Time, once again, for a roundup of tips from readers, with comments from me. If you have a site you’d like to recommend, send it to poynter@sree.net.
Russ Walker, WashingtonPost.com, responding to my “Mining for Tech Ideas” column last week:
You left off one that I regularly look at — Slashdot.org. Yes, it’s a site by and for technies, so it can be a little hard to interpret at times (and the humor can be a bit childish). But its readers, when they’re not engaging in running insult battles with each other on the message boards, are very smart. The stories they submit to the site are almost always very unique and very interesting. The reporters I work with regularly scan the Slashdot message boards, and we’ve found several ideas worth pursuing buried deep in Slashdot postings.
I’ll also pitch The Washington Post‘s personal tech columnist, Rob Pegoraro, as a great resource for tech ideas, as well as columnist Leslie Walker. Their columns, which run on Sundays and Thursdays respectively, are always featured prominently on Washingtonpost.com/Technology.
Russ is right — both are useful sites I forgot to mention.
Anne Hennegar:
One of my favorite sites is DailyRotation.com. You can select which news feeds you’re interested in and then a custom starting page is built around your preferences. It does require a cookie. This particular site is geared around technology but it has a sister site that handles legal issues.The site’s slogan: “Quick Loading Headlines From 250+ Tech Sites. You Pick The Sites. We Snag The Headlines.”
Ann Monroe (a frequent contributor here):
A lot of the best information I’ve gotten on Palm software comes from WritingOnYourPalm.net.The site’s slogan: “Your best source for information on writing, eBooks, and handheld computing.”
Richard Acosta:
Weblocator.com is a find-an-attorney site, but if you look closer you’ll notice this site can be very helpful to all crime reporters. You click on a state and it takes you to a site to fill in info to find an attorney. Near the top of the page there is a link that says, “(your state here) Law Guide.” There you will find a definition of all the laws for that state.Not all the state listings have this feature. Some do: Texas, California, Florida, among others.
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Note: In the original version of this column, Ann Monroe’s first name was misspelled. My apologies.
