Computers and Internet - News Links

News Links

World

• Newspapers and today's front pages online:
  • pressreader.com (formerly pressdisplay.com)
  • newseum.org

• Google news
  • UK
  • Ireland
  • Google Alerts

• Wikinews

• Yahoo news
  • UK

• AP images

• Next Media Animation (Taiwan) (animations of the news)

Humour

• The Onion
• The Daily Mash

• Waterford Whispers News
• The Evil Gerald
• Langerland

Ireland

• Irish news aggregator

• The Irish Times (or via here)
  • ireland.com
  • BMD notices
  • Archive 1859 to date - pages as images since 1859 - pages as open text since 1996
  • Warning: Printed or framed copies of old pages are NOT the same quality as the original page. They are only printouts of the website.

• The Irish Independent and The Sunday Independent (formerly here)
  • archive
  • BMD notices (and here)

• RTE
  • RTE Player

UK

• The Times (est 1785)
  • The Sunday Times (est 1822)
  • The Times Archive 1785 to 2009
  • The Sunday Times Archive 1822 to 2006
  • Archive 1785 to 1985
  • Archive 1985 to date

• The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph

• The Guardian
  • Wikipedia
  • The Observer (or via here)
  • Archive 1791 to 2000 (and here and here and here)
  • Archive 2000 to date is simply online at the main site.

• The Spectator

Multimedia

Video

• Video hosting
• Video on demand services
• Comparison of video hosting services
• Video search engines

• Vimeo

• Dailymotion

• YouTube
  • YouTube video dimensions chart (for resizing an iframe embed)
  • How to jump to a location in a clip: Something like:

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID#t=27m01s 

Music

• music search
  • seeqpod.com
  • skreemr.com

Internet

• Google news

• Wired (and direct to current issue)
• The Register
• Risks
• slashdot
  • topics

• Authors and blogs
  • Robert X. Cringely (and here)
  • James Gleick
  • Joel Spolsky (formerly here)
  • Doc Searls
  • Dave Winer
  • Dylan Tweney

• web page style

• usability
  • IBM usability columns
  • Bruce Tognazzini
  • shorewalker.com
  • usableweb.com
  • contentious.com

• Jakob Nielsen
  • Nielsen Norman Group (formerly useit.com)
  • Articles
  • Books