| Supraterranean Pages: |
|
| Admin Blog |
Squidoo Page |
| Message Board |
AboutUs.org Page |
| Facebook Group |
Google Group |
| Facebook Page |
MySpace Page |
| Twitter Page |
LinkedIn Group |
| Flickr Group **New** |
Vimeo Group **New** |
| FriendFeed Group **New** |
|
| |
|
| Recommended Websites: |
|
| Internet Archive |
Great for concert soundboard recordings and other free-use content |
| Wikimedia Foundation |
Home of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, etc -- one of the absolute greatest resources to appear on the Internet |
| Creative Commons |
How all content is licensed on Supraterranean.com (i.e. the way of the future). |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) |
They fight for our rights on the Internet |
| Lawrence Lessig |
Stanford Law professor, author, blogger, and member of the Creative Commons Board of Directors. |
| Students for Free Culture |
"An international chapter-based student organization that promotes the public interest in intellectual property and information & communications technology policy." |
| Definition of Free Cultural Works |
A guide to "works or expressions which can be freely studied, applied, copied and/or modified, by anyone, for any purpose." |
| Free Use (Wikipedia page) |
"Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders...." |
| The Prometheus Institute |
A libertarian think tank based in California |
| ZDocs Book Printing |
On-demand publishing |
| Authors On The Net |
An online community that helps with self-promotion |
| IndieBound |
A network of independent booksellers, authors, and readers (or as they put it, "Free Thinkers and Independent Souls") that spans the U.S. |
| American Booksellers Association |
"The national trade associaton for independent booksellers." |
| Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund |
THIS IS NOT THE NEWSPAPER IN DETROIT. It's "a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media." They're pushing for "independent media ownership, strong public media, and universal access to communications." |
| BookSurge |
Independent publishing service that helps with production, promotion, and distribution (recently acquired by Amazon). |
| Change Congress |
Lawrence Lessig's new Congress reform movement. |
| Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal |
"Nexus is seeking manuscripts and photoessays that explore any aspect of Henry Miller's work and life." |
| |
|
| Michigan Groups: |
|
| Ann Arbor Arts Alliance |
"The Arts Alliance exists to support and promote arts and culture throughout Washtenaw County. |
| The Center for Michigan |
"A Forum for Our State's Future" |
| Refresh Detroit |
"We are a group of web professionals whose goal is to promote web standards, usability, and accessibility, and to spread the knowledge of web design in the Detroit and Ann Arbor Michigan areas." |
| 826michigan |
A non-profit tutoring and writing center in Ann Arbor. It's a chapter of the national organization 826 Valencia, which was started in San Francisco by writer Dave Eggers. |
| |
|
| News/Magazines: |
|
| Michigan Messenger |
An new independent, non-profit online newspaper. It's part of the Center for Independent Media, who are setting up similar sites around the country. They fill the gaps left by mainstream media. |
| Michigan Radio |
The NPR news affiliate station based in Ann Arbor, MI. |
| Detroit Army |
Positive Detroit news and commentary. "As proud metropolitan Detroiters, it's our responsibility to revitalize the attitudes of our citizens, the political, economic and social atmosphere of our state, and the perceptions of outsiders." |
| Michigan Positive |
"We started this site to get the word out about Michigan’s most inspiring stories: Its best minds, its most innovative businesses and institutions and the everyday heroes that make their communities better places." |
| New York Times |
Perhaps the only source of national news that is still trustworthy (because it's a private company, not publicly traded or part of a multinational conglomerate). |
| MyNorth.com |
Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine -- covering the places that all southern Michiganders wish they could visit more often. |
| SpartanEdge.com |
An online alternative weekly student newspaper at MSU. I created and edited the MusicEdge section during grad school. |
| Amplifx: Plug Into Progress |
"A community organization [based at MSU] that operates under a simple assumption: positive social change is possible, especially when that change starts at the local level." |
| |
|
| Blogs: |
|
| Lessig Blog |
Lawrence Lessig is a Stanford law professor and an important figure in the free culture movement. He helped develop Creative Commons. |
| IP in the Digital Age |
Students from CPSC 182 at Yale College discuss our digital world. |
| Editorial Ass |
An editorial assistant writes about the book publishing industry. |
| Walking Paris With Henry Miller |
"A blog about Henry Miller's Paris of the 1930s" |
| Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company |
A Henry Miller blog based in Toronto. |
| Feeding The Pidgeons, One Last Time |
"World literature through the bottom of a beerglass." |
| Tao Lin's Blog |
The author from New York. The URL is http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/ |
| (more to come...) |
|
| |
|
| Shameless Self-Promotion: |
|
| NickMeador.org |
Nick Meador's personal profile |
| Nick's Blog |
Nick Meador's personal (and barely used) blog |
| Think/Feel Pictures (also on MySpace and YouTube) |
David Meador's profile of film and creative work |
| Jeff's Holiday MySpace Page (also on iLike) |
Jeff Meador's indie electronic recording project |
| Eridanus MySpace Page |
Nick Meador's electronic mash-up recording project |
| Adventures in Autism |
Peggy Meador's blog |
| Autism in Troy Schools |
A Meador Family web site intended to raise autism awareness, issue complaints to the Troy (Michigan) School District, and promote special education reform. |
| |
|
| Web Tools: |
|
| BlueHost |
SoundSlides |
| WordPress |
StatCounter |
| phpBB |
Amazon Associates |
| JS-Kit |
Google AdSense |
| Vimeo |
Google Adwords |
| AddThis |
Google Webmaster Tools |
| Facebook Advertising |
Google Analytics |
