The Buffalo Poetics List Serve is one of the most interesting, according to my friend Steve Russell.

Video Streaming tools:

Go to Miro.com and download the software, which downloads programs for you,
but no streaming off the site.

LiveStation.com also has software. It's where you can watch al-Jazeera English
and Iranian television (where I've been drafted as a DC pundit). There are another
4 dozen television and radio outlets on Live Station.

The content is streamed to your computer, as opposed to downloaded.

Just finished Charles McCarry's spy novel, "The Last Supper" -- one of his Paul Christopher novels. Pretty fun, and a good beginning for a vacation break.