Cool Things

I read recently that it will be the editors, not the authors that will have the most power on the internet in the future, if they don't already. It makes a lot of sense to me. In my mind, the internet is like a landscape covered with pyramids. At ground level are the content creators. The next level up are the small blogs which link to several of those content creators. Higher, you see the bigger blogs, which link to content featured on the best of the smaller blogs. When they become popular enough, content creators will start to send news directly to them. At the top of each pyramid is a media group such as Gawker Media, which links all of the best blogs related to a certain topic or area of interest.

While I would rather be an author than an editor, I still like to inform others of cool things that I've found online. Some of which recently has included:

A site where images of odd signs from around the world are collected, and publibly mocked, SwankSigns.org.

An awards ceremony for webcomics, hosted by webcomics characters. There are a lot of great webcomics out there, many of which are featured here.

Google Earth! Where were you when I was studying geography in middle school? I collected a few interesting finds from my explorations of Minnesota, Africa, and China. This one program combines features of so many other programs, allowing you to find directions to wherever you want, to explore places near and far, to fly through the grand canyon or in-between skyscrapers as if you were in a helicopter, and much more. It did bother me that Tibet was hidden, and I had to look hard just to find Lhasa. It felt like I was back playing Final Fantasy, flying in my airship searching for a tiny hidden city in the mountains, like I did long ago.