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In this issue: lit review query
Web site recommendations: IT/heritage/environment/misc

I'm looking for literature on
1. people's Internet use for health information
2. how people with disabilities use the Web (especially for health
information but also in general)
I have some leads (like the Pew report on the topic: The Online Health
Care Revolution: How the Web helps Americans take better care of
themselves http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=26 and pieces
from the Journal of Medical Internet Research http://www.jmir.org ) but
would appreciate any other pointers that come to mind. Thanks!

Thanks to all those who contributed to this issue!

The Value of Reputation on eBay - A Controlled Experiment
http://www.si.umich.edu/~presnick/papers/postcards/index.html

The Hole-in-the-Wall experiments in India
http://www.niitholeinthewall.com

The A to Z of Usability (including great use of network analysis to map
the community)
http://www.usabilityviews.com

Thumbnails of the day's newspaper's from around the world all on one page
- very cool!
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

Start-Up Marries Blogs and Camera Phones
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/64/28773.html

Postdoc/Fellowship at Institute for Security Technology Studies, Dartmouth
http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/ISTS/fp.htm

Did you know that Happy Birthday is copyrighted?
http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.htm
&
given recent events, that copyright will continue to hold :-((
Supremes Uphold Longer Copyrights
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,57220,00.html

Interactive multi-source news summarization
http://www.newsinessence.com

The Internet picture dictionary - simple pictures with their names in
various languages for a learning tool
http://www.pdictionary.com

More on airport security experiences - this one with a different twist
"freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that
I'll spend to find out how to get people more of it"
http://pennandteller.com/sincity/penniphile/federalvip.html

Study Looks at Squatters and Land Titles in Peru - a good friend's
fascinating work written up in the NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/09/business/09SCEN.html

Net Captures Lost World of Shtetl
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57204,00.html
&
Jewish Heritage in Central and Eastern Europe
http://www.centropa.org

Cuba popular study destination for US students
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/01/07/cuba.studies.ap/index.html

Pictures of Cuba
http://alai.cigb.edu.cu/HavanaCubaBiomed11.htm#hav

A good starting point for the human health antibiotic-resistance and
livestock story
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?ContentID=2500

End of critical protection for sea turtles? (sad picture:( )
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?ContentID=2587

Organic dining options come to Princeton dining halls (largely thanks to a
good friend's efforts)
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2003/01/08/news/6688.shtml

Scientific American: Top Science Stories of 2002
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=00077641-A3BF-1E03-8B3B8\
09EC588EEDF

Stories about people's cherished ticket stubs
http://stories.about.ticketstubs.org/

"slang, webspeak, colloquialisms.." - can be useful for communicating with
people from other generations and regions
http://www.pseudodictionary.com/

Today's quote:
"The earth laughs in flowers." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
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From E-BLOG: M$Speak (11/17/02)
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000123.html for underlying links
or to comment

I found the following gem via "soy sauce and garlic". Microsoft has a
Manual of Style for Technical Publications which has the following entry
for "navigate":

"Avoid the verb navigate to refer to moving from site to site, page to
page within a site, or link to link on the Internet (or on the desktop or
in other applications, as well). Instead, use explore to mean looking for
sites or pages generally, move to or move through to refer to sequentially
moving from one link or site to another, or a similar neutral term
describing the action."

It turns out that others have commented on this years ago and with some
added wit. If you didn't really understand why the above quote is so
interesting then let me just say that Netscape used to rule the browser
market with its program called Navigator. This Manual of Style was written
around the time when Netscape Navigator was still an important player in
the browser market. Microsoft's own browser is called Internet Explorer
and thus the encouragement to use "explore" instead of "navigate".

I think it's fascinating how powers-that-be try to influence people's
thoughts, understandings and attitudes via use of particular language.
This reminds me of the Bush Administration's approach to the digital
divide, or the supposed lack thereof, to be precise. I commented on this
on my E-LIST but since I didn't have a blog then yet, I'll just repost the
comment here:

Looking for the latest US Govt report on Americans' connectivity? You
won't find it at http://www.digitaldivide.gov . The report is no longer
part of the Falling Through the Net series, instead, it is now titled "A
Nation Online". And although differences are decreasing, it's interesting
how the change in language is supposed to make all the difference. Of
course, this new spin on the topic will help justify the cuts in spending
on info tech subsidies. (February 7, 2002 E-LIST issue)

And here's another related note (from the April 8, 2002 E-LIST issue):

The other day I needed to look at the various Digital Divide reports of
the NTIA so I went to www.digitaldivide.gov . The site no longer exists.
As the "Falling Through the Net" reports transformed into a report called
A Nation Online, the URL referring to the divide is also falling into
oblivion. Links to the past reports are now available under a new
directory "digitalnation" on the ntia.doc.gov site. It's possible to get
archives of the www.digitaldivide.gov site using the Wayback Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.digitaldivide.gov but if you
simply type in http://www.digitaldivide.gov you get a page-not-found. (It
is possible that this is a temporary glitch, but somehow I doubt it.)
[Jan 2003 update: the URL now redirects.] This is all in line with the
Administration's related proposed budget cuts and some recent commentaries
that there is no longer a digital divide problem. But note that although
the gap may have decreased in terms of connectivity, or technical access,
it's important to recognize that with the Internet, mere access does not
constitute effective access to all that the medium has to offer. For more
on this, see my new paper on what I call "the second-level digital
divide", or the differences in people's ability to use the Web:

Second-Level Digital Divide: Differences in People's Online Skills
(some findings from the Web Use Project)

In any case, these are just some more examples of Agendaspeak.

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