The fundamental building block of the internet is the link, a simple pointer that connects people and ideas across places and cultures. Here are a handful of places I make a point of visiting regularly, some by people I know, and most by people I'll never meet. Hopefully you can find something to enjoy among them.
Comics
- Pulp Hope Paul Pope’s sketch blog
- Comics212.net Chris Butcher’s comics commentary
- The Fate of the Artist Eddie Campbell’s comics blog
- Icereamlandia Your demise is inevitable
- I Heart Pixels A pixel sketch blog
- Radiomaru Home of Bryan Lee O’Malley
- Hey, Bartender! The Top Shelf Blog Comics and cocktails
- Mike Sterling’s Progressive Ruin Comics uber-blogger
- Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun! A stuffed Bull writes about comics
- Sporadic Sequential John Jakala’s comics blog
- My Fucking Sound Sean Witzke’s comics and culture blog
- Flog! Seattle’s only art comics publisher
- The Balloonist Kevin Huizenga’s comics blog
- Jog – The Blog Comics reviews
- LOL-os Vasilis Lolos’ sketch blog
- Tropical Toxic Asaf & Tomer Hanuka’s comics and illustration blog
- Brill Building Comics reviews and commentary
- Journalista The original comics blogger
- The Savage Critic(s) The Comix Experience review blog
- Drawn and Quarterly Purveyors of fine art comics
- Matt Madden Formalist comics artist
- Vera’s Particular Sketchblog Vera Brosgol’s art blog
- Ellen Forney She loves Led Zeppelin
- CR Briefings Tom Spurgeon’s comics news
- Family Sammy Harkham’s comics retail blog
Seattle
- Decibel Festival Seattle’s only electronic music festival
- Seattle Public Library Seattle’s only library system
- Vera Project Seattle’s only all-ages music coalition
- The Stranger Seattle’s only Newspaper
- Three Imaginary Girls Seattle’s only sparkly indie-pop press
- Garderespoir The Girl’s blog
- King County Metro Seattle’s only public transit.
- Northwest Tekno Seattle’s only electronic music community forum
- KEXP Seattle’s only radio station
Friends
- Adventures of an Awkward Tourist Erin in the East
- Not Serena Don’t call her that. Seriously.
- Nicole’s blog, also direct from Japan
- Garderespoir The Girl’s blog
- John McCaig Photoblog of John McCaig, Mastering Engineer
- Monkey Robot Army Reed’s blog, direct from Japan
Musicians
- Apparat Berlin-based IDM
- The Americas Central California art rock
- Mudd Up! DJ/Rupture’s music blog
- The New Trust I’m a sucker for backwards drums.
- Map~Map Gradual music in layers
- Radiohead No alarms and no surprises
- Completely Surrounded By No Trees The TV on the Radio blog
- Mass Mvmnt Seattle electronic collective
- Green Plastic Radiohead Radiohead news
- Panic Studios Excellent mastering work
- Gate Zero German ambience
- The Square Root Of Evil Vancouver musician and labelmate
- Fell Brokenbeat and electro-dub
- Unrecognizable Now Electro-acoustic music
- Oly Electro pop
- Dead Air Space The Radiohead blog
- Mates of State Cutecore
- The Celibacy Club Washington experimental music
- Jomdom.Net Web programmer and musician
- From Monument to Masses San Francisco political math rock
- Fennesz Austrian guitar/laptop composer
- Ochre Electronic musician
- X|K/wayfar 8-bit insanity
- The Great Mundane Downtempo glitch-hop
- Anticon Collective For the advancement of hip-hop
- Samarah Lush experimentalism
- Venetian Snares Breakcore kingpin
- Audible Oddities Home of Twerk and audible Oddities mastering
- Deer Experimental electronic musician
- Claudia Musique concrete superstar
- Chimp Logic Musician and labelmate
- Lowlifi Genre-hopping music
- Hood England’s greatest indie/electronic hybrid
- Nool Buzz producer
- Ice Cream Creatures Gorgreous glitch pop
- The Rum Diary The Cotati sound machine
- He Can Jog Electro-acoustic music
Netlabels
- d.iscontent Cascadian Electronic Music
- Belladonna Records Home of Miniature Airlines and others
- Mmmph Minimal techno netlabel
- 8 Bit Peoples Chiptune netlabel
- Hippocamp Manchester electronic music
- Plainaudio Netlabel for drum’n'bass, electronic, experimental
- Kikapu Electronic netlabel
- Luv Sound Experimental netlabel
- Beat is Murder Label/netlabel
Required Reading
- Waxy.org Links Links! Links! links!
- The Onion’s AV Club The part that hasn’t jumped the shark
- Jokes That Won’t Matter Tomorrow Just like the name says
- Kottke Expert meme wrangler
- Little. Yellow. Different. The original gaysian blogger
- Daring Fireball Mac nerdery, etc.
- Ask Metafilter Ask a stupid question…
- Paul Krugman The Conscience Of A Liberal
- Thom Hartmann Fair and Slightly Unbalanced
- Shaun Inman These links? Again?
- Massless Web programmer and musician
- Ironic Sans It seemed like a good idea on paper
- The Macalope Everyone’s favorite imaginary Mac user
- Be Careful Kid! San Francisco livin’
- Daily Kos A Vast Left Wing Conspiracy
- McSweeney’s Check back often
- Garderespoir The Girl’s blog
- Boing Boing A directory of wonderful things
- Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report The original standardista
- LOL Cats Maximum LOLz
- AdVerbatims Advertising snark
- Metafilter Community Weblog
- Indexed Revenge of the Venn diagram
- Girls Are Pretty Engrossing daily fiction blog
- Hookers on Stilts I don’t even know
- All Kinds of Stuff John Kricfalusi’s animation blog
Webcomics
- Nothing Nice To Say The sarcasm you’ve been craving
- Penny Arcade
- XKCD Romance, Sarcasm, Math and Language
- A Softer World Really, I’m glad the romance is gone.
- Diesel Sweeties Pixellated robot romance
- Achewood Man, why you even got to do a thing?
- Cat & Girl Icons of Self-Indulgent Claptrap
- Lowbright Comics by Derek Kirk Kim
- Girls With Slingshots Drinking, dating, drama
- Copper Kazu Kibuishi’s gorgeous webcomic
- Overcompensating Real things that happen to Jeffrey Rowland
Music Blogs
- Lovely Media Music and new media blog
- Scissorkick Electronic MP3 blog
- Fanny Magnate Music and cullture blog
- Music Thing Music gear porn
- LivePA Live electronic music
- The Runout Groove Indie Rock MP3 blog
- I Was There Parisian MP3 blog
- Audio Deficit Disorder Indie Rock MP3 blog
- Largehearted Boy Music and lit blog
- Music (For Robots) MP3 blog
- Palms Out Sounds Home of Remix Sundays
- Tinyluckygenius aka the Unicorn’s tear Jessica Hopper’s music blog
- Autres Grooves Electronic MP3 blog
- The Ill-ec-tro-nic Electronic MP3 blog
- Headphone Sex British MP3 blog
- American Athlete Electronic MP3 blog
- Amazon Earworm’s AmazonConnect Blog Amazon.com’s surprisingly good music blog
- Robot Porn Music tech and circuit bending
Photo Blogs
- Pike/Pine Seattle’s only street fashion blog
- Mandolux Panoramic wallpaper photos
- Positive Negative Urban landscapes
- I Am SDC Intermittent photoblogging
- I Heart Seattle A messenger-eye view of the Emerald City
- With Hidden Noise Intermittent photoblog
- FlickrBlog Social photography
