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To be a successful writer, you need to know where to get the best stuff on the internet.
News, gossips, technology… you name it…
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Blogs Everyone Should Read:
- Copyblogger
- Men With Pens
- Chris Blogging
- Freelance Writing on About.com
- Freelance Writing Jobs
- Write to Done
- Confident Writing
- The Renegade Writer
- Remarkable Communication
- Writing Journey
- Freelance Parent
- Urban Muse
- All Freelance Writing
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I found out plenty of tools from Lorelle on WordPress
Check out these tools:
When you suffer from Writer’s Block, have a look here:
- CNN – Most Popular Stories
- Research Buzz – Kebberfegg
- Topix News Headlines
- Online Newspapers
- Crayon – Most Popular News Sites
- People’s Daily from China – Most Popular News Stories
- New York Times – Most Emailed Stories
- New York Times – World News
- Yahoo Top News Stories – Most Viewed
- News is Free – Most Popular News Stories
- Google Alerts
- Google News
- Today’s Front Pages from the Newseum
- Newslink – Major Metro US Newspapers
- Headline Spot – News Wires
- Reuters Free Top News Stories
- Meta Grid – Access and Search 8000 Newspapers and Magazines Online
- I Want Media – Links and Media Resources
- News Place – News Resources
- World News
- I Have News Aggregator Top Stories
- Wall Street Executive Library News Resources
- WorldPress.org – Worldwide News
- Lexis Nexis – Free News Headlines
- Slate
- News Wise – News Tracker and Search Engine Service
- E-News Wire
- Infomaniac – News Research Behind the Stories
If you need more resources on specific topics, these would be useful:
- New Scientist (dinosaurs, evolution, being human, endangered species, technology, health and more)
- BlogPulse
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Magazines and Information Resources on Health, Science, and Medicine
- Geography Network of Canada (maps, geography, and data)
- Silicon.com – Most Popular White Papers from Silicon Valley
- Above Top Secret – Top Conspiracy Theory News
- Business Week – Technology Research Library Top 50 Resources
- Business Week – Blogspotting
- Netcraft – Web Server Survey
- Webmaster World
- Wired – Blogs
- All Bookstores – Most Popular Books
- Writer Magazine
- About.com’s Urban Legends Blog
- Hill News – News About the US Congress
- The New England Journal of Medicine
- US National Library of Medicine
- Medline Plus – Medical News and Information
- The Educator’s Reference Desk
- Jane’s News On Defence, Airport, Transportation, Security And Risk Developments
- Landings.com – Aviation History, Accident, and Archives
- Internet News
- Editor and Publisher News Headlines
- OneWorld.net – Human Rights News
- Book Wire – Book Publishing News
- Idea List – News from the International Non-Profit World
- ReferenceShelf – Docuticker – News from Librarians
- Electronic Frontier Foundation – Freedom of Speech Resource Center
- Research Buzz – Search Engine News and More
- Biz Journals – Business News
- The Smoking Gun
- WebReference
Social Bookmarking:
- Technorati
- IceRocket
- BlogPulse
- Blogsearch.com
- Blogs of the Day
- Gada – Graphic Meta Search Engine
- Furl.net – Latest Headline Entries
- Flickr
- BlinkList
- Connotea – Scientific Tags
- Digg
- Furl
- KB Cafe Tag Search
- Shadows – Social Bookmarking Service
- Oishii – Most Popular Bookmarks
- Citeulike – Free Citation Service
- Common Times – Reader Controlled News
- Wists – Social Shopping
- Scuttle
- LookMarks
- Frassle
- GiveALink – Donate Bookmarks
- Netvous
- Memeorandum
- Ask Jeeves (now uses tags)
- LinkFilter
- Hyperlinkomatic
- FeedMarker
- BackFlip
- Diigo
- StumbleUpon
- Riffs – Social Recommender
- RawSugar
- Linkagogo
- Linkroll
- OpenBM – (Open Bookmarks)
- Bloogz
- Findory
- Wink
- Blog Top Sites
- Indiza – Europe and International Social Bookmarking
Keep up with the most popular sites to get an idea of the topic to blog or write about:
- Alexa – Top 500 global websites
- Technorati – Most Popular Posts and Tags
- Fark
- BlogPulse
- Hot Links
- Truth Laid Bear’s website ecosystem
- Memeorandum
- Furl.net – Most Popular
- Blo.gs – Most Watched Blogs
- National Geographic – 15 Most Popular Stories
- WayPath Most Popular Blogs, Topics, and Search
- Topix News Headlines
- Most Popular Sites
- Village Voice – Most Popular Stories
- Yahoo – Most Emailed Photos and Slideshows
- CNN – Most Popular Stories
- Flickr – Most Popular Photo Tags
- Most Popular Historical Biographies
- Technorati – Most Popular Blogs
- Bloglines – Top Blogs
- Yahoo News – Most Popular Stories
- Salon Radio Community Server – Statistics by Page Read Rankings
- Right Wing News – The Most Popular Political Blogs On The Net
- What is Making Blog News – Top 10 Posts List
- Top Ten Sources – Popular Posts
- Info Please – Top Tens List
- Blog Top Sites
- Jots
- EarthCam Announces 25 Most Interesting Webcams
- Tail Rank – Popular Blog Posts and Comments
If you want to know what people are looking for on the web, use these:
- Webcrawler Search Spy – Live Viewing of Search Keywords (Adult and Filtered Views)
- Digg Spy – Live View of Diggs
- Joe Ant – Top Search Keywords Live
- AOL Hot Searches
- Dogpile – Search Spy Live Search Preview (Adult and Filtered Views)
- Search Hippo
- Eurekster – Advertising and Keyword Search
- Fravia – Web Searchlore (Keyword and Search Tips, Techniques, and Methods
- Yahoo Buzz – Top Searches
- Google Zeitgeist Global – Top Search Results Globally
- Google Zeitgeist – Top Search Results
- Google News Top Searches for 2005
- Lycos Top Searches for 2005
- Yahoo Top Searches for 2005
- Search.com Top Searches for 2005
- Ask (aka Ask Jeeves) Top Searches for 2005
- Dogpile.com (via Infospace – metasearch engine searches Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, and others for 2005
- Search Engine Watch – Google and Yahoo Make Dogpile’s Top Searches Of 2005 List
- BBC News – Google Taps Into Search Patterns
- Search Engine Watch – 5th Annual Search Engine Awards (from earlier this year)
- Year in Review: Year of Heroes and Weasels
Take a leaf out of someone’s book:
- Mag Portal for online magazines and research information
- Comment Content – part of Creative Commons
- LookSmart – Find Articles
- Bloglines (Aggregator/Feeds)
- FeedDemon (Aggregator/Feeds)
- Feedreader (Aggregator/Feeds)
- Findory (Aggregator/Feeds)
- NetNewsWire (Aggregator/Feeds – MAC)
- NewsGator (Aggregator/Feeds)
- Radio UserLand (Aggregator/Feeds)
- Crayon – Create Your Own Customizable Online Newspaper
- PR Web (Press Releases)
- US National Archives
- About.com – About Everything
- News Lab
- US News Archives – Newspaper Archives
- Ask a Librarian
- Librarian’s Internet Index
- The Gateway to 21st Century Skills in Education (US Gov)
- High Beam Library Research for News, Images, and Statistics
- H2O Playlist – Intellectual Content and Reading Lists
- CyberJournalist Super Search Tools
- Power Reporting – Free Research Tools for Journalists
- PR News Wire
- News Trove – Search News by Viewpoint
- Yahoo Directory of RSS Formats and Aggregators
- Time Magazine Archives
- Assignment Editor – Newsroom Home Page
- E-How – How Things Work
- How Stuff Works
- Journalism Net – Massive Research Resources and Links
- Internet Public Library
- The Refdesk
- Bartleby References and Quotes
- Journalist Express – One Stop Links and Resources for Journalists
- Monitor This – Create Custom RSS Search Feeds
- Voice of the Shuttle
Can’t find what you want? Use the search engines to find information:
- Google Blog Search
- Yahoo News & Blog Search
- Blogdigger (Feed Search)
- Bloogz – Blog Search
- Dogpile – Searches 5 Major Search Engines
- Hot Sheet – List of Top News and Information Sites and Search Engine
- Mamma – The Mother of All Search Engines
- Metacrawler
- Search Engine Colossus – International Directory Of Search Engines
- Lycos
- Journalism Net – Find People
- Oxide – Jump Search Engine
- I Want Media – Facts, Statistics, Links and Media Resources
- Teoma Direct Hit Search
- Vivismo Clusty – Cluster Search Engine
- Snap – Virtual News and Search Engine
- News Wise – News Tracker and Search Engine Service
- Bloogz
- Vivisimo – Clusty Blog Search
- Blog Search Engine
- Blogarama Blog Directory
- A9 Search Engine and Maps
- KartOO – Graphic Search Engine
- Click City – City Guides
- Killer Info Cluster Search Engine
- Info Please
- DMOZ – Open Directory Project
- DMOZ – Open Directory Project – Weblogs Resources
- DMOZ – Open Directory Project – Blog Search Engines
- Blog Top Sites
- Search Engine Base
- Search Engine Showdown
- Blogdigger Local – Find Local Bloggers
- FeedMap – Blog Map
- Tag Cloud – Heat Map of Feed Keywords Tool
- BrowseDelicious – Visual Browsing
- Blog Universe Directory
- All Your Words – Word Association Search
- Vox Delicii – Graphic Search Engine
- My Web 2.0 Yahoo Search – Custom Search Page
- Wists – Social Shopping
- StumbleUpon
- WayPath Blog Search
You know what topics you want to write about. Use these to manage easier:
- PubSub
- PR News Wire – Feed Categories
- Library Journal – Do I Detect a Change
- Infominder Website Tracking
- Change Detection – Website Administrator Tool
- Website Watcher
- Change Detect
- Check and Get
- Right Web Monitor
- Track Engine
- Site Up
- New York Times – News Alerts by Category
- Google Groups – What Are They Saying?
- I-Tools Search
- News Wise – News Tracker and Search Engine Service
- TRAC.SYR.EDU – Transactional Record Access Clearing House – Tracking US Government News
- BBC News Feed Factory – Custom and Category Feeds
- LifeHacker – Creating Custom Live Digg Feeds
- Netvibes – Custom News Page
















Amazing list of resources you have compiled.
Thanks for taking the time to present the list to us.
Can you add Blog Engage?
Cheers,
Brain
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I was over at writingconsultation.com and seen the writing resource list that they put together and thought it was worth showing off and submitting. Have a look and Engage if you like it!…
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