50 Best Websites 2009

[Richard]

I've even heard of a couple of the web-sites on the list! ;)

Clear out your bookmarks. You're going to need the space for 50 offerings that are indispensable to navigating, enjoying yourself, shopping or just killing time on the Web.

This one looks promising:

The latest campus revolutionaries are the so-called edupunks — and their mission is to break up the ivory tower so everyone can pile into the classroom. MIT was the first university to heed the edupunk call: it started posting syllabi, course notes and videotaped lectures on ocw.mit.edu back in 2001. Harvard, Berkeley, Yale, Princeton and Stanford soon followed suit, with their own schemes for posting videos of their most popular courses. Now Academic Earth aggregates all this material so you can audit classes from the comfort of your computer.

http://www.academicearth.org/


http://www.academicearth.org/subjects/history
http://www.academicearth.org/subjects/political-science
http://www.academicearth.org/subjects/international-relations

Richard

50 Best Websites 2009
Time-CNN, 20 Dec 2009


Flickr
California Coastline
Delicious
Metafilter
popurls
Twitter
Skype
Boing Boing
Academic Earth
OpenTable
Google
YouTube
Wolfram|Alpha
Hulu
Vimeo
Fora TV
Craiglook
Shop Goodwill
Amazon
Kayak
Netflix
Etsy
PropertyShark.com
Redfin
Wikipedia
Internet Archive
Kiva
ConsumerSearch
Metacritic
Pollster
Facebook
Pandora and Last.fm
Musicovery
Spotify
Supercook
Yelp
Visuwords
CouchSurfing
BabyNameWizard.com's NameVoyager
Mint
TripIt
Aardvark
drop.io
Issuu
Photosynth
OMGPOP
WorldWideTelescope
Fonolo
Get High Now
Know Your Meme

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1918031,00.html

[Razor]

The latest campus revolutionaries are the so-called edupunks — and their mission is to break up the ivory tower so everyone can pile into the classroom.

Sounds like the academic version of someone using the Emergency Department for medical treatment so they don't have to pay, leaving the inflated bill for others to pick up.