INTRO

1. “Nature” as most Web users experience it: The Infinite Cat Project, I Can Has Cheezburger?

 
BASICS OF SEARCHING

2. Searching for anything online begins with Google.
    
3. Example of the unfree Web: The Birds of North America Online
    
4. Best general info on North American birds: Cornell Lab's All About Birds
    
5. Other places to search: Wikipedia, Google Image Search, YouTube, Blinkx, Google Video Search
    
6. Premier social bookmarking site: StumbleUpon
    
7. Green-focused social news site: Hugg 2.0
    
8. Tree of Life web project

 
FREE-TO-USE MATERIAL

9. Free nature image libraries: USDA Agricultural Research Service, Louis Agassiz Fuertes images, Digital Library System of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
    
10. Creative Commons — licensed images from Flickr
     
11. The Freesound Project

 
ONLINE NATURE IDENTIFICATION AIDS

12. Wildflowers (and Trees) of Western Pennsylvania
     
13. BugGuide.net
     
14. Butterflies and Moths of North America
     
15. RogersMushrooms
     
16. Large compendium of links for IDs at Burning Silo blog
     
17. Flickr: ID Please photo group

 
A SMALL SAMPLING OF BLOGS

18. Once around the park
     
19. Journals of Gilbert White
     
20. The Morning Porch (microblog for mobile phones)
     
21. A Passion for Nature
     
22. Burning Silo
     
23. The Daily Coyote
     
24. Bird by bird
     
25. [Digression] BIGBYing for Birds — carbon-neutral birding in 2008.
     
26. The Backyard Arthropod Project
     
27. Rurality
     
28. Flatbush Gardener
     
29. Creek Running North
     
30. Marcia Bonta’s Game News columns in blog form
     
31. The Birdchaser (Rob Fergus)
     
32. Stokes Birding Blog (Lillian and Don Stokes)
     
33. Outside My Window: A Birdwatcher’s View of the World (Kate St. John)
     
34. Big Spring Birds
     
35. Ben Cruachan Blog (Australia)
     
36. pohanginapete (New Zealand)
     
37. The House and Other Arctic Musings (Arctic Bay, Nunavut)
     
38. Bug Girl's Blog
     
39. Turtles All the Way Down
     
40. The Loom (Carl Zimmer)
     
41. Rigor Vitae (the art of Carel Brest van Kempen)
     
42. Drawing the Motmot (Debby Kotter Kaspari)
     
43. Anna Mills on Nature Writing
     
44. Pines Above Snow (Another nature book-review blog)
     
45. Invasive Species Weblog
     
46. The Hellbender Chronicles
     
47. Beer Activist blog (“Drink Beer. Save the World.”)
     
48. Roundtop Ruminations
     
49. Festival of the Trees coordinating blog (See sidebar on home page for links to other nature blog festivals.)
     
50. Latest edition of the Festival of the Trees (Hoarded Ordinaries)
     
51. I and the Bird — biweekly bird blog carnival
     
52. I and the Bird #12 — The Canterbirdy Tales (Search and Serendipity)
     
53. Linnaeus' Legacy #3 (Greg Laden’s Blog)
     
54. Tangled Bank 96 (Aardvarchaeology)
     
55. First Annual Blogger Bioblitz (The Voltage Gate)
     
56. International Rock-Flipping Day — Flickr group
     
57. IRFD posts at Via Negativa
     
58. Google Reader — Collect and organize the blogs you follow.
     
59. Wikipedia article on blog aggregators, A.K.A. feed readers

 
PUTTING NATURE ON THE WEB

60. Free photo-sharing: Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket, ImageShack
     
61. Free alternatives to Photoshop: GIMP and Krita
     
62. More photo freeware: Picture Resizer, FastStone, BlueFive Image Resizer
     
63. Shutterchance — free photoblogging
     
64. Macrophotography on the Cheap (Backyard Arthropod Project)
     
65. Free hosted blogging: Blogger, WordPress.com, Tumblr, Blogsome, Edublogs
     
66. Affordable hosted blogging: Typepad, Blog-City
     
67. And don't forget to upload your cool nature videos to YouTube!