I was actually intend to write another instalment of the “sunday hangover surf” today, but since this weekend I only went out on Friday (and there’s broad enough literature on the subject written already) today I’m alive and kicking and actually very much rested – so it wouldn’t be appropriate. Still it is Sunday,  so do not expect a rigorous methodology (or indeed any methodology) to manifest itself. Research really is the soul of writing, if you write in order to figure things out and it should be done accordingly to the state of mind and on a Sunday that means – lazily.

I recently came to appreciate twitter as a source of interesting resources. Although it is more talking at each other than with each other, it’s probably the reason why people are prone to announce interesting content they found online.

Which is how I came across the essay on becoming screen literate by Kevin Kelly. I don’t read the New York Times, so was it not for Twitter I probably wouldn’t find this one. I do read Kelly’s blog occasionally though, but I’m not quite sure how I feel about it. By the way the NY Times website has what could be a snappy little feature: if you high light a bit of text and click on the question mark that shows up it sends a query into the site database about that bit of text (reference search from Answers.com). I say “could be” because I tried it out on Kevin Kelly and “Your search for KEVIN KELLY returned 0 results”. Taking into account that he is their own author… Any how I think this is a great way to go about reference searching, spares the copy+paste hassle (and yes, it can be a hassle).

Also curtesy of my Twitter contacts I found a this post about scale on The Long Tail blog. Very concise and to the point, the boind made being fairly important for the less business savvy. I subscribe to the WebMonkey from The Wired, but I haven’t come across Chris Anderson’s blog yet.

This is the point that everyone seems to miss: Free is not a business–it’s zero-cost marketing for a business.  – Chris Anderson

Another thing due to twitter reminder was the workbook project, a site I forgot about for a while (subscribe to RSS-s, kids!). If you’re a content creator of any sort this is a priceless resource about everything from creating a fan-base to capital raising. Most recent thing is a case study about audience participation based on Radiohead. The also come up with a lot of fairly fresh ideas. I often get a sense that content-related blogging is running around in circles about the same basic realisations that have been with us for several months (don’t get me wrong, I love Truly Free Film, just not always).
Now off to the google reader. Always the google reader, I almost resigned myself to the thought that google owns my internet life – and more…). The other bit is owned by guardian.co.uk. The thing is with the guardian that they rarely disappoint. I started off with the talk between The Street’s Mike Skinner and philosopher John Gray (author of the Straw Dogs). Skinner is actually one of these blokes who seem to be getting more intelligent (and fitter) with time, as opposed to the other way round, which is usually the case.

demonstration of Mike Skinner looking fitter Photoby Suki Dhanda for the Guardian

Finally there’s a podcast I put on when I’m filling slightly ambitious (but not too ambitious) – Guardian’s Mediatalk. After a brief period of annoyance it’s back to being regularly hosted by Matt Wells and back to being charming, as well as informative – hat is if you’re interested in the UK Media scene. I even befriended them on Facebook, though I tend to delete messages they send me without reading.

This shall conclude the list. I probably found few other interesting things, but as it is the case with most compulsive Internet users I posses an attention span of a goldfish (recently QI informed me that goldfish do not, as a matter of fact, have a short attention span, but still I like the saying). And, I assume, so do you.

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