Today’s post isn’t about technology per se, but rather about a website that comes to you via the wonders of the WWW. Arts and Letters Daily is one of the places that I go to every few days. ALD is a virtual goldmine for academics, scholars and rogue intellectuals. It’s published by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The site is updated six days a week. There are three columns on the website: Articles of Note, New Books, and Essays and Opinion. The way that the site works is that there are short descriptions of an article with a link to the original source. The descriptions are well-written, and I’ve almost never been disappointed when I followed a link to an article that sounded interesting to me.

The site draws from a wide variety of newspapers, news sources, book reviews, nota bene, columnists, weblogs, radio news/music, diversions, classics, etc. The sources, while international, are weighted towards the United States and the UK. If you are a reader who wants to know about the ideas behind the news, ALD is a great place to look. And all this is free. I usually have more to read than I can deal with, and as the links move down each day, you can come back for weeks and re-read an article that you need for your work or pleasure.

So, if you’re a discerning reader who wants to know what some of the most prolific and insightful writers have to say about the issues of the day, you should take a look at Arts and Letters Daily.