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NOVEMBER 6, 2007 PC MAGAZINE 83

worth the wait. The station browser and

“heart,” skip, and ban options make creat-

ing or tweaking a custom station so effort-

less even a, um, slacker can do it.—CI

News, Politics, and

Government

Guerrilla News Network

www.guerrillanews.com

Combine CNN with Wikipedia and you’ve

got Guerrilla News Network. It’s an inde-

pendent news organization that strives to

bring global issues to the masses through

wide-ranging articles, headlines, videos,

and blogs. Articles are all written by GNN

users or contributors. You can ﬁ lter con-

tent on the site by country, keyword, and

topic.—JLD

MediaStorm

www.mediastorm.org

Photojournalist and technological innova-

tor Brian Storm’s site is a mixture of multi-

media stories that incorporates video,

audio, photography, and personal essays.

This beautifully crafted multimedia Web

site is sponsored by WashingtonPost.com

and welcomes online submissions. It’s

great for browsing, too.—JLD

Tech President

www.techpresident.com

There’s no denying the huge impact the

Web will have on the 2008 presidential

race. To respond to the political trend, the

Presidential Democracy Forum started

Tech President to keep tabs on campaign

sites, YouTube postings, and how each can-

didate’s friend pool on social- networking

sites is growing (or not).—CI

Topix

www.topix.net

Tired of getting news only after it’s been

run through the regular corporate filters

and media machines? Take things into your

own hands with Topix. It has local sections

for thousands of towns and communities

and includes news links, stories, and blog

posts gathered and overseen by local edi-

tors. If your hometown doesn’t have its

own section, start one yourself.—BH

Reading

Act-I-Vate

community.livejournal.com/

act_i_vate

This LiveJournal-based collective offers

“serialized graphic novels” by some of

underground comics’ brightest stars,

including Dean Haspiel, Nick Bertozzi,

and Dan Goldman. The site is also the

home of Kevin Colden’s award- winning

serial, Fishtown.—BH

copyblogger

www.copyblogger.com

A blog about online marketing? Look

closer: Copyblogger is chock-full of excel-

lent tips and practical advice for online

writing and blogging.—KM

Goodreads

www.goodreads.com

Goodreads combines the nosy fun of

snooping through your friends’ book-

shelves with the antisocial, shut-in joy of

not actually having to go to their homes.

The site not only lets you keep track of

how many Danielle Steel novels you have,

but also introduces you to other people

with similar tastes.—WR

Ironic Sans

www.ironicsans.com

No, it’s not a site full of fonts for hipsters.

Ironic Sans is actually a sharp and clever

blog. The site’s author, photographer

David Friedman, is a font of great ideas and

musings on design that he’s kind enough

not to keep to himself. Highlights include

the Google Maps Guide to Ghostbusters; the

“60 Seconds in the Life of . . .” video series;

and the Uncensor the Internet Firefox plug-

in.—WR

Librivox

www.librivox.org

Audiobooks are ridiculously expensive:

The latest Harry Potter title is $80 on CD.

Librivox, however, provides pod fodder

for free. The site features a collection of

public-domain books read by volunteers—

and anyone can volunteer. Some narrators

are better than others, but almost every-

thing is at least decent. The collection

(a bit more than 800 Project Gutenberg

works so far) is a bit of a hodgepodge, with

everything from Walt Whitman to Edgar

Rice Burroughs.—SC

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs

fakesteve.blogspot.com

If you’re the type who gets excited by sexy

gadgets, sleek OSs, and sultry photos of

guys in black turtlenecks, then Fake Steve

has the keynote address to your heart.

The blog—there’s a Forbes editor in there

somewhere—lends a uniquely Jobsian

perspective to the insane media coverage

of the Apple empire.—BH

Verbotomy

www.verbotomy.com

Verbotomy gives you the power to cre-

ate words from meanings with daily

challenges: The site provides a defini-

tion, and you invent a verb (or Verboti-

cism)—usually a mashup of others, such

as “Flirtagonist.” Entries are judged based

on spelling and whether anything similar

already exists. You can also hear your word

pronounced, courtesy of AT&T Sound

Labs.—CI

xkcd

www.xkcd.com

In the endless sea of mediocrity that is com-

ics on the Web, there are occasional islands

of hope, and one of them is xkcd. The draw-

ings are simple stick ﬁ gures, but the jokes

XKCD Fabulous comics for nerds.

SLACKER Internet radio done right.

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