cgi.stanford.edu - This is a useful article via Tomorrow's Professor for postgraduate students choosing their supervisory team, with a carefully thought-through set of criteria that includes expertise, accessibility, timeliness of feedback, previous success,...

academicalism.wordpress.com - A straightforward and brief bit of common sense for those having to give feedback on someone else's writing. The key emphasis is on always looking for the good stuff, and always offering constructive ways to improve the bad stuff. I'd add to the...

www.phdcomics.com - I post this mostly to intriduce PhDcomics to you. If you haven't discovered this site already, you have missed many an insite formatted as a laugh-out-lound comic

patthomson.wordpress.com - A nice simple explanation of how to come up with (and not come up with) research questions for a thesis. Distilled from Trowler's book (available cheaply at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctoral-Research-Higher-Education-ebook/dp/B007W57J5K )

landing.athabascau.ca - My article proposing (only very slightly tongue-in-cheek) a massive open online PhD. It goes into some detail about ways this could be done, and the issues that might prevent it from happening. I wrote the article as an exercise to see whether the...

http://thedailyphd.com/# - A useful site that aggregates a lot of news and information about PhDs, the PhD process and related issues.

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk - Great article from the Times Higher Ed giving hints and tips on how not to write a PhD. Good stuff.

student.brighton.ac.uk - These are two podcasts on writing-  one on breaking writing blocks one on turning a conference paper into a publication

donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.ca - Donald Clark's wonderful and often incendiary blog about learning and learning technologies. Check out the links down the side of the page to learning theorists for some great, concise and critical views of around 50 different learning theorists,...