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In this issue: search engine popularity?
Web site recommendations: IT/gender/misc

I am looking for figures on search engine popularity. That is, what
percent of people use Google and/or Yahoo and/or MSN etc for their
searches? There is a LOT of _anecdotal_ evidence that Google is the most
used search engine, but I have yet to see data on this. Can anyone point
me to data? I only know of this one source and this cites 30% for Google:
http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/netratings.html
I would really appreciate any other sources. Thanks!!

Welcome new readers from the SWS list! On to the links.

Princeton Presidential Lecture Series:
Anytime, Anywhere: The Recent Revolution in Wireless Communications
TODAY, Wed, March 5th, 4:30pm, 104 Computer Science Building
Webcast live: http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/
http://www.princeton.edu/Siteware/WebAnnounce.Princeton_Announcements.shtml#3

New issue of IT and Society on Web Navigation
http://www.itandsociety.org
&
my piece in it on Serving Citizens' Needs: Minimizing Hurdles to Accessing
Government Information Online
http://www.eszter.com/research/a10-taxtask.html

Is Google too powerful?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2786761.stm

Ratings Agency Says It Erred in Measuring Web Site Use
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/24/technology/24NET.html

AltaVista sold to Overture (example of no source for claims about Google's
popularity)
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/051/business/AltaVista_s_lost_mission+.shtml

Papers about language, literacy, technology, the Internet and more
http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw/papers.html

Communication, Information and Internet Policy Call for Papers
http://www.tprc.org/tprc03/call03.htm

Usability Glossary
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/glossary/index_terms.txl

Usability News newsletter
http://wsupsy.psy.twsu.edu/surl/usability_news.html

Noise Barrier Aesthetics
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/noise/6.htm

How Conservatives Pigeonholed Those Poor Liberals
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/weekinreview/02NUNB.html

A chronology of Bush saying one thing then doing another
http://www.house.gov/appropriations_democrats/caughtonfilm.htm

The Mommy Wars: How the media turned motherhood into a catfight
http://www.msmagazine.com/feb00/mommywars1.html

Fighting postpartum depression (10-20% of mothers go through this)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0302160276feb16,1,4961982.story
[the Chicago Tribune requires registration]

Men Must Join Women to End Violence against Women
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1234

PBS American Experience series: The Pill
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/index.html

Save Title IX - for women's participation in sports
http://www.savetitleix.com

Women's Health and Urban Life - fully online journal
http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/sever/journal/about.html

The Scholar and Feminist Online - women's studies online journal
http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/

Presidential candidate wife will continue pursuing her own career
http://rutlandherald.nybor.com/Search/Categories/Article/60772

The World's Richest People - Forbes magazine's list of billionaires
http://www.forbes.com/2003/02/26/billionaireland.html

Who is benefiting from all the duct tape sales across the US?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38109-2003Feb20.html

God, Satan and the Media - Gallup poll shows 48 percent of Americans
believe in creationism, and only 28 percent in evolution
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/opinion/04KRIS.html

Encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture
http://www.glbtq.com/

Some great music: Kasey Chambers
http://www.emimusic.com.au/artists/kaseychambers/index.asp
&
my comments after her concert last week
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000215.html

Women comment about their ex's online - yet another proof that anything
you can think of already has a corner carved out for it online
http://www.ex-so.com/
&
A different twist on a similar theme
http://www.greatboyfriends.com

Today's quote:
"If a woman is swept off a ship into the water, the cry is `Man
overboard!' If she is killed by a hit-and-run driver, the charge is
`manslaughter.' If she is injured on the job, the coverage is `workmen's
compensation.' But if she arrives at a threshold marked `Men Only,' she
knows the admonition is not intended to bar animals or plants or inanimate
objects. It is meant for her." -- Alma Graham, ``How to Make Trouble: The
Making of a Nonsexist Dictionary.'' Ms., December 1973, p. 16.

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
Ann Crittenden's ultimate survivor game
Local Googles try to second-guess user preferences
Paper: Serving Citizens' Needs
Celebrations
Freedom-to-Tinkerer profile & where are the sociologists?
Concert: Kasey Chambers
The digital divide and what to do about it
More blogs
Sociologist dies
E-LIST update
Helpful software: PhoTags
See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com

From E-BLOG: Ann Crittenden's ultimate survivor game (3/4/03)
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000220.html for underlying links
or to comment

Ann Crittenden gave a talk at Princeton this afternoon. She started by
describing what she suggests would be the ultimate survivor game: Six men
on an island, each with four kids. There are no fast food restaurants and
no TV. The fathers have to go through the usual responsibilities involved
with raising children including four hour PTA meetings. After each
episode, the kids get to vote off the fathers one by one. The prize for
the winner is that he gets to go back to his paying job.

Ann Crittenden is the author of The Price of Motherhood which is a book
you should go and read if you haven't yet (Paul Starr reviewed it in the
New York Times two years ago). The focus of the book - and Crittenden's
talk today - is the inability of the U.S. to accept the investment in
children as a social investment. In the U.S. more than most other
countries in the world, mothers bear the economic burden of raising kids,
kids who will be paying for everyone's social security benefits in the
future thus constituting a social good from which all of society benefits.
Crittenden calls this the "Mommy tax" which often costs women easily $1
million in lifetime earnings. She pointed out that the gender gap in wages
has close to diminished for those 35 years old and younger. The real gap
exists between men & childless women as compared to mothers.

The United States joins just four other countries across the globe with no
universal paid parental leave policy: Australia (they are working on it
now), Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, and Swaziland. In contrast, Canada
recently passed a law which grants mothers 12 months' leave. In Sweden,
families get 12 months' leave but only if the father takes at least one of
those months for leave (I'm assuming/hoping they deal with homosexual
couple issues somehow).

Crittenden's book is incredibly well researched and addresses lots of
important points with separate chapters dedicated to the question of
welfare, the argument of "but it's your choice" and policy considerations.
It's the kind of book one hopes everyone will read.

As to forthcoming policy steps, it's hard to say. We are discussing
potential options in a book group partly sponsored by the Gender and
Development Policy Network here at Princeton.

Crittenden has a nice piece about A National-Security Gender Gap in the
latest issue of The American Prospect.