digg is a fascinating site that combines blogging and social bookmarking. The front page of the site lists the most visited diggs. You can visit the queue to visit blog posts that are waiting to make it to the front page. When you visit the link, you have increased the digg rating. A high enough rating will get the post listed on the front page. Even if you are not interested in visiting the queue, digg offers a great selection of interesting blog posts on its front page.

The official site of Margaret Coel contains biographical information, information on Wind River where her mystery series is set, appearances, and contact information.

Stephen J. Cannell, author of the Shane Scully novels has a site that opens with a video intro and leads to reviews, novels, and more.

How can you pass up a poem that starts: “A scent rather quietly loves the library.”
Click American Poetry Review: An Oddness to read the rest.

The John Bunyan Archive pays homage to this author of Pilgrim’s Progress. The site offers a large collection of Bunyan’s writing.

FaithfulReader is a site dedicated to Christian fiction. The site offers author interviews, book reviews, feature articles, book excerpts, future releases, and bestseller lists.

The Complete Guide to iPod Audiobooks is the best guide I have seen on downloading audiobooks to an iPod and on ripping from CD to iPod. It is pretty easy once you know the steps, but before that I had a really messed up audiobook on my iTunes!

Yahoo! Widgets is the new Konfabulator site and is filled with helpful widgets, little helpful programs that live on your desktop. They range from weather to stock market information to clocks and calendars.

Smithsonian: Spotlight on Science is a weekly online newsletter offered by the Smithsonian. Recent issues have included articles on biodiversity, astronomy, evolution and conservation.

National Geographic News offers daily reporting on nature, archeology, environment, history, science, health, and travel. An RSS feed is available.