Since time is short and there are a practically infinite number of web sites and blogs, it might be interesting to try to see what are the top 5 blogs and top 5 sites visited regularly by Mises.org-ians.
I asked Jeff Tucker for his top 5 (or so), he listed these: Mises, LRC, Catallarchy, FEE, Antiwar.com, Acton, Google news, Economic Data-FRED II, and Notre Dame’s Latin/Grammar aid.
To most of those I would add: Amazon.com; Drudge; RefDesk; The Onion, and CNN and FoxNews.
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This one is number #1 for me. The standards that this organization maintains are superb.
Second is http://www.ircspy.com, which facilitates the act of mass copyright violation and serves up a treat of news that often relates to a certain farce called “intellectual property.” The underground distribution system is one feat of wonder, indeed.
http://www.libertarian.on.ca/ – recently reregistered for federal election. It’s youth wing is a new project for me.
That’s about it for me in the way of content that relates to the Austrian School issues.
When it comes to economic and political interests, I read:
Mises.org (obviously)
LewRockwell.com
Antiwar.com (libertarian war news)
Slashdot.org (good discussion of digital freedom issues, often with an Austrian and libertarian slant)
Paul D,
I also read Slashdot too, but I’d hardly say there’s an Austrian/libertarian bent (granted, there’s some people there with such a bent). Most comments on Slashdot run along the lines of the government had better stop that evil Micro$osft monopoly before they take over the world, etc, etc, and ranting about how evil corporations are because they license their products under proprietary licenses (I don’t like these licenses either, but if that’s one’s opinion, one shouldn’t use them).
Being a Canadian, some of my favourite (note the proper spelling, folks!) blogs are from my neck of the woods: Trudeaupia, and Shotgun/The Western Standard as well as Pierre Lemieux’s Subversive Liberty, though the last is technically not a blog. Of course I read the Mises blog, and I’ll round off my top 5 with The Adam Smith Institute’s blog from the UK.
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