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Research Guides

Geography

Writing

A great book to help with writing in the field of Geography is:
Making Sense: A Student's Guide to Research and Writing: Geography & Environmental Sciences

Another great resource to take advantage of for your writing is the University Writing Center

Podcasts

A Very Spatial Podcast is a weekly source for information on Geography and geospatial technologies. Geography touches most things we do everyday, but we rarely even think of it. This podcast seeks to point out how it is filtering into our digital lives and daily lives.  Recent topics include mobile mapping, geospatial workforce, Earth Day, as well as interviews with software and data vendors, and conference reports from ESRI, AAG and GITA.

National Geographic Weekend Podcasts - contain the latest nature and science news, audio travel guides, classic video and world music clips.

Blogs

Esri has blogs on careers, education and training support. 

Some other good blogs are Stellar Cartography, the Canadian Cartographic Associations weblog, Cartography and a librarian perspective: mapz: a gis librarian.