Research by Design

The Information Station is a way of describing to the readers of this blog where I am getting my information. The following is certainly not an exhaustive list, but it attempts to paint a picture of the myriad of sources that I am pulling from to stay informed about the world and topics that interest me.

Think of it as the Lifestream in reverse–I am not picking out content, just recommending sources. As a rabid consumer of information I put this information here to recommend to others the things I have found that work, and to solicit suggestions from readers about information sources they have found that work as well.

Categorized by medium:

Print:

• The Economist
• Wired Magazine
• The American Political Science Review
• Perspectives on Politics
• PS: Political Science & Politics

Podcasts:

• This Week in Tech
• FLOSS Weekly
• NPR’s Planet Money
• This American Life
• NPR’s Talk of the Nation
• Business Week Covercast
• NOW (PBS)

RSS Feeds (NEWS):

• The Washington Post
• The Wisconsin State Journal
• Madison.com

RSS Feeds (Blogs):

• Lifehacker
• Democracy in America (Economist.com)
• Free Exchange (Economist.com)
• Planet Money Blog
• Freakonomics Blog
• Consumerist
• The Simple Dollar
• Wise Bread
• Playstation News
• Mashable
• O’Reilly Radar
• The Scientific American Front Page
• 2 Cents Worth
• Cool Cat Teacher
• Class Struggle
• Weblogg-ed
• Blog for Rural America
• Daily Yonder
• The Forum for Education
• The Rural Blog
• All Points Blog
• Geo Musings
• James Fee GIS Blog
• AI and Social Sciences
• Complexity and Social Networks
• Overcoming Bias
• Social Science Statistics
• Statistical Modeling

Social Media:

Be sure to check out my FriendFeed and Twitter accounts to see who I am following there. This is a new resource for me and I haven’t found a lot of useful resources for the social sciences on here just yet, but I’m always on the look out for new sources of information.