The best place to find links...

...is not here, but in the course bookmarks. Please browse them, add to them, comment on them!

Here are a few to get you started:

General interest resources

http://www.go2web20.net/ - great list of Web 2.0 applications and sites

http://web2.socialcomputingmagazine.com/the_habits_of_highly_effective_web_20_sites.htm - some useful tips on building a good Web 2.0 site

Blogs that are well worth reading and/or subscribing to

Clay Shirky: http://www.shirky.org

Ross Mayfield: http://ross.typepad.com/

Danah Boyd: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/

Brian Kelly: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/

Stephen Downes: http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm

Howard Rheingold: http://www.smartmobs.com/

Chris Anderson: http://longtail.typepad.com/

Kevin Kelly: http://www.kk.com

Jon Udell: http://blog.jonudell.net/

Jon Dron: http://community.brighton.ac.uk/jd29/weblog/ (well, it's good to know what your professor is thinking...)

TED talks that are worth watching (short videos, mostly 20 minutes each, usually inspiring)

Clay Shirky: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html

Steven Johnson: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_johnson_on_the_web_as_a_city.html

Chris Anderson: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/chris_anderson_of_wired_on_tech_s_long_tail.html

Yochai Benkler: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/yochai_benkler_on_the_new_open_source_economics.html

Richard Baraniuk: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/richard_baraniuk_on_open_source_learning.html

Larry Lessig: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html

Brin and Page: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sergey_brin_and_larry_page_on_google.html

Howard Rheingold: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/howard_rheingold_on_collaboration.html

James Surowieki: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/james_surowiecki_on_the_turning_point_for_social_media.html

Jimmy Wales: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html

Jeff Bezos: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_bezos_on_the_next_web_innovation.html