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| | | | | In order to effectively deal with the constant flow of information and perform the necessary research when writing the content of Ovi, we utilise a number of different online sources that we consider invaluable to our work. Below is an extensive list of sites that we use on a weekly and daily basis. If you feel there is a site that should be added, then please email us the URL. Ovi magazine is not responsible for the content of external websites and all links are checked periodically. | | | Link of the Month
 2DArtist Magazine
A Downloadable PDF Magazine for Concept Art, Digital & Matte Painting creatives around the globe. 2DArtist Magazine will focus on techniques, tutorials, interviews, articles, project overviews and galleries. We will have news and reviews too but we find that these topics are best covered by the online news and CG sites that thrive on daily updates. |
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A Downloadable PDF Magazine for Concept Art, Digital & Matte Painting creatives around the globe. 2DArtist Magazine will focus on techniques, tutorials, interviews, articles, project overviews and galleries. We will have news and reviews too but we find that these topics are best covered by the online news and CG sites that thrive on daily updates. |  ABC News
American news agency, world news, US news, politics, money, sports, entertainment, technology and science and a lot of news videos.
|  Adbusters Media Foundation
We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century. To this end, Adbusters Media Foundation publishes Adbusters magazine, operates this website and offers its creative services through PowerShift, our advocacy advertising agency.
|  Aesthetica Magazine
Aesthetica Magazine is the UK's cultural arts magazine that features writing, art, music and film. It reports on the arts and publishes features, interviews, news, articles and reviews that stir the imagination around current themes.
|  Aftenposten Interaktiv
Aftenposten Interaktiv is Aftenposten's, Norway's leading broadsheet newspaper, electronic news service. Aftenposten.no offers much of the content of Aftenposten's paper editions plus news updated throughout the day, commentary and background information. Aftenposten English news service specializes in Norwegian news presented in English, along with summaries of top international and sports stories. Aftenposten is the only major newspaper in Norway offering this service. |  Altavista
AltaVista, a business of Overture Services, Inc., is a leading provider of search services and technology. AltaVista continues to advance Internet search with new technologies and features designed to improve the search experience for consumers. Based in Sunnyvale, Calif., AltaVista has a rich history of innovation embodied in 61 search-related patents. |  Arts & Letters Daily
A service of The Chronicle of Higher Education - philosophy, aesthetics, literature, language, ideas, criticism, culture, history, music, art, trends, breakthroughs, disputes and gossip.
|  Asahi.com
One of Japan's oldest and largest national daily newspapers, the Asahi shimbun began publication in Osaka on January 25, 1879 as a small-print, four-page illustrated paper that sold for one sen (a hundredth of a yen) a copy, and had a circulation of approximately 3,000 copies. Today its circulation is 8.27 million for its morning edition and 3.85 million for its evening edition.
|  BBC
The bbc.co.uk website includes a comprehensive, advertisement free news website and archive. The BBC claims the site to be "Europe's most popular content-based site" and boasts that 13.2 million people in the UK visit the site's more than 2 million pages. According to Alexa's TrafficRank system, in July 2006 bbc.co.uk was the 13th most popular English Language website in the world, and the 23rd most popular overall.
|  BBC World
BBC World is the BBC's commercially funded international 24-hour news and information channel broadcasting around the world from its base at BBC Television Centre in London. BBC World is an integral part of the BBC's commitment to global broadcasting and, along with BBC World Service Radio, provides a focal point for viewers and listeners around the world. Viewers who wish to keep ahead of global news events, but not just the headlines - turn to BBC World for the story behind the headlines - the why's and how's of the event as well. BBC World keeps its viewers not just informed, but well informed, with in-depth analysis and cutting edge interviews - the story from all sides.
|  Blogger.com
Blogger is a weblog publishing system owned by Google since 2003. Blogger enables blogs to be hosted on its own servers or on the server of the blogger's choosing, transferred via FTP or SFTP. Blogger was launched in August 1999 as one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools; it is credited for helping popularize the form.
|  Blue Surf Art - Oil Painting
Why have a print? when you can have a oil painting reproduction of your favorite masterpiece. Other services include cult pop art paintings, art commission portraits, and original contemporary artwork.
|  bookforum.com
From fiction to philosophy, politics to the arts, each issue of Bookforum will captivate you. Learn from Pulitzer Prize—winning historian William S. McFeely how the US relinquished its commitment to equality, or why, according to leading Shakespeare biographer James Shapiro, the "Shakespeare Wars" never got started. And find out why Richard Powers may be our brainiest novelist.
|  Cafe Babel
Cafebabel.com, the first multilingual European current affairs magazine, designed for readers across borders. Cafebabel.com revolutionises European media through participatory journalism, providing a unique platform of expression for all citizens. Café babel’s aim is to stimulate and develop European public opinion through two distinct but closely related missions. The online magazine – cafebabel.com – offers every week analyses of current affairs from a unique, European perspective. Secondly, at grassroots level café babel’s network, actively promotes this perspective through debates, conferences and other events organised in towns and cities across Europe.
|  Clusty the Clustering Engine
Clusty is a whole new way to search the web. Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom. But what really makes Clusty unique is what happens after you search. Instead of delivering millions of search results in one long list, our search engine groups similar results together into clusters. Clusters help you see your search results by topic so you can hone in on exactly what you’re looking for or discover unexpected relationships between items. When was the last time you went to the third or fourth page of the search results? Rather than scrolling through page after page, the clusters help you find results you may have missed or that were buried deep in the ranked list. And with a name like Clusty, it’s gotta be good! |  CNA
The Cyprus News Agency (Greek: Κυπριακό Πρακτορείο Ειδήσεων；Turkish: Kıbrıs Haber Ajansı), or CNA is the major news agency in Cyprus. CNA currently has commercial agreements with Reuters, AFP, ITAR-TASS, RIA NOVOSTI and MENA and cooperation agreements with ANA, SANA, XINHUA, ANSA, IRNA, PAP, APS and ATA. CNA also exchanges news with the Macedonian Press Agency (Thessaloniki), BTA, STA, KYODO and ROMPRES. |  Crikey
Crikey's aim is very simple: to bring its readers the inside word on what's really going on in politics, government, media, business, the arts, sport and other aspects of public life in Australia. Crikey irritates the powerful by revealing how they operate behind-the-scenes, and it tackles the stories insiders are talking about but other media can't or won't cover.
|  Daily Frappe
We started daily frappe on Easter weekend in 2005 by publishing a website and blog about the latest news and information happening in Greece. The idea was simply to give people living outside of Greece an easy way to connect with the people, places, and events back in the homeland. A few people read it, liked it, and encouraged us to continue. Daily Frappe is a community for the millions of people of Greek decent that are scattered by geography but united by heritage. Whether you are looking to build bridges to the past, or make connections to the future.
|  Daily Mail Online
'The Daily Mail' considers itself to be the voice of Middle England, speaking up for the "small-c" conservative values and against what it sees as a liberal establishment. It generally takes an anti-European, anti-immigration, anti-abortion (despite the "abortion hope" headline -see below), and is correspondingly pro-family, pro-tax cuts and pro-monarchy, as well as advocating stricter punishments for crime. The paper is generally critical of the BBC, which it perceives as being biased to the Left, but it is less unequivocally supportive of deregulation and commercial broadcasting than more downmarket papers such as The Sun, and supports a return to a somewhat nostalgic idea of what the BBC once was in a way that The Sun generally does not.
|  Drudge Report
The Drudge Report is a popular, U.S.-based news website run by Matt Drudge. The site consists primarily of links to stories from the US and international mainstream media about politics, entertainment, and various current events, and to many popular columnists, although occasionally Drudge authors a story of his own. The Report originated around 1994 as a weekly subscriber-based email dispatch. Today, the Drudge Report resembles a simple weblog, though Drudge himself dislikes this classification. Since there is little or no commentary to the page, a more accurate description of the Drudge Report would be "portal" rather than blog. The Drudge Report is most famous for being the first entity to break news of the Monica Lewinsky scandal to the public.
|  Empire Online
Empire is a British film magazine. In common with most British film magazines, Empire is populist in both approach and coverage unlike less irreverent and more serious magazines such as Sight and Sound. It reviews both mainstream films, including Hollywood fare, and art films, but feature articles concentrate on the former. The magazine occasionally produces themed issues around subjects such as Star Wars and "sex in film".
|  Euro2day
A list of all the main online European newspapers. |  Eurocanada.info
Eurocanada.info’s goal is to stimulate and develop European and Canadian public opinion through distinct but closely related objectives. The bimonthly online magazine – eurocanada.info – offers analyses of current affairs from a unique, European and Canadian perspective and a network to actively promote perspectives through debate.
|  Fark.com
Fark.com is a community website created by Drew Curtis allowing users to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. Links are submitted by Fark members, which are then approved for posting on the main page by admins.
|  FilmWise.com
We feature movie quotes, unique text and visual quizzes, contests and the infamous Invisibles!
|  Fine Art Gallery
Our mission is to provide a best place for global trading of all kind of artwork where practically any person can trade any masterpiece of art around the globe.
|  Global Spiral
The Global Spiral is an e-publication of Metanexus Institute. Through articles, essays, book reviews, and news, the Global Spiral explores humanity's most profound questions and challenges.
|  Google
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. When you visit www.google.com or one of the dozens of other Google domains, you'll be able to find information in many different languages; check stock quotes, maps, and news headlines; lookup phonebook listings for every city in the United States; search billions of images and peruse the world's largest archive of Usenet messages -- more than 1 billion posts dating back to 1981.
|  Guardian Unlimited
The Guardian newspaper, of which Guardian Unlimited is its online presence, was founded in 1821 and has a long history of editorial and political independence. Find out more about its early days.
|  Hackwriters.com
Real people real lives. The online portfolio of good writing whether fiction, travel, comment or lifestyles. Hackwriters is a free internet magazine devoted to interesting writing, on any subject. It is completely independent and receives no money for advertising or opinion. It has no bias. We do not pay any fees for work published, but aim to offer a forum of quality work by new or unpublished writers, or by established writers wishing to say something different or branch out. If you have something to say, we want to hear it. Yes we have no pop-ups.
|  Houyhnhnms.tv
Houyhnhnms.tv is a TV-format creators' community where its own members supply the contents and determine the TV listings and the editorial line by voting.
|  In Motion Magazine
In Motion Magazine ® is a multicultural, online U.S. publication about democracy.
|  In.gr
In.gr is an online news agency with information and links to all main news, culture, art, entertainment. |  International Board on Books for Young People
The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) is a non-profit organization which represents an international network of people from all over the world who are committed to bringing books and children together. |  Kansainvälinen vapaaehtoistyö
KVT is a peace organisation that aims to promote equality, social acceptance and respect for the environment. The full name of KVT, Kansainvälinen vapaaehtoistyö, literally translates as International Voluntary Service.
|  Kathimerini.com
Kathimerini English Edition has its own editorial staff of journalists and also draws on the resources of Kathimerini's Greek edition. Editorial content is approximately 60 percent from the Greek edition and 40 percent written and compiled by Kathimerini English Edition's own staff. Many of the regular features and columns are written by the English Edition's staff and collaborators. The collaboration between the Greek and English editions' editorial departments is very close and productive. Kathimerini English Edition shares its exclusive stories with Kathimerini's Greek edition.
|  Kids-in-mind: Movie Ratings
We enable adults to determine whether a movie is appropriate for them or their children, according to their own criteria. Unlike the MPAA we do not assign an inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE & PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10. |  Le Monde
Le Monde (English: The World) is a French daily evening newspaper with a circulation in 2004 of 371,803. It is considered the French newspaper of record, and is generally well respected, often the only French newspaper easily obtainable in non-Francophone countries.
|  Le Vif
Le Vif/L'Express, the weekly newsmagazine for Belgium’s French-speaking market, is – in conjunction with Weekend Le Vif/L’Express and Télévif – a total newsmagazine, shedding light on every facet of Belgian and international news. Le Vif/L’Express is the French-language counterpart to Knack. Created in 1983, Le Vif has for almost 20 years been published in cooperation with the French L'Express group in a partnership that combines top-notch international reporting with the professional journalism of a separate Belgian editorial team.
|  Learn English Online with English Portal
Learn English online - free exercises, idioms, common abbreviations, slang, proverbs and much more.
|  Liberation
Libération (affectionately known as Libé) is a French newspaper founded in Paris in 1973 by Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Victor alias Benny Lévy and Serge July in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Libération is one of the four big quality national daily newspapers, and was also the first French daily newspaper to have a website.
|  Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, and distributed throughout the western United States. With a circulation of 843,432 readers per day as of September 2005, it is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States. The Times has won 37 Pulitzer Prizes through 2004; this includes four in editorial cartooning, and one each in spot news reporting for the 1965 Watts riots and the 1992 Los Angeles riots. According to the 2005 World Almanac, The LA Times is the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the U.S. |  Michael Moore.com
This is the website for Michael Moore, Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, author and liberal political commentator.
|  Mothering: Natural Family Living
Mothering is like no other publication. We are an original. Born in 1976 out of the need for the natural family community to learn about raising healthy children, Mothering was the birthplace of the natural family lifestyle.
|  New Web Pick
NWP (newwebpick.com), a international digital designer union and a community of international digital designers, is one globe designing information focusing on the digital designing. We include and recommend the most excellent digital designer throughout the world. We try to construct a paradise for digital designers, which allow all the friends from all over the world who love digital designing to share their happiness in designing and promote their inspiration and originality.
|  Newropeans Magazine
Newropeans Magazine is an independent magazine developped for the exchange of views on the future of a democratic Europe. Newropeans Magazine is independent from all European institutions, governments, religions and political parties.
|  NewsNow
With more than 1.1m users globally, NewsNow is a leading provider of Internet press cuttings and real-time news services.
Started in 1997, NewsNow's services include NewsNow.co.uk, one of the UK's most popular news portals. Our corporate services include online press cuttings, market intelligence, competitor tracking and website and intranet content. Today NewsNow monitors breaking news in 22 languages from the Internet's most important online publications, including international, national and regional titles, newswires, magazines, press releases and exclusively online news sources spanning 139 countries.
|  Newsweek
Newsweek offers comprehensive coverage of world events with a global network of correspondents, reporters and editors covering national and international affairs, business, science and technology, society and arts and entertainment. In Oct. 1998, Newsweek.com was launched on the World Wide Web. On June 19, 2000, the site entered into a joint venture with MSNBC.com to become Newsweek.MSNBC.com. Newsweek is also a strategic partner to NBC; the two produce joint investigations and other material for broadcast and print.
|  Nuvein Magazine
Nuvein Foundation is a non-profit literary foundation that raises awareness for the creative arts. We are a collection of writers, artists, teachers, and arts enthusiasts who provide scholarships to students of creative arts and hold community arts programs. We also publish and maintain Nuvein Magazine online. This blog is our journal going from a group of volunteers to forming a 501.c.3 organization. As of April 2007, our 501.c.3 status is pending.
|  OneFreeKorea
Joshua Stanton, attorney practicing in Washington, DC. U.S. Army Judge Advocate in Korea, 1998-2002. Left active duty, 2003. Member, North Korean Freedom Coalition since 2003, and of Liberty in North Korea since 2004. Started this blog in January 2004. Advocated the human rights of the North Korean people to ambassadors, including Ambassador John Bolton. Testified before the House International Relations Committee regarding the state of the U.S.-South Korean alliance in 2006.
|  Online Newspapers
Thousands of online newspapers and magazines at your fingertips in their extensive directory, which is sub-divided by continent and country. You can also access their list of the 50 most popular newspapers accessed from Onlinenewspapers.
|  Openoffice.org
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
|  Popdex
Popdex came about because an inflated technological ego thought that a current-events news & link spider could be built in a few days. A month later, after many Mountain Dew filled nights and weekends, an index was born. Not having added anything "new" to what was out there already, the next step was incorporating the popularity of linking sites into the rankings. Thus if websites A and B are extremely popular, and link to site C, then site C is given more weight in the rankings than a site linked to by sites with smaller numbers of inbound links. A score is computed hourly and the rankings are updated, with the highest possible ranking out of 100 (like a percentage). I call this technology PopScore.
|  Pravda
The Internet newspaper PRAVDA On-Line was launched in January of 1999, the first Russian newspaper of its kind. We think that both the newly registered newspaper and PRAVDA On-Line have an equal moral right to continue the history of the newspaper that was closed by then-President Boris Yeltsin in August of 1991. The number of journalists that work in the head offices of both publications is comparable with the number of journalists who worked for Pravda at the time it was closed.
|  Qr Magazine
Qr Magazine, the magazine by and for the young gay man—the new monthly magazine that unapologetically spotlights the flourishing and diverse life of all young gay males with honest, shocking and sexy content.
|  Salon
Salon Media Group, Inc. is an Internet media company that produces 7 original content sections as well as two online communities -- Table Talk and The WELL. The content sites, updated daily or more frequently, include News and Politics, Opinion, Technology & Business, Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life and Comics. Founded in July 1995 by David Talbot, Salon has been called "intriguing and intelligent" (Washington Post), "truly compelling" (Time) and "smart and provocative" (Forbes).
|  Slate Magazine
Slate attracts affluent, educated business decision-makers and opinion leaders from across the nation. Over 5 million unique visitors turn to Slate each month for its insightful content and witty, analytical voice.
|  Snopes
Urban legends are a specific type of folklore, and many of the items discussed on this site do not fall under the folkloric definition of "urban legend." We are following the more expansive popular (if inaccurate) use of "urban legend" as a term that embraces not only urban legends but also common fallacies, misinformation, old wives' tales, strange news stories, rumors, celebrity gossip, and similar items.
|  Strike The Root
Strike The Root is a daily journal of current events and commentary from a libertarian/market anarchist perspective. The mission of STR is to advance the cause of liberty, primarily by de-mystifying and de-legitimizing the State. STR seeks a world where people are free to live their lives as they see fit, as long as they don't use force or fraud against peaceful people.
|  Technorati
Technorati is the recognized authority on what's going on in the world of weblogs. We help people search for, surface, and organize bloggers and their daily posts. |  The American Reporter
The American Reporter is a six-day-per week electronic daily newspaper owned by the writers whose work it features. The American Reporter was founded to give journalists around the world an opportunity to have a financial stake in their own work. Each story carried by The American Reporter earns equity for the correspondent in profits from advertising and subscriptions, and income when their stories sell to other newspapers.
|  The China Post
Founded in 1952 by Mr. and Mrs. Y.P. Huang, The China Post has been Taiwan's leading English-language newspaper in daily readership and editorial content. As a daily English-language newspaper, The China Post reaches over 400,000 readers everyday providing comprehensive news coverage of the latest events in Taiwan and from around the world. With our 24-hour newswire network and team of seasoned journalists, The China Post delivers the latest breaking news and information from around the globe with persistent accuracy and objectivity. In line with our founders commitment to unbiased reporting, The China Post continues to bring comprehensive news to our readers without the industry puffery or political slant.
|  The First Post
The First Post is an online magazine. Part of the content changes every day. Most of the content changes in the course of a week.
|  The Internet Movie Database
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is a HUGE collection of movie information. We try to catalog every pertinent detail about a movie, from who was in it, to who made it, to trivia about it, to filming locations, and even where you can find reviews and fan sites on the web. We then do our best to present this information in a manner that is easy to search and access.
|  The Local
The Local is for anyone who is interested in finding out what's going on in Sweden and who reads English. Our readers in Sweden consist of foreigners from over a hundred nations, as well as Swedes looking for a different perspective on events. Abroad, The Local has become required reading for people planning a move to Sweden, planning to visit or doing business with Sweden. It is also used as a resource by foreign journalists and researchers writing stories about Sweden, or looking for Sweden's perspective on the issues of the day.
|  The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry, and fiction. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the cultural life of New York City, The New Yorker has a wide audience outside of New York. It is well-known for its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric Americana; its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of short stories and literary reviews; its rigorously fact-checked, copyedited journalism about world politics and social issues; and its famous, single-panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue.
|  The Onion
The Onion is a parody newspaper published weekly in print and online. It features satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news as well as an entertainment newspaper and website known as The A.V. Club. The Onion's articles comment on current events, both real and imagined. It parodies traditional newspaper features, such as editorials, man-on-the-street interviews, and stock quotes, as well as traditional newspaper layout and dry, AP-style editorial voice. |  TIME Magazine
TIME is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. A European edition is published from London. In some advertising campaigns, the magazine has suggested that through a backronym the letters TIME stand for "Today Information Means Everything."
|  Transnational Perspectives
Transnational Perspectives is a journal of world politics and social policy with an emphasis on currents of thought which cross frontiers and unite peoples. Their three aims are to propose measures for order and justice in the world society, to suggest creative possibilities for conflict transformation and the reduction of violence, and to encourage ecologically-sound development and reverence for life.
|  UEFA.com
UEFA - the Union of European Football Associations - is the governing body of football on the continent of Europe. UEFA’s core mission is to promote, protect and develop European football at every level of the game, to promote the principles of unity and solidarity, and to deal with all questions relating to European football.
|  Utne.com
Founded in 1984 by Eric Utne, UTNE MAGAZINE reprints the best articles from over 2,000 alternative media sources bringing you the latest ideas and trends emerging in our culture... Provocative writing from diverse perspectives... Insightful analysis of art and media... Down-to-earth news and resources you can use... In-depth coverage of compelling people and issues that affect your life... The best of the alternative media.
|  VerveEarth
Here you will find a new way to reach your favorite websites and surf the net. You can create your personalized internet world within minutes by adding favorites, subscribe to the content that is important to you; cut out the rest, surf the net geographically, check out what's hot in your city and the world, and share cool content with friends.
|  Weekly World News
The Weekly World News is a tabloid newspaper that combines wire reports of strange news with in-house writings and columns. Definitely plant your tongue firmly in cheek.
|  Wikipedia
Wikipedia has rapidly grown into the largest reference website on the Internet. The content of Wikipedia is free, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. This website is a wiki, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit, correct, or improve information throughout the encyclopedia, simply by clicking the edit this page link (with a few minor exceptions, such as protected articles and the main page).
|  Wired
Wired is a full-color monthly magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California, since March 1993. It reports on how technology affects culture, the economy, and politics. Its editorial stance was originally inspired by the ideas of Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, credited as the magazine's "patron saint" in early colophons. Wired has both been admired and disliked for its strong libertarian principles, its enthusiastic embrace of techno-utopianism, and its sometimes experimental layout with its bold use of fluorescent and metallic inks.
|  Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American computer services company. It operates an Internet portal, the Yahoo! Directory and a host of other services including Yahoo! Mail. According to Web trends companies Alexa Internet and Netcraft, Yahoo! is the most visited website on the Internet today with more than 412 million unique users. The global network of Yahoo! websites received 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2005.
|  Yle News
Finland's national broadcaster offers news in English about Finland. The site is maintained by YLE24's English-language editorial staff.
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