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In this issue: E-LIST archives
Web site recommendations: IT/news/humor

E-LIST now has easily accessible archives.  The entire 2002 collection is
available here: http://www.eszter.com/elist/urls2002.html .  There's a
link to it on the E-LIST main page which is featured in every issue on
top.  A list of all the quotes featured at the end of each issue is
available here:
http://www.eszter.com/elist/elist-quotes.html .

Thanks to all those who contributed!

Gagged by Google
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13254

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

Women in the Information Age
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/witia/

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

Privacy concerns & your local phone company
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/05/28/telecoms.privacy.ap/

InfoAge Learning Center, Camp Evans, NJ (Marconi's first permanent US lab)
http://www.infoage.org/

a Digital Divide Report
http://www.consumerfed.org/DigitalDivideReport20020530.pdf
(requires Adobe Acrobat reader)

Call for Papers:
Soft Power: Informational Ambiguities and Asymmetries in the Network Age
http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~lueg/CfP_JASIST.html

Networked World: Information Technology and Globalization (conference)
http://sts.scu.edu/globalization/

Digital Imagery for Works of Art - a report
http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/mellon/report.html

On the redevelopment of lower Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11 -
open to your input
http://www.evolvenewyork.org

Anti-Abortionists Try New Weapon - posting photos and medical records of
women from clinics on the Web
http://www.msnbc.com/news/758117.asp

Some thoughts on driving (humorous, don't be offended)
http://www.motoros-friends.hu/gyozo/fahrschule/
(requires Flash)

Some dot com humor, based on the writer's own experiences
http://www.fuzzygroup.com/writing/humor/

Crafts from recycled materials
http://www.hgtv.com/HGTV/pac/1,1964,recycrafts_recycrafts,FF.html

Things you'll discover in the new $20 bill (who has time to come up with
this stuff??)
http://64.82.72.19/20billsecrets.shtml

Today's quote:
"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat
you with experience." - from Dilbert quotes

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  On filtering software...
  P-Rade and other Princeton fun
  Your privacy.. take II
  "The Future of Internet Regulation" - a conference
  Classroom projects you shouldn't do... :-))))))
  High school students and Web searching

See them here:  http://www.esztersblog.com

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Web site recommendations: IT/humor

Google Glossary
http://labs1.google.com/glossary

challenging the Copyright Term Extension Act
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/
&
updates on Eldred v Aschroft case
http://eldred.cc/

Google provides more info than you could possibly wish for
(a list of misspelled [britney spears] queries)
http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html

Online News Stories that Change Behind Your Back
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/08/1924240&mode=nocomment&tid=149

Police Records For Anyone's Viewing Pleasure
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176736.html

Face Scans Set Up at Lady Liberty
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020525/ap_on_re_us/attacks_s\
tatue_of_liberty_2

Kazaa Creators Say Lawsuits Too Costly To Continue
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176729.html

Extensive bibliography on mobile phone/SMS/instant messaging
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~nalinik/mobile.html

From Cell Phones to Self-Phones
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=954329

Brazil Considers Mobile Phone Ban
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1777000/1777516.stm

Digital cameras are great, but they give very clunky names to files.
Here's a helpful little program to save you time renaming your files:
http://www.vikarplus.com/newnames.html
(Windows only)

From the same developer, here's a quick image resizer (extremely
helpful!)
http://www.vikarplus.com/jpegresizer.html
(Windows only)

Instant photo gallery (runs on UNIX only and requires shell access)
http://www.nihongo.org/snowhare/utilities/htmlthumbnail/

Grants for Researchers in Residence Daniel Langlois Foundation for
Art, Science, and Technology
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e/programmes/bourses.html

About a Boy Who Isn't
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/magazine/26BOYGIRL.html

Ten Tips on Volunteering Wisely
http://www.networkforgood.org/volunteer/volunteertips.html

Factual Error Found on Internet :)
http://www.theonion.com/onion3819/factual_error_found.html

"High Tech Humor Served Fresh Occassionally"
http://www.valleyofthegeeks.com/
&
some amusing spoof banner ads
http://www.valleyofthegeeks.com/Features/BannerAds.html

Grad student at a conference - in comics
http://phd.stanford.edu/archive.cfm?comicid=302

Today's quote:
"If you think you are too small to make a difference,
try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito..." African Proverb

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Cool software
  Without TV
  Hurray for the blogging community
  Escaping Excel (well, not quite..)
  The future of blogs.. maybe
  Blog sighting
  On teachable search engines
  Protecting your privacy

See them here:  http://www.esztersblog.com

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Web site recommendations: IT/misc

Thanks to all those who sent me links!

A search engine with user-friendly instructions for refining queries and a
graphical network representation of results
http://www.kartoo.com

Teaching a Search Engine
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/3274269.htm
(It's a nice idea, but beware of potential misuses, and
potential problems of being boxed in to your past preferences. See my
comments on this here: http://www.esztersblog.com .)

Casting a Wider Net - Launch Conference of the Oxford Internet Institute
http://www.oxfordevent.com/

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

Landmark Decision in .info Dispute (sure, this is nice, but if the li'l
guy's at the other end, s/he still needs a few thousand dollars to start
the arbitration process...)
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2110412,00.html

Microsoft Opts Passport Holders into Spam Hell
http://www.theregus.com/content/6/24968.html
&
The Yahoo Privacy Storm That Wasn't
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/13/technology/ebusiness/13YAHO.html

Ode to the Yahoo of Yore - my thoughts exactly
http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=207987

Growing Number Watch TV While Surfing Web
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/advertising/article/0,,5941_1122511,00.ht\
ml

Imagine: World with Unlimited Airwaves
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/3294951.htm

Domain names in Urdu? The potential security risks of intl URLs
http://www.sciam.com/2002/0602issue/0602scicit5.html

Using IT to add a personal touch to graduation ceremonies
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/05/2002052101t.htm

Religion Finds Technology
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/16/technology/circuits/16CHUR.html

The Last Sociologist
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/opinion/19PATT.html

In Pakistan, Rape Victims are the 'Criminals' - and get sentenced to death
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/17/international/asia/17RAPE.html

A Failure to Imagine - or the need for an "Office of Evil"
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/opinion/19FRIE.html

Serious health risks associated with air travel
http://www.time.com/time/europe/ta/magazine/0,9868,102121,00.html

Cutting Catalog Waste
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?ContentID=2039

National Yiddish Book Center Launches "Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish
Library" - saving endangered books
http://yiddishbookcenter.org/story.php?n=10055

I recommend these two SW sites more than the new movie (Episode II)
Lego Star Wars Trilogy
http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~mbsf/sworde.htm
&
Star Wars ASCIImation
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/

Recently on Eszter's Blog:

The potential implications of teachable search engines
Protecting your privacy
Movie: About a Boy
Movie mistakes
My piece in First Monday
The politics of human subjects review
The disappearance of Geography departments
New pics
Earthlights identified

See them here:  http://www.esztersblog.com

Today's quote:
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when you
grow up." -- Pablo Picasso

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In this issue: Launching Eszter's Blog
Web site recommendations: IT/edu/news

I have started my own blog.  A blog (Weblog) is an online forum usually
with one main author/contributor who frequently posts his or her thoughts
on just about anything or a in some cases just on the specified blog topic
(mine is general).  Blogs often offer readers the opportunity to post
replies to the author's entries (my E-BLOG has this feature).
   An interesting question is to what extent blogs will become part of the
mainstream, that is, are average users going to embrace them as a source
of information and as an opportunity to make their voices heard, or will
blogs remain the tool of the more Net savvy 24-online crowd?  To be fair,
there are already millions of bloggers, but that's still just a tiny
portion of all users.  Then again, even if "only" a few million people
publish or read blogs, it may be an important phenomenon depending on who
those people are and what they do with the info they obtain from blogs.
(We've also seen their possible effect on search engines.)
   I want to give credit to Greymatter (http://www.noahgrey.com/greysoft )
which is the program I am using for my blog.  I wanted a program that I
could run on our own servers but that is user-friendly enough not to
require intense knowledge of perl or php.  This was exactly what I was
looking for, it's great!
See my blog here: http://www.esztersblog.com .
(the newest entry is on "The politics of human subjects review")

And now on to other links, thanks to those who contributed!

Digital Empowerment Campaign - a bipartisan coalition to support federal
technology programs in an effort to bridge digital inequalities
http://www.digitalempowerment.org/  (Check out how you can help!)

"A Nation Online" - Who's Not Online and Why It Matters
http://www.techpolicybank.org/2002commercereport.html

Top Ten New Copyright Crimes - don't touch that dial!
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=198

Google + Amazon + Alexa = a new type of search engine and business plan
(some of the info is incorrect, but what's new...)
http://info.alexa.com
&
read about it here:
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0514-alexa.html

Global Village Idiocy (or spreading the "I Hate You" virus)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/opinion/12FRIE.html

Journal Boycott Over Online Access Is a Bust
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/05/2002051601t.htm

Plagiarism-Detection Tool Creates Legal Quandary
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i36/36a03701.htm

Legal information for Internet professionals
http://www.gigalaw.com

The original proposal of the WWW
http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

on student-advisor patent conflicts (an interesting case description)
http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dltr/articles/2001dltr0035.html

Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes - why public interest print ads miss
their target
http://www.emcf.org/pdf/badadshappenforgoodcause.pdf
(requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Not Only in America: Gun Killings Shake the Europeans
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/11/international/europe/11SHOO.html

No Big Deal, but Some Dorm Rooms Have Gone Coed
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/11/education/11COED.html

True Blue Americans (how some states are subsidizing others and a note on
political representation in the US)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/opinion/07KRUG.html

Women in the Marines
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56835-2002Apr26.html

Statue Park - "a glance behind the iron curtain"
http://www.szoborpark.hu

Art Crimes - graffiti from around the world
http://www.graffiti.org/

Today's quote:
"A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at
explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/hate/edu/way.random

Paranoia, Stupidity and Greed Ganging Up on The Public
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/3200101.htm
&
A note on what to do with DVDs that don't let you skip forward on ads
http://lists.elistx.com/archives/interesting-people/200204/msg00134.html

Save Internet Radio - what you can do!
http://saveinternetradio.org/
&
An independent musician's views on all this
http://www.woodpecker.com/writing/essays/carp_letter.html

Study report on "Use of the Internet at Major Life Moments"
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=58

BBC launches net search engine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1964000/1964553.stm

EU to tax Internet sales (for now, online downloads)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/749006.asp

Cracking the Nest Egg (or how safe is your money?)
http://news.com.com/2009-1017-893230.html

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

Business Pros Flock to Weblogs
http://www.msnbc.com/news/737986.asp

Shanghai Cybercafes Shut Down
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1971000/1971153.stm

Net Ban Sparks Protests in Bahrain
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1968000/1968446.stm

Columnist for Egyptian Government Daily to Hitler:
"If Only You Had Done It, Brother"
http://www.memri.org/news.html#1020371954

Racist Groups Using Computer Gaming to Promote Violence Against Blacks,
Latinos and Jews
http://www.adl.org/videogames/default.asp

Feminism Perverted: Extremist Women on the World Wide Web
http://www.adl.org/special_reports/extremist_women_on_web/feminism_intro.html

The Nazism Exposed Project
http://www.ekran.no/html/nazismexposed/

"Socialism in Europe" vs "Fascism in Europe" class at Swarthmore
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/daily/specials/commune/index.html

Some great senior theses at Princeton (the one I link to here is an
amazing dancer and his show was truly wonderful)
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/02/0506/6a.shtml

Community college adds "cheating grade" to transcripts
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/3189588.htm

Couple donates 450,000 local obituaries to library
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/display.cfm?storyid=19927

The Gallery Of "Misused" Quotation Marks
http://www.juvalamu.com/qmarks/

Today's quote:
"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
-- Yoda, Star Wars

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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/edu/misc.fun

I know some of you have received the Klez virus coming with my address
attached in the From line.  My machine is not infected, but the way this
particular worm works, it will pick up addresses from an infected machine
both to use in the To and From fields of future messages.  One way to know
that it's not really from me is that this particular worm doesn't seem
intelligent enough to add the full name to the From line, and any message
you get from me would have my name on it.  (Of course, in the future, I'm
sure viruses will pick up that info as well as they're harvesting your
email, but it seems to be a limitation of this particular one.) In any
case, for more info on the Klez virus/worm see here:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52174,00.html
&
beware, there are other viruses along for the ride with Klez
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176368.html

And now onto other sites:

AOL Replaces Overture With Google
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/technology/ebusiness/02GOOG.html

Ordering Groceries in Aisle 'www'
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/04/nyregion/04GROC.html

Education Key To Keeping Kids Away From Net Porn
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20001-2002May2.html
&
the National Research Council's report on this
http://www.nationalacademies.org/webextra/netsafety

Women Who Found Time to Volunteer Their Time - Online
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/WiredWomen/wiredwomen.html

Classmates.com: Signpost for the Net?
http://news.com.com/2008-1082-898279.html

Evolve New York Open Studio: Rebuilding Proposals
http://www.coi.columbia.edu/conferences.html#eos

ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/TRAINING/summer.html

The complex reality of the UN Population Fund and the devastating
effects of Bush cutting $34 million from funding it
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/26/opinion/26KRIS.html

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

Even Top Students Feel the Sting of Rejection
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/community/states/new_jersey/3155037.ht\
m

A Suicide at MIT
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/magazine/28MIT.html

The Four Word Film Review - amusing
http://www.fwfr.com

Very cool 4 min movie of a building construction (I'm probably biased
since I pass this building every day)
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~min/friend_center/

Chocolate Exhibition at the Field Museum in Chicago
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/Chocolate/

Trivia: name the book (or movie) given the first line
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/jad22

"All Your Base Are Belong To Us" :)
http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/
(probably most amusing to self-identifying geeks:)

Today's quote:
"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are." -- Confucius

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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/misc/Passover

Thanks to everyone who sent me links!

PCMLP Summer School: Legal Responses to New Communications
Technologies
http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/summer2002.htm

Cult Forces Google to Remove Critical Links
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t412-s2107088,00.html
&
Anti-Scientology Site Re-Listed On Google
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175421.html

Worldwide Internet population estimates
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/geographics/article/0,,5911_151151,00\
.html

Global digital divide gets wider
http://www.electronicstimes.com/story/OEG20020322S0015
&
Report it is based on (exec summary free, full report CHFr.100)
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/wtdr_02/index.html

Spam - an article more informed than most - still no solutions though
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-865442.html

AOL mail: OK for others, not itself
http://www.msnbc.com/news/727898.asp?cp1=1

Pay for Content?  Ha, Say Users
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,51146,00.html

A full-size virtual keyboard projected by light on to any surface
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_548253.html?menu=news.technology

Glove lends the deaf a hand
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2002/1/16/glove.htm

EBay Drops Proposed Privacy Change
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52061-2002Mar19.html

Mona Lisa Goes Online in Louvre Web Site Revamp
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=732154

Social Science History Association (CFP: Apr 12)
http://www.ssha.org/ssha2002/

ECSR Summer School: Integrating Sociological Theory and Research
http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~pdegraaf/ecsr/summerschool.html

2002 Council of Graduate Schools/University Microfilms International
Distinguished Dissertation Awards
http://www.cgsnet.org/ProgramsServices/currentyearawards.htm#microfilm

MIT vows to counter gender bias
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/079/nation/MIT_vows_to_counter_gender_bias+.sh\
tml
&
MIT Reports of the Committees on the Status of Women Faculty (updates)
http://web.mit.edu/faculty/reports/

Women fighters in the Civil War
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/23/arts/23WOME.html

Europeans Opting Against Marriage
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/24/international/europe/24MARR.html

Virtual Seder (a nice intro to Passover traditions for those who've never
experienced it)
http://64.39.4.76/holidays/pesach/index.htm

A Humanist Modern Version Haggadah For Passover
http://www.eszter.com/passover.html
I compiled this last year and am happy to share it (comes with nice little
clip art illustrations:).  It's not religious, it's inclusive to both Jews
and non-Jews, it includes the orange on the Seder plate for a feminist
twist and refers to modern day plagues.

I should note that I got most of the material for it from:
A Humanist Haggadah for Passover Introduction
http://www.machar.org/passover.html
&
Passover Haggadah for a Secular-Humanist Seder by Peter Schweitzer
http://www.humanistjew.org/Haggadah.htm

Today's quote:
"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written
yet, then you must write it." -- Toni Morrison

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In this issue: film in NYC
Web site recommendations: IT/misc

For those in NYC and area, I recommend the following film screening
tomorrow (Sunday, 4/28) in Tribeca:
"Comme Si C'etait Hier" (As If It Were Yesterday)
A Film by Myriam Abramowicz and Esther Hoffenberg (Original Music: Neige)
131 Duane St, NYC (b/w Church and W.Broadway - 212-964-4249)
Light refreshments served at 2:30pm
Film and Q&A with filmmaker Abramowicz following the screening 3-5pm
Limited seating - $7.00
"The award-winning 1980 documantary film about non-Jews in Belgium during
WWII who hid, placed and saved over 4000 Jewish children often at the risk
of their own lives, and which helped launch The Hidden Child decade later
in 1994."
I saw this a few weeks ago here at Princeton and found it very
interesting. Not only does it chronicle a part of WWII events we don't
much hear about, but it does so by considering the full range of effects
the events had on these children (and on the people risking their lives to
save them).
(For related info, see The National Center for Jewish Film
here: http://www.brandeis.edu/jewishfilm/ .)

And now on to some links, thanks to all those who sent me URLs.

The Censorware Project
http://censorware.net

Finding Missing Children, With Technology's Help
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/25/technology/circuits/25KIDS.html

Long-Time File-Swappers Buy More Music, Not Less (of course, it would be
interesting to see a detailed academic study on this)
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176114.html

Digital-Divide Disconnect
http://www.edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=32dickard.h21

Some figures on Internet connectivity on the continent of Africa
http://allafrica.com/stories/200204220236.html

Victims of Lost Files Out of Luck
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-887849.html

People don't seem to be interested in M$ Passport and other
authentication systems
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-892808.html

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/

UNC wins grant to preserve, make public tapes by Seeger, Dylan,
other folk singers
http://www.unc.edu/news/newsserv/univ/grammy022202.htm

Stuff to do with and for kids
http://www.igrandparents.com

House of Blues concert archive
http://www.hob.com/onlinemusic/concerts/
(requires free registration and media player)
&
Ani DiFranco concert
http://www.hob.com/onlinemusic/concerts/concert.asp?conid=892

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

The Worm Project
http://www.thewormproject.com

Today's quote:
"Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than
truth."
-- Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

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In this issue: political shifts
Web site recommendations: IT/news/misc

With a move to the right in so many regions across the globe, it was a
relief to see that in the Hungarian national elections held this past
weekend the left won the majority of parliamentary seats.  There was a
record turnout, an impressive 71% of eligible voters showed up at the
polls.  'Thought I'd spread the word that there's some hope in a few
little pockets of the world...
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/04/22/hungary.election/
http://www.valasztas.hu/index_en.htm

Google results via email (nice idea, doesn't always work though)
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=7229394

Characterizing The Competition For Links on The Web
http://modelingtheweb.com/

Jeff Bezos' open letter on used book sales & Tim O'Reilly's response
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1291
&
another author against the Authors' Guild
http://www.well.com/~doctorow/agletter.txt

Google protects its search results
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-883558.html

Tech visionaries push the Semantic Web - Concept is increased automation
capacity
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/04/16/BU155164.DTL

Has Grammar Lost Its Technological Edge?
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/15/technology/ebusiness/15NECO.html

Kids Crave Easy Surfing
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/demographics/article/0,,5901_1009771,\
00.html

Consumers' Trust In Online Content "Alarmingly Low"
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175894.html

How Microsoft Conquered Washington
http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=207250

Digital Divide Lives, Few People Care
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12299-2002Apr18.html

All Net, All the Time - high speed connections just about anywhere
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_17/b3780009.htm

Journey to the Internet's Unknown Regions
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17418.html

WebWhacker 2000 (Win95/98/NT) - for downloading entire Web sites
(I haven't tried it myself, saw it recommended on a list.)
http://www.bluesquirrel.com/products/whacker/index.html

Extensive Social Networks Bibliography
http://www.socialnetworks.org/

Needing Israel
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/13/opinion/13GORD.html

The Angry People
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/23/opinion/23KRUG.html

Providing reproductive health services with a ship for women in countries
where such services are illegal - quite something!
http://www.womenonwaves.org

The alphabet in American Sign Language (will spell things out for you)
http://where.com/scott.net/asl/abc.html

Maximizing Nutrition - is the vitamin C in your OJ still there?
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/vitamins_produce020411.html

The phone numbers of pay phones across the world :)
http://www.payphone-project.com/
&
A NYTimes article describing the project
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/05/circuits/articles/14sora.html

Today's quote:
"I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering."  -- Steven Wright

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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/fun misc

Virginia Tech Police Seize and Search a Professor's Computer
in Vandalism Case - yikes..
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/04/2002040901t.htm

Authors rally against Amazon's online selling of used books
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/65873_amazon10.shtml

NetViz Module - Dynamic Visualization of Social Networks
http://www.netvis.org
(requires free registration)

Graphs of global fixed line vs mobile phone users
http://www.economist.com/markets/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1072076

A ruling that robs the public domain - will linking become a copyright
infringement?
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3RUVJELZC

Rising Costs of Free Web E-Mail
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,51701,00.html

Computer Lifeline for Refugees
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1917000/1917441.stm

Deaf Kazakh pupils go online
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1879000/1879158.stm

Pop-up downloads - new online advertising tactics to watch out for
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-877568.html

Nanny-Cam May Leave a Home Exposed
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/technology/14SPY.html

Google Provides Scientology Warnings To Free Speech Site
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175863.html

Kid-friendly Domain Clears Hurdle - introduction of .kids.us
http://www.msnbc.com/news/737421.asp

Museums and the Web 2002 (full papers online, click on paper title)
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/speakers

eScholarship Repository - "to store and distribute academic research"
http://repositories.cdlib.org/

Virtual U. - higher ed simulation game
http://www.virtual-u.org/
&
Seductions of Sim (about SimCity years ago)
http://www.prospect.org/print/V5/17/starr-p.html

The Great American Dollar Bill Locator - ever wonder where your dollar
bill has been (even if not.. this is kinda neat)
http://www.wheresgeorge.com/

A comic strip about grad students!:)
http://phd.stanford.edu/comics

Today's quote:
"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable
gift and not as a hard duty." -- Albert Einstein

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In this issue:
Holocaust Remembrance Day

I just got back from participating in Princeton's 24-hour Holocaust victim
name reading vigil.  I spent an hour with a friend reading the names of
victims of the Holocaust.  I added three names of my own. My paternal
grandfather was killed sixty years ago in a Hungarian labor camp in the
Ukraine.  I also made reference to the son of my father's stepdad who also
died during those horrible years in Auschwitz.  As for my mother's side,
her great uncle and several other members of her family perished in
Auschwitz as well.

Here are some sites that remember..

The basics of Yom Hashoah
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/aa042398.htm

Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
http://www.yad-vashem.org.il

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org

Raoul Wallenberg and the Rescue of Jews in Budapest
http://www.ushmm.org/topics/article.utp?Id=10005211

Spielberg's The Last Days (1998) - the toughest documentary I've ever seen
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1999/02/021202.html

Voice Vision - Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories
http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/

Today's quote:
"Writing isn't an occupation, but a duty. I write as much to understand as
to be understood."  -- Elie Wiesel

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In this issue: Some thoughts on digitaldivide.gov
Web site recommendations: IT

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 (http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/dn ), 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 (http://www.ntia.doc.gov/opadhome/digitalnation/ ).
    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.) 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
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_4/hargittai
(some findings from the Web Use Project)

And now onto some IT Web picks:

Federal Retrenchment on the Digital Divide: Potential National Impact
http://www.benton.org/policybriefs/brief01.html

Search Engines Home In - updates on Google and new rival: Teoma
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58309-2002Apr3.html

Google's Toughest Search Is for a Business Model
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/08/technology/ebusiness/08GOOG.html

Why Your Phone Company Hates DSL - No DSL in your area? Here's why.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010222.html

Web Blocking On Trial
http://www.aclu.org/features/f032001a.html

Judges end library porn-filter trial on skeptical note
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/2999883.htm

An interesting way to deal with spam (Windows only, I haven't tried it as
I use pine in UNIX, but it looks promising for Win users)
http://www.mailwasher.net/

Let's Learn Some Lessons About Broadband
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-875416.html

Internet Backdoors in Hungary - rise of the Surveillance State
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/12245/1.html

For Mac OSX.1 users: Google search from nearly any application
http://gu.st/proj/SearchGoogle.html

Security Flaw Opens Ebay Accounts To Hijack
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175608.html

Browsers Beware: Ad Technology Retools Toolbar
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175703.html

NetRadio Gives Up The Ghost, Liquidates Assets
http://www.washtech.com/news/media/16003-1.html

Jerry Falwell files complaint over Web site bearing his name
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/04/04/national\
1856EST0779.DTL


Today's quote:
"Unlike the problem of racial inequality, which pierced the nation's
consciousness in the 1960s, the problem of widening economic inequality
has not engendered a movement or produced leaders able to focus the
public's attention on its moral consequences and its political solutions.
Therein lies the real danger." --Robert Reich, Locked in the Cabinet,1997

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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/antique.radios/misc

I am deeply saddened by the situation in the Middle East.  I am going to
refrain from posting numerous related links on E-LIST as entire lists
could be (and probably are) devoted to the topic.  I just wanted to point
to two pieces that I found helpful because 1. they consider different
sides of the issues; and 2. offer some ideas for solutions.
Some Thoughts on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Mark Warschauer:
http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw/mideast.html
The Hard Truth by Thomas Friedman
(This piece could do without the "clash of civilizations" bit unless he
means by it fundamentalists of any persuasion and the rest of us):
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/opinion/03FRIE.html

And now onto some site recommendations:

Summer Webshop for grad students (due: Apr 8) - I've posted this already,
but I wanted to send another note of encouragement, it's a GREAT
opportunity!
http://www.webuse.umd.edu/Summer_Webshop.htm

The Rise of the E-Citizen: How People Use Government Agencies' Web Sites
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=57

'CyberShuttle' Offers Wireless Internet Access to UC-San Diego Commuters
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/04/2002040201t.htm

Peacefire.org beats spammers in court - Spam laws can work,
will they spread?
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-868509.html

Digital divide policy unplugged: Where do we go from here?
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=3635

Entertainment Drives Growth in Home Internet Networks
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17037.html

New journal: Information Visualization
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/

Find Internet access location in an area using a zip code
http://www.connectnet.org/english/

Self-Organized Networks
http://www.nd.edu/~networks/

Open Archives Initiative
http://www.openarchives.org

Armed With Radar, Civilians Take Aim at Speeders
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/25/national/25RADA.html

InfoAge Learning Center, Camp Evans, NJ (Marconi's first permanent US lab)
http://www.infoage.org/

Antique Wireless and Scientific Instruments
http://www.sparkmuseum.com/

Antique Radios Collectors' Resource
http://www.antiqueradios.com

Antique Radio Classified
http://www.antiqueradio.com/

In times of terror, teens talk the talk - how 9/11 has affected slang
http://www.msnbc.com/news/726104.asp?cp1=1

Concert posters, flyers, handbills from around the world
http://www.gigposters.com

How Network Solutions, Inc. Made Me A Child Pornographer or
"But Officer, I Don't Even Have a Pornograph!"
http://www.kgb.com/kgbreport/20000113.html

Today's quote:
"Society is like a public pool. Most people want it clean and most people
piss in it." -- Unknown (I found this years ago and haven't been able to
track it down since.. any thoughts?)

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Special Issue on Educational Resources

This special issue of E-LIST has been compiled in collaboration with
CAROLINE PERSELL, Sociology Department, New York University
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/socio/faculty/#persell

>> In this issue: data sites & other teaching resources/IT&academia <<

The Social Science Data Network (SSDAN) brings together census data, maps,
classroom exercise modules, and much more into a usable format
http://www.ssdan.net/
&
See also their CensusScope - this is a terrific site
http://www.censusscope.org/

The General Social Survey at the University of Michigan
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS/index.html

To see the data the U.S. government collects on various countries around
the world, and as a place to have students ask what sociological features
of a society are NOT included here
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Census data and commentary on NYC prepared by Andy Beveridge at Queens
College
http://www.gothamgazette.com/demographics/

The Population Reference Bureau Website
http://www.popnet.org/

Internet Use Data Archive
http://www.webuse.umd.edu/data_analysis.htm

Understanding USA - _very cool_ representation of US data (diverse topics)
http://www.understandingusa.com/

Various teaching resources (with special focus on teaching Sociology)
http://www.princeton.edu/~tipsweb/resources.html

Gender and Teaching Evaluation
http://www.research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/teaching_eval.html

Long list of Internet related course syllabi
http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/courses.html

The Plagiarism Resource Center
http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/

Anti-Plagiarism Experts Raise Questions About Services With Links
to Sites Selling Papers
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031201t.htm

The Technology Source - journal on IT&EDU
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp

Pricing Changes by Blackboard and WebCT Cost Some Colleges More --
Much More - ridiculous lock-ins
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031901u.htm

European Distance Education Network
http://www.eden.bme.hu

Today's quote:
"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts.
For that he does not really need a college. He can
learn them from books. The value of an education in a
liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts
but the training of the mind to think something that
cannot be learned from textbooks."
    -- Albert Einstein, 1921, on Thomas Edison's opinion
       that a college education is useless; quoted in
       Frank, Einstein: His Life and Times, p.185.

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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: research resources/IT/women/misc

Thanks to all those who sent me links!

Conversation Map - analyzing very large conversations
http://sims.berkeley.edu/~sack/cm/index.html

WebCopier - software for downloading Web sites including their links
(I haven't tried it but looks promising for Web site analysis projects)
http://www.maximumsoft.com/

On censoring the Wayback machine
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/slip.php

Google Time Bomb:
Will Weblogs blow up the world's favorite search engine?
http://www.corante.com/microcontent/articles/googlebombs.shtml

Googlewhacking now has a whole site
http://www.googlewhack.com/

Google's Weakness, AltaVista's Strength
http://slashdot.org/features/02/03/12/1735224.shtml?tid=95

News Web sites: No such thing as a free read
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/295262p-2601621c.html

Handheld divice takes picture of text and translates to English
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/technology/circuits/14NEXT.html

Worldwide cellular sales fall for first time ever
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/298700p-2620568c.html

Can e-mail seal a sales deal? Judge says yes
http://realestate.boston.com/news/2002/03/can_email_seal_sales_deal.html

The Growing Vulnerability of Campus Networks
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i27/27a03501.htm

The Intl Federation of Library Associations & Institutions: Position on
Copyright in the Digital Environment
http://www.ifla.org/III/clm/p1/pos-dig.htm

Faculty Diversity - Too little for too long
http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/030218.html

Women's Share at Olympic Competitions Drops
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/824

Religious police prevents Saudi girls from escaping school on fire
http://robots.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/03/14/saudi.fire.reut/index.html

How a Group of Friends Transformed Women's Health
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/844

Soros funded posters encouraging people to go vote in Hungary -
progressive although somewhat artificial.  (For those of you who don't
understand Hungarian:) - they say: "We/They are going to vote. Are you?"
Except the one of the skinhead says: "He is going to vote.  Are you?"
http://www.soros.hu/2002/valasztasOK/valasztasOK.htm

Today's quote:
"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy
for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings." -- Helen Keller

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In this issue: how to get good hotel rates
Web site recommendations: IT/health/women/misc

I'm going to be in Boston this weekend, let me know if you're around and
would like to meet up.

I'm staying at a 4* hotel for $51/night.  I wanted to share how this is
possible - thanks to my colleague Conrad Hackett for pointing me to these
resources.  You may have heard of Priceline.com where you can bid for
plane tickets but also hotel rooms, etc.  However, how do you know how low
you can go?  That's where http://www.biddingfortravel.com comes in.  On
this Web board, you will find information about recent bids that did and
did not work.  Choose your city, district, and type of hotel. You can
check for specific hotels and see what other people who have bid recently
have gotten for certain dates. It's also possible to save an additional $5
on the reservation (or $10-15 depending on the number of nights you're
staying). Just look for "Bonus Money Opportunities", which then has links
to a promotional link in to Priceline for an additional discount.  Look
for something along these lines: "*NEW* $5 Bonus Money for Hotels".
And although there's no guarantee that you'll get the hotel of your
choice, you will get something in the district you chose of the star
quality you picked.

Happy bidding!  And if you save a bundle and want to share, just get me a
book from my wish list.:)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/wishlist/3RFRZKA4AS8JX/ref=wl_em_to/102-810836\
5-2657735


And now onto some links. Thanks to all those who contributed!

Veteran Internet users: getting more out of it quicker
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=55

For Those With a Disability, the Word Made Digital
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/28/technology/circuits/28GEE2.html

Stop. Pay Toll. Download. - problems with new mpeg format
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/06/mpeg/index.html

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

Congress Online Project: Assessing and Improving Capitol Hill Web Sites
http://www.congressonlineproject.org/webstudy2002.html

I-KNOW: Inquiring Knowledge Networks on the Web - tool for the study of
knowledge networks
http://csu1.spcomm.uiuc.edu/projects/TECLAB/iknow/

Censorship cases throughout history
http://www.thefileroom.org/

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html

Making Losers of Auction Winners - need to be careful w/online auctions!
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/07/technology/circuits/07FRAU.html

The Century Institute Summer Program (for undergrads, due: March/April)
http://www.centuryinstitute.org/Summer_Program/Application.html

They Rule - relationships of the US elite
http://theyrule.orgo.org/
(requires Flash)

Contemporary theory trading cards
http://www.theorycards.org.uk/

Tests for Breast Cancer Gene Raise Hard Choices
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/05/health/genetics/05CANC.html

The Pink-Ribbon Trap - Breast cancer activism has to go beyond simply
encouraging women to get mammograms and joining support groups
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1223-04.htm

Women of the West Museum
http://www.wowmuseum.org/

4000 Years of Women in Science
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html

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

Experiencing 9/11, From the Inside (this Sunday on CBS in US)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/06/arts/television/06JAME.html

World Atlas of the Artificial Night Sky Brightness
http://www.inquinamentoluminoso.it/worldatlas/pages/fig1.htm

Today's quote:
"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to
unlearn." -- Gloria Steinem (Smith College:) Class of '56)

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In this issue: A few notes on geography
plus
Web site recommendations: meetings/IT/privacy/news

A beautiful picture of the Earth has been circulating online for
quite a while now.
(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg )
Understandably, people attach notes about their own observations to this
message. I have now received several that include geographical errors. I
find this unfortunate.  Yet, I understand that geography education is not
the strength of the US educational system.  In fact, in a recent
conversation with Paul Starr (http://www.princeton.edu/~starr ), we
realized that an interesting dissertation could be written for someone
interested in the sociology of science on the dissappearance of
Geography Departments at American universities in contrast to their
continued support at European universities (I don't know the situation
elsewhere).  Anybody have a student looking for a topic?:)  Or perhaps
there's already a book on this.  Pointers would be appreciated.

In any case, to rectify some of the incorrect comments being made about
the map, I have created an image that points arrows to specific European
cities (where most of the mistakes seem to be focused and where I am most
knowledgable about the landscape).  There is much more than the specific
location of cities to this map, but it would be great if people could at
least get those right. See the map here:
http://www.eszter.com/europelights.html


And now onto the links.. as always, thanks to all those who contributed!

Graduate WebShop - great opportunity for grad students!
(open to students at US univs only)
http://www.webuse.umd.edu/Summer_Webshop.htm

Oxford Internet Institute Visiting Research Fellowships (due March 15!)
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/visfell.shtml

Internet Measurement Workshop 2002 (CFP deadline: May 3)
http://www.icir.org/vern/imw-2002/

The New York Review of Books: He's Got Mail (on Sunstein's republic.com)
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15180

Panel's Ruling on Royalties Is Setback for Web Radio Services
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/technology/ebusiness/21MUSI.html
&
"..you are by default creating a market that is going to be driven
only by the major media companies."
Some Cheer, Others Fear Net-Radio Royalty Plan
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174774.html

Europe sees Net running out of room
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-842718.html?tag=cd_mh

Archives of iMP - Information Impacts Magazine
http://www.cisp.org/imp/back_issues/back_issues.html

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

Ban looms for online racist material (EU news)
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2104766,00.html
&
Global Net Crime Treaty Hurts Free Speech - Trade Group
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174285.html

Plugging in to Course Evaluation - move college course evaluations online
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=795

Defunct Industry Standard Magazine Lives On In Spam
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174863.html

Privacy Group Blasts Ebay In Open Letter To FTC
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174869.html

National ID Cards: 5 Reasons Why They Should Be Rejected
http://www.aclu.org/features/National_ID_Feature.html

State of Mistrust - South Carolina distributing children's DNA
http://www.goupstate.com/docs/Opinion/Editorials/5878.asp

Worker Accused of Selling Colleagues' ID's Online
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/technology/02INTE.html

Rental Agency Hit for Spying on Speeders
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-842821.html

U.S.A. Patriot Registration (parody site, worth a look - and
check out the rest of the site as well!)
http://www.whitehouse.org/initiatives/patriot/index.asp

Today's quote:
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." -- Ambrose Bierce

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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/Spam/Soc/Refs/Fun

Thanks to those who sent me links!

Microsoft Program Tracks User Info
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41800-2002Feb20.html

Europe not sold on Internet at home
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24025.html

AltaVista scraps free e-mail
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-840648.html?tag=dd.ne.dht.nl-hed.0

How the Wayback Machine Works
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/01/18/brewster.html

The Geeks Who Saved Usenet
http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/07/saving_usenet/index.html

Not All Asian E-Mail Is Spam - massive blocking of Chinese ISPs
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50455,00.html

Spam and web-visible email addresses: Bait a spammer and see the results
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/15234

What the *&%@!! Are Web Services? (And Why You Should Care.)
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,38028,FF.html

Syllabus on Organizations and Interactive Technologies
http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/downloads/syllabi/U8840.pdf

paper on "Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in
New Media Projects"
http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/downloads/other/dcs36/distributing_intelligenc\
e.pdf

A review of image search engines - how they work, which ones work well
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews5-6.html#faq

Search Engine Watch Awards
http://searchenginewatch.com/awards/2001-winners.html
Budapest Open Access Initiative
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
&
covered here:
Boost for research paper access
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1818000/1818652.stm

TV Archive - A library of world perspectives concerning 9/11
http://tvnews3.televisionarchive.org/tvarchive/html/

Women Internet Researchers
http://www.nicoladoering.net/women.htm

Anti-Telemarketers Send Out A Very Busy Signal
http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/15246-1.html

Tips and tricks for a good PowerPoint presentation
http://www.eszter.com/slidetips.html

The Pink-Ribbon Trap - Breast cancer activism has to go beyond simply
encouraging women to get mammograms and joining support groups
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1223-04.htm

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

Enron Chairman Quits to Join Nigerian Firm :)
http://satirewire.com/news/jan02/scam.shtml

"Putting the president in the pocket of average Americans since 2001"
http://www.pocketpresident.com/

Today's quote:
"What is hateful to you, do not do to others." -- Hillel

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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/Copyright/Digital.collections/Misc

Thanks to all those who sent me links!

The Global Information Technology Report 2001-2002: Readiness for the
Networked World
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cr/gitrr_030202.html

The Big Rip-Off: Labels Move to Block CD Audio Ripping - was that last
CD you bought really a CD?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/01/31/cdrip.DT\
L

Entertainment industry's copyright fight puts consumers in cross hairs
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2658555.htm

All Hail Creative Commons - Stanford professor and author Lawrence
Lessig plans a legal insurrection
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/11/creatcom\
.DTL

Big Brother is watching you read
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/02/13/bookstores/?x

Bush Plan 'Digital Distortion"
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50279,00.html

Discarded police computer did not have its hard drive wiped - scary
http://www.indystar.com/data/wire/out/0215ap_m1eg2im009.html

Web survey software - list with some reviews
http://www.websm.org/companiesoft.html
(for those not lucky enough to have their own campus survey facility
like ours here at Princeton: http://www.princeton.edu/~jkchu/Survey/ )

Politics of the Internet - class syllabus w/lots of links
http://www.learnworld.com/COURSES/P172/P172.Links.html

Communications, Culture, and Society - another great syllabus
http://www.princeton.edu/~starr/344syl02.html

Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences
http://www.experimentcentral.org/

Reading list on org behavior and ethnography in the new economny
http://pubweb.nwu.edu/~pho442/newecon.html

Anti-Abortion Group Uses a Web Address Similar to Reed College's
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002021501t.htm

Online Exhibit Explores the History of a Jewish Autonomous Region in
Western Russia
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002021502t.htm

Cuban Heritage Digital Collection
http://www.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/chcdigital.html

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

$75 Million of Stuff - confusion over 9/11 donations
http://www.msnbc.com/news/703560.asp

Center for Teaching for Social Justice
http://www.education.ucsb.edu/socialjustice

LIFE magazine covers from 1936 to 1972 - searchable
http://www.lifemag.com/Life/search/covers

Marvel Universe looks almost like a real social network
http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0202174

Let Women Compete for Best Actor
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/09/opinion/09RADO.html

Beloit College Mindset List - an intro for profs to today's college
students - amusing and a good reality check
http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/

Today's quote:
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
-- Albert Einstein in E. T. Bell, Mathematics, Queen and Servant of
Science, 1952.

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In this issue:
remembering 9/11 on 2/11 - a Web of memories and reflections

I've collected numerous 9/11 related Web sites over the past months and
decided to send them out all at once.  There are some truly remarkable
sites out there as well as informative pieces about the events.
While coding one of the files from my research project - a screen capture
of a respondent's Web searches - I noticed a graphic that had a rendition
of the Towers. I went to the Web site to see if the graphic they have up
today is still the same.  It's not.  This gave me the idea to create a
page that shows examples of how the Web has changed from then to now.  I
haven't had time to add much, but I've compiled a few examples here:
http://www.eszter.com/thenandnow/

I hope you take a moment to browse through some of these sites, I find it
helpful in gaining a better perspective.. of lots of things.  -- Eszter


After September 11: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/

Archive of 9/11 Web sites
http://september11.archive.org

9/11 related photos
http://www.hereisnewyork.org

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

A Wounded City - Photographers of The Times
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/20020204_JOURNAL04/index_JOURNAL04\
.html

Manual for a 'Raid' - a note written for the 9/11 hijackers
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15106

Softer on Terrorism? Why Bush deserves his share of the 9/11 blame.
http://www.americanprospect.com/webfeatures/2002/01/page-a-01-23.html

Partners of Sept. 11 Victims Denied Compensation
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=789

Grandma Helps to Fill the Void Left by Sept. 11
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/nyregion/01GRAN.html

Going on with the Show: Arts & Culture in New York City after September 11
http://www.nycfuture.org/econdev/1101goingon.htm

Six Degrees of Mohamed Atta
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,35253,FF.html

Civil Engineers' World Trade Center Special Coverage
http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/wtc.php

Ten Days in September
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/flash/photo/politics/10days/index.htm

In memoriam 9/11
http://www.politicsandprotest.org

Portraits of Grief - Glimpses of some of the victims of the September 11
attacks
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/portraits/index.html

Remembering Mark Bingham of Flight 93
http://www.markbingham.org/

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In this issue:
A few words on the the new Commerce Dept Internet connectivity report
Web site recommentation: IT/connectivity/science/plagiarism/fun

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.

See executive summary of the report here:
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/dn/execsum.htm
full report here (>2MB):
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/dn/nationonline_020502.htm
& see
'Digital Divide' Plan in Peril, Two Tech Programs For Poor Would Die
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23353-2002Feb4.html

All else:

P3P (Privacy Platform Preferences Project) now LIVE - in beta, try
it today!
http://www.privacybird.com

UK Consumers' use of the Internet
http://www.oftel.gov.uk/publications/research/2002/q7_internet_res.htm

Detailed report on UK dial-up Internet market
http://www.oftel.gov.uk/publications/internet/imr0102.htm

Not in Finland Anymore? More Like Nokialand
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/06/international/europe/06NOKI.html

Data available from European "ICT uses in everyday life" project
http://www.eurescom.de/public/projects/P900-series/P903/ICT-data/default.asp

How the US Congress is regulating high-tech
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174175.html

A Tale of One Man and His Blog
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,641971,00.html

For the 6th month in a row, our piece (DiMaggio, Hargittai, Neuman,
Robinson) on the social implications of the Internet is the most
accessed on the Annual Review of Sociology's Web site.  Cool.
http://soc.annualreviews.org/reports/mfr1.dtl
See the article here:
http://soc.annualreviews.org/cgi/content/full/27/1/307
(requires subscription, email me if you can't access it but want a
copy)

Strange Search Contest
http://www.atomz.com/strangesearch/
(open to US residents only)

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

APA Style electronic referencing
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

Did you ever wonder..? - quick answers to scientific questions
http://www.lbl.gov/wonder/

Compare the bones of humans, gorillas and baboons - neat
http://www.eskeletons.org/

Plagiarism prevention service
http://www.turnitin.com
&
Explanation of how the service works
http://www.plagiarism.org

Angered by Snubbing, Libya, China, Syria form Axis of Just As Evil :)
http://www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/axis.shtml

Pointless Games - remember, Eszter's List is delighted to point you not
only to the informative and important parts of the Web, but the bizarre
and curious corners as well
http://pointlessgames.com/

Today's quote:
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
-- from Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac

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Sorry if the header in the last issue was confusing.. viruses were not the
only topic on the list of links, I hope people didn't miss the other
recommendations. I'll try to be more clear in the future.


In this issue
Web site recommendations: IT/Refs/Informed consumer/Fun (remember, the fun
stuff's always at the end, don't miss it:)

Thanks for sending suggestions!

Fake sites aim to teach investors a lesson
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/01/30/investing.hoax.ap/index.html

Blogdex - "moving democratic media to the masses"
http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/info.asp

AOL blocks instant messaging start-up
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-826625.html

Preserving Access to Digital Information (Nat'l Library of Australia)
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/

Asia IT news links (+ pic of 1st Sunrise of 2002 as a bonus:)
http://surf.to/infocity/

FTC Names Its Dirty Dozen: 12 Scams Most Likely to Arrive Via Bulk Email
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/doznalrt.htm

Return to Normalcy? How the Media Have Covered the War on Terrorism
http://www.journalism.org/publ_research/normalcy1.html

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics CFP (due Feb 15)
http://www.sase.org/conf2002/callforpapers/callforpapers.html

About three helpful consumer sites that "put the public interest
above the bottom line"
http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=684
They are:
The Car Place: http://www.thecarplace.com
Theme Park Insider: http://www.themeparkinsider.com
Consumer World: http://www.consumerworld.org

Privace of mp3 users at risk - problems with Morpheus
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1798000/1798095.stm

The intellectual property counter-essay contest
http://www.wipout.net/home_eng.html

How to Be a Leader in Your Field - A Guide for Students in Professional
Schools
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/leader.html

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

Where to eat recommendations (across the US and beyond)
http://www.chowhound.com/main.html

Dubyaman - a must!:)
http://news.indiatimes.com/articlelist.asp?catkey=920152620&daysactive=365


Today's quote:
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. " -- Yoda (The Empire Strikes Back)

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In this issue: Some thoughts on computer viruses
Web site recommendations: Viruses/Info.tech

Virus senders are becoming quite clever. The latest one I received had the
W32.myparty@mm worm attached.  It's like many others, the tricky thing
with this one is that it looks like a URL (www.myparty.yahoo.com) so
people seem more likely to click on it.  In general, don't open an
attachment unless the message is personalized enough that you know it was
meant for you and you know what it's about.  Virus messages - for now -
are also not personally signed so one more clue to look for is whether the
sender signed their message.  If in doubt and you do recognize the sender,
send them a reply to request clarification.  Personally, I've never had a
problem given that I use Pine 3.96 running on UNIX, but I know that's
increasingly rare so I thought it was worth a note.

New E-mail Worm Is No Party, Virus-Fighters Say
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173987.html

Symantec's page on the Myparty worm
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.myparty@mm.html

However, note that before you even think about forwarding a virus warning
or other chain message, check here as it's likely to be a hoax
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/nethoaxes/

Search Me: Doom ahead for search engines that charge listing fees
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/01/28/srcheng.\
DTL
- this piece summarizes the concerns well, there is just one problem: the
author assumes that users know the behind-the-scenes of search engine
listings.  Unfortunately, I know from my research (http://www.webuse.org )
that many people still assume that results show up on a list because they
are relevant _and_ that the results are an exhaustive list of what's
available on the Web. :(

Why doesn't the U.S. appreciate wireless text messaging? It has no
standards.
http://www.techreview.com/articles/garfinkel0102.asp

A Riddle: Why Does Netscape Still Exist?
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,37401,FF.html

Daypop - a search tool for current events (mostly via blogs)
http://home.cnet.com/software/0-352106-8-8103924-11.html

Resume Spamming Brings An Online Backlash
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173942.html

E-mail more likely replied to if sender shares name: study
(hmmm.. did we want to give marketers more pointers on this?)
http://www.nationalpost.com/tech/story.html?f=/stories/20020121/1191486.html

Classical music & the Web
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/technology/circuits/17CLAS.html

Judge Orders Web Company to Reveal Name of Anonymous Louisiana Professor
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/01/2002012901t.htm

Googlewhacking: The Search for 'The One' - quite amusing:)
http://www.unblinking.com/heh/googlewhack.htm
Summarized here:
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0129-googlewhack.html
&
.. how it gets out of control... Googlewhacking: The Breakthrough
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/archive/2002_01_01_archive.html#8785096

Today's quote:

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world." -- Albert Einstein (I'd appreciate
help with the origins of this quote.)

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Thanks to those who sent me links.

In this issue
Web site recommendations: Info.tech/Soc/News/Music

State Web Portals: Delivering and Financing E-service
http://endowment.pwcglobal.com/pdfs/JohnsonReport.pdf

Talk by Google's Larry Page
http://Quarry.stanford.edu/courses/cs547/020111-cs547-100.asx
(requires a media player program)

AOL's Magic Carpet (like M$'s Passport)
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D21110,00.asp

Ben Shneiderman's testimony before Congress regarding national ID
system
http://www.acm.org/usacm/National.htm

Global Diffusion of the Internet Project
http://mosaic.unomaha.edu/gdi.html

Interesting and Useful Numbers about Computers
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/bam/www/numbers.html

Princeton Economic Sociology Conference
http://www.princeton.edu/~sociolog/Dobbin/index.htm

SocioLog - Soc references, depts, orgs and much more
http://www.sociolog.com

A Harvard Star in Black Studies Joins Princeton
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/education/26PRIN.html
confirmed here:
http://www.princeton.edu/Siteware/WebAnnounce.Princeton_Headlines.shtml

Where tax cuts are hitting hardest
http://www.prod.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/columnists/molly_ivins/2481659/248\
1659.htm

Lubes and HIV - some sexual lubricants may kill the AIDS virus
http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2002/01/16/lubes_hiv/index.html

Software Scours Holocaust Records
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,47584,00.html

A week of reproductive rights activism
http://www.onemillionvoices.com/

Male-Female Salary Gap Growing, Study Says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28203-2002Jan23.html

The ongoing gender gap in Computer Science (my first publication was in
this area, the picture hasn't changed much since, it seems)
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/01/2002012501t.htm

Napster reopens as subscription site (now in beta)
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1128152

Sites people have migrated to from Napster - I learned about these from
http://www.audiogalaxy.com                   participants of my study:)
http://www.kazaa.com
http://www.grokster.com
http://www.limewire.com
That list is to show how many new services there are in this domain,
I haven't used any of them so I can't comment, but be sure to read this:
Spyware, in a Galaxy Near You
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,49960,00.html

Australian company buys KaZaa putting music service back online
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/22/BU1\
26150.DTL&type=tech

Black Hawk Download: Pirated Videos Thrive Online
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/technology/circuits/17VIDE.html

http://www.MuseumofHoaxes.com :)
Examples:
The Taco Liberty Bell - http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tacobell.html
The Left-Handed Whopper - http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/af_1998.html

Today's quote:
"The most successful ideological effects are those which have
no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence."
-- Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), Outline of a Theory of Practice

Pierre Bourdieu, 71, French Thinker and Globalization Critic
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/obituaries/25BOUR.html

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Web site recommendations: Info.tech/Refs/Macs/Fun

E-LIST hasn't come out for over a week due to some travels.  I was in
Toronto last weekend and while there got to visit Barry Wellman's NetLab.
Anabel Quan Haase was a great host.  It's clear why so much interesting
work comes out of that group, there's such a nice collegial atmosphere
with great people.  Amusing observation: only in Canada would you have
people at a cafe sit _outside_ to drink their coffee in sub-zero
temperatures. This weekend, I went to Cold Spring Harbor Labs to visit my
parents who are fellows there for a few months, pics of that visit are
here: http://www.eszter.com/photos/coldspringharbor .

And now onto some interesting links, thanks to all those who contributed.

The Man Who Bought the Internet
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,12301,FF.html

Historic census Web site crashes
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/01/03/census.crash/index.html

Barry Wellman's homepage - copies of many Internet studies papers
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman

The Use of Information and Communication Technologies by Non-Governmental
Organizations in Southeast Europe
http://www.oneworld.net/radio/see/ict/

The Third Shift: Women Learning Online
http://www.aauw.org/2000/3rdshift.html

For Women, to Soar is Rare, to Fail is Human
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/business/yourmoney/13WOME.html?pagewanted=all
(requires free registration)

Bibliography on community networks
http://orgwis.gmd.de/%7emambrey/cn_bibliogr.html

Info on 80,000+ former politicians, judges, diplomats by geography,
family, office, demographic characteristics or affiliation - neat
http://www.politicalgraveyard.com

New iMac Armed for Success - if you haven't seen it yet, check it out!
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,49521,00.html

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

Sick Tactics: The Anti-Abortion Movement Campaigns on its Latest Ploy
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/01/thrupkaew-n-01-10.html

The X-Files - an ongoing series of The American Prospect on issues
affecting women
http://www.prospect.org/rubrics/xfiles/index.html

Mac Boxes Make Nice Couches :)
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,49473,00.html

Great 404s of the Web - sick of the same error messages? try these
http://www.plinko.net/404/area404.asp

Today's quote:
"Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the
world." -- Gustave Flaubert

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Web site recommendations: Info.tech/media monopoly

You'll notice that several of the links featured today are about Web sites
discontinuing their free services either by shutting down to the public or
by making advertisements more prominent in their business models.  There
seems to be a major shakeout among big search engines and ISPs. Note, for
example, that the UK version of Excite (http://www.excite.co.uk ) now
redirects to UK Lycos (http://www.lycos.co.uk ).  U.S. Excite isn't
completely gone although after InfoSpace acquired it, its search results
are no longer powered by its own robots, rather, its results are the same
as Dogpile's.  Fewer search engines, fewer choices... And if you're
thinking "who cares, I use Google anyway", that's nice, but many many
people do not.. and who knows what Google will look like in the future...


Upcoming changes in Yahoo - right along the lines of all the work I've
been doing on the power of portals in channeling users toward some
content and away from others (an updated version of that work should be
coming soon:)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/07/technology/ebusiness/07YAHO.html
(requires free registration)

Striving to Top the Search Lists - more on paid ads in searches
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/10/technology/ebusiness/10ECOM.html

Northern Light discontinues free public access to its search engine
http://www.northernlight.com/docs/busfoc_press.html

Future Uncertain for Feedback Sites
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/07/technology/ebusiness/07ECOM.html

On media monopoly more generally
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020107&s=miller

For visualizing all that's going on:
Internet Industry Partnerships: Strategic Alliances and Joint Ventures
interactive java maplet: http://www.orgnet.com/inetindustry.html - cool!
static map: http://www.orgnet.com/netindustry.html

My paper related to all this on portal power
http://www.eszter.com/portals.html

The Internet's Invisible Hand
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/10/technology/circuits/10NETT.html

Credit Card Cloners' $1billion Scam (w/tips on how to protect yourself)
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/krnewyork/20020107/lo/special_report_credit_card_cl\
oners_1b_scam_1.html

Google's HQ provides blast from Silicon Valley past
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/ccarch/2002/01/09/maney.htm

Lindows could give Linux life and worry Microsoft
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/dgillmor/dg010902.htm

Google calls time on AIMSearch prank :-) !
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/23610.html

Today's quote:

"The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger
ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the
essential exchange of information." -- Howard Brenton & David Hare's Pravda

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Web site recommendations: Info.tech/Spam/Refs/Fun


Internet Research 3.0: NET / WORK / THEORY (CFP deadline: Feb 15)
http://www.aoir.org/2002

Consumer Information and Price Discrimination: Does the Internet Affect
the Pricing of New Cars to Women and Minorities?
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8668
(requires subscription for some)

JASIST CFP: Soft Power: Informational Ambiguities and Asymmetries in
the Network Age
http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~lueg/CfP_JASIST.html
(JASIST = Journal of the American Society for Info Science and
Technology)

Rise of Internet 'Borders' Prompts Fears for Web's Future
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59227-2002Jan3.html
&
that piece reminds me of an article I wrote a couple of years ago on
Radio's Lessons for the Internet
http://www.eszter.com/hargittai-radio.pdf

Spam feeding anger on Internet (w/some tips on how to handle email)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0201070115jan07.story?coll=chi%2Dbu\
siness%2Dhed

Essays on junk email
http://www.templetons.com/brad/spume/

follow-up to a link last week: Admissions Messages Bounce Back to
Harvard, but AOL Says Spam Filters Aren't to Blame
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/01/2002010701t.htm

Networking on the Network - for every PhD student in the world
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/network.html

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

The Great Buildings Collection
http://www.greatbuildings.com/

Salon's "Rename that software!" competition results :)
http://www.salon.com/21st/chal/1997/12/22chal2.html


Instead of a new quote today, here's some context for last issue's quote
(thanks to Charles Kadushin):

The quote was:
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they
have exhausted all other alternatives."
-- Abba Eban, Heritage: Civilization and the Jews. Summit Books Simon
and Schuster, NY, 1984, p. 332.

The context:
"The best hope is that the principles that enabled a breakthrough to
peace with Egypt will assert themselves in a wider context. Men
and nations sometimes behave wisely once they have exhausted other
alternatives. In the Middle East outside the Egyptian-Israeli
relationship, almost every alternative has been tried; wars, sieges,
blockades, cease-fires, armistices, terrorism, oil embargoes, Great Power
pressures, Un resolutions. Peace is the only thing that has not been
tried. The road seems open for the adventure of peace."

Above the text are two pictures. One, in color, is Sadaat and Begin
clasping hands at the White House while Jimmy Carter looks on; the other,
in black and white, is a young looking Yasir Arafat.

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About E-LIST content
Web site recommendations: Info.tech/Year in review/Women&Afghanistan

First, a few words on what I will and will not post on this list.  I have
nothing against posting commercial sites as long as they come highly
recommended.  In fact, I'm quite interested in improving informed consumer
choice so I'm very curious to hear about good experiences with online
retailers.  What I will not post are sites that require plug-ins or
programs that are painful to deal with.  Example: I will not post anything
that only works with RealOne/RealPlayer as that program is intrusive and
annoying beyond belief and I am not willing to reinstall it on my machine
(it was hard enough to get rid of it completely in the first place) nor do
I want to encourage others to have it.  If your site has audio content,
please make it available in multiple formats or choose one that can be run
on multiple players (e.g. .avi).  Thanks.  Hope the New Year's starting
off well for everyone.  -- Eszter


20 Yr Usenet Archive - first mention of Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Mac, AOL,
IRC, Tim Berners-Lee's announcement of the World Wide Web project, etc.
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

2001 on the Internet: The Year in Review
http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/features/2001review/2001review1.shtml

The Year in Internet Law
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/28/technology/28CYBERLAW.html
(requires free registration)

Number of Web Pages by Language
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/demographics/print/0,,5901_408521,00.\
html

Is Google moving in on Amazon's turf?
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100863,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_nbs_hl

How to kill your spam
http://www.jcphome.com/nospam.html

Example of problems with email filters (AOL filters Harvard's admissions
decision emails)
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/209047p-2015925c.html

ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2002 (CFP deadline: March 22)
http://www.acm.org/cscw2002

A Frustrated ACLU Tries to Guide Consulates Through a Thicket
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/02/national/02ACLU.html

Kabul's Lost Women, Many Abducted by Taliban Still Missing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62604-2001Dec18

Humanity Denied: Systematic Violations of Women's Rights in Afghanistan
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/afghan3/

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
http://www.rawa.org

Today's quote:
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they
have exhausted all other alternatives.
-- Abba Eban

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I would like to wish everybody a healthy and happy New Year! -- Eszter

In this issue:
Web site recommendations Info.tech/News/Gender/Refs/Fun


IT and Universities in Asia: IT Culture and Language Education
(CFP deadline: Jan 15)
http://www.kyongju.ac.kr/prof/chongld/CALL/CALL.htm

Lawrence Lessig Answers Your Questions
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/21/155221
&
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/future/
&
The Future of Intellectual Property on the Internet (debate, Oct, 2000)
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/futureofip/
&
Lessig vs Valenti debate revisited a year later (video)
http://annenberg.usc.edu/events/011129LessigValenti/debate.smil

Threat of National ID
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/24/opinion/24SAFI.html
(NYTimes requires free registration)

Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime and Militancy
RAND book, fully online
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/

This Year Was the 2nd Hottest, Confirming a Trend, U.N. Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/19/science/19WARM.html
(NYTimes requires free registration)

Sex: Unknown (PBS NOVA on gender)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/gender/

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

The Men's Bibliography - over 12,000 references
http://www.anu.edu.au/~a112465/mensbiblio/mensbibliomenu.html

In response to last week's question about other national gov't portals:
http://www.egov.go.kr (in Korean) or http://www.korea.net (in English)
http://www.ekormanyzat.hu (in Hungarian)

Virtual snowfight, interactive, for winter amusement:)
http://www.nny.com/holiday/snowcraft.htm
(requires Shockwave)

Talk about interactive.. sounds and images, your pick
http://www.pianographique.com/datasuk/ae0.html
(after it loads, press letters on your keyboard)

Good Lord of the Rings! - a parody trailer
http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0101/rings/
(requires Quicktime plug-in)

Today's quote - a thought for the New Year:

"If we don't change direction,
we'll end up where we're headed."
-- Chinese proverb

Correction to the last issue's quote (thanks to my Mom):
"Research is  to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has
thought."
(Szentgyorgyi, Albert, Bioenergetics, Academic Press, New York, 1957).

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In this issue:
Web site recommendations Info.tech/Conferences/Science/References/Fun


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

Markle Fellowship Program in Oxford for students and faculty
http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/MarkleFellows.htm

Ethnographies of the Internet: Grounding Regulation in Lived Experience
(CFP deadline: Jan 21)
http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/conf08022002.htm

The Information Intelligence Quotient: Assessing Global Information and
Communication Systems Development
http://www.northwestern.edu/cics/digitaldivide/

23rd ISODARCO Summer Course on: Cyberwar, Netwar and the Revolution in
Military Affairs - Real Threats and Virtual Myths
http://www.roma2.infn.it/isodarco/trento02.html
--> I participated in their summer course three years ago and it was
great!  It's very interdisciplinary, you can be in any field.

Using E-Mail to Count Connections
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/20/technology/circuits/20STUD.html
&
Small World Research Project at Columbia
http://smallworld.sociology.columbia.edu/

Women in the Global Community, A Fulbright Conference Bridging Academia
and Public Policy (CFP deadline: Jan 15)
http://exchanges.state.gov/education/fulbright/conference-papers.htm

The world around us.. by powers of ten
http://www.powersof10.com/

Adbusters - spoof ads, both educational and funny
http://adbusters.org/spoofads/index.html

Can't keep up with techie acronyms?  Look here for simple definitions
http://www.webopedia.com/

US Government documents portal (I'd welcome pointers to similar gov
portals in other countries!)
http://www.firstgov.gov/

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/

Haiku Error Messages :)
http://www.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html


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Today's quote:

"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and
thinking something different."

--Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
(http://www.hpo.hu/inventor/eszgyalb.html )