Jakob Nielsen, Useit.Com and the Nielsen Norman Group Tomalak's Realm was reviewed by Jakob Nielsen on March 1, 1999 in Internet World's Deconstructing column. "This is a vertical portal that strives to highlight everything worth reading on the Web each day in the area of strategic Web design. This is the same idea as SlashDot.org (a vertical portal for nerds), but I like Tomalak's Realm better because I care more about what you do on the Web than how you implement it." The site was also included in Jakob's book Designing Web Usability: "Finally, Tomalak's Realm juxtaposes links to articles from multiple sites, often including links to original or early thinking about topics that later are taken up by other sites. This capability to base a publication on pure linknig and to provide editorial comments and background by additional links is a true web-only media form." Jakob also mentioned Tomalak's Realm in an interview at WebReference.com on December 13, 1999. "These days, my favorite site is Tomalak's Realm at www.tomalak.org. It is very simple: just a scrolling list of paragraphs, and yet incredibly useful. I particularly like the way juxtaposed links are used to elaborate or comment on the stories. This site is one of the few working examples of a new rhetoric of the Web." Tomalak's Realm was also mentioned in a recent Alertbox article analyzing a recent eyetracking study as an example of good writing for the Web. And in a Reader Mail sidebar for Content Creation for Average People from October 2000: "The best current example is Tomalak's Realm: he usually doesn't write anything, so the editorial selection of links and quotes is the only service provided by the site and that is enough to make it the second-most useful site on the Web today (after Google)." Dylan Tweney, Business 2.0 Dylan included Tomalak's Realm in his column about weblogs on February 14, 2002: "Tomalak's Realm: Lawrence Lee's site for Web-design pros provides a reliable, manageable list of links every day." Steve Krug, Author of Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability Steve included the site in his recommended reading appendix to his new book: "Every day, Lawrence Lee scours all the Web sites I'd scout if I had time and provides link to the best news stories and articles about what he calls "strategic Web design." I've come to trust his judgement so much that I don't feel like I'm missing anything by not making the rounds myself." Dave Winer, UserLand Software When Tomalak's Realm started in November 1998, Dave included a link to the site from Scripting News. "Bookmark this site. It's a news site run by Lawrence Lee, aka Tomalak. There are a handful of people who send me links regularly, they know what I'm interested in, and Lawrence is my top number one link guy. In a way I'm sorry that he's got his own news page now, but that's the way it goes.. Thanks for all your help Lawrence, and best wishes for the new site!" Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News Dan mentioned Tomalak's Realm in his October 26 column announcing his new eJournal. He also included a review of Tomalak's Realm in an extended version of his column in his eJournal. "Tomalak's Realm has become a must-read site for anyone who cares about the future of online content. Lawrence Lee is the man behind the realm, and he gets high marks for design and style. Notice the indented links, which go to prior stories that provide context for the current news. Terrific stuff." Deborah Branscum, Newsweek Tomalak's Realm was mentioned in a Newsweek article on journals and weblogs in the March 5, 2001 issue: "Later, Weblogs, or blogs, were born. These are personal sites, such as Tomalak’s Realm (www.tomalak.org), that organize links to other Web content on a particular topic of interest." Jim Battey, InfoWorld Tomalak's Realm was included in Jim Battey's HotSites Extra column in InfoWorld on November 1, 1999. "Maintained by Lawrence Lee, this site provides a daily digest of links to news stories on Web design and Internet issues. Like any useful Weblog, the keys to the site's effectiveness are Lee's selection of links and his informative annotations. Tomalak's Realm is pretty sophisticated by Weblog standards -- Lee provides a search engine for his archives and offers a newsletter and XML version of the site." Karlin Lillington, The Guardian The Guardian's Web Watch column on November 18, 1999 included Tomalak's Realm. "Anyone interested in web design and good content will want to bookmark Tomalak's Realm, Lawrence Lee's neatly-designed site supplies daily links to a mind-boggling array of stories across the net on these subjects and archives all previous links. If you don't already suffer from inbox overload, you can also sign up for his daily links newsletter." Scott Rosenberg, Salon.com The site was also mentioned by Scott Rosenberg in Fear of links on May 28, 1999. "Several times a day, Lawrence Lee pumps new links about Web design and the Net business onto his Tomalak's Realm weblog; Lee does a particularly good job of hauling old links out to provide context and depth for breaking news." Patrick J. Lynch, Co-Author of the Yale Web Style Guide Patrick included a short note about Tomalak's Realm on his site on February 7, 2000: "Tomalak's Realm is one of the few Web and ebusiness news sites I check every day. Editor Lawrence Lee consistently snags the cream of the previous day's articles from a wide variety of online sources. This site is my favorite example of a genre that may redeem the Web as a trustworthy news source: careful, consistent filtering by a knowledgeable editor." Congressional Management Foundation Tomalak's Realm was included in a list of model websites in a report on improving US Congressional website, which I participated in by reviewing a short list of sites provided by the Congressional Management Foundation. "Through various technologies and good, old-fashioned research, this site provides a daily, annotated list of articles from reliable sources throughout the Web about the growth, development, sociology, regulation, and nature of the Internet and the World Wide Web. It’s an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to learn about the Web, and an outstanding model for anyone who wants to learn how to build a user-friendly and audience-oriented Web site." Other reviews ::: Kevin Werbach in Release 1.0 mentions Tomalak's Realm in Triumph of the Weblogs: "Lawrence Lee provides links and abstracts to interesting articles on the Web" ::: Arnold Kling includes Tomalak's Realm as one of his ten favorite websites: "Tomalak's Realm is absolutely the one site I cannot do without. It keeps up with Internet current events. Comparable to CNET's news.com site, which only costs about a bazillion more dollars to operate." ::: Lockergnome included the site as a GnomeFAVORITE on July 4, 2001: "Interested in the world of Web design? If you are, you should pay a visit to Tomalak's Realm. He won't tell you how to design a Web site, but he does link to a bunch of news articles having to do with the ever-changing world of Web design." ::: Mark Brownlow from the Internet Business Forum reviewed the newsletter for iBizNewsletters on October 18, 2000: "One of the problems with this kind of format is that unless you're following developments closely all the time (nearly impossible), it can be difficult to place new information in some kind of context. Fortunately, Lawrence is the first person I know to actually attempt to address this problem." ::: The Audit Bureau of Circulation's Young Media Professionals Committee included Tomalak's Realm as a knowledge resource in their April 1999 newsletter: "An intelligent digest of news for Web designers, marketers and developers. News and insights from a wide range of sources are summarized and linked on a daily basis. On March 21, "Today's Links" surveyed articles from ABCNews.com, Feed Magazine and Adweek. Quality is emphasized over quantity." ::: Tomalak's Realm was selected as a Web design exemplars by the Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media: "A homely magazine site with beautiful content. Succeeds in spite of its design. If daily news on the Internet and Web design interests you, this is one of the few sites worth setting as your home page location." ::: Tomalak's Realm was listed in an issue of Tasty Bits from the Technology Front by Keith Dawson "...Web logs I find most useful to the topics TBTF covers."