Chris Betterton-Jones chooses some of the "100 best websites" for 2009 listed by Newsmedia.
(Presentation on Thursday 11th March 2010)
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Guardian
XKCD
http://www.xkcd.com
A webcomic of romance,sarcasm, math, and language.
(Snowtracking) http://www.xkcd.com/702/
ZamZar
http://www.zamzar.com/
Free online file conversion
Useful: converts files from one format to another.
Dipity
http://www.dipity.com/
Build timelines and add text, pictures and videos.
Netvibes
Your to-do lists, news, weather and photos on one page. A bit like Google customised home page.
http://www.netvibes.com
Jay is Games
Best Flash and Casual games on the Web
http://jayisgames.com/
Open Street Map
Fed up with Google Maps being wrong ? You can fix it on this editable world wide street map.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
Passionato
Classical music MP3 downloads, slowly building momentum.
http://www.passionato.com/
Cinematical
http://www.cinematical.com/
Terrific film blog with a Hollywood focus.
What Do They Know
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/
(Also on Telegraph list - For UK citizens only!)
Makes filing a Freedom Of Information request as easy as sending an email. Too easy, some in power think.
The Onion
http://www.theonion.com/content/index
US satirical newspaper. If it's not in the Onion, it probably really happened.
Information is Beautiful
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
Ideas , issues Knowledge data - visualised.
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Daily Telegraph
The Stage
http://www.thestage.co.uk/
Latest news and opinion about entertainment: Focuses on UK Theatre, film and TV
BBC World Service
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/
World News in many languages
The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/
This US news and opinion website features a daily Cheat Sheet with summaries of must reads from other news media. A sort of Readers' Digest of news.
Time Magazine
Super Cook
http://www.supercook.com/
Supercook is a new recipe search engine that finds recipes you can make with only the ingredients you have at home
ISSUU - you publish
http://issuu.com/#005000
In just a few seconds users can create beautiful digital editions simply by uploading their publications.
Academic Earth
http://www.academicearth.org/
Free on-line video courses from leading US Universities.
Chris
Private Eye
Book Depository
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/
Bookshop . Free delivery world wide. Cheaper than Amazon if you only want one or two books.
100best websites.org
http://www.100bestwebsites.org/
See if you agree with their picks