Below are short descriptions of some websites I've found useful, interesting, or
entertaining in some way and links to them.
Please let me know of any you think are valuable and I'll include them,
or if any of these are broken.
For economic development resources,
here is a site full of links,
about 40 of them. It hasn't been updated in quite a while, but the links are still useful.
This site has a very
extensive description of an entrepreneur-based development effort called "High Performance
Communities". These ideas from Littleton, Colorado, are practical and useful.
It goes in depth and is well written. I use a bit of this in the local economic development work
I've done.
Aid Watch is a blog by William Easterly, an economist
with a long resume. His commentary is readable, well reasoned, and occasionally funny.
At Are we lumberjacks? the commentary is almost always funny and usually
from a conserative point of view. Lots of fun-with-photoshop stuff.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has the best up to the minute news
from areas major news outlets don't even cover. They report the smaller events that CNN and BBC
ignore until something big happens. Daily dispatches in 27 languages from 25 countries.
Stratfor.com is also a good source of information
about current events around the world. It focuses on the analysis of events, what they call
"intelligence reports". That might be a bit grand, but this is still a decent source
of in-depth international news and commentary. They've moved to a subscription-based service, however, so
be warned that many articles listed might be no more than intro paragraphs.
This is the best resource for expatriates
that I've found.
Tons of links to useful information, services, and products are here along with news and other decent editorial
content.
Expat Exchange and
Escape Artist are two more sites that offer an
assortment of information, services, and links to possibly useful sites of interest to expats,
though some of the stuff at these sites is more suited to the
militiaman on leave from his Montana cabin.