NLP: Building (small) corpora, or “Where to get lots of not-too-specialized English-language text files?”

Question

Does anyone have a suggestion for where to find archives or collections of everyday English text for use in a small corpus? I have been using Gutenberg Project books for a

Answer 1

You've covered the obvious ones. The only other areas that I can think of too supplement:

1) News articles / blogs.

2) Magazines are posting a lot of free material online, and you can get a good cross section of topics.