~ Early Web Links ~

Aardvark Daily is New Zealand's longest-running online daily news and commentary publication, now in its 30th year, run by Bruce Simpson covering science, technology, and current events with a distinctly Kiwi perspective. Visitors will find opinionated columns on topics ranging from energy policy and fuel scams to computing history, making it a veteran voice in independent tech journalism.

Built by Michael I. Niman, a journalism professor at SUNY Buffalo State, this site curates critical resources for Media Studies and American Studies researchers, including links to media watchdogs, propaganda analysis, censorship coverage, and alternative media outlets validated for accuracy. It also archives Niman's syndicated columns and recommends books from independent publishers that challenge corporate media culture.

Link Punk is a linkblog by Braden Slen that curates and comments on daily news stories spanning politics, civil liberties, and current events with a distinctly skeptical, left-leaning voice. The format is clean and RSS-friendly, offering a steady stream of annotated links to journalism and longform reads from across the web.

Ronan Jouchet's 'blag' features weekly roundups of curated links spanning music discoveries, tech commentary, geopolitics, and cultural oddities from his life in Montreal. Each post is a personal digest mixing Bandcamp embeds, Kottke finds, and bilingual (French/English) reads that reflect a curious, wide-ranging mind.