Over one billion people use the internet, and in a Rattlebag Special we’re going on a tour of cyberspace, searching for the best of culture on-line.

Would you like to participate? Let us know about your favourite websites.

Maybe it’s a band on myspace.com, or maybe you enjoy the film reviews on RottenTomatoes.com. Or satire might be what you fancy, the kind you find at the onion.com.

We’re looking for your number one website recommendation for our show on culture in cyberspace – email us at rattle@rte.ie or phone us at 1850 715 105 when Rattlebag is on the air, giving us the web address along with your name and contact details.

Below are some of recommendations ~

BLOGS

A great Irish language blog: An t-Imeall www.imeall.blogspot.com

www.sineadgleeson.com sineadgleeson.com ~ Winner of the Best Arts and Culture blog at this year's Irish Blog Awards

Twenty Major www.twentymajor.blogspot.com ~ overall winner of the Irish Blog Awards

An example of the freedom that anonymity allows - Anonymity - Fatmammycat www.fatmammycat.blogspot.com

The Elegant Variation www.marksarvas.blogs.com

The Blooker prize, awards for novels by blog authors. www.lulublookerprize.com

Blogcritics, where you can post on-line reviews. Currently covers all sorts of topics, publishes more than 400 original articles a week from over 1000 contributors and has an archive of over 37,000 posts. www.blogcritics.org

The Lit-Blog co-op - www.lbc.typepad.com unites literary bloggers and attempts to review books by writers, publishers and presses that are outside the mainstream

NET ART

SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. Stanza is a UK based artist who specialises in net art, multimedia, and electronic music. His award winning online projects have been invited for exhibition in digital festivals around the world www.soundtransit.nl

FILM

www.IMDBpro.com offer the webuser 10,000 production companies, 65,000 actors and artists, 400,000 movies Daily box office updates and receives 38 million hits a month.

www.empireonline.com If you're a subscriber, you can use codes in the magazine version to access more indepth versions of interviews etc on line.

www.rottentomatoes.com Offering overviews of commentary on recent films from American newspapers and journals and also assessing films on a kind of Rotten Tomato Meter.

www.digitalfilmschool.ie www.digitalfilmschool.ie

www.www.sundance.org www.sundance.org

www.sundancechannel.com www.sundancechannel.com

MUSIC

www.MySpace.com MySpace.com

www.lastfm.com Based on user profiles and their music taste

Fun Sites

Chewbacca blog www.rrrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnhhhh.blogspot.com www//rrrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnhhhh.blogspot.com

www.You-tube.com www.You-tube.com - anyone can upload their own video footage. Find everything from old Top of the Pops footage to Cambiasso's Argentine goal with the 24 passes.

www.fwfr.com www.fwfr.com - film reviews in four words. For the Da Vinci Code - Hanks - you've got Grail.

Culture sites

i-poems - www.ipoems.org.uk an archive of poetry read, in many cases, by the poets themselves - poetry as spoken, not written word.

NaNoWriMo - www.nanowrimo.org www.nanowrimo.org - Short for 'National Novel Writing Month' - gets thousands of entrants every November from people attempting to write a novel in a month.

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