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2002 Archives This is a list of URLs (and quotes) sent out in 2002. For list subscription information, go to this page. To get to the pages, just click on the URLs. HINT If you got here as a result of a search for something specific, you can find it the following way. Press CTRL-F (on a PC) or Apple-F (on a Mac). This will bring up a Find window. Type in what you were looking for, you should be taken to the link directly. You can use this Find function on any Web page to quickly find what you are looking for. Was that a helpful hint? Sign up for my list and you'll get more. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* This message was sent via Eszter's List. Please feel free to forward to others, but please include this introduction. For more information about Eszter's List, including instructions for (un)subscribing, see http://www.eszter.com/elist *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* December 31, 2002 In this issue: Happy New Year! Web site recommendations: "Best of 2002" Today, I list some "best of 2002" lists I've found online, some are better than others, I share all of them because it's interesting to see what types of tops people bother to assemble. Thanks, as always, to those who helped me find this stuff. Hungarian tradition has it that the first thing you should eat in the New Year is lentil soup for good luck. In case you'd like to join in on this tradition, I've posted the recipe below: http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000153.html All the best to you and yours for the New Year! (To my readers in Asia, Australia/NZ, sorry this is a bit late.. we're a bit behind in some things in the US...) Law.com's Best of the Web 2002 http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1039054427506 Top search terms in 2002 (I'll post a blog entry about this in a few days) http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56861,00.html Timeline of the Free Online Scholarship Movement (including some of the main events in 2002) http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 (via amusing cartoons) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20021223.html On Target and Off in 2002 - the most overrated and underrated ideas http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/28/arts/28INTR.html The Year in Film (from the American Prospect) http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/24/parker-j.html The Year in Pictures by the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/photo/20021230_YIP2002/index.html Top Ten Stories of the Year on ZDNet UK (IT news) http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2127901,00.html Interesting inventions in 2002 http://www.time.com/time/2002/inventions/ A Celebration Of Business Innovators And Ideas http://forbes.com/2002/11/01/85.html What's Missing From the Year's Top Religion Stories? http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/000391.shtml#000391 Writers who died in 2002 http://www.mobylives.com/0bits_2002.html Today's quote: "When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us." -- Alexander Graham Bell Recently on Eszter's Blog: Lentil soup for good luck in the New Year Back to the basics The thinking behind movie ratings Today's front pages Internet user statistics More on airport security See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com December 27, 2002 In this issue: Web site recommendations: IT/security/references I'll be sending out an issue with "top XYZ of 2002" lists next week. If you know of any such interesting compilations, please send me pointers. Thanks to all those who contributed! As We May Think - the 1945 article by Vannevar Bush http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm WWW - the beginning and now (nice class project by a college senior) http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mattkaz/history/index.html How the Web Will Change Campaigns (written by a friend of mine) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/25/opinion/25HIND.html Considering starting a Weblog? Here are some pointers (not technical, content based) http://www.alistapart.com/stories/writeliving/ A profitable corner of the Web: online personals sites http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56940,00.html Consumers Finding Ways to Zap Telemarketer Calls http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/18/technology/18TELE.html AOL Patents Instant Messaging http://www.msnbc.com/news/848770.asp?0dm=C14KT&cp1=1 & some commentary on it http://www.jabber.org/aol-patent/jsf-position.php ResearchBuzz - news and information about search engines and databases http://www.researchbuzz.com Pirated sites - originals and copies http://www.pirated-sites.com Blogs of PhD students http://phdweblogs.net Software for interactive online forum http://www.phpbb.com Google fun summarized on one page (I've posted links to most of these, but it's nice to have them all together in one location) http://www.karakerwin.net/archives/00000092.html Careful with Flash files http://rss.com.com/2100-1001-978261.html?tag=lh collecting information on those who collect information about you http://sfweekly.com/issues/2002-11-27/smith.html/1/index.html & update on this http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56860,00.html Increased security check at airports - tips for packing luggage http://www.arizonarepublic.com/news/articles/1221search21.html A nightmare airport security story http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/monahan1.html Social networks references in Spanish http://www.redes-sociales.org Expecting a Laugh Boosts Stress-busting Hormones http://www.ucihealth.com/News/Releases/LaughStressBuster.htm An example of the types of random information available online: Episode lists for over 2000 US TV shows http://epguides.com/ The nutritional value (yeah, right) of fast food chain foods http://www.olen.com/food/ Lego sculptures (this is the guy's full time job, neat) - see image list on right hand side http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/index.html Today's quote: "There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination." -- Roald Dahl, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Recently on Eszter's Blog: More on airport security The Internet and political campaigns Taking a break When you become the spammer Guarding email Adbusters See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com December 21, 2002 In this issue: E-LIST is one year old Web site recommendations: from E-LIST archives One year ago I sent out the first issue of E-LIST and I'm very glad I did because it's been a blast. I can't quite say why I like to do it so much, but it's a lot of fun and useful too (it's useful for me and some of you have let me know that you find it helpful as well which is a pleasure to know). Recently at a job interview I was telling someone about my tiny journalistic background. We were talking about my academic interest in communication research and I noted how at one point in my life I was also interested in the day-to-day of journalism. In addition to the various school publications I'd worked on, one summer I also worked as a reporter at a big Hungarian daily. I decided that it was too stressful on a day-to-day basis and coverage of topics was necessarily too superficial for my interests so I did not pursue it. The person listening to me talk about this noted that I haven't completely given up on it though as per my list and blog. I thought that was an interesting point. Thanks to the way we're using new technologies, it's been possible for me to pursue my journalistic interests, broadly defined, in some way. Thanks for joining me on the ride, you're a great readership! Some of you sent me pointers to your favorite links from E-LIST issues. Here I share these picks adding some of my own. I'll be sending out a new list in a few days. Thanks for contributing, you know who you are! The Internet Archive: Way Back Machine pick a Web site and see what it looked like years ago http://www.archive.org/ Digital Divide and Libraries: Equity and the Internet - a bibliography http://web.syr.edu/~jryan/infopro/divide.html Is your email being filtered without your knowledge? http://strom.com/awards/293.html Weblogs: a history and perspective http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html Blogosphere: the emerging Media Ecosystem http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/blogosphere.htm Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (syllabi, book reviews, etc.) http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/ Mailing lists related to Internet research http://www.aoir.org/list.php SocioLog - Sociology references, departments, organizations and much more http://www.sociolog.com Creative Commons - a non-profit to help those who "do not want to exercise all of the intellectual property rights the law affords them" http://www.creativecommons.org/ The Free Expression Policy Project - on copyright & free expression, media literacy, media violence research and much more http://www.fepproject.org Pew Internet and American Life Project reports (fully available for free online) http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/index.asp Visualizing Internet industry partnerships http://www.orgnet.com/inetindustry.html Who Owns What - what the major media companies own http://www.cjr.org/owners/ a critical look at entertainment giant Clear Channel which owns stations with a total of 103,000,000 listeners in the U.S. and 1,000,000,000 globally http://www.clearchannelsucks.org & a Salon article on them: Radio's Big Bully http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/04/30/clear_channel/index.html "Do the conflicts of interest of our highly concentrated media constitute a threat to democracy?" http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/29/opinion/29KRUG.html Visualizing Internet Topology at a Macroscopic Scale http://www.caida.org/analysis/topology/as_core_network/ The Censorware Project http://censorware.net Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/checklist.html Staying Safe Online http://www.staysafeonline.info/ 'Have an Excel puzzle you can't solve? Post a query on this board. (people were amazingly helpful and got back to me within minutes) http://www.mrexcel.com/board/index.php WordNet - "a lexical database for the English language" - it not only gives definitions and extensive lists of synonyms, but also links words together via a web of semantic relationships - very cool http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ Common Errors in English http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html NameBase - great examples (graphical and otherwise) of social network analysis http://www.namebase.org/ The Dvorak Keyboard - for a healthier and quicker typing experience http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/jcb/Dvorak/ & Online course for teaching yourself Dvorak http://www.karelia.com/abcd/ Tips on Academic Professionalization http://www.eszter.com/academia.html Metamorphosis: Transforming the Ties That Bind Communication Technology and Community Program http://metamorph.org/index1.html Hard-to-find Apple software and hardware (plus donation program info) http://www.mactreasures.com/ Women: The Shadow Story of the Millennium http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m2/index.html Distinguished Women of Past and Present http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/ If Men Could Menstruate (great little piece I read in my sex and gender course in college that I was happy to find online) http://www.mum.org/ifmencou.htm For young women, pass this on: GYN101 http://www.gyn101.com/ Sex Slaves in Europe http://www.msnbc.com/news/725802.asp Prison Sucks - Research on the crime control industry http://www.prisonsucks.com/index.shtml You Are a Suspect http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html WHY: Art about the attack on the World Trade Center & Pentagon http://www.whyproject.org Chocolate Exhibition at the Field Museum in Chicago - I saw this a few weeks ago, it's open til 12/31 http://www.fieldmuseum.org/Chocolate/ You probably already know about the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com ) for anything and everything about movies, but did you know there's a similar site for Broadway shows? Internet Broadway Database http://www.ibdb.com The MegaPenny Project - visualizing large numbers http://kokogiak.com/megapenny/ The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements - neat http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/index.html Today's quote: "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." -- Maya Angelou Recently on Eszter's Blog: E-BLOG blocked Recipe page keeps on giving More products of interest Proud to be a geek Best of E-LIST? Public use of wireless and the military - a century later Too old for the candles Laptop nightmare at airport security The kindness of strangers See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com December 17, 2002 In this issue: your E-LIST favorites? Web site recommendations: IT/misc In a few days E-LIST will be a year old. I'm curious what sites readers have found most interesting/useful/intriguing. If you have a moment, please look through the E-LIST archives and send me your favorite links. I will redistribute these in the next issue. The archives are here: http://www.eszter.com/elist/urls2002.html E-LIST (and E-BLOG entries) should be back on a more regular schedule from now on. And now onto some links: Transforming Enterprise - "First International Conference on the Economic and Social Implications of Information Technology" http://transformingenterprise.com/ Where do letter searches lead to on Google? http://www.gerv.net/writings/who-owns-the-alphabet/ Google vs Evil http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/google.html Limits Sought on Wireless Internet Access http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/technology/17WIRE.html & my thoughts on this: http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000136.html Two new free online scientific journals http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/science/17JOUR.html A conference on spam filtering http://spamconference.org/ Record the Lens That Records You http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,56185,00.html & World Sousveillance Day http://wearcam.org/wsd.htm Computer scientist takes on Congress http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i14/14a02701.htm CFP: graduate student conference in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine http://philosophy.wisc.edu/mephistos2003/mephistos.htm What's In a Name? Perhaps Plenty if You're a Job Seeker http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/12/business/12SCEN.html Arts & education = better math scores http://qnc.queensu.ca/story_loader.php?id=3de4e35f6695d The Heavy Cost of Chronic Stress http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/health/psychology/17STRE.html Wal-Mart Resells Donated Toys http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/1821982/detail.html Another donation site, just click http://www.buildaschool.org/ Music from commercials http://www.songtitle.info/ A Guide to the Lesser-Known Movie Ratings :) http://www.comedycentral.com/webshows/spot/mirth/essay1.jhtml Interesting signs (funny even if created with an editor, that part is unclear) http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/dah18/america/ Today's quote: "The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed." --Sebastien Roch Nicholas Chamfort Recently on Eszter's Blog: Public use of wireless and the military - a century later Too old for the candles Laptop nightmare at airport security The kindness of strangers Almost back... Pool disassembly not included Some books to read... See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com November 30, 2002 In this issue: Web site recommendations: IT/health/politics In addition to the usual IT links, there are quite a few links to political material below. Is this issue too long or too dense? I welcome your feedback, as usual. I'll be on the road for the most part until the 20th but hope to be back on track regularly responding to emails, compiling E-LIST and adding to my blog after that. Happy Hanukkah! (see my graphics greeting here: http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000129.html ) Thanks to all those who contributed to this issue! The Freedom of Imagination: Copyright's Constitutionality "In some parts of the world, you can go to jail for reciting a poem in public without permission from state-licensed authorities. Where is this true? One place is the United States of America." http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/112/112-1ab1.html Telling All Online: It's a Man's World (Isn't It?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/28/technology/circuits/28blog.html (reminder NYTimes articles require free registration) Walker in the Wireless City - Wi-Fi in NYC http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/24/nyregion/24FEAT.html Death by Spam - The e-mail you know and love is about to vanish http://slate.msn.com/?id=2074042 "Do the conflicts of interest of our highly concentrated media constitute a threat to democracy?" http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/29/opinion/29KRUG.html Who does TiVo think you are? http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1038261936872356908,00.html Postcards from Planet Google http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/28/technology/circuits/28goog.html CFP: Special Issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication The Form and the Feel: Combining approaches for the study of networks on the Internet http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/cfp2.html GuideStar - The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations - provides hours of fun looking up the financial records of nonprofits (note the privacy implications for those listed: publicly available SSN) http://www.guidestar.org Audits and Surveys of State Freedom of Information Laws http://foi.missouri.edu/openrecseries.html Tech Women Experience Power Surge http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2002/11/18/story3.html Visa Suit: Dictionary Discredited "the first time a corporate trademark has prevailed over a word in the dictionary" http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56432,00.html Grant for research on music in America http://www.sinfoniafoundation.org/Research%20Grant%20Info%20and%20Instructions.htm The New Old Slavery "The trafficking of human beings is a polite phrase for slavery..." http://eatthestate.org/07-05/NewOldSlavery.htm WHO Report Details Global Violence http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35213-2002Oct2.html Military Spending: U.S. vs the World, FY'01 http://www.cdi.org/issues/wme/spendersFY03.html & FY'03 Discretionary Budget http://www.cdi.org/issues/budget/FY03Discretionary-pr.cfm Treatment of Israel Strikes An Alien Note "a visitor [..] would [..] come away with the conclusion that the Earth is a peaceful and fair planet with only one villainous nation determined to destroy the peace and to violate human rights" http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1102/alien_visit.asp Judging Judaism by the Numbers "For too long, the health of Judaism has been defined largely by numbers." http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/20/opinion/20RUSH.html USDA closes meat packing plant "violations [..] for allowing feces to contaminate beef carcasses" http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E33%257E994589%257E,00.html White Poison: The Horrors of Milk - it would be great if people could point me to some more related material (e.g. how hormonal treatment increases milk production in cows across countries, etc.) http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12002 The BGH-Cancer Connection http://www.bcaction.org/Pages/SearchablePages/1996Newsletters/Newsletter034D.html Vaccine against HPV-16, a virus linked to cervical cancer, appears effective http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/2002archive/11-02archive/k112002.html The Sons Also Rise http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/opinion/22KRUG.html How George W. Bush is related to 16 other US presidents http://www.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/03/31/bush/ The Successor Generation - American Politics as Family Business http://www.prospect.org/print/V9/41/brownstein-r.html UK Watchdog Pulls Plug on Bush TV Ads http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/reuters20021127_235.html Testing if drink is safe from drugs http://www.drinksafetech.com/ A Word of the Day Keeps Banality at Bay http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/28/technology/circuits/28garg.html Idiom Site - find out why you say what you say http://www.idiomsite.com/ The Dialectizer - Convert English text to any of several comic dialects :) http://rinkworks.com/dialect/ Today's quote: "For 45 years of the Cold War we were in an arms race with the Soviet Union. Now it appears we're in an arms race with ourselves." -- Admiral Eugene Carroll, Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.) Recently on Eszter's Blog: Holiday weekend Thanksgiving cooking and Web searches - take II Email 101: the importance of bcc Thanksgiving cooking & Web searches Water, lozenges and some CH3COOC6H4COOH Who counts as a techie? M$Speak "Fast Food Nation" at Princeton See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com November 16, 2002 In this issue: comedy club in NYC Web site recommendations: IT/refs/fun I took some time off on Monday and went to the Boston Comedy Club in New York with a good friend, it was great fun. http://www.bostoncomedyclub.com Although the Web site says there is a cover, they are so desperate to get a few peope in on a Monday night that they'll wave that fee with a flyer they give to everyone who passes by. There's a two drink minimum, but it's completely reasonable. It was interesting to be at a show with such a small crowd. If you're super-shy you may not enjoy it as everyone gets picked on over and over again, but I thought it made the experience that much more amusing. I'm sure you'll never guess what theme comes up when a male and female friend sit together and say they're not on a date.:) Monday is their New Talent Showcase which worked out really well. If you're interested in trying out your talents, you, too, can become part of the show. Check out the details here (and let me know if you try it out, I want to be in the audience!): http://www.newtalentshowcase.com/pages/main.html On a completely different note, Thanksgiving is approaching in the US. Last year I cooked a full meal (minus the turkey) which was a lot of fun. Pictures of the dishes and pointers to the recipes are here in case you're looking for some ideas: http://www.eszter.com/recipes/#tx And now onto site recommendations, thanks to those of you who sent me links! You Are a Suspect - if you will click on just one link in this issue, this should be the one http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html How Free Are We? - a quiz http://www.aclu.org/Quizzes/QuizIntro.cfm?ID=4 Descriptions of some fascinating projects by Warren Sack http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/socialtech/ & his Conversation Map: An Interface for Very Large Scale Conversations http://web.media.mit.edu/~wsack/CM/ The Information Society in Switzerland - 130+ page report free online http://www.statistik.admin.ch/stat_ch/ber20/publ/fpub01-01.htm (in French) http://www.statistik.admin.ch/stat_ch/ber20/publ/dpub01-01.htm (in German) Information Research (free online peer-reviewed journal) http://informationr.net/ir/ Kuro5shin - for discussing technology and culture, a great example of a popular ongoing peer review system http://www.kuro5hin.org How Stuff Works - descriptions of cell phone, automobile engines, toys... http://www.howstuffworks.com/ HTML code for special symbols (math symbols, currency, etc.) http://www.chaos.org.uk/~eddy/bits/chars.html London's Privacy Falling Down http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,56152,00.html The Social Life of Paper http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/020325crbo_books The Sociology of the Arts Network of the European Soc Association http://ace.acadiau.ca/artsnet/artsesa.htm & CFP: New Trends in the Sociology of the Arts http://ace.acadiau.ca/artsnet/calls.htm Googlism.com - some fun with Google http://www.googlism.com Statistical Resources on the Web http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html Internet stats in particular http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stsci.html#internet Half-A-Million March in Anti-War Rally in Italy http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1109-01.htm The First National U.S. Survey of Women's Childbearing Experiences http://www.maternitywise.org/listeningtomothers The Big Cartoon Database http://www.bcdb.com First Gov for Kids (includes a Treasure hunt game) http://www.kids.gov/ Remember Lego Star Wars Trilogy? http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~mbsf/sworde.htm Here are some other stories via Lego http://www.ozbricks.net/bricktales/ A nice description of the game Go http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/7/11/62356/9269 Grad Student Deconstructs Take-Out Menu :) http://www.theonion.com/onion3826/grad_student.html Today's quote: "Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it." -- Lily Tomlin Recently on Eszter's Blog: "Fast Food Nation" at Princeton "Please leave the plane, we can't close the door with this many people on it" More on mixing computer science and social science Success! Scientific fraud Computer science and the liberal arts See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com November 6, 2002 In this issue: schedule update/ASA section name change Web site recommendations: IT/misc/fun After a few days of relative calm here in Princesstown (emphasis on relative), I'm off to various places in the next few weeks and probably won't be sending out much on the list. Among other things, next Sat I'll be in Philly for a seminar on Measuring Search Behaviors: Current and Proposed Methods sponsored by the Special Interest Group on Information Needs, Seeking and Use of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. That should be interesting, it's great to talk to people who've been struggling with similar methodological issues. http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGUSE/ Also, hot off the press is that our work has paid off in changing the name and mission statement of the American Sociological Association's Section on "Sociology and Computers". The new name is "Communication and Information Technologies". I'll post a note on the new mission statement on my blog later today. Please spread the word to sociologists (and others who may be interested), and join the section! Thanks to Keith Hampton (MIT) and Anabel Quan Haase (Toronto) with whom I worked on this. This E-LIST issue is a bit longer than usual to make up for the absence.:) Enjoy, and please do keep sending pointers my way. Thanks to those of you who have! Does Search Engine's Power Threaten Web's Independence? http://news.com.com/2009-1023-963618.html To the Liberal Arts, He Adds Computer Science - Brian's great! http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/31/technology/circuits/31prof.html Global Media Journal http://www.globalmediajournal.com & its section for graduate student research in particular http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj/graduate_research.htm When Interfaces Kill: What Really Happened to John Denver http://www.asktog.com/columns/027InterfacesThatKill.html The Cranky User: Could you repeat that? http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/us-cranky23.html & here's a great little shareware editor that allows such cross-file actions and takes less than ten minutes to learn - I highly recommend it! http://www.ultraedit.com/ & some pointers on how to use it when writing for Stata http://www.eszter.com/stata.html#editor Riding along with the Internet Bookmobile http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/10/09/bookmobile/index.html?x Where Net Luminaries Turn For News http://www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1035486868.php Tomorrow's Professor Listserv - info on faculty development http://sll.stanford.edu/projects/tomprof/newtomprof/postings.html Blog to Court: Check Your Facts http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56126,00.html Word Up: Keeping Languages Alive http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54345,00.html Meatmarket.com - on online dating http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/05/15/online_dating/?x The First Smiley:-) http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html Do Women Lack Drive? Or a Wife? http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/business/yourmoney/13WCOL.htm On Profit, Loss and the Mysteries of the Mind - about Danny Kahneman's work (this year's Nobel laureate in Econ) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/05/health/policy/05CONV.html Sheila Wellstone Became a Respected Voice in Her Own Right http://www.startribune.com/stories/1752/3389565.html Academics against attacking Iraq http://www.noattackiraq.org Scientific Fraud Found at Bell Labs http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/88624_bell261.shtml & some brief comments on this http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000118.html Mass Mailing Attacks Lesbian Candidate http://www.365gay.com/newscontent/2002/11/110302baldwinTricks.htm Ads on Police Cars http://www.commercialalert.org/index.php?category_id=3&subcategory_id=70&article_id=171 The Phrase Finder http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/index.html The effects of college exams on the life expectancy of grandmothers :) http://alex.halavais.net/news/archives/2002_10.html#000074 Spank Bush http://www.spankbush.com Today's quote: "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." -- Woodrow Wilson Recently on Eszter's Blog: Scientific fraud Computer science and the liberal arts Halloween costumes Helpful resource on prison statistics Google censors sites Shawn Colvin concert in Princesstown Usability glitch at EWR A visitor See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com October 31, 2002 In this issue: Web site recommendations: IT/misc I guess I wasn't kidding when I said E-LIST would be out less frequently this Fall. I've been extremely busy working on my job talk and starting campus interviews for an academic position. Things are quite exciting. I'm also happy to see some results emerging from my data. I'll keep you posted as I write up the results. Happy Halloween! (If you have suggestions for a simple yet funny/imaginative costume, let me know, I need it for a party this weekend.) And now on to the links, thanks to those who contributed! ResearchBuzz - news and information about search engines and databases http://www.researchbuzz.com Documentation of Internet Filtering Worldwide http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/ Google Excluding Controversial Sites http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963132.html My comments on this: http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000114.html IT related book reviews (I think I've posted this before, but it's constantly updated AND check out the great new site design) http://www.com.washington.edu/RCCS/booklist.asp The Global Diffusion of the Internet Project http://mosaic.unomaha.edu/gdi.html Software discounted for schools and non-profits http://www.npsoft.org Study: Few Women at the Top of Media Companies http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=1048 Love Online - Digital Renaissance http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_jenkins100402.asp Stand Down: The Left-Right Blog Opposing and Invasion of Iraq http://www.nowarblog.org/ Homeland Security Posters http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html The Nigerian Nightmare - Who's Sending You All Those Scam Emails? http://slate.msn.com/?id=2072851 Some examples of people conning the con-artists: http://www.haxial.com/fraud/mikeaba.html In this one, the guy gets the scammer to email in Pig Latin: http://www.xach.com/togo/ This guy managed to get $3 from the would-be scammer: http://www.scamorama.com/threebucks.html Prison Sucks - Research on the crime control industry http://www.prisonsucks.com/index.shtml Prime Time Gets Real With a Plump Heroine http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/08/arts/television/08PLUM.html Contractor Meat Market http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,394981,00.asp 26-yr photo timeline of a family - neat idea http://zonezero.com/magazine/essays/diegotime/time.html The History of Daylight Savings Time http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/ Calendars Through the Ages http://webexhibits.org/calendars/ Am I President or Not? http://www.brunching.com/cgi/amipresidentornot.cgi Info on chocolate, candy and gum http://www.candyusa.org/ Today's quote: "Give a man a fish and you have given him a meal; teach him how to fish and you have given him a livelihood." -- Chinese proverb Recently on Eszter's Blog: Google censors sites Shawn Colvin concert in Princesstown Usability glitch at EWR A visitor I'm still here... The Nobel Prize keeps giving (Literature) Nobel Prize down the hall Cool software See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com October 10, 2002 In this issue: Nobel Prizes Web site recommendations: IT/vision I'm extremely busy with work, but have been a bit sidetracked yesterday and today with the exciting Nobel Prize announcements for Econ and Literature. See my comments on my Weblog: http://www.esztersblog.com . And now onto links, thanks for sending interesting material my way! Law School in a Nutshell, Part 1 - how to read a legal document http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=364&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 Information technology: Trojan Horse of information overload http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2002/nt_2002_09_30_trojan.htm School tool eyes students' Web habits http://rss.com.com/2100-1023-960309.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news Wireless Coupons on Phones' Horizons - can't wait:( http://rss.com.com/2100-1033-960898.html?tag=lh Week in Review: Tech Tricks http://news.com.com/2100-1040-960758.html?tag=fd_top Today's Kids are More at Home on the Web than with a Book - some of this is a bit silly but some of the tidbits are interesting http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=12950 Literacy in America http://www.bookmagazine.com/issue24/literacy.shtml Social Insecurity - a good little political ad http://www.democrats.org/social_insecurity/ Study Doubts Breast Self-Exams Cut Deaths - but are the costs of doing them so high? Is the idea to cut costs by eliminating related public education? http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/03/health/03EXAM.html Lavatory and Liberty: The secret history of the bathroom break http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/272/focus/Lavatory_and_Liberty+.shtml Migration Information Source http://www.migrationinformation.org Bridges of the 19th Century http://bridges.lib.lehigh.edu/ Causes of Color http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolor Pigment Through the Ages http://webexhibits.org/pigments/ Checkershadow Illusion - incredible, do check this out! http://www-bcs.mit.edu/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion.html Today's quote: The same poem segment as last week but a preferred translation: "... and, going to school, on the sidewalk's edge along the way, I stepped on a stone, I did, so as not to recite that day - here: see this stone, from up there? try as you might, you can't; to show all this fine detail - there is no such instrument." -- Miklos Radnoti, written in 1944 a few months before his death Recently on Eszter's Blog: The Nobel Prize keeps giving (Literature) Nobel Prize down the hall Cool software Regulate electronic whoopee cushions! The online trick or treat experience Another Google game Internet Problems for the Public Interest Hello goodbye Clicking frustration Making sense of proposed gadget regulation See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com October 4, 2002 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=LawArticle&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 See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com September 20, 2002 In this issue: gallery show in Princeton Web site recommendations: IT/women/art/chocolate As luck would have it, one of my favorite Hungarian artists, Istvan Orosz, will have an exhibition at a local Princeton gallery. I encourage those of you in the area to come to the opening reception (Fri & Sat Sept 27 & 28th) or check out the show some other time before October 24th. For more info, see the gallery's page here: http://www.mchildcontemporary.com . For more examples of the artist's work, see http://www.marlenaagency.com/Pages/orosz/orosmal.html (be sure to click on the thumbnails for larger images). And now on to a batch of URLs, thanks for contributing! Free the Mouse free bumper sticker http://www.bumperactive.com/freemouse.html I got my own! See it here: http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000092.html Internet Filtering Software Wrongly Blocks Many Sites http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Academic_edu/Censorware/net_block_report/20020918_eff_pr.html The Recording Industry is Trying to Kill the Goose That Lays the Golden Egg http://www.bricklin.com/recordsales.htm No more laptops on planes? http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-09/ns-two091102.php Phones Join File-Sharing Revolution http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2253185.stm Caught in the Kid Porn Crusade http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/kidporn.html Visualizing Internet Topology at a Macroscopic Scale http://www.caida.org/analysis/topology/as_core_network/ Worm attacks Linux servers http://news.com.com/2100-1001-957988.html?tag=fd_top Anonymous $1 Million grant To Test Copyright Laws http://www.theregus.com/content/6/26213.html In Greece, use a Game Boy, go to jail http://news.com.com/2100-1040-956357.html A guide to key user experience differences between M$ Windows and Mac OSX http://developer.apple.com/ue/switch/windows.html Microsoft Warns of Theiving Word Docs http://news.com.com/2100-1001-957786.html Canadian Business School's Journal Opts Out of Print and Onto the Internet http://chronicle.com/free/2002/09/2002091001t.htm Sisters Speak Out: The Lives and Needs of Prostituted Women in Chicago. A Research Study. http://www.impactresearch.org/documents/sistersspeakout.pdf (requires Adobe pdf reader) "Shadhika is a non-profit U.S. foundation whose mission is to assist needy women, children, and their families in India to acquire shelter, education, health care and employment by providing selective financial assistance to social service agencies in India." http://www.shadhika.org One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwtl.html The Literature Network - "over 300 full books and over 1000 short stories and poems by over 90 authors" http://www.online-literature.com/ Gallery or Mathematical Art http://www.mathartfun.com Chocolate Lovers Get It While You Can http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&;cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20020912/od_nm/chocolate_dc 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: Closed due to illness Journalists and academics Selective Google blocking in China Free books online, copyrighted or not A really good conference Free the mouse sticker is here! Google block in China - the plot thickens Gadgets galore Patterned parking lots, hanging trees See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com September 8, 2002 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/financial0746EDT0012.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?! See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com August 30, 2002 In this issue: a note on list volume Web site recommendations: IT/history of computing/misc E-LIST may appear a bit less frequently in the coming months. The academic job market is now in full swing and I am also finishing my dissertation. So in between looking for a job and doing my work I'm left with less time than usual on other fronts. Do keep sending interesting links my way! And as always, thanks to those who contributed this time around! New online journal: IT and Society (all content freely accessible online) http://www.itandsociety.org Free dot-tk domain names http://www.dot.tk/vc00500.html List of sites blocked in China http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/test The Special Interest Group on Information Needs, Seeking and Use http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGUSE/ Internet Explorer Flaw Can Expose Credit Cards http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949551.html Control of your PC http://www.ozzie.net/blog/stories/2002/08/22/nondiscretionaryControlsCantLiveWithemCant.html Security Flaw in Google Toolbar (should now be fixed via autoupdates) http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1442611 Apple: Burn DVDs -- And We'll Burn You http://news.com.com/2100-1023-955805.html Fuzzy Language, Fuzzy Thinking http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000012.html She Wants P2P for the People - the "Weblog Candidate" http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54693,00.html History of the Internet http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/ PBS site to complement "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires" http://www.pbs.org/nerds/ Where Old Macs Go Off to Thrive http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,51231,00.html Gallery of all Apple/Mac models http://www.apple-history.com/ Computer Museum of America http://www.computer-museum.org/ Slide presentation on the History of Computers http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/historyofcomputers_files/v3_document.htm Tech pioneer recalls how he brought the World Wide Web to America http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/report/news/december12/webturns10-1212.html Take a step back in Web history - what Web surfing was like in its early days http://www.dejavu.org/ Browse what Web sites used to look like http://www.archive.org International Journal for Equity in Health - new online journal http://www.equityhealthj.com Newspapers reporting same-sex unions http://www.poynter.org/talkaboutethics/082202.htm Don't Call Me Mr. Mom! What Not to Say to an At-Home Dad http://www.slowlane.com/articles/mcclain/mr_mom_dont.html Rape and Sexual Assault: Reporting to Police and Medical Attention, 1992-2000 http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/rsarp00.htm Russian information portal on Women and Society http://www.owl.ru/english/ Customs concealment methods re smuggling http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/photo/smugshrt.htm Comic about Macromedia Flash http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=1999-03-03&res=l Today's quote: "A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recently on Eszter's Blog: Here a blog, there a blog, where's the blog?! Comic relief Woman from Joysee seeks news Required first year books Nice map Free the mouse! Budapest & the region's floods See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com August 22, 2002 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?slug=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=46193 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 See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com August 9, 2002 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) See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com August 4, 2002 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 See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com July 28, 2002 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 See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com July 22, 2002 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 See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com July 14, 2002 This issue featured a note on Protecting your - and others'! - email from spam available via Eszter's Blog July 12, 2002 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? See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com July 6, 2002 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 [Editorial comment added 7/11/02: that link no longer works, here is another with similar content: http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20020702_439.html ] 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 See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com June 29, 2002 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 June 27, 2002 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 See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com June 20, 2002 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_software_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 long URL has been hidden, click here to access the page 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 long URL has been hidden, click here to follow the link (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 See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com June 13, 2002 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=502535DD0 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 See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com June 6, 2002 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 May 28, 2002 In this issue: 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 [original link expired, this one work, same AP story: http://www.annistonstar.com/news/2002/as-nation-0526-0-2e26a0742.htm 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 May 21, 2002 In this issue: 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.html 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 May 16, 2002 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 May 9, 2002 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 May 4, 2002 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.htm 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 April 27, 20002 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 April 24, 2002 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 April 15, 2002 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 April 9, 2002 - Yom Hashoah 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 April 8, 2002 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/national1856EST0779.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 April 3, 2002 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?) March 26, 2002 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+.shtml & 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 March 21, 2002 - educational resource links 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. March 18, 2002 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 March 7, 2002 (including good hotel rates) 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/102-8108365-2657735 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) March 3, 2002 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 February 21, 2002 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_intelligence.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 February 17, 2002 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.DTL 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. 9/11 five months later 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/ February 7, 2002 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 February 3, 2002 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) January 29, 2002 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.) January 26, 2002 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/2481659/2481659.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 long URL has been hidden, click here to follow the link 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 January 20, 2002 In this issue 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 January 11, 2002 In this issue 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) [expired link] 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 January 7, 2002 In this issue: 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%2Dbusiness%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. January 2, 2002 In this issue: 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 December 27, 2001 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). December 21, 2001 Thanks for signing up. I encourage you to send me Web site suggestions and other material that you think may be of interest to others. -- Eszter 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 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) For more links and random thoughts, see Eszter's Blog. Feel free to leave your mark, please sign my Guestbook. Back to Eszter's List | Back to Eszter Hargittai's Homepage Last updated: July, 2002 http://www.eszter.com/elist/urls2002.html