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In this issue: schedule update/ASA section name change
Web site recommendations: IT/misc/fun

After a few days of relative calm here in Princesstown (emphasis on
relative), I'm off to various places in the next few weeks and probably
won't be sending out much on the list. Among other things, next Sat I'll
be in Philly for a seminar on Measuring Search Behaviors: Current and
Proposed Methods sponsored by the Special Interest Group on Information
Needs, Seeking and Use of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology. That should be interesting, it's great to talk to people
who've been struggling with similar methodological issues.
http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGUSE/

Also, hot off the press is that our work has paid off in changing the
name and mission statement of the American Sociological Association's
Section on "Sociology and Computers". The new name is
"Communication and Information Technologies". I'll post a note on the new
mission statement on my blog later today. Please spread the word to
sociologists (and others who may be interested), and join the section!
Thanks to Keith Hampton (MIT) and Anabel Quan Haase (Toronto) with whom I
worked on this.

This E-LIST issue is a bit longer than usual to make up for the absence.:)
Enjoy, and please do keep sending pointers my way. Thanks to those of you
who have!

Does Search Engine's Power Threaten Web's Independence?
http://news.com.com/2009-1023-963618.html

To the Liberal Arts, He Adds Computer Science - Brian's great!
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/31/technology/circuits/31prof.html

Global Media Journal
http://www.globalmediajournal.com
&
its section for graduate student research in particular
http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj/graduate_research.htm

When Interfaces Kill: What Really Happened to John Denver
http://www.asktog.com/columns/027InterfacesThatKill.html

The Cranky User: Could you repeat that?
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/us-cranky23.html
&
here's a great little shareware editor that allows such cross-file actions
and takes less than ten minutes to learn - I highly recommend it!
http://www.ultraedit.com/
&
some pointers on how to use it when writing for Stata
http://www.eszter.com/stata.html#editor

Riding along with the Internet Bookmobile
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/10/09/bookmobile/index.html?x

Where Net Luminaries Turn For News
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1035486868.php

Tomorrow's Professor Listserv - info on faculty development
http://sll.stanford.edu/projects/tomprof/newtomprof/postings.html

Blog to Court: Check Your Facts
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56126,00.html

Word Up: Keeping Languages Alive
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54345,00.html

Meatmarket.com - on online dating
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/05/15/online_dating/?x

The First Smiley:-)
http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html

Do Women Lack Drive? Or a Wife?
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/business/yourmoney/13WCOL.htm

On Profit, Loss and the Mysteries of the Mind - about Danny Kahneman's
work (this year's Nobel laureate in Econ)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/05/health/policy/05CONV.html

Sheila Wellstone Became a Respected Voice in Her Own Right
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1752/3389565.html

Academics against attacking Iraq
http://www.noattackiraq.org

Scientific Fraud Found at Bell Labs
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/88624_bell261.shtml
&
some brief comments on this
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000118.html

Mass Mailing Attacks Lesbian Candidate
http://www.365gay.com/newscontent/2002/11/110302baldwinTricks.htm

Ads on Police Cars
http://www.commercialalert.org/index.php?category_id=3&subcategory_id=70&article\
_id=171

The Phrase Finder
http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/index.html

The effects of college exams on the life expectancy of grandmothers :)
http://alex.halavais.net/news/archives/2002_10.html#000074

Spank Bush
http://www.spankbush.com

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"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." -- Woodrow Wilson

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