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I’dDream.com

Food

• America’s Test Kitchen
  Public television’s most watched cooking show.
• Epicurious
  For people who love to eat.
• Kitchen Window
  Commentaries on food and entertaining.
• Mangiare Bene!
  The Akmon’s food blog.
• Maple Creek Farm
  A family farm in southeast Michigan, serving metro Detroit (Randy’s CSA).
• Slow Food USA
  Taste, tradition, and the honest pleasures of food.
• The Splendid Table
  Providing abundant information on food preparation, appreciation, and culture.

Friends

• Red Cedar
  The Akmon’s new blog. They wanted to strike it out on there own.
• Tiamhdha Ailin Browne
  Timothy.
• Daniel Johnson
  Former Judah Johnson frontman, current freelance writer.

Music & Alt Weeklys (Detroit, Ann Arbor, etc..)

• Deep Cutz – Uncutz
  A Dialogue with Music…
• Detour
  An online magazine devoted to sharing its wit and insight into music, film, and other media ephemera.
• DetroitRiot
  “I write about stuff that I hear. Music, rumors about music…” -Elle
• Eat This City
  2 guys 1 cup.
• Metro Times
  Detroit’s most popular alternative weekly
• MotorCityBlog.com
  Detroit’s Anti-Blog promoting all the great talent in/around Detroit music, art, etc…
• Motor City Rocks
  I think they were first at the whole Detroit music blog thing. They died for a while but are back now.
• Real Detroit
  Detroit’s “pay attention to us too” alternative weekly.
• SubSprawlBlog
  Blog by Livonia/Ann Arbor based indie label (featuring members of Javelins, Pop Project, Child Bite, and lots more).

Music (General)

• Daytrotter
  Live studio sessions from your favorite elitist acts.
• NPR: Monitor Mix
  NPR blog written by Former Sleater-Kinney member Carrie Brownstein.
• Pitchfork Media
  Clumsy pretentious reviews from clumsy pretentious snobs.
• Stereogum
  Licking up everything Pitchfork drops.

Political (General)

• Common Dreams
  Progressive news and crazy leftist articles.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
  Defending freedom in the digital world.
• Daily Kos
  Lapdogs for the Democrats.

Preservation & Urban Planning

• Model D
  The story of Detroit’s transformation — growth, development, neighborhoods, arts, culture and more.

Misc.

• Digg
  Kevin Rose’s (former TechTV host) pet project gone big time. Social bookmarking anyone?
• Gig Posters
  Fantastic archive of concert posters and beautifully illustrated flyers.
• Last.fm
  Social music site. Music and event recommendations based on what you listen to.
• Tree Hugger
  I think the name says it all.

Content Management System Stuff (in use on ID)

• Wordpress
  The best CMS out there. Completely open source and easily customizable.
• Akismet
  Prevents comment spam.
• Compact Monthly Archive
  Displays a compact monthly archive instead of the default long list Wordpress provides.
• Exec-PHP
  Allows PHP tags inside of Wordpress posts.
• Get Recent Comments
  Displays the most recent comments or trackbacks with custom formatting.
• Permalink Redirect
  Ensures that pages and entries are always accessed via the Wordpress permalink.
• Popularity Contest
  Enables custom ranking of posts by popularity.
• Related Posts
  Returns a list of related Wordpress entries based on active/passive keyword matches.
• WordPress Database Backup
  Enables on-demand backups of a WordPress database.
• WP-UserOnline
  Adds a Useronline feature to WordPress.