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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/misc

It's been a busy week with trips to both DC and NYC.  TPRC
(http://www.tprc.org ) was great, as usual, I hope people will consider
going next year, I'll keep you posted of CFPs.

Thanks to all those who contributed, you know who you are!

The New Jersey Ethicist - very funny.. probably not just for those living
in Joysee
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/21/opinion/21KELL.html

Digital Consumer - protecting fair-use rights in the digital world
http://www.digitalconsumer.org

The Right to Tinker
http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=La\
wArticle&cid=1032128612645&t=LawArticleTech

Nu Shortcuts in School R 2 Much 4 Teacher
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/technology/circuits/19MESS.html

MIT's courseware online for free
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2270648.stm

Internet Society close to win of ".org" domain
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1485446

Have you helped a spammer today?
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-958847.html?tag=fd_top

Safe at Any Speed: How To Stay Safe Online if You Use High-Speed Internet
Access
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/online/safeonline.htm

Ekit - HTML editor as Applet
http://www.hexidec.com/ekit.php
(I haven't tried it but looks interesting)

Georgia School Board OKs Alternatives to Evolution
http://www.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/09/26/creationism.evolution/index.html
& some good commentary on it:
http://fiachra.soc.arizona.edu/blog/archives/000107.html#000107

Islamic architecture
http://archnet.org/library/images/

Do Men Pant for Anna K. Because She Loses?
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=1027

For a laugh, albeit a sad one
http://maxspeak.org/gm/archives/00000524.html

For more laughs: The World's Funniest Joke -- Official
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20021003/od_nm/life_joke_dc

Another Google game (a pretty simple idea, but nice little interface)
http://www.googlefight.com
Googlewhacking was much more interesting though
http://www.unblinking.com/heh/googlewhack.htm

Today's quote:
From one of my favorite Hungarian poems, a timely quote in times of war:
"and on my way to school, by the kerbside to postpone
a spot-test one certain morning, I stepped upon a stone:
look! there's the stone whose magic the pilot cannot see,
no instrument would merge it in his topography."
-- Miklos Radnoti, written in 1944 a few months before his death

The full poem is here:
http://www.bajabela.sulinet.hu/tubi/iearn/war/radnotie.htm
Although no translation will capture the original:
http://www.bajabela.sulinet.hu/tubi/iearn/war/radnoti.htm

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Another Google game
  Internet Problems for the Public Interest
  Hello goodbye
  Clicking frustration
  Making sense of proposed gadget regulation
  Smiling Marx
  Book sales
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In this issue: from EBLOG to ELIST
Web site recommendations: IT/misc

Unlike others who either keep a mailing list or have a blog, I maintain
both and have kept the two fairly separate.  I realized there is no reason
for that.  I'm now including more links on my blog without necessarily
adding extensive commentary (although I still prefer that) and I will also
start including direct pointers to some entries on my blog in these links
lists.  Let me know if you have any thoughts on this.

Happy New Year!  See my greetings here:
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000085.html

Thanks to all those who contributed!

Sept 11 Digital Archive
http://911digitalarchive.org/

9/11 Web site changes, know of any?
http://www.eszter.com/thenandnow

AOL Capitulates, Gives Up Struggle For `Open Access'
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3982670.htm

The Great Telecom Implosion
http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/16/starr-p.html

Google blocked in China
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/09/03/financial07\
46EDT0012.DTL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/technology/2233229.stm
my brief comments on this:
http://campuscgi.princeton.edu/~eszter/weblog/archives/00000082.html

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

Living in the Blog-osphere
http://www.msnbc.com/news/795156.asp

Free the mouse!
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000073.html

Online World Timeline
http://www.legendmud.org/raph/gaming/mudtimeline.html

Digital Photos Give the Police a New Edge in Abuse Cases
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/03/nyregion/03ABUS.html

IBM launches Web-enabled washing machines on college campuses
http://www-916.ibm.com/press/prnews.nsf/jan/B079117A83E6270985256C25005F885C

An inspiring engineer/artist
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000089.html

Yahoo usability glitch
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000087.html

CFP - Eastern Sociology Society: Sociological Success Stories
http://www.essnet.org/callforpapers.htm

Reconcilable Differences
What it would take for marriage and feminism to say "I do"
http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/7/gornick-j.html

New York City - Remember Rebuild Renew
http://www.renewnyc.com/plan/concepts.htm
&
comment from the NYTimes: The Downtown We Don't Want
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/opinion/17WED1.html

Breast Cancer Blog
http://www.researchbuzz.com/bcancer/

The Stress and Health Study (Whitehall studies)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology/white/white.html

Things You Wish Your Computer Had... :)
http://www.tobynopoly.com/wish/computer.html

Dictionary of medical eponyms
http://www.whonamedit.com/

Shana tova with some spice (be sure to click on "AOP" on the right)
http://www.aop.co.il/roshashana2002/
(requires Flash)

Today's quote:
"It's hard enough to understand art. But it's almost impossible to
understand critics!"
-- Professor Jim Henle, Math 101: Mathematics as Art (Smith College)

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Patterned parking lots, hanging trees
  Shana tova - take II
  Yahoo usability glitch
  9/11 teddy bears?
  Shana tova
  Seeking gadgets
  "Remembering 9/11" searches
  Google blocked in China
  The art of listening
  Memories
  Happy August 31st!
  Here a blog, there a blog, where's the blog?!

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In this issue: Budapest and the region's floods
Web site recommendations: IT/copyright/misc

Thanks to those of you who've been in touch to inquire about the state of
things in Budapest regarding the region's floods. Things seem to be under
control and certainly much better than elsewhere. My Mom has sent me
some photos that I have annoted and put up here:
http://www.eszter.com/photos/budapest02 .

Thanks to those who sent me links!

Scholarships available to attend TPRC 2002 (due Aug 26)
http://www.tprc.org/TPRC02/scholarships.htm

Public to Taste Life Without Its Libraries
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?s\
lug=paul19&date=20020819

Larry Lessig's blog
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/

Ed Felten's blog
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/

Tinkerers' Champion
http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1176171

As Gadgets Go to Class, Schools Try to Cope
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/15/technology/circuits/15SCHO.html

The Ancient Art of Haranguing Has Moved to the Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/10/arts/10TANK.html

Cell Biology - as in cell phones
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23395-2002Jul30.html

Hearing is Believing - a potential nightmare?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/786016.asp

The Right to Communicate
http://www.righttocommunicate.org

Internet a-t-il une memoire?
http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3232--287515-,00.html
(in French)

Returning Science to Scientists
(book info plus discussion of online publication of dissertations)
http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind02&L=september98-forum&D=0&F=l&P=4\
6193

Breast Cancer Activism - Moving Beyond the Mammography Debate
http://www.msmagazine.com/summer2002/mccormick.asp

For women, pass it on!
http://www.softcup.com

Justice Goes Into Hiding
"It's time for Texas to admit that the arrests in a drug sting that
targeted the black population of Tulia were a travestry."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/12/opinion/12HERB.html

Sight Unseen
"Mike May was blind most of his life until surgery gave him his sight
back. But two years later he still can't recognize his own wife."
http://www.discover.com/june_02/featsight.html

Stock Market's Slide Hurts College Funds
http://www.nandotimes.com/business/story/493538p-3936996c.html

Zen and the Art of Small Claims
http://www.smallclaim.info

Encounters Witnessed and Conversations Overheard in NYC
http://eeelissa.diaryland.com/index.html

American celebrities in Japanese commercials
http://www.japander.com/japander/index.htm

Top-Earning Dead Celebrities
http://www.forbes.com/2002/08/12/0812deadintro.html

Today's quote:
"Attention is the greatest form of generosity." -- Simone Weil

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Free the mouse!
  Budapest & the region's floods
  From Chicago
  From a different perspective
  What money can buy...
  Blank pages, crowded lenses
  Frenetic fanatics
  Why Web retail is cool
  Apple fans beware
  Smile, your hometown's on camera
  Interesting business strategy
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In this issue: next week in Chicago
Web site recommendations: IT/news

I will be at the American Sociological Association's meetings in Chicago
next week.  I've been deleted from the program for no apparent reason but
I will be there and will be presenting my work as originally planned. If
you are or will be in the area and would like to meet up, do send me a
note.

Thanks to all those who contributed links for this issue!

A list of sites with clueless linking policies
http://www.dontlink.com/

Mac "bait and switch" - a spoof on the Apple Switch ads, great!
(scroll down to bottom to see the clip)
http://www.fury.com/article/1386.php

Meet the Kings of Spam
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/08/05/tech/main517505.shtml

R U Ready 4 SMS Mktg?
http://clickz.com/feedback/buzz/article.php/1438191

The blogging craze continues.. what's next?
http://www.blogstickers.com/

Media Access - or "the King of Closed Caption"
http://joeclark.org/access/

Telemarketers always use a script: why shouldn't you?
http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/script.html

The Heterosexual Agenda
http://uspolitics.about.com/library/weekly/aa073102a.htm

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

the ACLU's Terrorist Information and Prevention System (TIPS) Watch
http://www.aclu.org/tips/
&
TIPS calls routed to TV Show "America's Most Wanted"
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/08/06/tips/index_np.html
(Two years ago, I came up with the TIPS acronym for our department's grad
student  teaching workshop series (Teaching Initiative for Princeton
Socgrads).. I had no idea it would become such a loaded acronym...

UNC Draws Fire, Lawsuit for Assigning Book on Islam
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52484-2002Aug6.html

Victory in challenge to abstinence only program
http://www.aclu.org/news/2002/n072502d.html

"about censorship and freedom of expression, in Australia and elsewhere"
http://libertus.net/

Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented?
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020812/story.html
or see in brief here:
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020812/timeline/

Your Guide to the Money in U.S. Elections - who gives to whom and how much
http://www.opensecrets.org/

Officials Link Foreign Web Sites to Cheating on Exams
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/08/education/08TEST.html

Why Is The Sky Blue? (and other science questions)
http://www.why-is-the-sky-blue.org/

Children's rhymes
http://www.gameskidsplay.net/frame_rhyme_listing.htm

Today's quote:
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of
zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -- Justice Louis Brandeis

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Why Web retail is cool
  Apple fans beware
  Smile, your hometown's on camera
  Interesting business strategy
  iDrive yourHype
  Book: Fast Food Nation
  Observing Surveillance
  Geekiness at Eszter.com
  Usability experts (and my 15 seconds of fame)
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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/privacy/the English language

Thanks to all those who contributed!

Symposium on Measuring Search Behaviors: Current and Proposed Methods
I went to this last year and found it very helpful and interesting, I hope
to be there this year as well
http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGUSE/

In Antarctica, a Distance-Education Student Worries About
His Internet Link
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/07/2002073101t.htm

script for mass download of Yahoo Groups messages
http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/yahoo2mbox.html
(I haven't tried it but looks potentially useful)

How to read email headers
http://www.stopspam.org/email/headers/headers.html

On Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google
http://redherring.com/insider/2002/0716/bait071602.html

News from the free online scholarship (FOS) movement
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

Does anybody still use 3.5 disks?
(may be helpful to have the drives around to access old work)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F50912761
(click on the link that appears after clicking here)

Close Watch - is Times Square as anonymous as you thought?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/19/sunday/main506739.shtml

What Is Operation TIPS? - scary
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A63924\
-2002Jul12

How to publish articles in academic journals
http://www.ag.iastate.edu/journals/rie/how.htm

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

The Best of British - The American's Guide to Speaking British
http://www.effingpot.com/

Neat new approach to crossword puzzles
http://crickler.com/crossword/series2.html

Extreme Survival Quiz - read it for ideas on what to do in difficult
situations
http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/extremesurvival/extremesurvival.html

elgooG (Google backwards for the backwardly challenged)
http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/

Another one on people who clearly have a lot of time on their hands
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G6BE16B51
(click on the link that appears after clicking here)

Today's quote:
"You don't have to like me for who I am/ but we'll see what you're made
of by what you make of me." -- Ani DiFranco

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Interesting business strategy
  iDrive yourHype
  Book: Fast Food Nation
  Observing Surveillance
  Geekiness at Eszter.com
  Usability experts (and my 15 seconds of fame)
  Public on- and offline - take II
  Happy Birthday
  A good interviewer
  Proposed social science PhD requirement: live in another country
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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT(blogs)/news/references

Lots of thanks to those of you who sent me links!

Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/technology/circuits/25GOOG.html

How Big Media Missed the Big Story
http://www.msnbc.com/news/783126.asp

AOL Absorbed by the Media Giant It Took Over
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38161-2002Jul20.html

A Death for Yahoo! Internet
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/1380251

A thorough review of various blogging software tools, a good place to
start if you're thinking about launching your own blog
http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/blogware.htm

A much shorter piece on setting up your own blog
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/technology/circuits/25ASKK.html

William Safire's On Language on "Blog"
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/magazine/28ONLANGUAGE.html

Are You Blogging Yet? Web Journals Could Have Business Value
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020719S0001

A Conversation With The Inventor Of Email
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article/0,,11979_1408411,00.html

Interview With Social Network Researcher Valdis Krebs
(a nice little intro to social network analysis)
http://peterme.com/archives/00000234.html

UNDP Human Development Report 2002
http://www.undp.org/hdr2002/

Paix et Liberte exhibit - all posters available online
http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/mudd/online_ex/paix/

Skin Cancer 101 for summer days
http://www.lahey.org/content/summersafety/skincancer.asp

I.R.S. Loophole Allows Wealthy to Avoid Taxes
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/business/28TAX.html

NYC's environmental violation tickets are being processed in Ghana
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/22/nyregion/22GHAN.html

Periodic Table of the Elephants
http://chemistry.org/portal/Chemistry?PID=elephant.html
&
Index and map of all donkeys/elephants in DC
http://www.partyanimalsdc.org/gallery/index.shtml

Gadgets from the 80s
http://www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/

"A searchable directory of images, visualizations and animations of the
Earth" - breathtaking!
http://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov/

Big postcard collection
http://www.library.arizona.edu/users/mount/postcard.html

A Predictable Funding Disaster - on the state of library funding
http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib149.html
&
Constrasting view: The Web didn't kill libraries. It's the new draw.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0725/p02s02-ussc.html

Help for solving crossword puzzles (in English) - sophisticated search
engines
http://oneacross.com/

Today's quote:
"The publication of poor science is easily rejected by good periodicals.
Solid and reliable, but mediocre papers may have the safest sailing
through the peer review process. It is noteworthy how often people find it
difficult to have their (eventually) Nobel Prize-winning papers accepted
for publication in the most prestigious journals." -- for more (e.g.
examples of this) see Istvan Hargittai, The Road to Stockholm
http://www.roadtostockholm.com

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Geekiness at Eszter.com
  Usability experts (and my 15 seconds of fame)
  Public on- and offline - take II
  Happy Birthday
  A good interviewer
  Proposed social science PhD requirement: live in another country
  Going pro
  Archive while you write
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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/networks/art/misc

There are fewer IT links in this issue than usual, but hopefully the other
material makes up for it.  (I'm too busy with my dissertation right now to
keep up with everything as much as I'd like to..)

Thanks to all those who sent me links!

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

The End of Free - chronicling free to fee and beyond
http://www.theendoffree.com

Convert pdf documents to html in seconds, just enter the URL
http://access.adobe.com/simple_form.html

Something to consider when you're contributing to an online public
discussion or "How public is public on- and offline?"
http://campuscgi.princeton.edu/~eszter/weblog/archives/00000050.html

Oxford Internet Institute Visiting Professorship in e-Democracy
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/demprof.shtml

Meet the N*ger*an E-Mail Grifters - it seems numerous people actually do
fall for those spam emails
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53818,00.html

Academics Fired 'For Being Israeli'
http://www.honestreporting.com/Critiques/2002/59_prof.asp

Who Are You Calling "Ms."? - on the origins of Ms. vs Miss, Mr, Mrs, etc.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=9527

'Collegiality' as a Tenure Battleground
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/12/education/12COLL.html

Same-Sex Marriages Must Be Recognized (Canada)
http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/07/12/samesex020712

Account of Punjab Rape Tells of a Brutal Society
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/international/asia/17RAPE.html

Bioterror Policy Questioned
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020708/020708-5.html

Don't Make English Official Ban It Instead
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/baron/essays/ban.htm

Static electricity is a suspected cause of a reported increase in gas
station refuelling fires
(since this is starting to circulate, here's the Urban Legends version)
http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/static.htm

Small Word [sic] Network
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020701/020701-2.html

Luciferous Logolepsy - "Dragging obscure words into the light of day"
http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/

Earth From Above (exhibitions going on this summer all over the world
including Budapest, Berlin, Chicago, London, Montreal, Beirut)
http://www.yannarthusbertrand.com/us/photogra/index.htm

Cuban Heritage Digital Collection - photograph collection
http://www.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/chc5017_main.html

Fine Arts in Hungary - over 2700 images
http://www.kfki.hu/keptar/

An interactive museum exhibit - interesting
http://www.virtualfishtank.com/main.html

Today's quote:
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working." -- Pablo Picasso

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Proposed social science PhD requirement: live in another country
  Going pro
  Archive while you write
  Protecting your - and others'! - email from spam
  How public is public on- and offline?
  HTML, please
  Great Excel advice or Does anybody need a dissertation topic?
  Random sampling
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In this issue:
How to protect email from unwanted junk mail lists

Several people I know are changing their email addresses in an attempt to
fight spam.  That's a temporary solution, but it won't last for long
unless people - all users - act with a bit more care when it comes to
email addresses.  Here are some hints. Please read even if you think you
know everything about fighting spam.  Thanks.

You can point others to this text via this Web page:
http://campuscgi.princeton.edu/~eszter/weblog/archives/00000051.html
(But please don't simply forward this message with my email address in it.)

There are all sorts of ways in which your email address can end up on spam
lists (i.e. unwanted junk email lists). See below for details.

However, there is one type of spam education that I think is necessary
because I believe that much spam happens due to the actions of our friends
and family who have our addresses. In short: please handle others' email
addresses with care. Do NOT forward emails with others' email addresses in
them and do NOT enter others' email addresses on sites that offer you to
forward messages/articles, etc to others. If you want to forward
something, send them the URL or copy/paste the material into an email
message. (I would like to think that with some reputable sites this should
be okay, but one never knows especially since today's reputable site may
end up in untrustworthy hands after tomorrow's mergers and acquisitions.
Moreover, who knows how secure are the various email repositories.)
When sending a message to more than one recipient, please use the bcc
(blind carbon copy) option so others' addresses are not exposed.

Let me explain. If you read the article I refer to below you will learn
that robots - little programs - run around on the Web looking for email
addresses to harvest and put on spam lists. These robots look at Web sites
and mailing list repositories. So any list you have ever been on that
exposes your address may be prone to this. Unfortunately, given that many
viruses spread by grabbing addresses from people's address books, I
suspect that simply by being in someone's address book, your address is
prone to ending up on spam lists. Preventing the spread of addresses via
this method requires even more: getting programs to be secure or getting
people to use programs that are not attacked by viruses (I recommend
Pine).

Your final line of defense: get your own domain name and create addresses
for different purposes. Join organizations with organization-specific
addresses and then forward the specific address to whichever mailbox you
prefer. If you start getting too much junk via an address, stop using it,
forward it to a super-junk folder or account and start using a new one.

Several good pieces have been written about how you can prevent email
addresses from ending up on spam lists. This piece
http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-58FC-73BBCD0-39B834CA-prod1
summarizes it pretty well so I won't go into the details, but here is the
gist of it:

- Have a secondary email address - from a free email provider such as
Yahoo! Mail (http://mail.yahoo.com ) - that you use when you sign up for
any commercial transactions online (do not use obvious words or names that
robots can easily figure out or that others will use for convenience)

- Do not ever reply to a spam message asking to be removed from their list

- Do not have your email address clearly up on your Web site (including
the background code), especially not in a "mailto" tag, instead, spell it
out "me at someaddress dot org" or add a removable part
meREMOVE@.... Alternatively, you can create a little image
file that spells out your address and put that up on your pages. (But same
applies: do not include a "mailto" tag.)

- When posting on a mailing list, use a secondary account

- Unless absolutely necessary, do not set up a vacation message. It will
bounce your email back to spammers and may perpetuate the problem.

This won't stop all spam, but it should help.

PS. You will notice that I am sending this message from my princeton.edu
account.  This is related E-LIST configuration and security concerns.  If
you forward E-LIST issues, please remove my email address as per the
above. Thanks for being considerate.

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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/galleries

Thanks to all those who sent me suggestions!

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

Reconceptualizing the Digital Divide
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_7/warschauer/

Sites Bow To Microsoft's Browser King
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-941926.html

Le reseau Indymedia en proie a des derives antisemites
http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3236--284019-,00.html
(in French)

Road Signs for Vagabond Computer Users
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/technology/circuits/11MARK.html
(require free NYTimes registration)

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

A Digital Library of 18th And 19th Century Journals
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/

How One Spam Leads to Another
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53617,00.html

Deep Link Foes Get Another Win
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53697,00.html

Search Engines and Legal Issues
http://searchenginewatch.com/resources/legal.html

True Majority
"Give us two minutes a month, we'll give you a better world."
It will be interesting to see how far this can go.
http://www.truemajority.com

Educause Considers Letting More Colleges Use '.Edu' Addresses
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/07/2002070501t.htm

Common-Place Special Issue on the Constitution
http://www.common-place.org/vol-02/no-04/

Are Girls Really as Mean as Books Say They Are?
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i43/43b00701.htm

Parcels From U.S. Come At High Cost - beware w/mailings to EU
http://www.iht.com/articles/63473.html

US Census Bureau Facts for Features - random facts about holidays and
special observances (e.g. $ value of fireworks, flags US buys/sells)
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/factsheets.html

Molecular Expressions: Silicon Zoo
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/index.html

Conference on Witnessing (at Princeton, open to the public)
http://www.princeton.edu/~witness/

Adventures in Reflective Surfaces: The Mirror Project - very neat
http://www.mirrorproject.com/
Be sure to check out the Galleries:
http://www.mirrorproject.com/galleries

Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
http://journale.com/withoutsanctuary

Art Museum Networks News
http://www.amnnews.com/amn_home.jsp

Today's quote:
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a
yellow spot into the sun." -- Pablo Picasso

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Great Excel advice or Does anybody need a dissertation topic?
  Random sampling
  I spoke too soon! - Cell phone telemarketing take II
  Pondering Privacy @ Pool Parties
  Spam hell at a new level
  100!
  Donkeys and cows
  Do email vacation messages spur more spam?

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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/surveillance/creativity/news

Thanks to all those who sent me links!

New Chips Can Keep a Tight Rein on Consumers
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/04/business/04SCEN.html
(as usual, NYTimes requires free registration)

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

Hackers on Planet Earth - conference in NYC July 12-14, 2002
http://www.h2k2.net/

All Eyes Are On You - scattering your digital DNA
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,260388-1,00.html

Observing Surveillance - interesting and scary
http://www.observingsurveillance.org/

Supermarket Cards: The Pricing Issues
http://www.nocards.org/savings/index.shtml
&
check out their entire site
Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering
http://www.nocards.org/

Now That Ringing Cellphone May Be a Telemarketer's Call
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/05/business/05JUNK.html

Library's Journals Come With Hefty Prices
http://www.guelphmercury.com/news/news_02062785821.html

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

Talk about creativity, this looks neat
http://1000journals.com

Textbook Publishers Learn to Avoid Messing With Texas
(compare this to all the critique communist countries would get about
controlling their curricula; also, note that this censorship affects not
only history, but environmental studies textbooks as well)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/29/arts/29TEXT.html

Falling Prey to the VeriSign Beast - are you paying too much for your
domain registration?
http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/18354.html

Gender and Technology: Research, Revisions, Policies, and Consequences
http://www.cis.vt.edu/ws/SEWSA2003.html

More Women Taking Leadership Roles at Colleges (mostly about Princeton)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/04/education/04PRIN.html

Good commentary on the reactions to the Pledge of Allegiance ruling
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/27/95910/1530

Bush Sets Religious Litmus Test for Judges
http://www.americanhumanist.org/press/litmustest.html

Debate Over the SAT Masks Perilous Trends in College Admissions
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i44/44b01101.htm

Arab Human Development Report - Creating Opportunities for Future
Generations
http://www.undp.org/rbas/ahdr/

A Girl Gang-Raped By Order Of Tribal Jury; Appeals For Help To Human
Rights Organizations
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/183/world/A_girl_gang_raped_by_order_of_:.shtml

Country links - for basic stats about dozens of countries
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

a friend's photo album from Gay Pride Washington DC (anyone have NYC?)
http://www.dayan-rosenman.net/Album/Gay_Pride_Washington_DC/

On hot summer days, try a bowl of cold cherry soup to cool you off
http://www.eszter.com/recipes/cherrysoup.html
(thanks to my Mom for this great recipe!)

Behind The Name - The Etymology and History of First Names
(I'm impressed, it even recognizes a bunch of Hungarian names)
http://www.behindthename.com

Famous Monkeys Through History :)
http://www.ape-o-naut.org/famous/

Today's quote:
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." -- Woodrow Wilson

Recently on Eszter's Blog:

  I spoke too soon! - Cell phone telemarketing take II
  Pondering Privacy @ Pool Parties
  Spam hell at a new level
  100!
  Donkeys and cows
  Do email vacation messages spur more spam?
  Humor & dissertations
  Creativity
  Book: Nickel and Dimed
  Watch your ATM! - and how to get back...
  Google's limitations

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In this issue: academia how-to's

Today's issue will mostly be of interest to academics although I think it
may be revealing to others as well to see, for example, why dissertations
take so long to finish and to gain some understanding of academic life in
general.
    Once I'll be a prof - do send those job announcements my way!:) - I
will be interested in running a professionalization seminar for students.
There's quite a maze out there regarding the particularities of
conferences, journal submissions, dissertation stages, etc.  The tiniest
things can become big hurdles for students that prevent them from getting
their work out there and meeting people. Explaining and discussing the
specifics can help navigate the jungle. I've been extremely lucky with the
mentoring I've gotten here at Princeton (and at NYU and Smith) but it
shouldn't have to be based on one's luck with having great advisors and
peers.
    So please pass these links along to all those who may need some advice
in this realm.  I've set up a separate page with these links for easy
referencing. I'd be happy to add other resources, so do send them my way.
http://www.eszter.com/academia.html
    This is a fairly short list, but just a few good resources will cover a
lot of the basics.

Networking on the Network: A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/network.html

PhD - First Thoughts to Finished Writing
http://www2.ems.uq.edu.au/phdweb/phhome.html

Dissertation Proposal Writing
http://www.education.wisc.edu/edadmin/faculty/facultyextras/disspropose.html

Tips for Successful Writing Groups
http://www.education.wisc.edu/edadmin/faculty/facultyextras/writegroups.html

Guidelines for Writing Abstracts (for conference submissions)
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/hil/abstr.htm

Advice for Undergraduates Considering Graduate School
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/grad-school.html

Notes on Organizing Conferences
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/organizing.html

And for some fun:
11 Reasons Why Writing A Dissertation Is Harder Than Having A Baby
http://campuscgi.princeton.edu/~eszter/weblog/archives/00000040.html
150 Things Not To Do (Or Say) At (Or For) Your Thesis Defense
http://www.naples.net/~nfn02644/thesisdonts.html

Today's quote:
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand." -- Albert Einstein

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

Since the last issue, the number of E-LIST subscribers has surpassed 250.
Judging from the email addresses - and what I know about some people -
subscribers are from well over a dozen countries representing all
continents.  Academics are in the majority, but there are people from
non-profits, gov't, private sector and people cover a wide range of
professions.  If you are a subscriber and we don't know each other, feel
free to send a note of introduction.  At this point, I know nothing about
over 50% of subscribers and an additional 10-15 percent I only know from
correspondance since they have signed up for the list.  I welcome feedback
and links, as always.

Thanks to all those who contributed!

The Broadband Difference:  How Online Americans' Behavior Changes With
High-Speed Internet Connections At Home
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=63

Anything and everything you ever wanted to know about Google
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2829.htm

Art, Technology & Intellectual Property
http://www.americanassembly.org/PDF/ATIPspreads.pdf
(requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

What are people searching for online?
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/facts/searches.html

Spam: An Escalating Attack of the Clones
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/technology/circuits/27SPAM.html
(No new solutions, but a good overview of where regulation stands.  Also,
silly comment: "Spam requires a technology solution because it is a
technology problem" hmmm...)

Next Stop on the Local: The Weblogs of Borough Hall (NYC blogger map)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/technology/circuits/27GEE1.html

FBI Begins Visiting Libraries
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37774-2002Jun24.html

Using Technology in the Qualitative Research Process
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm

Journal of Medical Internet Research (fully accessible online)
http://www.jmir.org

Suits Say Wal-Mart Forces Workers to Toil Off the Clock
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/25/national/25WALM.html
&
social critic Barbara Ehrenreich offers an illuminating in-person account
of working at Wal-Mart in her book Nickel And Dimed - my thoughts on it:
http://campuscgi.princeton.edu/~eszter/weblog/archives/00000038.html

Pro-Islamic Hackers Join Forces
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2052000/2052320.stm

Women's Rights: Why Not?
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/18/opinion/18KRIS.html

Islamic Bloc, Christian Right Team Up to Lobby U.N.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61275-2002Jun16.html

Children, Gay Parents and Synthetic Storms
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/18/arts/television/18SALA.html

The New Suicide Bombers: Larger and More Varied Pool
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/21/international/middleeast/21SUIC.html

Sleep deprivation as bad as alcohol impairment when driving
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/20/sleep.deprivation/

Spotting Breast Cancer: Doctors Are Weak Link
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/health/27MAMM.html

Senate Victory on Access to Abortion for Women in the Military
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/06/21/congress.abortion.reut/
How did your senators vote on this?
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/vote1072/vote_00160.html

Join the Planned Parenthood Action Network
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/action

Immigration in Europe
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/06/24/immigration.htm

Judges Ban Pledge of Allegiance From Schools, Citing 'Under God'
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/national/27PLED.html
(I will tell you that as a 9-year foreigner in US schools,
it was way weird to have to start every one of my days with this..)

Create a customized South Park character :)
http://southpark.gamesweb.com/flash/sp-studio.html

Today's quote:
"Believing in something just because it is popular is lazy. Believing in
something just because it's unpopular is lame." -- Alison Greenwald

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Book: Nickel and Dimed
  Watch your ATM! - and how to get back...
  Google's limitations
  Play: Placebo Sunrise (& The Tipping Point - take III)
  "Linking prohibited" aka clueless about the Web
  The Tipping Point - take II
  Glimmer of hope on the privacy front

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In this issue: book recommendation
Web site recommendations: IT/humor

My father's new book is out on The Road to Stockholm: Nobel Prizes,
Science and Scientists (Oxford Univ Press, 2002).  The book relies on over
150 interviews by my father with famous scientists, 70 of them with Nobel
Laureates from across the world.  My father (who is a chemistry prof)
looks at what goes into people winning the Nobel Prize (the focus here is
on the three science prizes: chemistry, physics, physiology/medicine).
The book should be of interest to those curious about the prize, about the
sciences, and the sociology of science and knowledge. Although my father
does not claim to present a sociological analysis of the phenomenon, he
inevitably discusses some features of the prize process that are less
about meritocracy and more about social factors such as the importance of
social networks.  For more info on the book, check out its Web site.  The
site also features over a dozen pictures that are not part of the book.
One way to think about this book is as a "manual" on how to win the Nobel
Prize.:-)  No guarantees though.:)  Enjoy!
http://www.roadtostockholm.com
(PS. Any thoughts on how to get the book into bookstores would be
appreciated!)

And now on to some other site recommendations. Thanks to those who sent me
links!

Yet another search engine with a neat new visualization method, but in
this case the search query is presented graphically
http://boolistic.com/

Internet use in France (inequalities similar to those in U.S.)
http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3226--281314-,00.html
(in French)

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

How Google Searches Itself
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/60/google.html

Amazon vs. eBay (two Princeton alums head-to-head)
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,13851,FF.html

Consumer Groups Target Software
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020615/tc_nm/bizliability_so\
ftware_dc_1

How anti-virus software companies are making up virus threats
http://features.slashdot.org/features/02/06/14/1343223.shtml?tid=166

Browser Wars Aren't Coming Back
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=77&e=1&cid=77&u=/mc/20020614/tc\
_mc/andreessen_interview__browser_wars_aren_t_coming_back

Testimony of Nancy J. Victory, Assistant Secretary for Communications and
Information, NTIA, Dept of Commerce - On ICANN Governance
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/congress/2002/icann6122002.htm

Competition Is Heating Up for Control of .org Domain
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/15/technology/15NET.html

Fighting Nazi and Anti-Semitic Material On The Internet: The Yahoo! Case
and Its Global Implications
http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/YahooConference/

Some interesting graphs of int'l movie imports
http://www.sciences-po.fr/cartographie/cartographie_html/4_page4dossiers/monde_s\
ur_grd_ecran/jeux_c_monde_gr_ecran.html
(in French, just follow links, pictures will speak for themselves)

Creating a Life - Sylvia Ann Hewlett And The Myth of The Baby Bust
http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/12/franke-ruta-g.html

Kenneth Snelson's art - sculptures, panoramas, computer images and more
http://www.kennethsnelson.net/

Class on partnered living :-)
http://www.thebagmanboards.net/cgi-bin/anyboard/noflorida/posts/337.html

The Dubya Chronicles - GW cartoons
http://www.thedubyachronicles.com/

The Little George Bush Gallery of Contemporary Political Art
http://littlegeorgebush.com/gallery2.html

Human Clock
http://www.humanclock.com
(if you don't want the details of the site, just go directly to
http://www.humanclock.com/clock.php )

Today's quote:
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand." -- Albert Einstein

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  In Memoriam: Danielle Drumke, Smith College Class of 1995
  Book: The Tipping Point
  From thought to drawing
  Computer/video games
  Internet measurement hardships

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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/soc/photography/art/fun

Thanks to all those who contributed!

comScore Nabs Media Metrix
http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/1347911
&
my comments on it: Internet measurement hardships
http://campuscgi.princeton.edu/~eszter/weblog/archives/00000027.html

How Much Information? - "an attempt to measure how much information is
produced in the world each year"
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/index.html

Treemaps for Space-Constrained Visualization of Hierarchies
(free software for personal/educational uses)
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemaps/

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

In Remote Town Mexican, Internet Brings Higher Education To a New Class
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3435611.htm

the Internet in Brazil
http://news.com.com/2010-1074-934820.html

Request for Proposals: Governing Global Electronic Networks: International
Perspectives on Power and Policy Volume
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic/activities/ggenrfp.page

Status of Technology and Digitization In the Nation's Museums and
Libraries
http://www.imls.gov/Reports/TechReports/intro02.htm

Economic Sociology - European Electronic Newsletter
http://www.siswo.uva.nl/ES/

United States Institute of Peace Dissertation Fellowships
http://www.usip.org/fellows.html

Special Issue on Digital Photography
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2002/05/23/technology/circuits/
e.g.
Every Picture Still Tells a Story, but 'Family Album' Is Redefined
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/23/technology/circuits/23ALBU.html

I recommend the Cannon Digital Elph series (especially S110, S200)
http://www.powershot.com
&
see notes on my gadget recommendations (and warnings)
http://www.eszter.com/geek.html

Art Crime - an index of art vandalism
http://www.renewal.org.au/artcrime/
(once you've entered the site, scroll to the right for more entries)

fifteen credibility street - e-zine (I once had some art in this:)
http://www.anti-naturals.org/15cst/

Mildred Wirt Benson, author of Nancy Drew books dies
http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,11617,724688,00.html

Making Money Make Change - I don't know if this is relevant to anyone on
this list, but just in case..
http://www.tidesfoundation.org/mmmc

Getting Mom Onto the Internet :) - this was especially amusing after all
the in-person observations I have conducted
http://www.theonion.com/onion3822/getting_mom_onto_internet.html

The Case for the Empire
Everything You Think You Know About Star Wars Is Wrong
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=1248&R=502\
535DD0

Today's quote:
"Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its
strength." -- Corrie Ten Boom

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
  Computer/video games
  Internet measurement hardships
  In New York this summer
  Webshop
  Summer is here
  On filtering software...
  P-Rade and other Princeton fun
  Your privacy.. take II

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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

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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

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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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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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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)