ah, the power of the blogosphere!

I use Bloglines as my feedreader (also known as a newsreader, or a news aggregator). Bloglines allows me to subscribe to various web sites and alerts me whenever new content is added to those sites. The interface and subscription process is incredibly easy, and the whole thing is completely web-based, so I can access my blogroll from anywhere, anytime.

Today bloglines alerted me to updates from Librarians’ Internet Index, which if you don’t know is a truly remarkable site. Their blog, New This Week, turned me on to two interesting resources.

The first is a page from the Online Education Database called Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources. It links to 119 (obviously) sites that pull information from the “invisible web,” information that you might not find in a traditional search engine.

The second is a list of Time’s 50 Coolest Websites. I have yet to investigate them all, but the few listed that I do know of are definitely cool.