BollyScoops is a fan and blogger-created source of gossip and entertainment information about Bollywood films and music. Its design is remarkably textual, making little use of pictures and video, despite its vividly colorful subject matter and there is not much discussion activity. For example, during one visit to the site, the top three “popular” scoops [...]

Get a local view of the news and personal blogs

Outside.in is a local news and citizen journalism site that serves more than 11,800 towns and urban neighborhoods, assembling a news and entertainment guide for each from feeds offered by local media, bloggers and businesses. The site also includes discussions and personal profile pages for members, [...]

SpinSpotter is an evolving tool for identifying “spin” in news stories. The service installs as a toolbar in Firefox browsers to let users annotate pages on major media sites with spin markers that can be read and discussed by others.
There are two ways of using the toolbar. First, if you install the toolbar, you can [...]

We haven’t finished our review of NewsVine, but don’t wait to add your review! Publish it right now in Comments.

We haven’t finished our review of Slashdot, the venerable social bookmarking and news-filtering site, but don’t wait to add your review! Publish it right now in Comments.

An active StumbleUpon member page shares links, photos and video

StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking site. That means it is a repository for bookmarks saved by members, who can browse what others are saving, rate what is saved and reshare it with their own friends. Once you are a member, StumbleUpon makes connections to new people [...]

We haven’t finished our review of BuzzFeed, but that shouldn’t stop you from adding your own in Comments right now!

We haven’t finished our review of Kirtsy, but that shouldn’t stop you from adding your own in Comments right now!

Delicious, also known as Del.icio.us, is an early social bookmarking site that has aptured a large membership, which remains very active despite many competitors, such as Reddit and BlogMarks, appearing since it launched in 2003. It provides members a place to save bookmarks with tags that help others find articles of interest by topic and [...]

We haven’t finished our review of Furl, but that shouldn’t stop you from adding your own in Comments right now!