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Web 2.0 has its limits.
These are blogs by famous authors, intellectuals, scientists, and more....
Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winning economist who writes for the
New York Times. NOTE: The New York Times has a FIVE article per month limit on free access. Fortunately, you can read as many articles as you like with ProQuest New York Times.
Thomas Friedman won a Pulitzer prize for his writing and also writes for the
New York Times. NOTE: The New York Times has a FIVE article per month limit on free access. Fortunately, you can read as many articles as you like with ProQuest New York Times.
Robert Reich was Presdient Clinton's Secretary of Labor and teaches at Berkeley. He has his own blog.
Malcolmn Gladwell is a best selling author and widely read columnist in the New Yorker.
Room for Debate offers multiple, short, opinion pieces by experts on a single topic. Topics have included whether one should bribe children to behave, whether high school should last six years, and whether Al-Shabab is a threat to the
United States, among many others. NOTE: The New York Times has a FIVE article per month limit on free access. Fortunately, you can read as many articles as you like with ProQuest New York Times.
Steven Strogatz is an expert in network science, teaches applied mathematics at Cornell University,
. Several years ago, he wrote a now-archived column/blog for the New York Times. NOTE: The New York Times has a FIVE article per month limit on free access. Fortunately, you can read as many articles as you like with ProQuest New York Times.
If you have in depth research or need information on a very specific topic or if you need statistical data or scholarly journal articles, blogs and news tracking sites are often not enough. Please try some of the resources listed here.
Argument and More, your research guide for English and communication papers, has suggestions, links to resources, and help for those who can't find topics.
If you need specific information and want to find it on the open web, try Great Web Sites which lists news, statistical, science, and humanities sites as well as meta-sites that lead to others.
If you want a large number of credible articles or scholarly information for a major research project, NOTHING replaces the library's databases that lead to full text articles in both scholarly journals and general magazines, as well as ebooks and streamed video.