A
Look Inside & Out...
by
Tracy Levitz (blogged every week or
so...)
This tour
of the internet begins in the Pop
Culture
category with POCKiTZINE
: the mobile events, entertainment and pop
culture guide.
 Designed
for mobile devices, it's basically your week-to-go
with handpicked TV listings, an events and trivia
calendar, current movies and DVD releases and
planet/weather news. Yes, it's one of our projects
and, while we're terribly proud of it -- there is
absolutely nothing like POCKiTZINE on the internet
-- we're also constantly improving it. If
you're one of the Thumb People, try it. You'll like
it. If you live in or plan to be in NY, LA,
London, Chicago or Miami (or wish you did), you'll
find
Flavorpill
useful. They'll tell you where to go and what to
see, the good stuff. Personally, I make use of
their fine assortment of newsletters -- newsletters
that I actually read after signing up for. My
favorite comes from the site's "cultural news &
critique" section, Flavorwire.
With features like 10 Awesome and Inappropriate
Books for Children, you're guaranteed to be both
entertained and culturally enlightened. If your
taste in  world
travel and international attractions is lower-brow,
visit the immensely forward-able Cheese
On Tour.
User-submitted photos of cheese in famous places.
While on the subject of forward-able, found
hilarity, Passive
Aggressive Notes
is also a world tour but of carefully, or
not-so-carefully, worded and hand-lettered notes
and signage.  We're
reaching the end of this entry and realize no tour
is complete without souvenirs. If you're following
us on Twitter (@Blarchive), perhaps you recall this
featured link, online catalog American
Science & Surplus
("Items Just Off the  Truck").
I love this site and not just because of the design
and copywriting. A great place to window-shop,
you'll be intrigued by wares such as squirrel
underwear, UV jewelers loupes, yo-yos and
electrical tape. If you're in the mood to buy,
they're cheap, too.
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Blarchive
101
A Primer to Getting the
Most out of Blarchive
by
Tony Caravan
 First
of all, welcome... Blarchive, or the 'blog-archive'
was designed as an alternative to the
advertising-driven search engines -- where it's
starting to get hard to separate the pay-to-plays
from the genuine search results. We also wanted to
provide easier access to information and websites
for mobile devices (with touch-screen viewports),
as well as traditional desktop PCs.
Blarchive is
constantly undergoing revisions... Having thousands
of listings, it takes a full-time staff to check
the links, update the descriptions and make sure
everything is current. By doing this, our goal is
to provide the visitor with a useful resource to
explore the web, but more importantly, to help
people find what they're looking for with minimum
effort (no keystrokes).
In each of the
categories (music, video, etc.), the links at the
very top of the page are the most recent additions.
In the case of more static sections such as 'news'
or 'sports,' the order has no significance.
You will also note
that under some listings there is an arrow (>)
with the phrase "also see" or "more of this." These
links lead to related categories -- some of which
are subsets not found on the main categories listed
on the home page.
At the bottom of
most of the pages we provide a suggestion box,
where people can enter the name or URL of a site
they would like us to include. Your input is
appreciated.
Blog
Format
If you
haven't figured it out yet, this blog was designed
to fit the new Apple iPad.
And, say what you will about the various e-readers,
sooner or later we will all have to accept that
they will be the devices that millions of people
view books, periodicals and the internet in the
years ahead.
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