The internet is a scary place. You never know what lurks just around the next corner. One click and, bam, you get rick-rolled or spammed some life insurance. Still – with the proper guidance, you can find some marvelous sites. Here are a few of them….
The first two sites are admittedly not sport-specific. They are still excellent. Openculture has movies, TV shows, and books with a very tempting price tag: free. Yes, it is basically an online library with none of the hassle of filling out a membership card. You check out what you want. You enjoy it. That is all. The film section is fantastic and here’s a recently unearthed TCM clip contrasting Kubrick with Spielberg. You can follow them on twitter.
Brainpickings is also pretty amazing. The curator for the site scours the web for cool and creative collaborations. It has existed for 6 years, yet remains gloriously ad-free. A recent post does a great job of summarizing a recent Robert Levine book about balancing the nature of creativity with SEO churnalist sites that steal original content without giving credit. You can follow them on twitter here.
In the soccersphere, I encourage you to open you ears and give a relatively new soccerpod The Best Soccer Show a listen. The hosts, Jason Davis and Jared DuBois, offer lively and insightful takes on the news of the day and they regularly get A list guests, like me. And John Harkes. You can follow the show on twitter.
Soon to arrive sports website The Classical has some tasty preview articles. Be sure to subscribe to their RSS feed here and follow them on twitter here. Launch is scheduled for December. Stale chips be damned!
Also, we were sad to hear about the passing of Gary Speed this past Sunday. The Telegraph had a nice tribute section for him, albeit the section was originally poorly misnamed a “liveblog.” Ian of the excellent 200% had an insightful article on the perils of depression, including our collective failure as a society to recognize its symptoms or take it seriously. In Bed with Maradona had a nice post on Mr. Speed, as did FourFourTwo.
We also have a “Best of” eBook anthology for 2011 that is available on the Kindle for only a buck. Basically, I’ve selected my ten favorite soccer writings from around the web and put them in one nice place. My altruistic, artistic, and capitalist motives are more fully explained in the brief intro. Purchase here.
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