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Information Sources: the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication

December Communications, Inc. (john@december.com)

27 Sep 1997

1992-1997 December Communications, Inc. You may use this for any educational, personal, or non-profit purpose. For-profit distribution requires permission.

Provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty.

PURPOSE: to list information describing the Internet and computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies, applications, culture, discussion forums, and bibliographies. Areas of interest include the technical, rhetorical, social, cognitive, and psychological aspects of networked communication and information.

AUDIENCE: those getting started in understanding the Internet and CMC; for those experienced, it collects sources of information.

ASSUMPTION: you have access to and know how to use the World Wide Web, finger, ftp, gopher, telnet, email, or Usenet newsgroups.

NOTES:

1. Respect access privileges. (See Net Etiquette Guide, below.)

2. This information changes quite a bit; additions/comments welcome.

3. Use keyword searching tools to find a file if it is not at the site given here.

4. The easiest way to use this information is the HTML version through a Web browser: open the URL http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/

5. See other formats useful for other purposes below, under "ABOUT this information / Formats."

Information about updates to or different formats of this document:

• John December: contact about updates, questions, comments, corrections: mail john@december.com

ABOUT this information

This is a directory of information sources about online communication. It has been known worldwide as The December List since 1992 and is a comprehensive collection of information sources about the Internet and computer-mediated communication. A popular resource for Internet trainers and students to learn about the Internet, it is updated continuously. You can use this list for your reference.

This section lists information files available about this list.

Notes

• This list is a comprehensive collection of information sources about the Internet and computer-mediated communication.

  You can follow the links below to find out more about it and how to use it.

• README: About the Computer-Mediated Communication information sources list, purpose, audience (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/about-icmc.html)
• Add: gives you a form to search to add items this list (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/add-icmc.html)
• Challenges/Web Info: Challenges for Web Information Providers, by John December; an article describing the development of the Internet-cmc information and issues for Web information providers (http://sunsite.unc.edu/cmc/mag/1994/oct/webip.html)
• Excellent: this is a list of all the excellent entries from the list (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/excellent.html)
• Fair use: gives you guidelines on how I ask you to use this information (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/fairuse-icmc.html)
• History: tells about the history and development of this list (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/history-icmc.html)
• Index: for faster navigation, choose and bookmark this link for quick entry points to the most popular parts of this list (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/)
• New: this is a list of all the new entries (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/new.html)
• Printing: describes how to print a version of this list for your own use (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/print-icmc.html)
• Publication Info: gives you a quick summary of the publication information about this list; pass this information along to someone who may be interested in what this list offers (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/info.txt)
• Search: gives you a form to search for items this list (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/search-icmc.html)
• Symbols: describes symbols that you will find in the hypertext version of this list (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/symbols-icmc.html)
• Updated: this is a list of all the updated entries (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/updated.html)
• Using: describes purpose, notes, how to use the segmented hypertext format of this information (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/use-icmc.html)

Formats

• These are the other formats for this information.

• Database: the database from which I generate this information, warning--this is a LARGE file (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/internet-cmc.dat)
• HTML 1 BIG (!) page: HTML version of this information on one big page (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/internet-cmc.html)
• HTML segmented: HTML version of this information in a web of pages divided by section, sub-section, and sub-sub-section (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/index.html)

INTERNET

This section lists information about the Internet and how to use it. You'll find subsections which focus on using the Internet, such as navigating and searching, and also important reference collections and training information for advanced and new users.

Introduction

• If you are a new user of the Internet, or are providing instruction for new users, these resources will help show users the potential of the Internet and to provide them with introductory information.

• Motivation
  • Gold in Networks!: a description of gold nuggets in the network, by J. Martin (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi10.txt)
• Overviews
  • GlobalCenter Tour: A tour of the Internet from Global Village Communications (http://www.globalvillage.com/gcweb/tour.html)
  • Hitchikers Guide: describes the Internet (circa September 1989), by Ed Krol (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1118.txt)
  • What is the Internet?: by Krol and Hoffman (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi20.txt)
  • Xerox Video: An Overview of the Internet and World-Wide Web, by Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/hypertext/wwwvideo/wwwvideo.html)
• Facts
  • Internet Index: The Internet Index, a list of interesting facts about the Internet [Inspired by `Harper's Index'], by Win Treese (http://www.openmarket.com/intindex/)
  • New User's Questions: answers questions commonly asked by new users, by Malkin and Marine (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi4.txt)
• History
  • Archive.org: an organization to archive the Internet's contents such as the World Wide Web and Usenet to provide historians, researchers, scholars, and others access to this vast collection of data, and ensuring the long-term storage of the information. (http://www.archive.org)
  • Internet birthday: happy 25th, Internet (http://www.amdahl.com/internet/events/inet25.html)
  • Internet History/ISOC: Internet Society's collection of Internet history (http://www.isoc.org/internet-history)
  • Internet Timeline: events in the history of the Internet by Robert H'obbes' Zakon (http://info.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html)
  • Netizen Anthology: The Netizens and the Wonderful World of the Net--an anthology, Ronda Hauben, Michael Hauben (http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/project_book.html)

Collections

• The Internet has grown from the collaborative efforts of people over several decades; the documents for sharing information and passing along and discussing standards are located within Network Information Centers (NICs). NICs are the repositories for several kinds of documents that play a role in describing what the Internet is and how it works.

• NICs = Network Information Centers
  • Alldomains.com: domain name information and registration, includes links to regional and country Network Information Centers (http://www.alldomains.com)
  • InterNIC: The InterNIC offers two distinct services run by separate organizations. These are, AT and T provides Directory and Database Services; Network Solutions, Inc. provides Registration Services (http://www.internic.net)
• Series

  • These are documents that play an important role in Internet communication--they establish, propose, or discuss technical features or important issues. Frequently, they document important technological developments; other series provide good information for users to find out about the Internet and its resources.

  • BCP: Best Current Practices, a sub-series of RFCs about topics which relate to the Internet (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/bcp/)
  • IESG: the meeting minutes of the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/iesg/)
  • FYI: For Your Information-sub-series of RFCs about topics which relate to the Internet; good sources of information for beginner or training information (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/)
  • Internet Docs: Internet Documentation (RFC's, FYI's, etc.) from InterNIC (http://ds.internic.net/ds/dspg0intdoc.html)
  • Internet Drafts: draft documents to be submitted ultimately to the Internet Activities Board to be as RFCs (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/internet-drafts/)
  • Internet Drafts Index: a list of Internet drafts with a short synopsis of each; provided by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) (http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/1id-abstracts.html)
  • RFC: Request for Comments about topics which relate to the Internet (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/)
  • RFC repositories: repositories where RFCs are located (ftp://isi.edu/in-notes/rfc-retrieval.txt)
  • RFC Index: listing of Internet Request For Comments (RFC) files with a searchable index (http://ds.internic.net/ds/dspg1intdoc.html)
  • RFCs via mail: Request For Comments--documents about various issues for discussion, covering a broad range of networking issues.: mail rfc-info@isi.edu Body: "help: ways_to_get_rfcs"
  • STD: Internet Standards, sub-series of notes within the RFC series which document Internet standards (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/std/)

Training

• If you are working in Internet training, there's a wide variety of resources out there that you can tap into for lesson plans and resources.

• Collections
  • CBL: Computer-Based Learning Unit, The University of Leeds, United Kingdom (http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk)
  • IETF/TERENA: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Training Materials Catalogue; a reviewed collection of materials for network training (http://www.trainmat.ietf.org)
  • IT Connections: Instructional Technology Connections from the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Denver; a resource index designed for Students and practitioners of Instructional Technology. The resource links into the major domains of Educational Technology, providing an unusual focus on theory, philosophy and research. (http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itcon.html)
  • ITTI: Information Technology Training Initiative, a United Kingdom-wide initiative to provide training materials about or using Information Technology (http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/ITTI/ITTI.html)
  • Media Literacy: Online project of Center for Advanced Technology in Education, College of Education, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA, to make available to teachers, students, parents, and producers, a comprehensive collection of resources related to the influence of media in the lives of children, youth, and adults. (http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/HomePage)
  • Netskills: a United Kingdom-wide effort to collect electronic training and educational information (http://www.netskills.ac.uk)
  • NOCALL: Northern California Association of Law Libraries (NOCALL) and the Southern California Association of Law Libraries (SCALL) to encourage use of the Internet and provide training assistance to our members (http://lawlib.wuacc.edu/nocall/home.html)
• Resources
  • T3: Training the Internet Trainer-Toward a Systematic Approach, by John Makulowich, The Writers Alliance, Inc., USA, Prepared for delivery at INET'96 6th Annual Conference of the Internet Society 28 June 1996 (http://www.cais.com/makulow/t3.html)
• Exploring
  • Sherlock: The Internet Consulting Detective; mysteries of information gathering on the Internet solved (http://www.intermediacy.com/sherlock/)
• Courses
  • BKC2SKOL: A New Class on the Net For Librarians with little or no Net Experience (http://web.csd.sc.edu/bck2skol/fall/fall.html)
  • CMC Courses: a directory of courses in CMC (http://www.december.com/cmc/study/courses.html)
  • CMC teaching social issues: Challenges, Ideas, and Resources, by Tom Jewett and Rob Kling (http://www.engr.csulb.edu/~jewett/teach/teach.html)
  • Compass in Cyberspace: Internet Training from John S. Makulowich (http://www.clark.net/pub/journalism/brochure.html)
  • Courses/info tech: courses related to social implications of information technology, list by Meng Weng Wong (http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~mengwong/netsurf/otherclasses.html)
  • Internet Resource: Internet Resource Discovery, Organization, and Design, by Lou Rosenfeld and Dr. Joe Janes, School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan (http://http2.sils.umich.edu/~lou/60694.html)
  • Intro/Internet: one of several prototype classes and texts sponsored through the Globewide Network Academy (http://uu-gna.mit.edu:8001/uu-gna/text/internet/index.html)
  • Netsurf course: by Meng Weng Wong, covers social implications of information technologies (http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~mengwong/netsurf/)
  • Sociology of Cyberspace: the contemporary revolution in human interaction via computers. Using postmodern and media theories, we will discuss the social construction of the virtual world and new virtual experience of cyberspace. (http://www.interlabs.bradley.edu/cyber_soc/spring_1996/)
• Tutorials for specific applications
  • Competencies: Competencies for Electronic Information Services, by John Corbin: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "GET CORBIN PRV4N6"
  • Discussion help: The art of getting help--guidelines for seeking help in discussion groups: mail rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu Subject: archive send courtesy
  • NIR/CMC Tools/December: a list summarizing Internet tools and computer-mediated communication forums; includes pointers to guides or information about each tool, by John December (http://www.december.com/net/tools/)
  • Unix Help: Nova University's Unixhelp for users (http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/UNIXhelp/TOP_.html)

Navigating

• If you are trying to find things online or to browse online information spaces, you'll find resources to help you locate, retrieve, and encounter information.

• Tools
  • Browser watch: information on Internet Browsers (Web client software); this site includes a directory of current browsers, news and rumors about browsers and plugins and statistics and information on browser use (http://www.browserwatch.com)
  • Internet Tools/EARN HTML: European Academic Research Network Association Guide to Network Resources Tools in HTML (http://www.earn.net/gnrt/notice.html)
  • Internet Tools/December HTML: HTML (segmented) version of a list summarizing Internet tools and computer-mediated communication forums, by John December (http://www.december.com/net/tools/)
• Guides
  • De Presno Guide: The Online World by Odd de Presno (http://login.eunet.no/~presno/index.html)
  • EFF Guide: EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (http://www.eff.org/papers/eegtti/eegttitop.html)
  • Email 101: describes how to use email as well as other Internet features, by John Goodwin (ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/etext/gutenberg/etext93/email025.txt)
  • Email/access: Accessing The Internet By E-Mail, by `Doctor Bob' Rankin: mail mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu Body: "send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email"
  • Entering/WWW: Kevin Hughes's guide to the web (http://www.eit.com/web/www.guide/)
  • Imaginary Landscape: A Guide to Getting Started on the Internet; this is a well organized walk-through of the basics of network communication and information use; the amount of information is not overwhelming, but more links are provided so that users can get more information (http://www.imagescape.com/helpweb)
  • Internet Web Text: an index to the Internet's resources; links to orientation, guides, reference materials, browsing and exploring tools, subject and word-oriented searching tools, and information about connecting with people, by John December (http://www.december.com/web/text/)
  • Learn the Net: a comprehensive and easy to use Internet resource guide (http://www.learnthenet.com)
  • Zen/Art of Internet: Zen and the Art of the Internet (1st edition, January 1992), by Brendan Kehoe; the first book about the Internet (ftp://ftp.csn.org/pub/net/zen/)
  • Zen: Zen and the Art of the Internet (1st edition), by Brendan Kehoe, in HTML (http://sundance.cso.uiuc.edu/Publications/Other/Zen/zen-1.0_toc.html)
• Collections
  • Gopher Jewels: Internet Cyberspace related gophers (http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/internet.html)
  • Internet-Yahoo: pointers to the subject classification Computers-Internet (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Internet/)
  • Naval Research Lab: NRL Network Research Navigator, strong on technical aspects of networking (http://netlab.itd.nrl.navy.mil)
• Specialized guides or collections of general interest
  • Savetz Stuff: Kevin Savetz's Page o' Stuff, Internet-related resources and lists by Kevin Savetz (http://www.northcoast.com/savetz/savetz.html)
• Navigators
  • Hytelnet: assists users in reaching Internet libraries, Free-nets, CWISs, BBSs, and other information sites by telnet (telnet://hytelnet@access.usask.ca) Login as : hytelnet
  • Hytelnet web: (http://library.usask.ca/hytelnet/)
  • Inter-Links: Internet resources, information, links, from Nova Southeastern University, in Ft. Lauderdale Florida (http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/start.html)
  • Netlink: connects you with a wide variety of services, from Washington and Lee University (http://netlink.wlu.edu:1020)

Searching

• This section gives you resources to help you find specific information online.

• New or Noteworthy

  • Sites which provide lists of new information sites on the Internet play an important role in getting the word out about resources.

    Other sites pass judgements on other sites--originating from "cool sites," these sites recognize other sites for a variety of reasons, not all of which make sense.

    -- Collections

  • Cool Central: the site that rates the sites that rate the sites; I rate this site highly (http://www.coolcentral.com)

    -- Notable individual sites with "what's new" information.

  • Net Happenings archive: archive of a moderated mailing list that announces conferences, publications, newsletters, network tools updates, and network resources; this page includes a submittal form (http://www.mid.net/NET/)
  • Netsurfer Digest: a e-zine covering what is happing in Internet technology and Web sites (http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/)
  • Scout Report: a weekly publication of Net Scout Services to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet (http://rs.internic.net/scout/report/)
  • What's New/Too: A listing of new resources on the Web (http://newtoo.manifest.com/WhatsNewToo/search.html)
  • Yahoo New: What's New on Yahoo Hierarchical Hotlist (http://www.yahoo.com/new/)
• Resource Lists

  • The practice of making lists is an old one on the Internet. This section provides you with a selection of these kinds of lists; you'll find each one provides a different way to look at the Internet and what it offers; these are not strict categorizations of all the possible subjects on the Internet (see the Subject section for that) but are eclectic selections of what is significant for a variety of audiences or to the list's editor.

  • XXX-MOVED-FIX Awesome List: a list of useful resources, by John Makulowich (http://www.awesomelist.com)
  • CMC resources: resources related to the study of Computer-Mediated Communication, from the CMC Studies Center (http://www.december.com/cmc/study/center.html)
  • Hotsheet: a no-frills quick-access page to a variety of resources (http://www.tstimpreso.com/hotsheet/)
  • Hot100: a list of the 100 most popular web sites, as measured by a methodology that considers hits aggregated from a variety of sources including surveys, logs and traffic samples (http://www.100hot.com)
  • Top Tens: from Internet Training and Consulting Services, resource lists which are picks of the Net and Web in Top-level resources, art, commerce, fun, Internet training, K-12 education, library, Internet books and journals (http://www.itcs.com/topten/)
  • Yanoff List: Scott Yanoff's Special Internet Connections listing of resources by subject (http://www.spectracom.com/islist/)
• Subjects

  • Searching by subject is one of the main ways that you might try to locate information on the Internet. Subject libraries are among the oldest kinds of repositories for information on the Internet. Not all follow a strict scheme for breaking down subjects; most also provide some sort of search facility for their own database.

    ------ Lists of Subject Trees

  • December Top 5 Subjects: the top five Web subject resources available, from December Communications (http://www.december.com/web/top/subject.html)
  • Yahoo WWW Directories: This is Yahoo's subcategory on WWW directories; includes links to subject-oriented directories on the Web (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Searching_the_Web/Directories/)

    ------ Subject Trees

  • A2Z: descriptions of most popularly linked sites in the Lycos database arranged by subjects (http://a2z.lycos.com)
  • Argus Clearinghouse: The site formerly known as The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides at the School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan; new site now the Argus Clearinghouse, offering a large selection of guides to Internet resources in a variety of categories (http://www.clearinghouse.net)
  • Cyberstacks: a collection of Web and Internet resources categorized using the Library of Congress classification scheme, organized under one or more relevant Library of Congress class numbers and an associated publication format and subject description; resources incorporated are monographic or serial works, files, databases or search services, all listed resources are full-text, hypertext, or, hypermedia, and of a research or scholarly nature (http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/)
  • Galaxy: a service of EINet, a collection of information, searchable via index or by topic trees (http://www.einet.net/galaxy.html)
  • Gopher Jewels: a collection of subject-oriented gophers (http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/index.html)
  • INFOMINE: a tree of annotated and indexed Internet resources on biology, agriculture, medicine, government, maps, physical sicnes, engineering, computing, math, social sicne, humanities, visual and performing arts, instructional resources, and Internet enabling tools, from the University Library, University of California, Riverside (http://lib-www.ucr.edu)
  • InterNIC Dir of Dirs: InterNIC's Directory of Directories, subject-oriented listing of registered Internet resources and services (http://ds.internic.net/ds/dsdirofdirs.html)
  • IWT Narrative: Internet Web Text's narrative about subject-oriented searching (http://www.december.com/web/text/nar-subject.html)
  • Magellan McKinley Directory: includes star ratings for resources (http://www.mckinley.com)
  • Point Communications: a guide to Web resources with ratings (http://www.pointcom.com)
  • Starting Point: a subject-breakdown of the Net (http://www.stpt.com)
  • Study Carrels: Subject and Discipline-Specific Internet Resources, from North Carolina State University Library (http://dewey.lib.ncsu.edu/disciplines/index.html)
  • Top of the Web: a selected list of the five best resource sites in a variety of subject categories, including science, humanities, news, business, lookup tools, marketing, money, computers, software, art, humanities, and others (http://www.december.com/web/top.html)
  • USENET Periodic Postings: list of Usenet periodic postings (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings/)
  • USENET repository: collection of FAQ's and files from Usenet newsgroups (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/)
  • USENET news.answers: a hypertext presentation of the answer lists posted in the news.answers newsgroup (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/)
  • Xplore: the motto is less is more; this is a selected subject tree of twenty categories; makes a nice exploration of an eclectic mix of some of the more interesting sites on the web (http://www.xplore.com)
  • Yahoo: Yet Another Hierarchically Odiferous Oracle, an extendible collection of subjects (http://www.yahoo.com)
  • Yanoff: Scott Yanoff's Special Internet Connections listing of resources by subject (http://www.uwm.edu/Mirror/inet.services.html)
  • WebCrawler Select: selected sites in a range of subject areas (http://www.webcrawler.com)
  • WWW VL: World Wide Web Virtual Library, a large hypertext collection of information organized by subject (http://www.w3.org/vl/)
  • WWW VL/LOC: The World-Wide Web Virtual Library viewed as US Library of Congress Classification (http://www.w3.org/vl/LibraryOfCongress.html)
• Keyword

  • Keyword searching is a very important strategy for finding a particular piece of information online. These resources provide a variety of ways to search the information spaces of the Internet and the Web.

    ------ Collections of Lists

  • All-in-one: a search page which combines forms-based search tools from a wide variety of subjects, classified by category
  • December Top 5 Keywords: the top five Web keyword searching resources available, from December Communications (http://www.december.com/web/top/keyword.html)

    ------ Keyword Searching Resources

  • Accufind: searches infobases, news, books, and the Internet (http://nln.com)
  • AIRSII: Arachnae Information Retreival System II; (http://www.arachnae.com/UofT.html)
  • ALIWEB: Archie-Like Indexing for the Web, by Martijn Koster (http://web.nexor.co.uk/aliweb/doc/aliweb.html)
  • Alta Vista: Search the Web or Usenet for keywords. Includes advanced query form. (http://www.altavista.digital.com)
  • Apollo: search for services, retailers and classifieds (http://apollo.co.uk)
  • Archieplex: Archie via Web--access archie servers (search ftp sites) via the web (http://web.nexor.co.uk/archie.html)
  • Botspot: History of the Net always included Bots and they have been successfully utilized with human computer interaction starting with Eliza in 1966 (http://www.botspot.com)
  • CUSI: configurable unified search interface; a forms-based interface into many indices, engines, and Web Spider databases (forerunner is SUSI), by Martijn Koster (http://web.nexor.co.uk/public/cusi/doc/list.html)
  • Cyber411: an integrated 'parallel' search engine (http://www.cyber411.com/search/)
  • Dejanews: search Usenet news articles (http://www.dejanews.com/forms/dnquery.html)
  • Discussion groups: search a list of discussion groups, Bitnet and Internet interest groups (Dartmouth list) (http://a/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/lists)
  • Excite: allows you to search the Web or Usent by keyword or concept (http://www.excite.com)
  • External info: collects some of the most useful search engines available on the WWW (http://www_is.cs.utwente.nl:8080/cgi-bin/local/nph-susi1.pl)
  • Gopher Jewels Search: Search the Gopher Jewels (a collection of subject-oriented gophers) (http://galaxy.einet.net/gopher/gopher.html)
  • HotBot: Wired's entry into the keyword search business; 'cool' graphics; klunky interface; no filtering make this HotBot pretty cool (http://www.hotbot.com)
  • Hytelnet Web search: search all Hytelnet resource entries, via a web form, from Galaxy (http://galaxy.einet.net/hytelnet/HYTELNET.html)
  • Infoseek: a keyword searching service ($) over WWW pages, Usenet, computer magazines, newspaper newsires, press releases, company profiles, moview reviews, technical support databases (http://www.infoseek.com)
  • Internet Sleuth: collected keyword search services (http://www.isleuth.com)
  • Navigate.net: keyword search of the Web, includes options for title, description, keywords, and URL (http://www.navigate.net)
  • NlightN: a database of databases, news, and Internet (http://www.nlightn.com)
  • Open Text Index: search the web for a word or phrase (http://opentext.uunet.ca:8080/omw.html)
  • Reference.com: provides keyword search of Usenet news (http://www.reference.com)
  • SavvySearch: Parallel Internet Query Engine (http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~dreiling/smartform.html)
  • Uncover: index to thousands of periodicals (http://www.carl.org/uncover/unchome.html)
  • Web Catalog/CUI: is a collection of URL references built from a number of hand-crafted HTML lists, from Centre Universitaire d'Informatique, l'Universite de Geneve (http://cuiwww.unige.ch/w3catalog)
  • Web publishers: keyword search of Web-related resources and discussion (http://www.verity.com/vlibsearch.html)
  • Web Search Engines: a meta-index of search engines on the Web, with a forms interface, from Centre Universitaire d'Informatique, l'Universite de Geneve (http://cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html)
  • Web Spiders info: search the web for information about resources, collecting information into a database which can be queried; e.g., Web Crawler, Web Nomad, Web Worm, RBSE database, Lycos (Araneida, Lycosidae, Lycosa), Harvest Brokers; entry from Internet Tools Summary (http://www.december.com/net/tools/nir-tools-spiders.html)
  • Web Spiders: Wanderers, Spiders and Robots; includes list of known robots/spiders, guidelines, standard for robot exclusion, by Martijn Koster (http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/robots.html)
• Spaces

  • Another way of breaking up the information spaces of the Internet is by protocol. Here, you'll find lists of servers of a particular protocol type.

  • FTP Sites list: list of Internet sites accepting anonymous ftp, maintained by Perry Rovers (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/)
  • FTP Sites Web: Web interface to Perry Rover's FTP site monster list (http://www.info.net/Public/ftp-list.html)
  • Gopher Sites: list of all gophers (long) (ftp://liberty.uc.wlu.edu/pub/lawlib/all.gophers.links)
  • Hytelnet/WWW: access to Hytelnet by Peter Scott (http://library.usask.ca/hytelnet/)
  • WWW Servers/list: Wandex's list of WWW sites (http://www.netgen.com/cgi/wandex)
  • WWW Servers/geo: a long list of registered WWW servers listed geographically by continent and country (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Servers.html)
  • WWW Sites(CityLink): state and city web sites (http://www.neosoft.com/citylink/)
  • WWW Sites(Virtual Tourist): a geographic map to aid in locating Web sites and other resources (http://www.vtourist.com/webmap)
  • Web Sites(City Net): explore and browse resources by geography (continent, region, country, city) (http://www.city.net)
• People

  • You can find people on the Net through directories of white pages (which now include Internet-accessible telephone databases) and yellow pages (which commonly list businesses based on subject, topic, or product categories). These resources should help you find nearly anyone who has either an email address or a telephone.

  • Ahoy: integrated tool for finding personal home pages, using OKRA, WhoWhere?, and Internet Address Finder; institutional database from Yahoo! (http://ahoy.cs.washington.edu:6060)
  • 555-1212: look up area codes, country codes, email addresses, phone numbers and web sites by area code (http://www.555-1212.com)
  • ATT 800: American Telephone and Telegraph Toll Free Directory (http://www.tollfree.att.net/dir800/)
  • BigBook: directory of businesses, including maps, and user ratings (http://www.bigbook.com)
  • BigFoot: search for people by name in a dabase of email addresses (http://www.bigfoot.com)
  • BigYellow: online Yellow Pages and shopping directory containing names, addresses and telephone numbers of over 16 million businesses across the United States (http://www.bigyellow.com)
  • ClassMates: find high school alumni and friends; upgraded membership requires a fee (http://www.classmates.com)
  • Directory services: a collection of white pages servers to look up people (gopher://sipb.mit.edu/1B%3aInternet%20whois%20servers)
  • Four11: Directory Services, a free and easy-to-use directory of online users and their e-mail addresses, from Four11 Directory Services (SLED) (http://www.four11.com)
  • Global Yellow Pages: phone directories from around the world (http://www.globalyp.com/world.htm)
  • Global X.500: gateway to directory services provided by many organizations (http://ds.internic.net/ds/dspgx500.html)
  • GTE Superpages: interactive yellow pages from GTE (http://yp.gte.net)
  • Home Pages/directories: a collection of personal home pages lists and directories (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/culture-people-lists.html)
  • International Directories: a collection of white and yellow pages telephone directories available on the web for many countries in the world (http://www.infobel.be/infobel/infobelworld.html)
  • IAF: Internet Address Finder, a comprehensive e-mail white pages on the Internet (http://www.iaf.net)
  • InfoSpace: a directory of businesses, phones, yellow, blue, and white pages for US, Canda, and other countries; integration with mapping service (http://www.infospace.com)
  • Knowbot: provides a uniform user interface to heterogeneous remote information services (Internic Point of contacts, MCImail, x500 databases, finger, nwhois, etc.) (telnet://info.cnri.reston.va.us:185)
  • Lookup!: searching for email based on a database (http://www.lookup.com/search.html)
  • Lycos People Find: you can look up a person to find their address and phone number (http://www.lycos.com/pplfndr.html)
  • Metroscope: metropolitan area Web sites (http://www.metroscope.com)
  • Netfind: a simple Internet `white pages' user directory (http://www.december.com/net/tools/nir-utilities-netfind.html)
  • Netpages: a phone-book style directory for the Internet, from Aldea Communications, Inc. (http://www.aldea.com/wwwindex.html)
  • OKRA: a directory of people on the Net; search by name, keyword, organization, or keyword; you can register your entry (http://okra.ucr.edu/okra/)
  • PeopleLink: notifies you when people you know are online and lets you communicate with them instantly; like real-time email or your own private chat room (http://www.peoplelink.com)
  • SearchAmerica: searches databases for residential and business data; includes directory assistances and searching by name, address, or phone number; requires registration (http://www.searchamerica.com)
  • Searching for people: a collection of resources to help you locate a specific person on the net (gopher://yaleinfo.yale.edu:7700/11/Internet-People)
  • Switchboard: A database of names of individuals and businesses, with phone numbers and postal addresses; users can add their electronic mail address or a URL to their listing; very extensive (over 90 million entries) and nationwide; excellent for finding people who have telephones (those old-fashioned devices with keypads on them that people used to talk through to communicate with each other) (http://www.switchboard.com)
  • US West Yellow Pages: (http://yp.uswest.com)
  • US West White Pages: (http://usw.four11.com)
  • Usenet: find people based on their Usenet posts (http://usenet-addresses.mit.edu)
  • WhoWhere?: a comprehensive service for locating people and organizations on the Net; this is a vast collection--it will give you a lot of hits on a name; this is the directory to use for finding people who have an email account or a telephone (http://www.whowhere.com)
  • Zip2: search for businesses by category, business name, city, by map area, or by distance from any location (http://www.zip2.com)

Directories

• -- These are directories of Internet-based information, services, and other resources; see also the general subject listings and keyword search resources.

  -- List of Directories

• Lookup Top: white and yellow pages, a dictionary, maps, and weather forecasts (http://www.december.com/web/top/lookup.html)

  -- Selected specific directories

• American Universities: (http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html)
• BigBook: directory of businesses, including maps, and user ratings (http://www.bigbook.com)
• BigYellow: online Yellow Pages and shopping directory containing names, addresses and telephone numbers of over 16 million businesses across the United States (http://www.bigyellow.com)
• Canadian Universities/Universites Canadiennes: (http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~credmond/univ.html)
• Chambers of Commerce: (http://www.chamber-of-commerce.com)
• Community Colleges: (http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cc/)
• Community Nets: Community Networks via Free-Net(r) and Web Sites (http://freenet.victoria.bc.ca/freenets.html)
• Electronic Conferences: Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences, by Diane K. Kovacs (http://www.n2h2.com/KOVACS/)
• Electronic Journals/ARL: Association of Research Libraries Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters (http://arl.cni.org/scomm/edir/)
• EZines List: summary of electronic zines by John Labovitz (http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list/)
• Ezines Site: zine.net, a guide to independent publishing (http://www.zine.net)
• Finding Lists: how to find LISTSERV lists: mail listserv@vm1.nodak.edu Body: "get NEW-LIST wouters"
• Internet Consultants: CommerceNet's directory of Internet consultants (products and services) (http://www.commerce.net:8000/directories/consultants/consultants.html)
• Interest Groups List: The Lists of Lists, a listing of special interest group mailing lists available on the Interne (ftp://sri.com/netinfo/interest-groups.txt)
• Japanese: key information sources on Japan currently available over the Internet (http://fuji.stanford.edu/XGUIDE/)
• Library Access Script: a script to login to online card catalogs (ftp://sonoma.edu/pub/libs.tar)
• Liszt: directory of e-mail discussion groups (http://www.liszt.com)
• Net Orgs: Outposts on the Electronic Frontier, International, Groups Supporting the Online Community (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/net-community/orgs-list)
• Nonprofits: Nonprofit Organizations on the Internet, by Ellen Spertus (http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/non.html)
• PAML: Publicly Available Mailing Lists, a list of mailing lists available primarily through the Internet and the UUCP network, by Stephanie da Silva (http://www.neosoft.com/internet/paml)
• Patents: patent searching by class/subclass, by Gregory Aharonian (http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html)
• People: lists a variety of services to lookup or locate people or organizations (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/internet-searching-people.html)
• Private Schools: (http://www.petersons.com/features/viewbook.html)
• Publisher's Catalogs: (http://www.lights.com/publisher/)
• Reference-IPL: Internet Public Library, information and services to enhance the value of the Internet to its users (http://www.ipl.org)
• Toll-free: (http://www.tollfree.dir.att.net)
• Top of the Web: a selected list of the five best resource sites in a variety of subject categories, including science, humanities, news, business, lookup tools, marketing, money, computers, software, art, humanities, and others (http://www.december.com/web/top.html)
• UNCAT: The electronic catalog of uncataloged titles (businesses, nonprofit groups, trade associations, museums and self-published authors), from Sapphire Press (http://www.sapphire.com/UNCAT/)
• US Universities and Community Colleges: (http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ/)
• Web Servers: geographical directory of WWW Information Services (http://www.vtourist.com/webmap)
• World primary schools: You can link to K-12 servers by state, country, or special category. (http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html)
• World Universities: connect to an alphabetic listing or a country or region listing. The entries consist of the University name with a link to the Web site. (http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html)

Services

• There are a variety of services that you can take advantage of online; some are free; some offer you ways to communicate with other people in special ways (such as Internet-FAX gateways) or services to help you find specific information.

• Anonymous post: : mail anonymus+ping@tygra.michigan.com Body: "help"
• Anonymous post: : mail help@anon.penet.fi Body: "help"
• Anonymous remail: : mail remail@tamsun.tamu.edu Subject: remail help
• BITFTP: obtain files via anonymous ftp on Bitnet: mail Bitftp@PUCC.Princeton.edu Body: "help"
• Correct Time/NBS: tells National Bureau of Standards correct time (telnet://india.colorado.edu:13)
• Domain Name Lookup: translate domain names to numeric IP address (telnet://lookup@130.59.1.40) Login as : lookup
• Email FTP: get files at anonymous ftp sites via email.: mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com Body: "help"
• Email Gopher: use a gopher via email: mail gophermail@ncc.go.jp Body: "help"
• Email Gopher: use a gopher via email: mail gophermail@calvin.edu Body: "help"
• Email WWW: www URL); URL = Uniform resource locator (body: mail listproc@www0.cern.ch Body: "help"
• Email Usenet: post to newsgroup via email: mail hierarchy-group-name@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Your Subject Body: "Your Contents"
• FAXNET: FAX's via email ($): mail info@awa.com Body: "help"
• FAX FAQ: How can I send a fax from the Internet?, by Kevin Savetz (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/fax-faq)
• HTML Validation: a service to help you check the syntax of your HTML documents (http://www.webtechs.com/html-val-svc/)
• IP address resolver: given a site name, obtain its numerical IP address: mail resolve@widener.edu Body: "site SITE NAME"
• Mail name server: gives email information about many email names (e.g. IP address given name): mail dns@grasp.insa-lyon.fr Body: "help"
• NeverForget: a free email reminder service (http://www.neverforget.com)
• RFCs via mail: Request For Comments--documents about various issues for discussion, covering a broad range of networking issues.: mail rfc-info@isi.edu Body: "help: ways_to_get_rfcs"

APPLICATIONS

The online world is used in a wide range of ways for information dissemination, communication, and interaction. This section highlights examples of CMC used on the Internet.

Commerce

• Business has discovered online communication. While it was only a few years ago that some major corporations had no idea of the online world, today many companies use the Internet for commerce, communication, marketing, and even sales. This section highlights where you can find out about business online and some examples of the use of the Internet for marketing.

• Information
  • ACN: The American Community Network (ACN) provides a point of access to information and contacts regarding economic and business development in America's cities, communities and regions (http://www.acn-net.com)
  • Advertising Blacklist: a compendium of advertisers who have misused Net access, compiled by Axel Boldt (http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/BL/blacklist.html)
  • Advertising Guide: The Internet Advertising Resource Guide, maintained by Hairong Li, Michigan State University; links to a large number of sources of information about Internet advertising, including collections and topics, studies, storefronts, and other information (http://www.admedia.org/internet/)
  • Advertising/marketing law: emphasis on infomercials, home shopping, and direct response tv, includes intellectual property and telemarketing, by Lewis Rose (http://www.webcom.com/~lewrose/home.html)
  • BizWeb: a subject-oriented directory of companies on the Web (http://www.bizweb.com)
  • Business Top: the top business information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated (http://www.december.com/web/top/business.html)
  • Canadian Business: Canadian Internet Business Directory (http://www.cibd.com)
  • Career Mosaic: high-tech companies offering career information (http://www.careermosaic.com/cm/)
  • Commercial Services: a list of telnet connections to many commercial information services, from The World (gopher://gopher.std.com:70/11/Commercial)
  • Computer+Communications: Computer and Communication Company Sites on the Web, by James E. (Jed) Donnelley (http://www.cmpcmm.com/cc/)
  • Cyberatlas: a collection of information about Internet statistics and demographics; includes detailed analysis of demographic surveys; for example, looking at A. C. Neilsen's work on Internet demographics; includes quick facts such as registered domains; in general, fairly thorough and easy to use; well worth a stop to see what the current trends are in Internet technology use (http://www.cyberatlas.com)
  • EOTW: Entrepeneurs on the Web, useful business information and services for entrepreneurs (http://www.eotw.com)
  • ESS: how to start and conduct business on the Internet, a forum for getting individuals together (via the Internet and otherwise)et in an ethical manner (http://www.entrepreneurs.net/iess/iess.html)
  • FECRS: Fairfax Electronic Commerce Resource Center; Electronic Commerce (EC), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Continous Acquisition Lifecycle Support (CALS) , Enterprise Integration (EI) and Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR) (http://www.ecrc.gmu.edu)
  • GovBot: database of US Government Web sites to support business (http://www.business.gov)
  • Hermes: research project on the commercial uses of the World Wide Web (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sgupta/hermes.htm)
  • Ho, Thomas: favorite Electronic Commerce WWW resources, includes information sources, links to articles, economic development, service/presence providers (http://e-comm.iworld.com)
  • Hoover's Online: directory of business information (http://www.hoovers.com)
  • InterQuote: continuously updating stock market information service (http://www.interquote.com)
  • Inet Marketing: archives of the Internet Marketing mailing list (http://galaxy.einet.net/hypermail/inet-marketing/)
  • IOMA: Institute Of Management and Administration, Information Services for Professionals (http://starbase.ingress.com/ioma/)
  • Marketing Top: the top marketing information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated (http://www.december.com/web/top/marketing.html)
  • Marketing/CMEs: Marketing in Computer-Mediated Environments Home Page, from Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA (http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu)
  • Money Top: the top money information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated (http://www.december.com/web/top/marketing.html)
  • Net value: the Web Strategy Forum, includes Interesting Business Sites on the Web, by Bob O'Keefe at the School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (http://www.owi.com/netvalue/)
  • Publications: Print Publications Related to Business Use of the Internet, from Tenagra (http://arganet.tenagra.com/Tenagra/books.html)
  • Ventana 500: the most useful online business resources from Ventana Media (http://www.vmedia.com/vvc/onlcomp/business/index.html)
• Marketplaces

  • ----- Lists of Marketplaces

  • Shop D Net: a list of virtual marketplaces, from Blake and Associates, Internet Marketing Consultants (http://www.neosoft.com/citylink/blake/malls.html)

    ----- Selected Instances of Marketplaces

  • CommerceNet: Internet-based infrastructure for electronic commerce, created and operated by a consortium of major Silicon Valley users, providers and developers under Smart Valley, Inc. (http://logic.stanford.edu/cit/commercenet.html)
  • Digital's Emall: Digital Equipment Corporation's Electronic Shopping Mall (http://www.service.digital.com/html/emall.html)
  • eMall: WWW shopping and information (http://eMall.com)
  • IBC: Internet Business Connection, An electronic shopping mall and a service for companies that would like to promote their products or services on the Internet (http://www.intbc.com)
  • Internet Shopping Network: products from hundreds of vendors, along with query interface (http://www.internet.net)
  • Sofcom: home shopping, information providers, non-profits (http://www.sofcom.com.au)

Communication

• The online world is all about communication, so it is not surprising that examples of the Internet as used for communication abound. This section highlights how computer-mediated communication on the Internet is being used in a range of context--from individual and small group interaction to mass and societal uses. I list groups studying these contexts for communication as well as examples and software.

• Individual
  • CMC-Interpersonal: list of interpersonal tools for CMC (mail, talk) (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-interpersonal.html)
  • Home Pages: a collection of personal home pages lists (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/culture-people-lists.html)
• Group
  • CCCC: Computerized Conferencing and Communications Center at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) (http://it.njit.edu/njIT/Department/CCCC/default.html)
  • CERC: Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University; research, development, and demonstration of information technologies that enable collaboration (http://www.cerc.wvu.edu)
  • Collaboration: Collaboration, Knowledge Representation and Automatability, entry from W3C site (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Collaboration/Overview.html)
  • CREW: Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work, an interdisciplinary effort of faculty and graduate students at the University of Michigan; fields represented range from computer science through business to psychology; research and graduate training focus on understanding new ways that work can be organized by exploiting computer-mediation by focusing on the interplay of technology and human factors (http://www.crew.umich.edu)
  • CWCW/Groupware: a comprehensive index of CSCW and Groupware resources on the web, including papers, products, research centers, and information on types of groupware, such as videoconferencing, workflow, and shared writing and drawing. (http://www.crew.umich.edu/~brinck/cscw.html)
  • CSCW Group: Research Group on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work laboratory (http://orgwis.gmd.de)
  • CSCW Lab: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work laboratory at the Fraunhofer-Institut fur Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Germany (http://www.igd.fhg.de/cscw-lab/)
  • CSCW pages: The unOfficial Yellow Pages of CSCW (http://www.tft.tele.no/cscw/)
  • Collaborative Comm: Collaborative Networked Communication--MUDs as Systems Tools, by Remy Evard (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/USER/remy/documents/cncmast.html)
  • Collaborative Design: Architecture and CAAD, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (http://www.arch.ethz.ch/~dave/cmc-collab.html)
  • CRTR-U of CO: Collaboration Technology Research Group (group user interfaces, distributed editors, workflow systems, cooperativee grown information systems), University of Colorado (http://www.cs.colorado.edu/homes/carlosm/public_html/ctrg.html)
  • Collaboration: Workshop on Wide-Area Collaboration and Cooperative Computing (http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/colab/workshop.html)
  • Collaboration info: Collaboration, Knowledge Representation and Automatability (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Collaboration/Overview.html)
  • Computer Network Conf: A Discussion on Computer Network Conferencing, by D. Reed (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1324.txt)
  • Groupware/teaching: Publications on Use of Computer Groupware in Teaching (http://vm.tamu.edu/~vaph/klemm/whoami.html)
  • Groupware Yellow Pages: information resources, from Consensus (http://www.consensus.com)
  • Key Centre: collaborative design in computing, University of Sydney, Australia (http://www.arch.su.edu.au/kcdc/)
  • Mediation: the first dispute resolution firm to actually provide methods which are safe, private and cost effective by the use of Internet (http://www.janzengroup.com)
  • Moderator's Page: resources for moderators of online discussion groups (http://cac.psu.edu/~mauri/moderators.html)
  • MOO Papers: Pavel Curtis' collection of MU* papers (ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/MOO/papers/)
  • MONET: Meeting on the Network multimedia conferencing system at CERC, West Virginia University (http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/dice/monet/monet.html)
  • MUD info: Multiple User Dialogue/Dimension/Dungeon FAQs, Lists, Information, Collections, Servers, Archives, Newsgroups, by Lydia Leong (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lwl/mudinfo.html)
  • MUD papers/Cherny: gender and discourse related MUD papers, by Lynn Cherny (http://bhasha.stanford.edu/~cherny/papers.html)
  • Mondes virtuels: a listing of information about online virtual spaces (http://www.uqam.ca/~gingras/tour/moondes.html)
  • NCW: National Center for the Workplace (NCW) Gopher (gopher://uclink.berkeley.edu:3030/1)
  • Project H: an ongoing computer-mediated collaboration, on a Comserve-sponsored hotline, of more than a hundred international researchers (http://www.arch.su.edu.au/PROJECTH/index.html)
  • SHARE: A Methodology and Environment for Collaborative Product Development (http://www.eit.com/projects/share/share/share-home.html)
  • Tools: a list of Internet tools for group communication (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-group.html)
  • Web Conferencing: by David Woolley (http://freenet.msp.mn.us/people/drwool/webconf.html)
• Organizational
  • Client/Server: Client/Server Coffeehouse, discussion about client-server systems in organizations (http://www.onr.com/clients.html)
  • CORPS: Computing, Organizations, Policy, and Society, study of computerization in organizations, Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine (http://www.ics.uci.edu/CORPS/)
  • CWIS Paper: Campus-Wide Info Systems by Judy Hallman (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/docs/about-the-net/cwis/hallman.txt)
  • IOS: Interorganizational Systems (IOS) WorldNet (http://www-iwi.unisg.ch/iswnet/index.html)
  • OMT: Organization and Management Theory Division the Academy of Management, to foster communication and to serve as an information resource to Organization scholars worldwide (http://juliet.stfx.ca/people/fac/dlemke/omt.html)
• Mass

  • ----- Lists

  • Campus Newspapers: Campus Newspapers on the Internet, by Jonathan Bell (http://beacon-www.asa.utk.edu/resources/papers.html)
  • Daily business: Daily sources of business and economic news (http://www.helsinki.fi/~lsaarine/news.html)
  • Editor and Publisher: Media information sources (http://www.mediainfo.com)
  • Journalism/Comm schools: World Wide Web sites of interest to those in the fields of journalism and mass communications (http://www.jou.ufl.edu/commres/jouwww.htm)
  • Journalism: Journalism entry from WWW Virtual Library, by John S. Makulowich (http://www.trainer.com/pub/journalism/)
  • Movies and TV: Nova's Movies and TV information (http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/movies.html)
  • News Top: the top general news sources of the Web, described and reviewed (http://www.december.com/web/top/news.html)
  • SPJ: Society of Professional Journalists (ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/spj/html/spj.html)
  • TV Networks: Television network information (http://www.tvnet.com)
  • Tools: a list of Internet tools for mass communication (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-mass.html)

    ----- Application Areas

  • Amateur Radio: the World of Internet Amateur (Ham) Radio (http://www.acs.ncsu.edu/HamRadio/)
  • Cable TV: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (http://www.cablelabs.com)
  • Intelsat: the leading provider of satellite telecommunications services (http://www.intelsat.int:8080)
  • Live TV: demonstration consists of live video and audio using the vsdemo VuSystem application that uses a live television source on the VuNet (http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/vs/vsdemo)
  • Persuasion: Concepts, perspectives, idea generation device, resource links, and assignments, for students and others interested in the future of advertising, public relations, and commercial persuasive communication in the context of the new electronic media (http://jamy.apr.ua.edu)
  • Satellite: The Satellite TV Page (http://itre.uncecs.edu/misc/sat.html)

    ----- Outlets/List

  • Electronic Newstand: magazines, magazines, magazines--electronic and the dead tree variety (http://www.enews.com)
  • Newslink: news resource with direct links to more than 1,000 online newspaper, magazine and broadcasting sites. (http://www.newslink.org)
  • Newspage: thousands of categorized news stories (http://www.newspage.com)
  • Broadcasters: entry from WWW VL (http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/publishers/broadcast.html)
  • MegaMedia: a list of electronic media on the Web--film, video, radio, television, cinema and new-media sites (http://www.rtvf.nwu.edu/links/links.html)
  • Radio Stations: (http://www.brsradio.com/stations/)
  • Radio Tower: a directory of live audio broadcasters over the Internet (http://www.radiotower.com)
  • TV Stations: (http://tvnet.com/tv/us/stations5.html)

    ----- Selected outlets and more information

  • BBC Networking Club: (http://www.bbcnc.org.uk)
  • C-SPAN: Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (http://www.c-span.org)
  • CBC Radio: (http://radioworks.cbc.ca)
  • CBS: (http://www.cbs.com)
  • ClariNet: complete electronic newspaper delivered via Net (http://www.clarinet.com)
  • ITR: Internet Talk Radio (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/radio/radio.html)
  • PBS: United States Public Broadcasting Service (http://www.pbs.org)
  • NBC: (http://www.nbc.com)
  • VOA: Voice of America (USA) (http://www.voa.gov)
• Societal
  • Cyberpunk: texts for understanding technology and culture, from the English Server (http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/Cyber.html)
  • Friends + Partners: USA and Russia information and communication (http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/)
  • Net Revisited: The Network Nation Revisited, a bachelor's thesis examining Hiltz and Turoff's predictions for CMC on societal change, by David Belson (http://www.stevens-tech.edu/~dbelson/thesis/thesis.html)
• Surveillance and remote control
  • Anthony's List: Internet-accessible machines for vending, temperature sensors, tele-operated machinery, equipment status, cameras/video, and others, by Anthony Anderberg (http://www.dsu.edu/~anderbea/machines.html)
  • bsy's List: Internet Accessible (non-Coke) Machines, connections to many surveillance and remote sensing examples (http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/bsy/iam.html)
  • Remote Sensing: entry from the WWW VL (http://www.vtt.fi/aut/ava/rs/virtual/)
  • Web Voyeur: look at stuff through the Web (http://rainier.net/~larry/web-voyeur/)
• Scientific

  • Since the Web was invented by scientists, it is no surprise that scientific communication is common online. In this section, I list a few major examples of sites that are putting the Internet to use for scientific communication.

  • AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science (http://www.aaas.org)
  • CISTI: Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information--worldwide scientific, technical and medical information (http://www.cisti.nrc.ca/cisti/cisti.html)
  • CAS: The Chicago Academy of Sciences (http://www.mcs.com/~cas/home.html)
  • CS Tech Reports: Computer Science Technical Reports Archive Sites (http://www.rdt.monash.edu.au/tr/siteslist.html)
  • DoD IAC: Department of Defense (DoD) Information Analysis Center (IAC) Hub Page (http://www.dtic.dla.mil/iac/)
  • EI: Engineering Information, Inc., a community of engineers sharing research, knowledge, and data (http://www.ei.org)
  • EnviroWeb: environmental information source on the Internet (http://www.envirolink.org)
  • NAS: National Academy of Sciences (http://www.nas.edu)
  • NCSTRL: Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library; an international collection of computer science technical reports from CS departments and industrial and government research laboratories, made available for non-commercial and educational use (http://www.ncstrl.org)
  • NSF-USA: The National Science Foundation (NSF), United States (http://www.nsf.gov)
  • OSTI-USA: The US Office of Scientific and Technical Communication (http://apollo.osti.gov/html/osti/ostipg.html)
  • Science Top: the top science information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated (http://www.december.com/web/top/science.html)
  • SETN: The Science and Engineering Television Network, Inc., a non-profit consortium of scientific societies, universities, laboratories and corporations organized to foster the development of scientific communication in the medium of television (http://www.service.com/stv/setncall.html)

Education

• Educators are using online actively to extend the context of their teaching and students' learning. I've selected resources for this section which connect you to major online information sources about education.

  ----- Reviewed Sites

• Education Top: the resources for educators; empahsis on primary education, but some higher-education resources; described and reviewed (http://www.december.com/web/top/edu.html)

  ----- Major Collections

  These are major collections of information about the support of education online which are distinguished by their depth, breadth, or authority.

• AskERIC: Educational Resources Information Center, Clearinghouse on Information and Technology, US federally-funded collection of education-related resources; AskERIC includes a question and answer service, a virtual library, and a research and development team; the collections are well-organized and frequently updated (http://ericir.syr.edu)
• Blue Web'n: a library of Internet-based instructional information; you can quickly search this database by audience type, application type, content area, and other search terms; you'll find activities, lessons, references, tools, and projects listed for a variety of educational audiences part of the Pacific Bell initiative, Education First, and of Pacific Bell's umbrella program to benefit education, Knowledge Network (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/)
• CAUSE: association for managing and using information technology in higher education; this site includes a discussion of current issues, information about conferences, professional development, publications, information services, and collaborative alliances with other organizations; the focus is on the future of higher education in the information age; this site is well-organized and has breadth and depth (http://cause-www.colorado.edu)
• CNIDR/K-12 education: educational sites hosted at the Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval, includes ARTSEDGE (National Arts and Education Information Network, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), EdWeb (Online K-12 Education Resource Guide, Corporation for Public Broadcasting), Global SchoolHouse Project (Collaborative Internet Classroom Project, National Science Foundation), Janice's K-12 Cyberspace Outpost (K-12 Educational Uses of the Internet, J3N3), Presidential Awardees Internet Pilot (Presidential Awardees for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching, National Science Foundation), and K-12 Opportunities and Resources (On-line mailing lists for K-12 projects) (http://k12.cnidr.org)
• CEARCH: The Cisco Educational Archives (CEARCH) Virtual Schoolhouse; this is a collection of links of interest to the K-12 educator; it includes a comprehensive list of schools and universities on the Internet, educational links by subject, links to libararies and books sites, museums, exhibits, networking resources, technical information about the Internet, and teaching resources; this is a project of Cisco Systems, Inc., the leading global supplier of internetworking hardware (routers, switches, servers, software) and the University of North Carolina (UNC) Office of Information Technology's SunSITE, an educational service of Sun Microsystems, Inc. (http://sunsite.unc.edu/cisco/schoolhouse.html)
• GSN: Global SchoolNet Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the instructional applications of telecommunication; includes registry of best curriculumn projects, tutorials, articles about using the Internet in the classroom, news and discussion, and events and contests; includes a link to the collaborative project with Microsoft to create a comprehensive site for education resources on the Internet (http://www.gsn.org)
• US-RELnet: U.S. National Educational Laboratories network, a network of regional educational laboratories and educational research and development organizations supported by contracts with the U.S. Education Department, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI); this page links to contact information and information servers of the labs (http://www.nwrel.org/national/regional-labs.html)
• Web66: resources and information to facilitate the introduction of Web technology into K-12 schools; the project helps educators learn how to establish Internet services and distribute and use resources on the Web; provides specific examples of how the Web is used in a classroom at the Hillside Elementary School in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, USA, the pilot school for the Web66 project; the Mustang project helps teachers prepare and evaluate projects using Internet resources in their classroom (http://web66.coled.umn.edu)

  ----- Specialized Education Sites

• AACE: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (http://www.aace.org)
• Adventure Learning: A directory of sites that involve students in explorations; this page, provided by adventureonline.com, a resource center for activities of this type, provides links to a variety of adventure projects--for example, the JASON project to explore the undersea world, MayaQuest to explore Central America's treasures and GOALS, another site for Global Online Adventure Learning (http://www.adventureonline.com/other.html)
• aeRes: Australian Educational Resources, Australia's largest and most comprehensive Internet site for Australian educational information. Topics include primary, secondary, tertiary and technical fields of study (http://www.gu.edu.au/aeres/)
• Canada's SchoolNet: an educational initiative for learning through electronic networking in Canada, supported by government agencies (provincial, territorial, and federal), industry, and educational institutions; site includes online resources, staff, and information about projects; site includes a range of information on this national initiative (http://schoolnet.carleton.ca)
• CASO Directory: Cape Software Directory, The Internet University - College Courses by Computer (companion site to the book), comprehensive listing of online college courses available (700+ courses); profiles of over thirty accredited online course providers; dynamic links to more than 2,000 Internet study resource sites (http://www.caso.com)
• CEE: Center for Excellence in Education, to help our best students and teachers keep the United States competitive in science and technology, and to nurture international understanding among potential leaders of many countries (http://rsi.cee.org)
• CEFPI: The Council of Educational Facility Planners, International, an information agency that supports its members' professional efforts in creating world class educational facilities; site features a wide variety of educational facility planning information including the latest technology/Internet issues; thisis the place to learn about issues such as issues of lighting, gross area needed per student, and strategic planning for educational facilities (http://www.cefpi.com/cefpi)
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Academe this Week, offers guide to contents of The Chronicle of Higher Education and all Positions Available ads, calendar of events, deadlines for grants, papers, fellowships, put out every Tuesday at noon EST (http://chronicle.merit.edu)
• COL: Commonwealth of Learning, distance education techniques and associated communications technologies; an organization established by fifty-three member countries to improve access to and the quality of education using distance learning and communications technologies; web site includes administrative and organizational information as well as information on programs, publications, videos, and news (http://www.col.org)
• CTC: Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway, resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12 (http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/index.html)
• DeweyWeb: facilitating communication between students from all over the world; emphasis is on helping students both gain and produce information by contributing their own findings and ideas; sponsored by the University of Michigan and Interactive Communications and Simulations (ICS), a program of exciting and innovative educational telecommunications exercise (http://ics.soe.umich.edu)
• DLD: Distance Learning Directory, an extensive listing of distance learning/distance education information and resources, including links to other directories, compiled by the Howard University Continuing Education Program (http://www.con-ed.howard.edu/WebPages/dll/Dist-Lrn/dld.htm)
• EDUCOM: addresses critical issues surrounding the role of information technology in higher education; includes links to EDUCOM information conferences, seminars, news, initiatives, programs, projects, and cooperative efforts (http://www.educom.edu)
• ENC: Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education, instructional materials for K-12 math and science (http://www.enc.org)
• ESI: Educational Software Institute, a commercial site offering a large collection of K-12 educational software from hundreds of software publishers; you can search the online catalog to find software and order online (http://www.edsoft.com)
• FinAid: The financial aid information page, information about student financial aid, from Mark Kantrowitz, author of the The Prentice Hall Guide to Scholarships and Fellowships for Math and Science Students (http://www.finaid.org)
• GNA: Globewide Network Academy, a non-profit corporation, affiliated with Usenet University; goal is to create an fully accredited online university (http://uu-nna.mit.edu:8001/uu-gna/index.html)
• HUB: articles, curriculum, newsletters, projects, reports, and software for mathematics and science education, operated by TERC, Technical Education Research Center, a nonprofit organization committed to improving the quality and accessibility of education; site links to projects (e.g., Testbed for Telecollaboration) and network resources produced by TERC (e.g., Planning Guide for Network Science) (http://hub.terc.edu)
• IAT: Institute for Academic technology, a site devoted to interactive technologies in education; includes programs and training information and resources to facilitate the use of affordable technologies in higher education; located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (http://www.iat.unc.edu)
• iCDL: International Centre for Distance Learning, in the United Kingdom on the campus of the Open University, disseminating distance education information worldwide (http://acs-info.open.ac.uk/info/other/ICDL/ICDL-Facts.html)
• IKE: IBM Kiosk for Education, a collection of resources about IBM products and service to support education; a higher education information service managed by the University of Washington in partnership with IBM (http://ike.engr.washington.edu/ike.html)
• ILT: Institute for Learning Technologies, part of the Columbia University (New York, USA) Virtual Information Initiative; resources and information about education (http://www.ilt.tc.columbia.edu)
• inSITE: Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, exploring ways in which the Internet can be used both to benefit teacher education programs at colleges and universities around the world and to support K-12 staff development technology initiatives (http://teach.virginia.edu/insite)
• Jones Ed Co: Jones Education Company (http://www.jec.edu)
• Kidlink: a grassroots project aimed at getting as many children in the age group 10-15 involved in a global dialogs (http://www.kidlink.org)
• K-5 Cybertrail: developed by public broadcaster WMHT of New York state's Capital Region as part of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting K-12 Internet Testbed Project, an online tutorial for elementary educators who are new to the Internet (http://www.wmht.org/trail/)
• K-12 LiveText: developed by the Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA, to provide K-12 related resources to educators, students and others; this site contains school resources such as planning guides, technology planning and policy; readings in technology and pedagogy as well as telecommunications and reform policy; a page of student publications and student work; and a page for curricula in a variety of subject areas; this site serves as a broad index to other sites and is part of the Institute for Learning Technologies web at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA (http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/livetext/index.html)
• K-12 Busy Teacher: a directory of resources for teachers divided by subject area; an extremely extensive database of well-annoted links of resources for a variety of subjects, such as archaeology, art, astronomy...sciences, social studies; put together by Carolyn Cole (http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/BusyT/)
• K-12 Registry: International WWW Schools Registry, a list of schools with Web sites worldwide, from Web66 project, College of Education, University of Minnesota (http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html)
• LRDC: Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh--thinking, knowing, and understanding in and beyond school (http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu)
• Maricopa CLI: Center for Learning and Instruction, Maricopa Community Colleges, Arizona, USA, includes extensive directory for teaching and learning, using technology; a national model for motivating, infusing, and promoting innovation and change in the community college environment (http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu)
• OISE: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, a graduate school of education affiliated with the University of Toronto, offering graduate degrees and research and development in education (http://www.oise.on.ca)
• Peterson's: Educational Center for education and lifelong learning (http://www.petersons.com)
• Plugged In: a non-profit group dedicated to bringing the educational opportunities created by new technologies to children and families from low-income communities, located in East Palo Alto, California (http://www.pluggedin.org)
• School.Net: educational information and links to schools, Internet help for teachers, students, parents (http://k12.school.net)
• Singapore-MOE: Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore (http://www.moe.ac.sg)
• SLN: Science Learning Network, a site to support inquiry science, involving students in hands-on explorations; site links to a variety of science museums, each of which support a variety of online exhibits and exercises for students; students and educators can take part in making connections and exchanging project information and ideas; funded by Unisys and the U.S. National Science foundation (http://www.sln.org)
• Syllabus: resources for educators on how technology can be incorporated into instruction. It contains news, case studies, product reviews and announcements, and feature articles on technology written by educators and experts in educational technology (http://www.syllabus.com)
• Teachers helping Teachers: helps with basic teaching tips, ideas, methodologies, and a forum for experienced teachers to share expertise and tips; tips are practical and detailed; prepared by Dr. Scott Mandel (http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/)
• TERC: Technical Education Research Center, a nonprofit organization committed to improving the quality and accessibility of education (http://www.hub.terc.edu/gn/hub/owner/terc.html)
• UK-DEE: United Kingdom Department for Education and Employment (http://www.open.gov.uk/dfee/dfeehome.htm)
• UK-NCET: National Council for Educational Technology Information Service (UK) (http://datasun.ncet.org.uk)
• UK-TLTP: United Kingdom Teaching and Learning Technology Programme, makes teaching and learning more productive and efficient by using modern technology (http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/tltp/)
• US-DLA: United States Distance Learning Association, a non-profit association to promote the use of distance learning for education and training; includes membership and administrative information about the USDLA as well as links to other sources of information about distance and life long learning (http://www.usdla.org)
• US-ED: United States Department of Education; includes information about the department itself and how to make the most of its resources as well as information about guides, funding, and other valuable educational sites (http://www.ed.gov)
• USENET University: an online a society of people interested in learning, teaching or tutoring (ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/doc/uu/FAQ)
• US-DoD: United States Department of Defense Education Gateway, information on education efforts sponsored by the US DoD including such projects as the DoD science, mathematics, and engineering education enhancement efforts (http://www.acq.osd.mil/ddre/edugate/)
• US-NEA: United States National Education Association; advancing the cause of public education at all levels; web site includes tips and materials for parents and teachers (http://www.nea.org)
• US-NSNT: United States National School Network Testbed, exploring ways to use technology for enriching the school curriculum (http://copernicus.bbn.com/testbed2/)
• US-PBS Learning: Learning Services from the Public Broadcasting Service, a United States-funded television network; web includes how to use PBS programs as part of learning as well as projects and activities for students and teachers (http://www.pbs.org)
• US-PTA: The United States Parent-Teachers Organization, a volunteer organization for the benefit of children's education, health and safety; includes resources, archives, and discussions of issues, initiatives, and activities as well as links to web pages to local and state PTA chapters (http://www.pta.org)
• US-WICHE: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, an agency for resource sharing among 15 US western states (http://www.wiche.edu)
• VOU: Virtual Online University, an online liberal arts university online, using a virtual environment called a VEE, Virtual Education Environment (http://www.athena.edu)
• Yahooligans!: this is a Web guide for kids produced by Yahoo, Inc., contains content geared toward 8 to 14 year old children (http://www.yahooligans.com)
• World Lecture Hall: WWW for instructional use, a collection of course materials, from the University of Texas at Austin (http://www.utexas.edu/world/instruction/index.html)

  ----- Documents and Reports

• Multimedia in Education: consequences of using multimedia in education (current trends, exploring future chances), from the Research institute for psychology and media (http://www.uni-sb.de/sonstige/mefis/em01.htm)
• Schools-Internet: Answers to Commonly Asked Primary and Secondary School Internet User Questions; this is a good introductory discussion of the use of the Internet in an educational setting, including school Internet connections, security, ethics, collaboration, and other resources; this document doesn't tell you everything you have to know, but it is a good starting point (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi22.txt)
• High school-Internet: Assessing the effect on high school teachers of direct and unrestricted access to the Internet--a case study of an east central Florida high school, by Michael Anthony Gallo (ftp://sci-ed.fit.edu/pub/Internet/study/)
• Pedagogical CMC: Online Report on Pedagogical Techniques for Computer-mediated Communication, by Morten Flate Paulsen, Assistant Professor, The NKI Department of Distance Education, a framework of pedagogical CMC techniques and experiences reported in about 100 articles (http://www.hs.nki.no/~morten/cmcped.htm)

  ----- Indexes

• Education-WWW VL: an extensive listing of world-wide web virtual library education sites; reasonably annotated, but not very selective and the organization lacks categorization (it is alphabetical); useful for searching on particular items of interest to educators (http://www.csu.edu.au/education/all.html)
• Education-Yahoo: Education section from Yahoo, contains a very wide selection of links--watch for the Yahoo sunglasses icon to separate the wheat from the chaff (sometimes) to find the most compelling sites; this index is good for overall look of what is out there with regard to Internet-based educational information (http://www.yahoo.com/Education/)
• Educational Technology--WWW VL: The World-Wide Web Virtual Library--Educational Technology, a listing of a wide variety of resources for educational technology, includes links to topics, announcements, educational v