I spend a good amount of time on the internet, not only for my job, but for personal use as well. Here are some of the sites that visit the most, at least once a day to checkout what's going on.

 

News:

Washington Post
My local paper and a great resource for general news. Being of the X generation I have no land line (never owned one), get my tv via over-the-air broadcast (all five channels of foreign news from MHz Networks) but I get home delivery of the Post. I actually rarely read it, but I believe in what they do so much I subscribe. I wish I could just give them money and not get the paper, would be much easier.

Slashdot
General news site about technology, science, your rights. Their saying is: News for nerds, stuff that matters." I would certainly agree with that.

DSL Reports
Another technology site, this one focused mostly on everything dealing with the telecomms and internet. I like the way most of the articles are written, adds good commentary to the news.

TorrentFreak
News site about the world of BitTorrent. Anything you would want to know about it is posted here, has gotten some great scoops and is regularly posted to by other sites. Great insight and articles by the posters.

Apple Insider
I have now owned a Mac for over 5 years and love it. Got several generations of iPods and I would have an iPhone but I am on Verizon, still upset they passed on it. Anything you would want to know about Apple gets posted here, great resource.

 

Music:

Soulsearching w/ Michael Ruetten
I have been listening to this guys podcast for several years now and it just blows me away some times. I have found countless new artists and songs from here. Affectionately know as "Vetter from Germany" by my friends. Based out of Frankfurt he spins under Soulpatrol and the Compost record label. Great mix of funk, soul, jazz, house, reggae, you name it.

 

Another dude from Germany that posts regularly. Like Michael, he posts a lot of rare groove, funk, soul, R&B, jazz, etc... Highly recommend checking this guy out.

 

 

Funky16Corners
Larry Grogan from New Jersey loves to dig for classic 45's. Part of the Ashbury Park grew he has a regular gig at a local club. He manages to find some really rare stuff, mostly soul, funk, and R&B stuff.

 

UrbanSoul.ru
A group from Russia, or at least somewhere in that region. Loads of podcasts of all sorts: jazz, funk, hip/hop, trance, house, etc... Like My Jazz World you have to weed through a lot of stuff, but I find the occasional podcast that is totally worth the trouble. This site is total written in Russian, so you have to go through the extra step of converting the language. Google has a pretty good site to handle this.

 

Blogs:

Trinkes
Have to give a shout out to my other web page. Here I write about my crazy adventures in this world. I try to get out as much as possible and document my experiences.

I, Cringely
He use to have a blog at PBS that I followed, that contract expired but he continues to write on his own personal blog. Fantastic stories mostly about technology. Puts his own slant on what the tech world is doing and where it is going.