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RayAnime
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 Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:33 pm Post subject: Which websites do you visit every day? |
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Just wondering which websites you visit every day (or so) and why . . . besides the vo-bb of course!
I love finding out about new sites and learning about people's interests!
Here are mine:
http://www.nytimes.com/
A staple, of course! Er, especially the crossword archive 
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/
A FANtastic and extremely well-written site for all things cartoon related, from up-to-the minute news on the newest big-name animated films to clips of terrible vintage animation to great posts on the history of animation.
http://www.epicurious.com/
This cooking website has a great search engine and a free archive of all the recipes that have appeared in Bon A étit and Gourmet magazines through the years. Perfect if you like to cook, or if you're just wondering what to do with all that leftover [cilantro, cod, calvados, whatever] before it expires.
http://www.youtube.com/iyt
I'm always wasting time looking up stupid videos. Recent searches: Leona Lewis' performances on X-factor, a video of some guy dancing around to "Queen of the Night," a web cartoon called "Planet Unicorn," the New Kids on the Block cartoon.
http://www.nataliedee.com/
Site that features a new weird/random but totally hilarious web comic every day.
http://www.designspongeonline.com/about
Awesome NY-based home & product design website.
http://tinyshowcase.com/
A site that sells a new & different limited-run art print each week from all sorts of independent artists. $250 of the proceeds go towards a charity of the artist's choosing.
and my guilty pleasures, http://www.ebay.com/ (do I really need another designer purse/knife sharpener/vintage my little pony?), http://www.perezhilton.com/ & http://www.dlisted.com/ (it might be cheap gossip, but at least it's better than spending money on US Weekly), http://www.neimanmarcus.com/ (I like to drool over shoes I can't afford), and http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/ (because who can resist cleverly-worded digs at celebrities' poor fashion choices?) . . .
What about you????????
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Jeffrey Kafer
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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I don't visit websites all the much. Instead, I have a ton of RSS feeds, which means the headlines are pushed to me in something like Google Reader, Firefox or IE7+.
For me the idea of surfing a bunch of websites and blogs is sooo 2004. I prefer the data come to me.
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RayAnime
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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I get overwhelmed by that much text. I'm too much of a visual person--I start to go into overload if all I see are a bunch of headlines . . . plus a lot of the sites I visit are based on visual content anyway, so I'm going to have to go there one way or another. I just have them all up on my toolbar. I guess feeds [are]are[/are] good for keeping up with the news though . . .
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Jeffrey Kafer
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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Not just a bunch of headlines. Google Reader gives me all the pics and most of the article as well. But it's all on one convenient page.
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RayAnime
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Ahhh . . .maybe I'll have to give that a try. I was basing it on the New York Times feed, which is just too much for me! |
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COURVO
Even Taller Than He Seems On TV
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Location: Vegas, Baby!
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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Ray,
I must admit you list does NOT match my list....not that there's anything wrong with that.
I check VO-BB of course. My bank. My blog. USA Today. Wall Street Journal - online edition. VoiceOerExtra, Voice-overs.com (TOF), FaceBook, my RSS feeds (like Jeffrey), Plaxo, LinkedIn, The Biblical Archeological Society (BAS), The Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD), GearSlutz, G-mail, AOL mail, TypePad, LasVegasNow.com, and then start all over again.
Whew! I had no idea!
CourVO
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KaraEdwards
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I check all the voice over sites (VoiceOverXtra, Voice Over Times, etc), I also check out my favorite VO blogs. And, of course the VO-BB!
Outside of voice over sites- I check Drudgereport, BigStockPhoto (I love stock photography- and like seeing new pictures that are posted), MySpace (we have a ton of teenagers in our family- this is our only way to keep up with them).
Nancy Wolfson turned me on to this site- and now I'm addicted (I'm an avid gardener):
http://yougrowgirl.com/
I'm also a member of the NC Conservation Network- so I check that site regularly to see if there is a new way I can conserve or help clean up our beautiful state. http://www.ncconservationnetwork.org/
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Rognog
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I was shocked at how many I check out every day...!
Crazed List.org
Entertainment Careers.net
Mandy.com
Nextcat
Production Hub
Yahoo Geocities (to check my website traffic)
Amazon.com
The Biz
Boing Boing
Facebook
Linked In
My Blog Log
My Space
Plaxo
Technorati
VO Times
VO-BB (of course!)
The Good Karma Network
Yahoo 360
Project TERRA and the Project TERRA Forum
IBackup.com (to see if our computer animators uploaded any new clips)
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bobbinbeamo
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I've narrowed my focus to online things that address my business, otherwise I don't add the time to "do it all". I've given up on that. However, my computer is on 12-14 hours/day, and I am online a great deal of it. I try to resist the urge to be connected all the time...and it is a challenge. I prioritize. I try to get here if I can once a day, and then primarily my yahoo, v123, voices vox daily, various vo-forums and voice over blogs, facebook (which is a nice place), linked in , plaxo, the biz and researching various online venues- all related to my preferred industry. I already spend a lot of time online, but I can't when I am working, billing and administrating business. I try to not waste time, which can be super easy for me to do online, just because once I've spent that time, it's gone, I can't get it back. I also have have an offline reality too which requires my attending to meetings, networking events, fitness classes, seminars, a husband, home, family, gardening, grandchildren., and 2 rental properties. I go to bed pretty tired about 10:30! haha Then I am back on at 7A or so the next day.
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imaginator
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usually in this order:
mornings:
wraltv.com (for weather, some news if i'm interested)
news.bbc.co.uk (for real news)
dilbert.com
gocomics.com (for non sequitur)
comics.com (for several other favorites)
usatoday.com (for tech and entertainment news)
bob souer's blog (do you have to ask?)
vo-bb.com (my first of several look-ins per day)
crooksandliars.com (justifying my cynicism)
huffingtonpost.com (fact-checking the spin)
(used to read new york times daily until they hired bill kristol.)
afternoons:
cartoonbrew.com
thedigitalbits.com (for DVD news and reviews)
jimhillmedia.com (for disney/pixar/animation news)
less regularly:
bbc.co.uk.doctorwho
gallifreyone.com (for other doctor who news)
kara edwards' blog (for inspiration)
turnerclassicmovies.com (to see what good movies might be available)
colbertnation.com
...and those are just the regular ones. don't get me started on things i follow links to.
what can i say? i love to read.
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Yoda117
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CNN
Fox News (I admit it)
BBC
Slashdot
Dilbert
Penny Arcade (every other day)
Drudge Report
Fark
Cartoon Brew
Gizmodo
Phillies.com
Wingslax.com
livejournal
overlawyered
voiceoversavvy
VOX Daily
animenewsnetwork
dub review
Tom's Hardware
Silent PC Review
3db
recording.org
gearslutz
crystal acids
voice chasers
(a bunch more which I can't remember but seem to find every day)
and of course...
vo-bb
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Audiogal
King's Row
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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Another Google Reader user here, reading too much useless fluff in addition to the news.  This board is the only forum I visit daily. A few others I drop into only occasionally.
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melissa eX
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Location: Lower Manhattan, New Amsterdam, the original NYC
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cnn
msnbc
foxnews (I check 'em all, then I decide)
wall street journal
consumeraffairs.com
the animal rescue site - (the most important one - click once a day and .6 bowls of food goes to rescued animals - yesterday 208,119 bowls of food were donated) http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com
all the VO sites and many of the blogs
all access
mandy
linkedin
NYRMB (NY radio message board)
radio-info.com
Danodays show prep
cartoon brew
crystal acids
of course the VO-BB
There are a couple more I think but I'm too tired to remember right now... couple of spanish sites and a motorcycle site or two ....
G'nite.. |
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jrodriguez315
A Hundred Dozen
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Location: New Jersey
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Actors Access
Mandy
Backstage
castingnewyork.com/
Craigslist (a bunch of em via RSS)
NYCastings.com
NextCat
Ebay
Abraham-Hicks
GoogleReader (where I have a TON of RSS feeds)
Blogger
Yahoo Groups
Youtube
StumbleUpon
LinkedIn
FaceBook
SpanishDict.com (not every day but often)
voice-overs
voiceoversavvy
njtheater.com
everythingactingpodcast.com
vo-bb.com
woot.com
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