Rants and raves about the behind-the-scenes stories, photos, video projects and obsessions that impinge on the life of a Los Angeles investigative reporter/documentary filmmaker.
Los Angeles Metblogs A local blog-aggregation site. This may be what survives when the LA Times finally topples.
John Wilpers: The power of partnering Astute media criticism from someone who really "gets" blogging, and is trying to teach it to newspapers around the world.
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things This is still the #1 rated blog in the U.S. OK, I like it - I just started reading it - but I'm not a fanatic about it or anything. Geez, what am I missing?
The Huffington Post They're really up-and-coming. And I don't say that just because a friend used to be Arianna's chief of staff. Well, OK, that helps. But they've got some good people getting involved in the conversation here. And their message boards are (mostly) troll-free. What a concept.
rabbit blog Former writer for the late, lamented Suck.com; she doles out angry smart chick relationship advice. Worth reading, although I wish she'd find another word she likes to use other than "Honky."
firedoglake Politics with a humorous edge. A little shrill sometimes, but their heart is in the right place.
gladwell.com Author of Blink and The Tipping Point. Asks the kind of penetrating questions that journalists used to, back before the corporate efficiency experts chained them all to desks and started counting the number of keystrokes per hour as a form of metric to judge performance...
HD For Indies A great site that'll teach you more than your cranium can contain about shooting and editing High-Def video. The jargon gets a bit thick, but it's worth it.
365 and a Wakeup I don't agree with this guy's politics, and a lot of his writing is self-consciously artsy-fartsy, the type of stuff that I ripped my reporters a new one when they tried it on me. But he's got good source material, and every once in a while, he hits on a phrase that sticks with you.