World Readable

Watching the Watchers Relaunched

World Readable has relaunched Watching the Watchers as an Utne Reader-style digest of interesting news and commentary. Content for the site is selected by editors from sites that permit redistribution, including the popular liberal community Daily Kos and web sites that use a Creative Commons license.

Here's a sampling of stories selected for Watchers:

• Iran Fears a George Soros-Funded 'Velvet Revolution'
• 'This is What Losing Your Kidneys Looks Like'
• Burger King Franchises Call Global Warming 'Baloney'
• It's Time to Cut Short Summer Vacation
• End Public Radio Fund Drives
• SEC Must Constrain Abusive Short Selling
• Tweet Could Land Guatemalan in Jail
• A Salute to the Iranian People

Site publisher Rogers Cadenhead provides more information on the relaunch in the weblog posts Relaunching Watching the Watchers and Watching the Watchers Makes Use of Creative Commons.

Writers who'd like to find out how their work can be considered for the site should contact Cadenhead.

Find a Wargame Store at Wargames.Com

World Readable has launched a store locator and convention calendar at Wargames.Com, our hobby site for wargaming enthusiasts. These two features are the first of several new features we'll be rolling out in coming months as we transform the site from a computer wargame store into a popular destination for players of traditional and miniature wargames.

Rogers Cadenhead describes some of the design work involved in the creation of the site in Creating a CSS Menu Bar with Listamatic, an article on his weblog Workbench.

Wargames.Com's store directory currently contains 962 stores and 32 conventions. Users who visit the site can add stores and add conventions.

World Readable Launches Company Site

Welcome to the company site for World Readable, a network of  web sites based in Jacksonville, Florida, that receives more than 23 million visits a year. Our most popular sites are the politically-themed Drudge Retort and the community sports weblog SportsFilter.

The newest site in our network is the one you're reading now, a place where we can talk about the sites that we offer and share some of their content.

If you're a programmer or web publisher who is interested in the technology we use to publish our sites, company founder Rogers Cadenhead -- the author of more than 20 books on programming and web development -- writes about the subject on his weblog Workbench.

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