (which requires a separate download) that lets you search for relevant files stored on your PC. Starting this week, you can select Local to conduct a local search, map the results and view satellite images, all features that will be tightly integrated with the upcoming Virtual Earth.
America Online
AOL.com Portal
For years aol.com essentially functioned as a log-in page for AOL subscribers who wished to check their email when they were away from their home PCs. Not anymore. In an effort to better compete against rivals Google, Yahoo and MSN, AOL is busy reinventing its public page as a portal, unlocking the gates to most of its members-only Web properties and making the content accessible to everybody. The official launch of the new aol.com portal is scheduled for sometime in July, but parts of it are already being rolled out on a test basis. You can view an early version by clicking a link from beta.aol.com. News, Internet Radio (including XM satellite radio stations), Shopping, Travel, Food and other channels will retain an AOLian look and feel; "Maps" will take you to AOL partner site Mapquest.com, Movies to Moviefone.com and so on. A new video hub, complete with a separate search tool, will feature music and comedy performances, news, sports and celebrity gossip, plus exclusive content streamed live and on-demand (Aolmusic.com, for example, will webcast live on July 2 the Live 8 concert series and keep the programs in the archive for six weeks.) A new My AOL feature will let users construct a personalized home page, which, like My Yahoo, can include RSS feeds.
AIM Mail
AOL's new free email service—named for (and promoted alongside) the company's hugely successful AOL Instant Messenger program, which is also free—debuted earlier this month, offering 2 gigabytes of free storage and a clean, straightforward interface (save for the banner-style ads). You don't have to download anything to register—just choose a screen name and password and you're good to go. If you have an existing AIM screen name, you can use that as your email address too.
AOL Explorer
You might call it window dressing for your browser: AOL Explorer (on aol.com, click BETA-AOL Product, or go to http://beta.aol.com/projects/aolexplorer) is an add-on to Internet Explorer—an overlay of sorts designed to steer you to specific AOL features, such as your AIM email account, tabbed browsing and desktop search features. It also adds a layer of spyware protection.
So You Want To Be A Blogger?
It's easy to create your own blog—a good-looking one, with text, photos and links to other sites—in a flash, no technical know-how required. One good, basic service is Blogger.com, which is owned by Google. Blogger will host your site and give you a set of powerful, easy-to-use publishing tools for free. A caveat: Your blog's URL will end in blogspot.com unless you do an advanced setup. Another good bet is MSN Spaces, also free. Yahoo's 360° is still in limited beta-testing mode (you need to be invited by a current user to try it), but it should be open to the public later this summer, according to the company. There's also LiveJournal, which is popular with teens, and TypePad, which offers more advanced features for $5 to $15 per month, depending on level of service. (Both are owned by Six Apart, creators of Movable Type, a publishing platform for more serious users.)
If you regularly read several different blogs, consider using a newsreader such as Bloglines or Kinja. These services let you view content from multiple websites, putting it all in one place so you don’t have to surf around. (There are also newsreader applications that you can download to your desktop. Check out Pluck.)
A newsreader will get a website’s content in the form of a feed—essentially a list of headlines, with summaries, excerpts or the full text of each item, and links that take you back to the source. Feeds come in one of three formats: RSS (which stands for Really Simple Syndication), XML or Atom. If a site offers a feed, you’ll usually see a tiny icon or link on the home page.
But you won’t have to bother with such details if you use Bloglines or Kinja. After you register for your free account, you simply type in web addresses of the sites you like. Bloglines stores your choices in folders, which you can access under the My Feeds tab. (You can also search for specific entries: there are 500 million blog and news feed articles in Bloglines’ database.) Kinja pulls together the latest news stories and blog posts and displays them on one page, which it calls Your Digest. Choose Collapse mode to view only the top post from each site on your list; Expand links to every post on all your sites, in age order (posted 12 minutes ago, posted 8 hours ago, posted yesterday, etc.) and will go back as far as you are willing to go.
If video blogs are your thing, try Mefeedia, a free service that will notify you every time your favorite vlog adds a new clip. Want to see what’s buzzing around the blogosphere? Visit Blogdex or Technorati.
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