Besides reading academic blogs: Google's Book Search.
Controversy aside, it's a terrific tool for conducting research in books, and one that even my students probably won't shy away from once I introduce them to it. I especially like that they don't need to go through an authentication process to access it, as they do to use the university's library databases—a process that, I think, confuses a lot of students and keeps the lazier ones from using the library website, even though they can access it from home.
I've been using Google Book Search as a citation database. Type in your favorite author or cultural critic, and you can see who cites them and in what context. Of course, this means that the amount of money I spend buying books online is about to skyrocket, as I keep discovering great new books outside my usual disciplines. . .
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You probably already know about Google Scholar. Journal articles and scholarly websites. I'm not quite sure how they decide what goes in the index, since one of my very much not peer-reviewed papers shows up there. Still, it's a nice way to find articles.
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