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Jon Husband's Wirearchy blog provides an alternate point of view on corporations, technology and organizational development. Jon's focus is on the "social architecture for the wired world".

John Brockman's The Edge is the place to eavesdrop on amazing conversations and dialog among the likes of Richard Dawkins, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell- Mann, Benoit Mandelbrot, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Howard Gardner, Steven Pinker, Steven Levy; Naomi Wolf, Annie Dillard, Ken Kesey, Steven Levy, and Malcolm Gladwell.

Rob Paterson writes about a wide variety of subjects, ranging from renewable energy to new business models. Rob provides the unique perspective of an ex-investment banker turned independent consultant now living on Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Digital Inspiration - Amit Agarwal writes a very accessible, inspirational and popular technology blog that includes tutorials and how-to guides related to software, computers, and internet.

Junk Charts is a blog devoted to analyzing and critiquing visual displays of information, a great read if you use numbers in your work and want to improve your visual literacy.

Lifehacker - A number of authors contribute to this blog devoted to discussing software and websites that actually help you save time.

Engadget & Gizmodo - sites that track the latest technology gadgets with a slightly snarky attitude.)

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. You can zoom back in time. If you prefer, check out the recordings of Grateful Dead concerts.

The New York Times Navigator is used by New York Times reporters and editors as the starting point for their forays onto the Web. Its primary intent is to give the news staff a solid starting point for a wide range of journalistic functions without forcing all of them to spend time wandering around to find a useful set of links of their own.

Good learning blogs to know about

Maish Nichani highlights an important learning story or concept every day. Great blog to track if you’re tracking only one.

Stephen Downes is a researcher at Canada’s National Research Center and tracks & gives his opinions about an enormous amount of information learning, the web, academia, trends, standards, etc. If it’s worth knowing about, Stephen will probably cover it.

Donald Clark, founder and former CEO of Epic, the UK’s largest eLearning house. A brilliant Scot with a keen sense of humor, Donald loves pointing out that the emperor has no clothes.

Clive Shepard, an astute, influential UK eLearning consultant..

George Siemens, Canadian academic. Father of Connectivism, which posits the knowledge is no longer confined by our skulls; it’s in our networks. His links blog is good, too.

Mark Oehlert is the go-to guy for serious gaming in learning.

Harold Jarche is an independent consultant in Canada who blogs daily about learning design, open software, and practical approaches to informal learning.

David Weinberger talks tags, search, and practical knowledge management better than any of the rest of us.

Clark Quinn is a cognitive scientist, fan of learning games, bright bulb in mobile learning, and all-around clear thinker.

Marcia Conner's Learn At All Levels column on Fast Company is inspirational.

Tony Karrer's eLearning Technology is essential reading for trends in corporate eLearning, cultural as well as technological.

togetherLearn hosts a group blog on learning architecture and informal learning 2.0.

Top 10 TED Talks of all time

1. Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

2. Jeff Han: Touchscreen demo foreshadows the iPhone

3. David Gallo: Underwater astonishments

4. Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo

5. Arthur Benjamin: Lightning calculation and other "Mathemagic"

6. Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?