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In this issue: E-LIST is one year old
Web site recommendations: from E-LIST archives

One year ago I sent out the first issue of E-LIST and I'm very glad I did
because it's been a blast. I can't quite say why I like to do it so much,
but it's a lot of fun and useful too (it's useful for me and some of you
have let me know that you find it helpful as well which is a pleasure to
know). Recently at a job interview I was telling someone about my tiny
journalistic background. We were talking about my academic interest in
communication research and I noted how at one point in my life I was also
interested in the day-to-day of journalism. In addition to the various
school publications I'd worked on, one summer I also worked as a reporter
at a big Hungarian daily. I decided that it was too stressful on a
day-to-day basis and coverage of topics was necessarily too superficial
for my interests so I did not pursue it. The person listening to me talk
about this noted that I haven't completely given up on it though as per my
list and blog. I thought that was an interesting point. Thanks to the
way we're using new technologies, it's been possible for me to pursue my
journalistic interests, broadly defined, in some way.

Thanks for joining me on the ride, you're a great readership!

Some of you sent me pointers to your favorite links from E-LIST issues.
Here I share these picks adding some of my own. I'll be sending out a new
list in a few days. Thanks for contributing, you know who you are!

The Internet Archive: Way Back Machine
pick a Web site and see what it looked like years ago
http://www.archive.org/

Digital Divide and Libraries: Equity and the Internet - a bibliography
http://web.syr.edu/~jryan/infopro/divide.html

Is your email being filtered without your knowledge?
http://strom.com/awards/293.html

Weblogs: a history and perspective
http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html

Blogosphere: the emerging Media Ecosystem
http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/blogosphere.htm

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (syllabi, book reviews, etc.)
http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/

Mailing lists related to Internet research
http://www.aoir.org/list.php

SocioLog - Sociology references, departments, organizations and much more
http://www.sociolog.com

Creative Commons - a non-profit to help those who "do not want to exercise
all of the intellectual property rights the law affords them"
http://www.creativecommons.org/

The Free Expression Policy Project - on copyright & free expression,
media literacy, media violence research and much more
http://www.fepproject.org

Pew Internet and American Life Project reports (fully available for free
online)
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/index.asp

Visualizing Internet industry partnerships
http://www.orgnet.com/inetindustry.html

Who Owns What - what the major media companies own
http://www.cjr.org/owners/

a critical look at entertainment giant Clear Channel which owns stations
with a total of 103,000,000 listeners in the U.S. and 1,000,000,000
globally
http://www.clearchannelsucks.org
&
a Salon article on them: Radio's Big Bully
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/04/30/clear_channel/index.html

"Do the conflicts of interest of our highly concentrated media constitute
a threat to democracy?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/29/opinion/29KRUG.html

Visualizing Internet Topology at a Macroscopic Scale
http://www.caida.org/analysis/topology/as_core_network/

The Censorware Project
http://censorware.net

Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet
http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/checklist.html

Staying Safe Online
http://www.staysafeonline.info/

'Have an Excel puzzle you can't solve? Post a query on this board.
(people were amazingly helpful and got back to me within minutes)
http://www.mrexcel.com/board/index.php

WordNet - "a lexical database for the English language" - it not only
gives definitions and extensive lists of synonyms, but also links words
together via a web of semantic relationships - very cool
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/

Common Errors in English
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html

NameBase - great examples (graphical and otherwise) of social network
analysis
http://www.namebase.org/

The Dvorak Keyboard - for a healthier and quicker typing experience
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/jcb/Dvorak/
&
Online course for teaching yourself Dvorak
http://www.karelia.com/abcd/

Tips on Academic Professionalization
http://www.eszter.com/academia.html

Metamorphosis: Transforming the Ties That Bind
Communication Technology and Community Program
http://metamorph.org/index1.html

Hard-to-find Apple software and hardware (plus donation program info)
http://www.mactreasures.com/

Women: The Shadow Story of the Millennium
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m2/index.html

Distinguished Women of Past and Present
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/

If Men Could Menstruate (great little piece I read in my sex and gender
course in college that I was happy to find online)
http://www.mum.org/ifmencou.htm

For young women, pass this on: GYN101
http://www.gyn101.com/

Sex Slaves in Europe
http://www.msnbc.com/news/725802.asp

Prison Sucks - Research on the crime control industry
http://www.prisonsucks.com/index.shtml

You Are a Suspect
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html

WHY: Art about the attack on the World Trade Center & Pentagon
http://www.whyproject.org

Chocolate Exhibition at the Field Museum in Chicago - I saw this a few
weeks ago, it's open til 12/31
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/Chocolate/

You probably already know about the Internet Movie Database
(http://www.imdb.com ) for anything and everything about movies,
but did you know there's a similar site for Broadway shows?
Internet Broadway Database
http://www.ibdb.com

The MegaPenny Project - visualizing large numbers
http://kokogiak.com/megapenny/

The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements - neat
http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/index.html

Today's quote:
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change
your attitude. Don't complain." -- Maya Angelou

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