Spotlight Site

“They say a picture is worth a thousand words… These few words are worth a thousand pictures on social media.”
Robert Cottrell on Kitchen Butterfly, Ozoz Sokoh’s Nigerian food blog.

“If you want to see journalism at its best, then this is the place to go. Of Bill Keller’s two editorships, the second may yet be the greater.”
Continuing his weekly series on the best of the web, Robert Cottrell admires The Marshall Project.

“James Altucher is the Mozart of oversharing…” Robert Cottrell’s Spotlight Series visits Altucher Confidential, with a short detour via Medium.

“Answers to all those questions you have always wanted to know about the inner workings of airlines, but no longer dare ask for fear of ending up on a no-fly list.”
Robert Cottrell’s Spotlight Site series continues with ‘Ask the Pilot’, a blog run by Patrick Smith.

“This is the opposite of dumbing-down. This is smarting-up…”
Robert Cottrell on Aeon and the proliferation of wonderful writing in the field of popular science.

“Oscar Wilde said something to the effect that he never needed to go out in the evening when he could find such wit and wisdom in the books he had at home. I feel something similar when I read interviews on Edge.”
Robert Cottrell’s Spotlight Site series visits John Brockman’s Edge.

“The subject-matter often teeters at the very edge of what society will accept, and very occasionally jumps off into the abyss…”
Robert Cottrell on Practical Ethics, a blog connected to the Philosophy Faculty at Oxford.

“A model of how a blog can add value to a mainstream publication by doing something eccentric and focused, something with a life and a coherence of its own.”
Robert Cottrell on Adam Kirsch’s Daf Yomi blog.

“It isn’t all beer. Not quite…”
Next stop on Robert Cottrell’s tour of the web: Deserter.