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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/)
  • 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 virtual reality, courseware, software, and institutions and people (http://tecfa.unige.ch/info-edu-comp.html)
• Education Technology-Communication: a long, unannotated list of the names of computer/communications organizations and resource centers, from the American Communication Association (http://www.uark.edu/depts/comminfo/www/commed.html)
• WebCrawler education: WebCrawler select section on education, a list of some interesting resources for education; includes a selection of feature articles (http://www.webcrawler.com/select/ed.new.html)

Entertainment

• The Web reflects the very human tendency to find a way to relax, be distracted, or to just have fun. I've selected a few of the major entertainment resources on the Web for this section.

• Entertainment Top: the top entertain information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated (http://www.december.com/web/top/entertain.html)
• Compass: navigate through many of the entertainment sites on the World Wide Web (http://www.surrface.com/compass/)
• ENN: Entertainment Network News, a large collection of entertainment news (http://www.slip.net/~scmetro/enn.htm)

Government

• World governments are very eager to use online communication to improve their economies, educate their citizens, and disseminate government information. In this section, I've collected a range of information sources about how government is using online communication in their national policies and plans as well as examples of information delivered to citizens online.

• Initiatives for information infrastructures

  • These government-sponsored initiatives and organizations to implement or support national or state information infrastructures.

  • Canada: Industry Canada Ministry, Communications Development Directorate (http://info.ic.gc.ca)
  • Europe: European Council report on specific measures to be taken by the European Community and the Members States for information infrastructures (http://www.earn.net/EC/bangemann.html)
  • Europe/Info Market: I'M (Info Market)- Europe Home Page, information about Europe and the European electronic information market (http://www.echo.lu)
  • Japan-MITI: Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, program for advanced information infrastructure (http://www.miti.go.jp/index-e.html)
  • Singapore-IT200: Information from the National Computing Board (NCB) of Singapore's Digital Media Centre (http://www.ncb.gov.sg)
  • USA-HPCC: the National Coordination Office (NCO) for High Performance Computing and Communications (http://www.hpcc.gov)
  • USA-IITF: United States Information Infrastructure Task Force (http://iitf.doc.gov)
  • USA-IISP: United States Information Infrastructure Standards Panel; facilitate development of standards critical to the National and Global Information Infrastructure (NII and GII) (http://www.ansi.org/iisp/)
  • USA-NII DIIG: The Digital Information Infrastructure Guide (DIIG) is a resource to facilitate the development of the National Information Infrastructure (NII) (http://farnsworth.mit.edu/diig.html)
  • USA-NII Related: Related Efforts in the National Information Infrastructure (http://www.acl.lanl.gov/sunrise/RelatedInfo/OtherProjects.html)
  • USA-NII-XIWT: USA's National Information Infrastructure Cross-Industry Working Team, a coalition of industry to define requirements for a national information infrastructure (http://www.cnri.reston.va.us:3000/XIWT/public.html)
  • USA-North Carolina: North Carolina Information Highway (NCIH) (http://www.ncih.net)
• Information supplied by governments

  • Government-sponsored or government-related information, particularly dealing with CMC issues.

    ------ Major Collections

  • Government Top: the top government information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated (http://www.december.com/web/top/gov.html)
  • Govt Docs: Government Documents Center, Government Resources on the Web from the University of Michigan (http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/govweb.html)
  • U.S. Govt: Information Sources list maintained by the National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) (http://www.nttc.edu/gov_res.html)

    ------ Countries

  • Canada: Open Government -- information about Canadian Federal government (http://canada.gc.ca)
  • EU: European Union's EUROPA site, information about European Union's goals and policies (http://europa.eu.int)
  • Government-Galaxy: page from EINet's Galaxy showing a large collection of government information (http://www.einet.net/galaxy/Government.html)
  • GILS: Government Information Locator Service (http://info.er.usgs.gov/gils/)
  • Japan PM: Japan Prime Minister's official residence Web server (http://www.kantei.go.jp)
  • UK CCTA: United Kingdom Government Centre for Information Systems (http://www.open.gov.uk)
  • US Fedix: Federal Information Exchange, Inc., access to a wide variety of government data (http://www.fie.com)
  • US Fedworld: a gateway to US. Government information operated by the Department of Commerce's National Technical Information Service (NTIS) (http://www.fedworld.gov)
  • US GPO: United States Government Printing Office (http://www.access.gpo.gov)
  • US NPR: United States National Performance Review (http://www.npr.gov)
  • US Patents and Trademarks: includes Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure issues (http://www.uspto.gov)
  • US House: United States House of Representatives (http://www.house.gov)
  • US Senate: United States Senate (http://www.senate.gov)
  • US Thomas: United States Legislative Information (http://thomas.loc.gov)
  • US White House: United States Executive Branch (http://www.whitehouse.gov)
• Policy

  • These pointers relate to public policy issues or government-citizen interaction, or legal issues.

  • CapWeb: Political issues, campaigns, publications, and a guide to the United States Congress (CapWeb) (http://www.capweb.net)
  • Democracy.Net: dedicated to exploring ways of enhancing citizen participation in the democratic process via the Internet (http://www.democracy.net)
  • Computer Tech Legal Net: Computer Technology Legal information resources (http://www.com/mmm/mmmhome.html)
  • Cryto: Encryption policy resource page; information and activisim to lobby for encryption policies (http://www.crypto.com)
  • Discovery Institute: a public policy think tank; has forum in Internet law and policy (http://www.discovery.org)
  • Govt Policy: (http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/govnii.html)
  • ILPF: Internet Law and Policy Forum, addressing legal and policy issues of the Internet (http://www.ilpf.org)
  • ICTSP: The George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science Institute for Computer and Telecommunications Systems Policy (http://www.seas.gwu.edu/seas/instctsp/)
  • Information Policy: Information Policy for Electronic Information Resources, by Mary Lou Goodyear: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "GET GOODYEAR PRV4N6"
  • INTA: International Trademark Association (http://www.inta.org/inta/)
  • International Trade: network resources for legal research and education (http://ananse.irv.uit.no/trade_law/misc/objective.html)
  • The Information Economy: a collection of documents that have to do with the economics of the Internet, information goods, intellectual property, and related issues, by Hal Varian (http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/)
  • Internet Policy: What Should We Plan Given the Dilemma of the Network?, by G. Cook (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1527.txt)
  • IP Policy OnRamp: a service by the General Services Administration (GSA), Office of Information Technology (IT) Policy and Leadership, USA; information about information technology policy (http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov)
  • MIT-RPCP: MIT's Research Program on Communications Policy (http://farnsworth.mit.edu)
  • Patent Law: frequently asked questions and answers on patent law (http://www.patents.com)
  • PICS: a cross-industry working group whose goal is to facilitate the development of technologies to give users of interactive media, such as the Internet, control over the kinds of material to which they and their children have access (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/PICS/)
  • PPP: Political Participation Project, a research project at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab designed to explore how interactive media can be used to facilitate political participation; web includes collection of political sources, a bibliography, directory of grassroots organizations, and publications (http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/msb/ppp/home.html)
  • Telecom policy: (http://www.ba.com/sites.html)
  • Voters Telecom Watch: monitoring important bills and alerting the public at crucial times in the life of a bill (http://www.vtw.org)
  • Warren Gopher: a collection of electronic newsletters distributed by Jim Warren on the subjects of political action and government access through the use of computer communications (gopher://gopher.path.net:8102/1)
  • WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), includes Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights, a subgroup of the Information Infrastructure Task Force (http://www.wipo.int)

Information

• Information dissemination is one of the major functions of online communication. In this section, I've collected links to a variety of projects, research groups and resource lists which are devoted to information dissemination and retrieval over networks.

• Dissemination and Retrieval
  • ACM/SIGIR: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (http://info.sigir.acm.org/sigir/)
  • Agents, Intelligent: a collection of information about software information agents (http://retriever.cs.umbc.edu/agents/)
  • Addressing: Uniform Resource Identifiers/Locators/Names (URI, URL, URN) (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Addressing/Addressing.html)
  • ArD: database of published articles in the field of information systems (http://www.zib-berlin.de/People/mueller/GNA/ISG/Services/ArD/)
  • CAIT-WUSTL: Center for the Application of Information Technology, part of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis (http://www.cait.wustl.edu/cait/intro.html)
  • Cataloging Internet Res: explores how to catalog electronic information, by Priscilla Caplan: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "get caplan prv4n2"
  • CATRIONA: CATaloguing and Retrieval of Information Over Networks Applications (http://www.bubl.bath.ac.uk/BUBL/catriona.html)
  • CHAT: Conversational Hypertext Access Technology, natural-language interface (ftp://debra.dgbt.doc.ca/pub/chat/)
  • CIT: Center for Information Technology, a laboratory operated by Stanford University, the encoding, storage, communication, manipulation, and use of information in digital form (http://logic.stanford.edu/cit/cit.html)
  • CIIR-UMass: Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (http://ciir.cs.umass.edu)
  • CNI: Coalition for Networked Information, promotes creation of and access to information resources in networked environments (http://www.cni.org)
  • CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands (http://www.cwi.nl/default.html)
  • CNIDR Web Page: Coalition for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval Home Page (http://cnidr.org/welcome.html)
  • Data Research: databases and information, some free (don't abuse free services) (http://www.dra.com)
  • DIMUND: Document Understanding Information and Resources (http://dimund.cfar.umd.edu)
  • Doc Center: Document Center, a hard copy document delivery service for government and industry specifications and standards (http://doccenter.com/doccenter/home.html)
  • IDU: Information Design Unit (http://www.idu.co.uk/idu/index.html)
  • Info Provider: discussion of WWW and other servers from an information provider standpoint (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Provider/Overview.html)
  • IIP: Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/home-page.html)
  • IRLP: Internet Resource Location Project (http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/gc/cs/genbbb_wwww.html)
  • IRIS-Brown: Brown University's Institute for Information Research and Scholarship (http://www.iris.brown.edu/iris)
  • IRTF: Internet Research Task Force Research Group on Resource Discovery (IRTF-RD) (http://rd.cs.colorado.edu/~schwartz/IRTF.html)
  • IS Meta List: Information Systems Meta-List, sponsored by the Center for the Application of Information Technology (CAIT) (http://www.cait.wustl.edu/cait/infosys.html)
  • ISI-USC: University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute (ISI) (http://www.isi.edu)
  • ISRI-UNLV: Information Science Research Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (http://www.isri.unlv.edu)
  • ISS: Information Sharing System, A tool that enables transparent, model-based access to distributed, heterogeneou s databases. Developed by CERC, West Virginia University. (http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/dice/iss/index.html)
  • ISWorld Net: information systems web, sponsored by the Edwin L. Cox School Management at Southern Methodist University (http://www.isworld.org/isworld/isworldtext.html)
  • Library Special: Library special collections on the Internet (ftp://vm1.nodak.edu/nnews/nnews.1993-10)
  • Lycos: a research program in providing information retrieval and discovery in the WWW, using a finite memory model of the web to guide intelligent, directed searches for specific information needs (http://www.lycos.com)
  • OCLC Research: Toward Providing Library Services for CMC (ftp://ftp.rsch.oclc.org/pub/internet_resources_project/report/)
  • PCP: Principia Cybernetica Project (PCP)--the computer-supported collaborative development of an evolutionary-systemic philosophy (http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/RELATED.html)
  • Publishing: Advanced Publishing in the Web, by Terje Norderhaug (http://www.ifi.uio.no/~terjen/WWWauthoring/abstract.html)
  • Quality: Quality and Standards of the Internet Information Resources (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/QLTY/QltyHome.html)
  • ResInfo: working toward a basic operational framework necessary to implement a globally distributed information system (http://www.hmc.edu/~jared/professional/resinfo/resinfo.html)
  • SIFTER-UAB: Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Studies of Information Filtering Technology for Electronic Resources (SIFTER) Research Group (http://twinbrook.cis.uab.edu:70/AdPage.80)
  • SGML Open: a non-profit, international consortium of providers of products and services, dedicated to accelerating the further adoption, application, and implementation of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (http://www.sgmlopen.org)
  • UWI: UnderWorld Industries, nodes that wish to share information with other UWI nodes (http://kzsu.stanford.edu/uwi.html)
  • Z39.50: Network Information Dissemination Standards (http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/)
• Library
  • ALA: American Library Association (http://www.ala.org)
  • ARL: Association of Research Libraries Web server (http://arl.cni.org)
  • CARL: access to UnCover and other indexes (http://www.carl.org/carl.html)
  • Dialog: a service of Knight-Ridder Information, Inc. (http://www.dialog.com)
  • Internet libraries: various Internet material for librarians (ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/doc/library/)
  • IPL: Internet Public Library, information and services to enhance the value of the Internet to its users (http://www.ipl.org)
  • LaUNCpad: access various infomration services, from the University of North Carolina (telnet://launch@launchpad.unc.edu) Login as : launch
  • LRL: Library Resources List, a variety of Internet resources for the library community, including reference resources, new net sites and search engines, government resources, library sites, and issues about libraries and national information infrastructure, compiled by Bob Bocher, Technology Consultant WI Dept. of Public Instruction, Division for Libraries. (http://www.state.wi.us/agencies/dpi/www/lib_res.html)
  • Lib webs: Library Information Servers via WWW, by Thomas Dowling (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/)
  • LEXIS-NEXIS: Legal and news information (http://www.lexis-nexis.com)
  • OCLC: Online Computer Library Center, a nonprofit computer library service and research organization (http://www.oclc.org)
  • Public Libraries: St. Joseph County (Indiana, USA) list of public libraries with Internet services (http://sjcpl.lib.in.us/homepage/PublicLibraries/PublicLibraryServers.html)
  • RLG: Research Libraries Group, Inc., a not-for-profit membership corporation of universities, archives, historical societies, museums, and other institutions devoted to improving access to information that supports research and learning; includes access to Eureka (search system), RLIN (library support system), and Zephyr (Z39.50 services), database, citation files, Ariel document delivery (http://www-rlg.stanford.edu/welcome.html)
  • SLA: Special Libraries Association (http://www.sla.org)
  • US LOC: United States Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov)

Multiple

• There are many examples of online communication being used for multiple purposes. I've selected some collections which relate case studies of the excellent use of online communication.

• 101 stories: Reprinted from 101 Success Stories of Information Technology in Higher Education; The Joe Wyatt Challenge, Edited by Judith Boettcher. A Project of EDUCOM's Educational Uses of Information Technology (EUIT) (gopher://ivory.educom.edu/11/stories.101)
• FARNET stories: Federation of American Research Networks (FARNet) descriptions of 51 Reasons for a National Information Infrastructure (NII) (gopher://gopher.cni.org/11/cniftp/miscdocs/farnet)
• Success stories: Internet Reference Success Stories, collected by Karen G. Schneider (http://www.intac.com/~kgs/success/successcover.html)

Scholarship

• Scholars use online communication as a powerful way to keep in contact with each other, collaborate, and share information. In this section, I list major sites that are focused on scholarship, particularly scholarship conducted in online contexts.

• CIOS: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship, a non-profit organization for online communication scholarship (http://cios.org)
• CNI: Coalition for Networked Information, a project of the Association of Research Libraries, CAUSE, and EDUCOM to promote the creation of and access to information resources in networked environments in order to enrich scholarship and to enhance intellectual productivity (http://www.cni.org)
• IATH: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, an effort to bring Jefferson's educational ideas of exchange across disciplines and integrated living and learning (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu)
• Scholarly Communications Project: of University Libraries, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a project to pioneer electronic communication of scholarly materials (http://borg.lib.vt.edu)
• Scholarly Communication Reports: Quarterly Technical Reports (ftp://borg.lib.vt.edu/pub/vpiej-l/reports)
• Scholarly Electronic Forums: information on professional and academic discussion groups (http://www.oise.on.ca/~arojo/forums.html)
• Scholarly Societies: University of Waterloo Library maintains links to gophers and other servers of scholarly societies (http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/overview.html)
• Scholarly Comm paper/Kahin: Scholarly Communication in the Network Environment Issues of Principle, Policy, and Practice, by Brian Kahin (ftp://ftp.cni.org/CNI/projects/Harvard.scp/kahin.txt)
• Scholarly Comm/Libraries: Published by The Association of Research Libraries for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (ftp://ftp.cni.org/ARL/mellon/)
• Scholarly Communication study: University Libraries and Scholarly Communication, A Study Prepared for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, by Anthony M. Cummings, Marcia L. Witte, William G. Bowen, Laura O. Lazarus, and Richard H. Ekman, November 1992 (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/mellon/mellon.html)
• Scholarly Publishing models: Model University Policy Regarding Faculty Publication in Scientific and Technical Scholarly Journals A Background Paper and Review of the Issues (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/docs/about-the-net/trln-copyright-paper)

TECHNOLOGY

The Internet represents one of the most complex technological constructions ever created. As a network of networks, it involves the interplay of many computing, data communications, and software technologies. These resources are starting points for learning more about these technologies.

Computing

• Computer science information is well-represented online. In this section, I list major sources of information for computing, computer science, high performance computing, and software information sources.

• ACM: Association for Computing Machinery (http://www.acm.org)
• Computer Top: the top computer information resources on the Web (http://www.december.com/web/top/computer.html)
• CPU Center: central processing unit (CPU) information, includes press announcements, papers, machine information, by Tom Burd (http://infopad.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIC/)
• CS-MetaCenter: National MetaCenter for Computational Science and Engineering (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/MetaCenter/MetaCenterHome.html)
• HPCC-NSE: High Performance Computing and Communication (USA) National Coordinating office, National Software Exchange (http://www.netlib.org/nse/home.html)
• HPC-Southampton: University of Southampton High Performance Computing Centre (http://cs1.soton.ac.uk)
• HPCWire: The High-Performance Computing news and information service, covering workstations through supercomputers (http://hpcwire.ans.net/HPCwire.html)
• IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (http://www.ieee.org)
• Ohio Supercomputer: a state-funded computing resource, provides high-performance computing to scientists and engineers at Ohio colleges, universities, and companies (http://www.osc.edu/welcome.html)
• NCSA-USA: National (USA) Center for Supercomputing Applications (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/NCSAHome.html)
• NMCCSE-USA: United States National MetaCenter for Computational Science and Engineering (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/MetaCenter/MetaCenterHome.html)
• NPAC-Syracuse: Northeast Parallel Architectures Center Home Page, at Syracuse University, New York (http://minerva.npac.syr.edu/home.html)
• Pitt SCC: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (http://pscinfo.psc.edu)
• RICIS-Houston: Research Institute for Computing and Information Systems (http://rbse.jsc.nasa.gov)
• SDSC: San Diego Supercomputer Center (http://gopher.sdsc.edu/Home.html)
• SEI-CMU: Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.sei.cmu.edu)
• Software Top: the top archives of shareware and freeware on the Web (http://www.december.com/web/top/software.html)
• WWW-VL Computing: the WWW Virtual Library entry for computing (http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/bySubject/Computing/Overview.html)

Criticism

• Tech. Determinism: A resource page on technological determinism, by Dr. Daniel Chandler (http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/tecdet.html)
• Tech. Determism/CMCM: a special issue of Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine examining attitudes about the potenency of technology (http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1996/feb/toc.html)

Developing

• NIMT-Ireland: National Institute for Management Technology, Ireland (http://www.nimt.rtc-cork.ie/nimt.htm)
• NIST-USA: National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA (http://www.nist.gov)
• NSF-USA: National Science Foundation, USA (http://www.nsf.gov)
• NTTC-USA: National Technology Transfer Center, USA (http://iridium.nttc.edu/nttc.html)

Human Interaction

• These resources deal with the area of human-computer interaction (HCI).

• ACM/SIGCHI: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computers and Human Interaction (http://www.acm.org/sigchi/)
• HCIBIB: The HCI Bilbiography Project, references to literature on human-computer interaction, including hypertext/hypermedia (http://www.tu-graz.ac.at/CHCIbib)
• HCI Index/deGraaff: Human-Computer Interaction Index (http://is.twi.tudelft.nl/hci/)
• HCI Launching Pad: Human-Computer Interaction resources and pointers, by Keith Instone (http://www.cs.bgsu.edu/HCI/)
• HCI Resources: information related to Human-Computer Interaction (http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/aslab/groups/um/hci/)
• HCS: Center for Human-Computer studies, at Uppsala University, Sweden (http://www.cmd.uu.se)
• HITL: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, the University of Washington, includes information on the Virtual Worlds Society and the Virtual Worlds Consortium (http://www.hitl.washington.edu)
• Ubicomp: Ubiquitous Computing--computing and communications available everywhere to help people communicate and get information, information from Mark Weiser of XEROX PARC (http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html)

Multimedia

• The Web is used to deliver information in a wide range of data formats. The resources in this section cover the technical, research, and academic issues of multimedia.

• Audio

  • ------ Major Collections

  • Audio WWW VL: Entry from WWW Virtual Library for Audio (http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/audio.html)

    ------ Organizations and other information

  • CERL: The CERL Sound Group (U of IL) (http://datura.cerl.uiuc.edu)
  • Clips: Sites with audio clips (http://www.eecs.nwu.edu/~jmyers/other-sounds.html)
  • CMC-Interpersonal-audio: tools used on the Internet for distributing real-time sound over the Internet between people, like Internet phones (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-interpersonal-audio.html)
  • CMC-Group-audio: tools used on the Internet for distributing real-time sound over the Internet between a group of people; audio conferencing (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-group-audio.html)
  • CMC-Mass-audio: tools used on the Internet for distributing real-time sound over the Internet (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-mass-audio.html)
  • Internet Multicasting WWW: Home page for the Internet Multicasting Service (http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/radio/radio.html)
  • IUMA: Internet Underground Music Archive (http://www.iuma.com)
  • MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface (http://www.eeb.ele.tue.nl/midi/index.html)
  • Multicast Backbone: live audio and video multicast virtual network on top of Internet (ftp://venera.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt)
  • Music Resources: a collection of information about musicians, groups, compusers, performance, research, genres, and journals and magazines about music; extensive collection of links organized into categories (http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/)
  • Mbone FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone (MBONE) (http://www.mediadesign.co.at/newmedia/more/mbone-faq.html)
• Graphics
  • ACM/SIGGRAPH: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Graphics (http://www.siggraph.org)
  • CGU-Manchester: The Computer Graphics Unit - Research at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom (http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/CGU-research.html)
  • GVU-GA Tech: Georgia Institute of Technology's Graphics, Visualization, + Usability Center (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/gvutop.html)
  • Scientific Visualization: Annotated Scientific Visualization URL Bibliography (http://www.nas.nasa.gov/RNR/Visualization/annotatedURLs.html)
  • Thant's: animation index, descriptions of computer-generated animations (http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/thant/thant.html)
• Multi

  • ------ Major Collections

  • ACM/SIGMM: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Multimedia Systems (http://www.acm.org/sigmm/)
  • Digital Reality: produced by Gemini Consulting's Communications, Computers, Consumer Electronics and Content (C4) Practice. It is designed as a resource and community for people interested in C4 industries and how digitization, connectivity and globalization are changing the way businesses work. (http://digital.gemconsult.com)
  • Mulimedia Collection: The Vancouver (Candada) Film School's collection of links to technologies about film, multimedia, animation, and editing (http://www.multimedia.edu)
  • Multimedia Index: Multimedia Information Sources, by Simon Gibbs; an extensive, carefully selected list of multimedia information sources; frequently updated and organized by category; covers links on just about everything having to do with multimedia (http://viswiz.gmd.de/MultimediaInfo/)

    ------ Organizations and other information

  • CDM-NYU: New York University (NYU) Center for Digital Multimedia, a New York State Center for Advanced Technology, sponsored by the New York State Science and Technology Foundation (http://found.cs.nyu.edu)
  • ICME-RPI: The International Center for Multimedia in Education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York (http://ciue.rpi.edu/icme/)
  • IMA: International Multimedia Association (http://www.ima.org)
  • Macromedia: multimedia information and design (http://www.macromedia.com)
  • MCRL-Ottawa: Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory at the University of Ottawa (http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca)
  • Media Lab-MIT: MIT Media Lab Home Page (http://www.media.mit.edu)
  • MICE: Multimedia Integrated Conferencing for European Researchers (http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mice/)
  • Multimedia formats: Multimedia file formats on the Internet, by Allison Zhang (http://www.lib.rochester.edu/multimed/contents.htm)
  • Multimedia Lab BU: Multimedia Laboratory at Boston University (http://hulk.bu.edu)
  • Multimediator: guide to multimedia associations, books, magazines, Internet resources, and employment. Multimediator also features original articles about the art and business of multimedia and the Canadian Developers Directory, the Internet's most extensive list of Canadian companies developing interactive multimedia content (http://www.ideaguy.com)
  • Rob's Multimedia Lab: a collection of archives and informaiton about graphics, sound, and movies on the Net (http://www.acm.uiuc.edu:80/rml)
• Hypermedia
  • ACM/SIGLINK: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Hypertext/Hypermedia; includes an excellent section on links to further resources (http://www.acm.org/siglink/)
  • Bush, Vannevar: As We May Think, article from July 1945 issue of The Atlantic Monthly about hypertext (http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/)
  • Electronic Labyrinth: an exploration and discussion of hypertext terminology and the history and meaning of hypertext (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0276.html)
  • Hypertext systems: An Overview of Hypertext and IR systems and applications (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/Products/Overview.html)
  • HTML Station: a collection of information, about hypertext markup language (http://www.december.com/html/)
  • Hypertext terms: glossary of terms from the WWW project, from CERN (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Terms.html)
  • Web Development: planning, analysis, design, implementation, and promotion. Key practices and online resources are given for each process. (http://www.december.com/web/develop.html)

Virtual

• ------ Major Collections

• VRML: Virtual Reality Modeling Language (http://www.vrml.org)
• VRMLTech: directory of VRML files on the Internet (http://www.vrmltech.com)

  ------ Other information

• MIT Media Lab: Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab (http://www.media.mit.edu)
• MIT TNS: Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Telemedia, Networks, and Systems Group (http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/tns-www-home.html)
• VR Testbed: Open Virtual Reality Testbed Home Page (http://www.nist.gov/itl/div878/ovrt/OVRThome.html)

Networks

• Networks are the basis for online communication. This section gives you links to resources to help you get a picture of how people access and use networks for communication.

• Access and connectivity

  • These documents will help with gaining or finding out about access to networks.

  • Connecting to Internet: What Connecting Institutions Should Anticipate (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi16.txt)
  • Assistive technology: alternative methods of access to the Internet. For example, methods of access for blind, disabled, or physically challenged users. (http://www.alaska.net/~ckayaker/)
  • GNET Archive: bring the net to lesser-developed nations and poorer parts of the world (ftp://dhvx20.csudh.edu/global_net/)
  • XX-MISSING-RELOCATE Inet-Access FAQ: how to become an Internet service provider, an extremely detailed guide to procedures, equipment, hooking to the Net, agreements, software, fees, technical issues, marketing, legal issues, resources, by David H Dennis (http://amazing.cinenet.net/internet/faq.html)
  • Internet Access Guide: Access Guide to introducing.the.internet, by Ellen Hoffman (ftp://nic.merit.edu/introducing.the.internet/access.guide)
  • Internet Access: Individual access to Internet, by James Milles (ftp://sluaxa.slu.edu/pub/millesjg/internet.access)
  • Internet Modem: Internet service providers in the US accessible through dial-up connections from a personal computer, by Genevieve Engel (ftp://dla.ucop.edu/pub/internet/dial-access)
  • Internet Providers: THE LIST of Internet access providers in all area codes and countries; this is the place to go to find out about Internet Service providers--there's no other place with more listings (http://www.thelist.com)
  • NIXPUB: Public/Open Access UNIX, by Bux Technical Services (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/alt.bbs/Nixpub_Posting_(Long))
  • Network Startup: NSF-sponsored Network Startup Resource Center (ftp://ftp.psg.com/README)
  • PSGnet/RAINet: networking in the developing world, low-cost networking tools, computer networking in general (gopher://gopher.psg.com)
  • RAIN: Regional Alliance for Information Networking (http://www.rain.org)
  • Registering on the Net: Transition and Modernization of the Internet Registration Service, by S. Williamson (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1400.txt)
• Administration
  • Domain Administration: (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1033.txt)
  • Domain Name Rights: represents the interests and views of entrepreneurs, small businesses and individuals on the Internet. The DNRC works for equitable, consistent and responsible domain name policies from international governmental organizations, the National Science Foundation, Network Solutions, Inc., and all entities who control portions of the Internet. (http://www.domain-name.org)
  • Domain Name Survey: an attempt to discover every host on the Internet by doing a complete search of the Domain Name System (http://www.nw.com/zone/WWW/top.html)
  • Domain Names: (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1034.txt)
  • Host managers: (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1173.txt)
  • Internet Servers: Building Internet Servers, a collection of information and links from Charm Net (http://www.charm.net/~cyber/)
  • SNMP: simple network management protocol project group, at the University of Twente, the Netherlands (http://snmp.cs.utwente.nl)
• Networking

  • ------ Other Information

  • Amateur Radio Packet: connects between Amateur Radio Packet (digital data stream) network and the Internet (ftp://ftp.std.com/pub/hamradio/faq/packet.faq)
  • Andrew Consortium: a portable set of applications that runs under X11 (http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/atk-ftp/web/andrew-home.html)
  • ATM forum: worldwide organization, aimed at promoting Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) within the industry and the end user community (http://www.atmforum.com)
  • Cell Relay: cell-relay or broadband technologies (ATM/DQDB/SONET, etc.) including research papers, standards, product information, mailing list archives, and events (http://cell-relay.indiana.edu/cell-relay/)
  • Concise: database about networks, networking tools and projects (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/CONCISE/UserGuide/Overview.html)
  • Ethernet page: resources related to the Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) local area network system, by Charles Spurgeon (http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet/ethernet-home.html)
  • FidoNet News: archives of the newsgroup comp.org.fidonet (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.org.fidonet/)
  • GOSIP: Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile (ftp://%FILE/rfc1169.txt)
  • IBM's collection: networking information, protocols, standards (ftp://networking.raleigh.ibm.com/pub)
  • International Connect: International Connectivity Table, by Larry Landweber (ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/connectivity_table/)
  • Internet Country Codes: FAQ about country codes (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/country-codes)
  • Internet Domain Names: Relationship of Telex Answerback Codes to Internet Domains (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1394.txt)
  • Internet Protocols: listings of working groups and information about protocols--applications, Internet, next generation, network management, operational requirements, routing, security, and much more (http://netlab.itd.nrl.navy.mil/Internet.html)
  • Internet Root Domain: lists of Internet hosts (ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/)
  • InterNetwork Mail: methods of sending mail from one network to another, by John Chew and Scott Yanoff (ftp://ftp.csd.uwm.edu/pub/internetwork-mail-guide)
  • Intranet: a network connecting an affiliated set of clients using standard Internet protocols, esp. tcp/ip and http, links from the IntraNet Journal (http://www.brill.com/intranet/links.html)
  • Intro TCP/IP: describes the Internet protocols (ftp://nic.merit.edu/introducing.the.internet/intro.to.ip)
  • IP address resolver: : mail resolve@widener.edu Body: "site SITE NAME"
  • ISDN: the Combinet, Inc. Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) deployment database (telnet://isdn@bbs.combinet.com) Login as : isdn
  • ISDN info/Kegel: ISDN Page, a collection of pointers resources about Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), including standards and discussions, providers, vendors, products, by Dan Kegel (http://alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/isdn/)
  • ISDN info/Pac Bell+ATT: Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) from Pacific Bell and American Telephone and Telegraph (http://www.pacbell.com/isdn/isdn_home.html)
  • Minitel: French service for online communication (http://www.minitel.fr)
  • Network Research sites: a list of network researching sites (http://netlab.itd.nrl.navy.mil/onr.html)
  • Personal IP: PPP, MS-Windows and other information and links about connecting with Internet protocols, from Charm Net (http://www.charm.net/ppp.html)
  • PCLT: PC Lube and Tune; informative introductory material on PC hardware, networks, and newer operating systems (http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/default.htm)
  • Wireless: The Wireless Opportunities Coalition, a group of organizations and companies seeking to expand wireless communications development, manufacturing, and use (http://wireless.policy.net/wireless/wireless.html)
• Security
  • Business Security: Security for Businesses on the Internet, by Marianne Mueller (http://www.catalog.com/mrm/security.html)
  • CERT: Computer Emergency Response Team; focal point for computer security concerns of Internet users; includes pointers to advisories and other information (http://www.cert.org)
  • CERT-DFN: Computer Emergency Response Team for the German Research Network (http://www.cert.dfn.de/eng/)
  • Cryptorebel/Cypherpunk: Vince Cate's Cryptorebel and Cypherpunk page (http://www.offshore.com.ai/security/)
  • CIS: Collaborative Internet Security Project, the multi-agency effort to try to come up with some common grounds for establishing better security for federal information resources connected to the Internet (http://www.fnc.gov/cis_page.html)
  • First: Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (http://www.first.org)
  • NIST Security: US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse (http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov)
  • RSA: information on many cryptographic related topics (http://www.rsa.com)
  • SAIC: Science Applications International Corp, computer security (http://mls.saic.com/mls.security.text.html)
  • Security index: Computer and Network Security Reference Index, by Rodney Campbell (http://www.telstra.com.au/info/security.html)
  • SHEN: A Security Scheme for the World Wide Web (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Shen/ref/shen.html)
  • Site Security: Site Security Handbook, FYI 8, guidance on how to deal with security issues in the Internet, eds. Holbrook, Reynolds (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi8.txt)
• Statistics and Demographics
  • 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)
  • GVU's WWW User Surveys: Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center is a research center affiliated with Georgia Institute of Technology's (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) College of Computing; these surveys characterize Web users according to general demographics, Web/Internet use, purchasing behavior, and other characteristics; five surveys have been conducted since 1994 (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_surveys/)
  • Internet Domain Survey: tells about hosts on the Internet and the domain name system; includes an index to related sites (http://www.nw.com/zone/WWW/top.html)
  • Internet Growth: charts showing the Internet's past and projected growth, by Texas Internet Consulting (ftp://tic.com/matrix/growth/internet/)
  • Internet Growth/Lottor: Internet Growth (1981-1991) (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1296.txt)
  • NSFnet stats/GVU Center: the US National Science Foundation backbone for the Internet is gone, but Georgia Tech's Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center NSFNET Backbone Statistics Page contains graphs of statistics; interesting look at how the Internet grew up until April 1995 (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/stats/NSF/merit.html)
• Maps
  • ARPAnet Map: an index of Interface Message Processors on the ARPAnet (circa 1986) (http://web.kaleida.com/u/hopkins/arpanet/arpanet.html)
  • Cyberatlas: a collection of charts of the online world (http://www.december.com/web/text/cyberatlas.html)
  • Cyberspace Geography: resources about mapping the online world (http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/geography_of_cyberspace.html)
  • Internet Maps (Many): (ftp://ftp.uu.net/inet/maps/)
  • Internet Maps (NSFNET): (ftp://nic.merit.edu/maps/)
  • Internet Maps (SuraNet): (ftp://ftp.sura.net/pub/maps/)
  • Internet/Matrix: maps from MIDS (Matrix Information and Directory Services) (gopher://gopher.tic.com/11/matrix/maps/matrix)
  • Internet Topology-Yahoo: (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Internet/Network_Topology/)
  • USENET Maps: Maps of Usenet news feeds/backbones (ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/maps/)
  • UUCP Maps: Unix-Unix Copy Protocol Map Data (gopher://agate.berkeley.edu:4324/1uumaps)
  • WWW Resource Maps: The Virtual Tourist, a collection of maps from all over the world to help you locate Internet sites and resources (http://www.vtourist.com/webmap)

Telecommunications

• ATP-LLNL: Advanced Telecommunications Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (http://www-atp.llnl.gov/atp/)
• Computer + Communications: InfoBahn, Global Information Infrastructure, Telecommunications, large resource collection of companies, media, organizations, programs and projects, standards, and usenet groups and FAQs (http://www.cmpcmm.com/cc/)
• Computing + Telecom: World-Wide Web Virtual Library entry for Communications and Telecommunications (http://www.analysys.co.uk/commslib.htm)
• CTR-Columbia U: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research (CTR) (http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/CUCTR_Home.html)
• ITC: International Telecommunications Center--telecommunications, data communications and networking; includes archives, information, software, product and employment information, sponsored by telematrix.com (http://www.telematrix.com)
• Tele/Communications: Information Sources about Communications and Telecommunications (http://www.telstra.com.au/info/communications.html)
• Telecom Information Resources: technical, economic, public policy, and social aspects of telecommunications including voice, data, video, wired, wireless, cable TV, and satellite, are included. (http://www.ipps.lsa.umich.edu/telecom-info.html)
• US-FCC: Federal Communications Commission (USA) (http://www.fcc.gov)
• US-ITS: Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, USA government research and engineering laboratory (http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/its.html)
• US-NTIA: National Telecommunications and Information Administration (USA) (http://www.ntia.doc.gov)
• WilTel Library: Telecommunications Library, telecom business and technology, sponsored by WilTel Network Services (http://www.wiltel.com/library/library.html)

CULTURE

Human creativity and experience is alive online. Instead of talking about just bits and bytes, many people are intensely involved in artistic expression, information, and communities online. The links in this section will help you see the human side of online communication.

Art

• Art Top: the top art information resources on the Web, described and reviewed (http://www.december.com/web/top/art.html)
• CIS-AH: Center for Integrative Studies - Arts and Humanities (http://web.cal.msu.edu)
• FineArt Forum: List of Art Related Web Resources (http://www.msstate.edu/Fineart_Online/art-resources/)
• NWHQ: New World Headquarters--free expression and the distribution of artistic ideas, independent artists supporting independent artists (http://www.knosso.com/NWHQ/index.html)

Community

• Information
  • Avis Thesis: The Role of Community Networks, by Andrew Avis, a thesis submitted to the faculty of graduate studies in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts graduate program in Communication Studies, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, August, 1995 (http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/GNST/theses/avis/thesis.html)
  • Civic Networking: WWW Guide to Community Networking, by Catherine Kummer (http://http2.sils.umich.edu/ILS/community.html)
  • Community Nets/Baker: This site is a technical site oriented at researchers or individuals with an interest in community networks; includes articles, helps track developments in community networks as well as in related fields of computer-mediated communication and information and telecommunications policy. It is especially focused on policy and governmental aspects of community networks, as well as tracks some 60 plus Virginia based community networks, by Paul M.A. Baker, AICP Research Fellow The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University (http://ralph.gmu.edu/~pbaker)
  • Community Nets/McGee: information about community networks, by Arthur R. McGee (ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/am/amcgee/community/)
  • CPSR Community Net info: (http://www.cpsr.org/dox/community.nets.html)
  • Free-Nets Home Page: Free-net information, presented as a public service by Peter Scott, at the University of Saskatchewan Libraries (http://duke.usask.ca/~scottp/free.html)
  • Free-Net List/Gopher: (gopher://gopher.tamu.edu/11/.dir/freenet.dir)
  • Free-Net List/Hytelnet: (http://www.cc.ukans.edu/hytelnet_html/FRE000.html)
  • NPTN: National Public Telecomputing Network (ftp://nptn.org/pub/)
• Virtual

  • ----- Some instances of virtual communities.

  • Blacksburg electronic village: (http://www.bev.net)
  • CIAO!: British Columbia, Canada (telnet://ciao.trail.bc.ca)
  • Cleveland Free-Net: the world's first community Fee-Net (telnet://visitor@freenet-in-a.cwru.edu) Login as : visitor
  • Digital City: de Digitale Stad, Amsterdam, Netherlands (telnet://dds.hacktic.nl)
  • EnviroFreenet: an online community of people who are concerned about the earth (telnet://envirolink.org)
  • Internet Town Hall: a service of the Internet Multicasting Service (http://www.town.hall.org)
  • Oceania: The Atlantis Project; new country in development--you may get Constitution and Laws, passport info, free subscription to newsletter Oceania Oracle, and more (http://oceania.org)
  • Silicon Valley: Silicon Valley Public Access Link Community Page (http://www.svpal.org)
  • Trailer Park: home pages for the homepagesless (http://www.cybernetics.net/users/phrantic/marty.htm)
  • Virtual City: Virtual City Network Project (http://virtual.net/VirtualCity/)

Language

• ABU: L'Association des bibliophiles Universels (http://www.cnam.fr/ABU/principal/ABU.v2.html)
• ACW: Alliance for Computers and Writing (http://english.ttu.edu/acw/)
• ALEX: find and retrieve the full-text of documents on the Internet from such archives as Project Gutenberg, Wiretap, the On-line Book Initiative, the Eris system at Virginia Tech, the English Server at Carnegie Mellon University, and the online Oxford Text Archive (http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/alex-index.html)
• Babel: A glossary of computer-oriented abbreviations and acronyms (http://www.access.digex.net/~ikind/babel.html)
• Book collection: electronic books, reference, special collections (gopher://psulias.psu.edu/11[_shelves])
• Citation: Bibliographic References for Computer Files in the Social Sciences, A Discussion Paper, by Sue A. Dodd (ftp://ftp.msstate.edu/pub/docs/history/netuse/electronic.biblio.cite)
• Computer Writing: Computer Generated Writing resources, by Marius Watz (http://www.uio.no/~mwatz/c-g.writing/)
• Computer Jargon search: search the jargon file on WWW (http://web.cnam.fr/bin.html/By_Searchable_Index?Jargon_File.html)
• Computer Jargon: The Jargon File (the definitive compendium of hacker slang) (ftp://aeneas.mit.edu/pub/gnu/jargon-README)
• Computing Dictionary (gopher): The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (gopher://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk)
• Computing Dictionary (web): The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk)
• CMC Glossary: Compiled by Collins and Berge, from St. John's University (gopher://sjumusic.stjohns.edu:1070/11/%40uni%3acmc.glossary)
• CMT: The Center for Machine Translation (CMT) at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University; advanced research and development in natural language processing, with a focus on multi-lingual machine translation (http://www.mt.cs.cmu.edu/cmt/CMT-home.html)
• CPET: Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text (ftp://guvax.georgetown.edu/cpet_projects_in_electronic_text/)
• CSLI-Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University (http://csli-www.stanford.edu)
• CTI-Oxford: Centre for Textual Studies, Oxford: mail ctitext@vax.ox.ac.uk
• eText-Caltech: the eText (electronic hypermedia textbooks) group at Caltech (http://www.etext.caltech.edu)
• Electronic Text archive: copy of archive services on etext.archive.umich.edu (gopher://fir.cic.net/00/0-README)
• Electronic Text: Catalogue of projects in electronic text, Center for Text and Technology (ftp://guvax.georgetown.edu/cpet_projects_in_electronic_text/)
• ETC-UV: Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/ETC.html)
• Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts, by Richard A. Lanham (ftp://press-gopher.uchicago.edu/pub/Excerpts/lanham.txt)
• Gutenberg Project: a project to give away online texts, hundreds of titles (http://www.gutenberg.net)
• Hacker's Dictionary: a searchable index of Hacker's Jargon (http://iicm.tu-graz.ac.at/Cjargon)
• Human: human languages page, cataloging human-language resources and making those resources available to the Web community through a concise index (http://www.willamette.edu/~tjones/Language-Page.html)
• IBIC: Internet Book Information Center (http://sunsite.unc.edu/ibic/IBIC-homepage.html)
• Internet Glossary: Internet-specific terms defined (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi18.txt)
• Internet Wiretap: electronic books and information (ftp://wiretap.spies.com/About/)
• Internet Wiretap Gopher: electronic books and information (gopher://wiretap.Spies.COM)
• ITK: Instituut voor Taal- en Kennistechnologie, Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence (http://itkwww.kub.nl:2080/itk/itkhome.html)
• Jargon: Jargon File Resources, browse or download the file in different forms (http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon.html)
• LETRS: Library Electronic Text Resource Service (gopher://gopher.indiana.edu:1067/11/letrs/gopher)
• Natural Language: Natural Language Software Registry, summary of the capabilities and sources of language processing software available to researchers (http://cl-www.dfki.uni-sb.de/cl/registry/ed_note.html)
• NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary (http://www.netlingo.com)
• Online books: an index of hundreds of online books, collections of online books and documents (http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/books.html)
• OWL: Purdue Writing Labs' Online Writing Lab (OWL): mail owl@sage.cc.purdue.edu Subject: owl-request
• Oxford Archive: Oxford Text Archive (ftp://ota.ox.ac.uk/ota/)
• Post-Gutenberg Galaxy: The Fourth Revolution in the Means of Production of Knowledge, by Steven Harnad (ftp://infolib.murdoch.edu.au/pub/jnl/harnad.jnl)
• Scholar: Natural Language Processing On Line (gopher://jhuniverse.hcf.jhu.edu/11/.HAC/Journals/.SCHOLAR)
• Smiley Dictionary, from EFF's Extended Guide to the Internet: (http://www.eff.org/papers/eegtti/eeg_286.html)
• Writer's Resources: Internet Writer Resources, Compiled/Edited/Maintained by L. Detweiler (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/writing/resources)

People

• Aspects
  • APA: American Psychological Association (http://www.apa.org)
  • Cognitive/Psychological sources: information sources on the Internet about academic programs, periodicals, network resources, and many other online resources, by Scott Mainwaring (http://www-psych.stanford.edu/cogsci/)
  • CyberAnthropology: a page of resources for online anthropology, by Steve Mizrach (http://www.clas.ufl.edu/anthro/cyberanthro/newhome.html)
  • GA Tech--Cognitive: Cognitive Science at Georgia Tech (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cogsci/cogsci.html)
  • HCRL-Open U: Human Cognition Research Laboratory, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom (http://hcrl.open.ac.uk)
  • Mental Health Net: a comprehensive guide to mental health; includes resources, discussion lists, and other information; check for discussion of research and theory on the psychology of the Internet (http://www.cmhc.com)
  • Humanities Top: the top humanities information resources on the Web, described and reviewed (http://www.december.com/web/top/hum.html)
  • Webaholics: resources that will get you hooked to the Web; includes a Forms interface to add entries to a Webaholics support group (http://www.ohiou.edu/~rbarrett/webaholics/ver2/)
• Lists -- directories, home pages

  • ----- Meta

  • AddMe: add yourself to home page collections, all in one easy form (http://www.addme.com)

    ----- Major general collections

  • GeoCities: web homesteads available in themed collections (http://www.geocities.com)
  • Galaxy's Net Citizens: (http://www.einet.net/galaxy/Community/Net-Citizens.html)
  • Housernet: a directory of home pages; you can search the database by marital status, age, and gender (http://www.housernet.com)
  • People Page: large collection of personal home pages, listed alphabetically (http://www.peoplepage.com)
  • People Place: find people by name, country, interest; you can add a link to your home page (http://www.tiac.net/users/domvon/index.htm)
  • People-Yahoo: Entertainment--People, personal home pages collection, from Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/People/)
  • Personal Pages World Wide: a meta collection of institutional collections of personal pages worldwide, from the University of Texas at Austin (http://www.utexas.edu/world/personal/index.html)
  • The Student Center: student home pages on the Web (http://studentcenter.infomall.org/homepages/)
  • Who's Online: a collective database of a non-commercial biographies of people on the Net (http://www.ictp.trieste.it/Canessa/whoiswho.html)
  • Who's Who: Who's Who on the Internet, or, The Complete Home Page Directory of Internet Personalities--Kirk Bowe's Who's Who on the Internet(sm), from CityLive! Magazine (http://web.city.ac.uk/citylive/pages.html)
  • WhoWhere? Homepages: a comprehensive service for locating people and organizations on the Web; this is a vast collection--you can look up personal homepages by email address, phone number and address, or company name, or look at a yellow pages directory, by profession or name (http://homepages.whowhere.com)
  • World Alumni Net: an automated alumni e-mail registry and bulletin board for colleges and high schools all over the world (http://www.alumni.net)

    ----- Specialized collections

  • CMC People: people interested in the study of CMC, from the CMC studies center (http://www.december.com/cmc/study/people.html)
  • COS: Community of Science, identify and locate researchers, inventions, and facilities at US and Canadian universities by interest and expertise (http://cos.gdb.org)
  • Communications Scholars: (http://alnilam.ucs.indiana.edu:1027/sources/dirpage.html)
  • HCI People: people interested in human-computer interaction (http://www.cs.bgsu.edu/HCI/bin/people)
  • Internet People: Who's Who in the Internet, Biographies of IAB, IESG and IRSG Members (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi9.txt)
  • WBW: World Birthday Web, you can record your birthday and link to your home page, by Tom Boutell (http://www.boutell.com/birthday.cgi)

    ----- See also

  • INTERNET--Searching--People: lists a variety of services to lookup or locate people or organizations (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/internet-searching-people.html)

Society

• ACM SIGCAS: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computers and Society (gopher://gopher.acm.org/11[the_files.sig_forums.sigcas])
• Anonymity FAQ: Anonymity on the Internet (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/net-anonymity/)
• CCSR: Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/CCSR/)
• CCH: Centre for Computing in the Humanities (gopher://alpha.epas.utoronto.ca/11/cch)
• Computer Underground: The Social Organization of the Computer Underground, an MS Thesis by Gordon R. Meyer (ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/Publications/CuD/Papers/meyer)
• Coombs Papers: science and humanities papers, bibliographies, directories, theses abstracts and other high-grade research material (gopher://coombs.anu.edu.au)
• Culture/Tech: a collection of texts exploring relationship of technology and culture (http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/Cyber.html)
• Cyber-Culture-Yahoo: Society and Culture-Cyber-Culture (http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cyber_Culture/)
• Cyber papers/EFF: collection of cyberspace-related papers, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/Publications/CuD/Papers/)
• Cyberspace: The New Frontier, by The Laboratory for Applied Logic at the University of Idaho (http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/lal/cyberspace/cyberspace.html)
• Cyberpunk FAQ: from the Usenet newsgroup alt.cyberpunk (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/cyberpunk-faq)
• Cypherpunk Topics: information pulled off of many sources, mostly sci.crypt and the cypherpunks mailing list (ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/phantom/cpunk/README.html)
• Cypherpunks gopher: clipper, DC Nets, digital cash, protocols, other info (gopher://chaos.bsu.edu)
• Cypherpunks home page: PGP, remailers, rants, various crypto-tools, newspaper clippings, and a good deal of other things (ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/cypherpunks/Home.html)
• MetaNet Gopher: management, organizational change and development, education, the arts and the humanities, the impact of technology on society, the future, law, health, the environment, public policy, reinventing government (gopher://gopher.tmn.com)
• English Server: examine the possibilities of collaborative, community-run communications (http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu)
• EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center--civil liberties relating to online communication (http://www.epic.org)
• Fourth World: Indigenous Peoples' Information for the Online Community (http://www.halcyon.com/FWDP/fwdp.html)
• Future Culture: FutureCulture FAQ, or Cyberography, is maintained by Andy Hawks: mail future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu Subject: send faq
• Future Culture: information about Net culture, media, virtual communities, cyberpunk, memetics (http://www.uio.no/~mwatz/futurec/)
• Gender Issues: Gender Issues in Computer Networking, by Leslie Regan Shade (ftp://alfred.carleton.ca/pub/freenet/93conference/papers/leslie_regan_shade.txt)
• Gender/Spertus: Ellen Spertus' Writings on Gender and Science/Engineering (http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/gender.html)
• Global/Women: Global Fund for Women, an international grantmaking organization (http://www.igc.apc.org/gfw/)
• IEEE SSIT: The Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/j/jherkert/index.html)
• Internet demographics: a survey by Texas Internet Consulting (ftp://ftp.tic.com/survey/)
• McGee collection: Art McGee's collection on culture and society issues--Activism, African, community, development, gender, indigenous, Latin (ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/am/amcgee/)
• Net Ethics: Ethics and the Internet (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1087.txt)
• Net Etiquette Guide: by Arlene H. Rinaldi (ftp://ftp.lib.berkeley.edu/pub/net.training/FAU/)
• Netiquette: guidelines for Network Etiquette (Netiquette), by S. Hambridge (ftp://ftp.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi28.txt)
• Netizen: a section of Hotwired which deals with issues of civic live online (http://www.netizen.com)
• 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)
• Networking: Networking on the Network, by Phil Agre: mail rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu Subject: archive send network
• Privacy: The Internet Privacy Coalition; to promote privacy and security on the Internet through widespread public availability of strong encryption and the relaxation of export controls on cryptography (http://www.privacy.org)
• Privacy: archive about network privacy, from usenet group alt.privacy (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/alt.privacy/)
• Privacy center (EPIC): Electronic Privacy Information Center, public interest research center in Washington DC (http://www.epic.org)
• Privacy forum: materials for the Privacy forum, including all Privacy Forum Digest issues and materials (gopher://vortex.com/11/privacy)
• SeniorNet: senior citizen's network on America On Line (voice): phone 415-750-5030
• Togethernet: online information and communication network for sustainable planetary future (gopher://gopher.together.uvm.edu)
• Usenet Oracle: (http://www.pcnet.com/~stenor/oracle/)
• Women's wire: resources by/about/for women (http://www.women.com)
• UWI Cultural Play: UWI's Web's Edge/UnderWorld Industries' Cultural Playground (http://kzsu.stanford.edu/uwi.html)

FORUMS

These are forums for interaction and information dissemination related to CMC and networking.

Academic resources in communication and related fields

• ACM SIGCOMM: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Communications (http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/doc/sigcomm/)
• CSOC: Center for the Study of Online Community, seeks to present and foster studies that focus on how computers and networks alter people's capacity to form groups, organizations, institutions, and how those social formations are able to serve the collective interests of their members (http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/csoc/)
• CCS-MIT: The Center for Coordination Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a study of coordination in many kinds of systems (http://ccs.mit.edu)
• CHC-Oxford: Centre for Humanities Computing (CHC) based at Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) (http://www.ox.ac.uk/depts/humanities/)
• Communication and Education: networks, communications, and educational applications of networking, by Chandrasekhar Vallath (http://alnilam.ucs.indiana.edu:1027)
• Complex systems page: Complex (Adaptive) Systems Information, by Alex Mallet (http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~ale/cplxsys.html)
• Complex systems resources: Complex Systems Resources, by David Green and Terry Bossomaier (http://life.anu.edu.au/complex_systems/complex.html)
• CMC at DSV: Computer Mediated Communication Research group at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University and KTH, includes description of research, topics, projects, researchers, theses, and publications (http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/cmc-research-at-DSV.html)
• CMC Studies Center: a resource sharing service for people interested in Computer-Mediated Communication (http://www.december.com/cmc/study/center.html)
• Comserve: online service for human communication research: mail comserve@cios.org Body: "send Comserve Helpfile"
• Coombs: information for researchers in the field of social sciences and humanities (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/CoombsHome.html)
• Cybernetics/systems theory: (http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CYBSYSTH.html)
• Internet studies: social, political and cultural issues of the Internet, from Coombs Computing Unit (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/QLTY/NetStudies.html)
• Iowa Comm gopher: Gopher server at the University of Iowa featuring many communications-related resources, including advertisiting, CMC, diversity, journalism, media studies, multimedia, and telecommunications (gopher://gopher.arcade.uiowa.edu:2270)
• ISYS: A full text searching/retrieval facility of Comserve's databases or hotline discussions: mail comserve@cios.org Body: "help topics isys"
• KMI: Knowledge Media Institute, learning and cognitive sciences melded with computing and telecommunications; includes Knowledge Systems Group of the Human Cognition Research Laboratory, Electronic Media Research Group, Multimedia Enabling Technologies Group (http://kmi.open.ac.uk)
• ITSO: Information Technology Student Organization (http://www.it.rit.edu/~itso)
• McLuhan Probes: from the Herbert Marshall McLuhan Foundation (http://www.mcluhan.ca/mcluhan/)
• Media + Comm Studies: Media and Communication Studies, Information Technology and Telecommunications, by Daniel Chandler (http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/it.html)
• New Media Centers: (http://www.csulb.edu/~newmedia/index.html)
• Poynter: The Poynter Institute for Media Studies (http://www.nando.net/prof/poynter/home.html)
• Social Science: Social Science Information Gateway (http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk)
• UCSD-comm: U.C. San Diego listing of Resources in Communication (http://gort.ucsd.edu/ek/comm/comm.html)

Meetings and Activities

• ACM: Association for Computing Machinery conference calendar (http://www.acm.org/events/)
• CMC Activities: Activities page from the Computer-Mediated Communication Studies Center (http://www.december.com/cmc/study/activities.html)
• Computer Events Directory: a leading source of information on technology conferences, exhibitions, seminars and tradeshows worldwide (http://www.kweb.com)
• Conferences-Yahoo: Computers-Internet-Conferences and Events (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Internet/Conferences_and_Events/)
• CPSR: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility annual meetings (http://www.cpsr.org/dox/confs.html)
• DIAC: Directions and Implications in Advanced Computing, a CPSR (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility) conference (http://www.cpsr.org/dox/diac.html)
• Digital Media: (http://programs.digitalworld.com)
• EDUCOM: conferences and events (http://educom.edu/web/confsem.html)
• Hypertext/Networking: conferences relevant to hypertext and networking, from CERN virtual library (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/Conferences/Overview.html)
• Internic conferences: (gopher://ds1.internic.net/11/pub/conf.announce)
• Internet Conferences: a list of activities related to the Internet, the Internet Conference Calendar (ICONC) from Automatrix, Inc. (http://www.automatrix.com/conferences/)
• Internet User Groups: a list of Internet-related groups which hold regular meetings, by Will Clurman and Dan Murray (http://www.rmiug.org/rmiug/usergroups.html)
• Networld/Interop: current NetWorld+Interop exposition and conference information (http://www.interop.com)
• Telecom events: conferences, exhibitions, and trade shows worldwide in the fields of telecommunications, electronics, fiber optics, computers, opto-electronics, and end user applications (http://www.telematrix.com/world/)
• WWW Conferences: International conferences on the Web, past and future (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/Conferences/Overview-WWW.html)
• WWW Conferences-Yahoo: (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/World_Wide_Web/Conferences/)

Discussion

• There are many discussion forums related to CMC and Internet topics. Use the following specialized directories to locate a forum, or use the PAML Guide listed under Internet-Directories, above.

  ----- Some Lists of Discussion lists related to Internet/CMC

• Comm studies: communications related groups from Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences (gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/00/inetdirsstacks/commun%3afehrmann)
• Computers: Listserv lists related to Computers, from InfoMagnent (http://www.clark.net/pub/listserv/lscmp1.html)
• Education: education-related discussion groups and electronic journals (http://k12.cnidr.org:90/lists.html)
• Internet and Bitnet: Listserv lists related to Internet and Bitnet, from InfoMagnent (http://www.clark.net/pub/listserv/lslsbn1.html)
• Library: Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials, compiled by Steve Bonario, SBonario@uh.edu and Ann Thornton, AThornton@uh.edu, Systems Librarians, University of Houston (gopher://info.lib.uh.edu/00/tools/netinfo/library)
• WWW List of Lists: lists of mailing lists and Usenet groups on topics related to the World Wide Web, by Brian Kelly (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ucs/WWW/WWW_mailing_lists.html)

  ----- Main Discussion/information lists

• CMC: Computer-Mediated Communication Comserve Hotline: mail comserve@cios.org Body: "join CMC YOUR NAME"

  ----- Selected Discussion/information lists

• Commnet research: social scientific research on community networks by providing a forum for the discussion and sharing of research methods, resources, and data: mail listserv@calvin.dgbt.doc.ca Body: "subscribe commnet-research YOUR NAME"
• Cybermind: the philosophical and psychological implications of subjectivity in cyberspace: mail majordomo@world.std.com Body: "subscribe cybermind YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS"
• EduTel: Comserve Hotline use of computers in education: mail comserve@cios.org Body: "join edutel YOUR NAME"
• EDTECH: Educational Technology: mail listserv@msu.bitnet Body: "subscribe EDTECH YOUR NAME"
• IAMCRNet: Comserve Hotline International Association for Mass Communication Research Network: mail comserve@cios.org Body: "join IAMCRNet YOUR NAME"
• CNI-DIRECTORIES: Coalition for Networked Information Directories.: mail listproc@cni.org Body: "sub CNI-DIRECTORIES YOUR NAME"
• InterNIC Net Happenings: conferences, publications, political news, resources, newsletters, etc.: mail majordomo@lists.internic.net Body: "sub net-happenings YOUR NAME"
• IPCT-L: The Interpersonal Computing and Technology List, issues in education, especially networking and computing.: mail listserv@guvm.georgetown.edu Body: "sub IPCT-L YOUR NAME"
• IPCT Gopher: (gopher://guvm.ccf.georgetown.edu/11/LISTSERV)
• IRVC-L: foster, encourage, advance, and communicate research on virtual culture: mail listserv@byrd.mu.wvnet.edu Body: "sub IRVC-L YOUR NAME"
• MediaMOO: (telnet://purple-crayon.media.mit.edu:8888)
• MEDIA-L: Media in Education: mail listserv@bingvmb.bitnet Body: "subscribe MEDIA-L YOUR NAME"
• MBU: Megabyte University (Computers and Writing): mail listserv@ttuvm1.ttu.edu Body: "sub MBU-L YOUR NAME"
• MBU FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about Megabyte University (http://daedalus.com/MBU/MBU.intro.html)
• NETTRAIN: a discussion list about training/support of others in using the resources available on Bitnet and Internet: mail listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Body: "sub NETTRAIN YOUR NAME"
• VPIEJ-L: Electronic publishing issues, especially Scholarly Electronic Journals: mail listserv@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu Body: "sub VPIEJ-L YOUR NAME"

Periodicals

• These are periodicals with some coverage related to CMC, computer communications, networking or related issues.

  ----- Lists

• Communications Periodicals List: social science and communications periodicals, by Chandrasekhar Vallath (http://alnilam.ucs.indiana.edu:1027/sources/journals.html)
• Computer/Tech Zines-Yahoo: Entertainment-Magazines- Computer and Technology (http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Magazines/Computer_and_Technology/)
• Cyber Zines-Yahoo: Entertainment-Magazines-Cyberspace and Internet Culture (http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Magazines/Cyberspace_and_Internet_Culture/)
• Ecola's Newsstand: a list of computer publications (http://www.ecola.com/ez/tradepub.htm)
• Education Periodicals: (http://www.yahoo.com/Education/Journals/)
• Internet Magazines-Yahoo: (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Internet/Magazines/)
• Internet Newsletters-Yahoo: (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Internet/Newsletters/)
• Internet Press: A guide to electronic journals about the Internet (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/internet-press)

  ----- Selected Periodicals

• ACN: Amateur Computerist Newsletter (http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~hauben/acn/)
• BRP.COM: BRP Publications, Inc., the publisher of Telecommunications Reports, information provider in the areas of telecommunications, multimedia, messaging, wireless technology, and electric utilities; key publications include Telecommunications Reports, reporting on the telephone and telecommunications industry since 1934; Electronic Mail and Messaging Systems (EMMS), the leading email industry newsletter since 1977; Information and Interactive Services Report, covering online services and the Internet since 1980; report on Electronic Commerce, following business transactions on the Net (http://brp.com)
• CJC: Canadian Journal of Communication (http://edie.cprost.sfu.ca/cjc/cjc-info.html)
• CMC Magazine: Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine (ISSN 1076-027X) reports on people, events, applications, and research related to computer-mediated communication (CMC); publishes news, features, essays, and research reports about the phenomenon of human communication and information retrieval on global networks (http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/)
• Communicator: publication of The University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies, Information and Library Studies Student Association (http://http2.sils.umich.edu/ILSSA/HomePage.html)
• Critical Mass: an electronic journal put together by 6 Communications students at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. The purpose of C-mass is to examine communications technologies and the new media from a critical perspective. (http://fas.sfu.ca/comm/c-mass/c-mass.html)
• Cu Digest: The Computer Underground Digest (http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/CuD/)
• Current Cites: A journal which provides citations and brief annotations for articles from 30 journals in networks and information and computer technology (ftp://ftp.lib.berkeley.edu/pub/Current.Cites/)
• Cyberwire: Brock N. Meeks' CyberWire dispatch--news and views on many cyber-related issues (http://cyberwerks.com:70/1/cyberwire)
• EDUPAGE: ummary of information technology news, Web Archive (http://educom.edu/edupage.old/.index.html)
• Effector Online: Electronic Frontier Foundation Newsletter (ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/EFF/newsletters/Index)
• EJC/REC: Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication Covers communication theory, research, practice, and policy: mail comserve@cios.org Body: "join EJCREC YOUR NAME"
• EJournal: implications of electronic networks and texts, back issues of EJournal (ftp://ftp.hanover.edu/pub/ejournal)
• EJVC: Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture, communicate scholarly thought on aspects of virtual [CMC] culture.: mail listserv@kentvm.kent.edu Body: "sub EJVC-L YOUR NAME"
• EJVC Archive: (ftp://byrd.mu.wvnet.edu/pub/ejvc/)
• Fed Comm Law J: Federal Communications Law Journal Web Page (http://www.law.indiana.edu:80/fclj/fclj.html)
• GlasNews: a quarterly publication on East-West contacts in communications - including journalism, telecommunications, advertising and public relations, by Art Pattison Communications Exchange Program, based in Seattle (http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/news/glasnews/master.html)
• Hotwired: online magazine 'more signal less noise,' from Wired Magazine (http://www.hotwired.com)
• HPC SELECT NEWS: The Electronic News Magazine for High-Performance Computing: mail sub@hpcwire.ans.net Body: "Select 601"
• Info Policy Online: newsletter of the Information Industry Association: mail iiaipo-request@his.com Body: "subscribe YOUR NAME"
• The Information Society: an international quarterly journal about information technology (http://www.ics.uci.edu/~kling/tis.html)
• Interactive Age: the official newspaper of the interactive industry, covering the convergence of the telecommunications, cable, computer and entertainment industries (http://www.cmp.com/interactive-age/mission.html)
• Internet Law Review: covers legal issues regarding the use of the Internet (http://www.thinck.com)
• Internet Monthly Report: monthly communications to the Internet Research Group (ftp://nic.merit.edu/internet/newsletters/internet.monthly.report/)
• IRN: Internet Resources Newsletter, a FREE WWW newsletter produced by Heriot-Watt University Library (http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html)
• IntraNet Journal: advice and analysis about intranet networking technologies and practices (http://www.brill.com/intranet/)
• JCMC: the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/)
• JEP: the Journal of Electronic Publishing (http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/)
• JIC: Journal of Internet Cataloging, an international quarterly focusing on the organization, access, and bibliographic control of Internet resources (http://jic.libraries.psu.edu)
• JOB: The Journal of Online Behavior, is concerned with the empirical study of human behavior in the online environment, and with the impact of evolving communication and information technology upon individuals, groups, organizations, and society (http://www.behavior.net/JOB/)
• LI Newswire: Learned Information's news and views shaping the world of Online Information (http://info.learned.co.uk:70/1s/newswire)
• NetComTalk: a quarterly journal of the College of Communications at Boston University (http://web.bu.edu/COM/communication.html)
• PACSR: The Public-Access Computer Systems Review: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "sub PACS-P YOUR NAME"
• PACS Gopher: (gopher://info.lib.uh.edu/11/articles/e-journals/uhlibrary)
• Postmodern Culture: An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html)
• REACH: Research and Education Applications of Computers in the Humanities Newsletter (ftp://ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu/hcf/)
• Red Rock Eater RRE: Red Rock Eater News Service, Phil Agre's periodic messages about Internet (http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/rre.html)
• SPEED: an electronic journal devoted to the critical investigation of technology, media, and society (gopher://alishaw.ucsb.edu/11/.speed)
• TNO: Network Observer, a free online newsletter about networks and democracy (http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/tno.html)
• TidBITS: a free weekly electronic publication that reports on interesting products and events in the computer industry (http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/TidBITS/TidBITS.html)
• Tradewinds: A monthly round-up of Internet coverage in trade and industry magazines (http://library.hbs.edu/tw/)

Usenet

• Usenet newsgroups are sometimes a rich source of information about the Internet, networks, and CMC issues. This section lists newsgroups in which topics related to networks, the Internet, or CMC are discussed. Watch for FAQ = periodic posting of Frequently Asked Questions in these groups.

  ----- Collections

• Computer/Comm: Computer and Communications related Usenet news groups, list from Advanced Telecommunications Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, emphasis on telecommunications and technical issues, well-organized with links to FAQ as well as group (http://www.cmpcmm.com/cc/usenet.html)
• Data comm/Networking: (http://www.racal.com/dcom/dcomgroups.html)

  Selected newsgroups

• Beginners: for people new to USENET (news:news.announce.newusers)
• Computer Archives: (news:comp.archives)
• Computer BBS: (news:comp.bbs.misc)
• Cu-Digest: Computer Underground Digest (news:comp.society.cu-digest)
• Cyberpunk: cyberpunk/cyberspace culture and literature (news:alt.cyberpunk)
• Email: (news:comp.mail.misc)
• FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) (news:news.answers)
• Gopher: (news:comp.infosystems.gopher)
• Groupware (CSCW): (news:comp.groupware)
• Hackers: (news:alt.hackers)
• ISDN: (news:comp.dcom.isdn)
• Information Systems: (news:comp.infosystems)
• Internet Access: (news:alt.internet.access.wanted)
• Internet BBS: (news:alt.bbs.internet)
• Internet Best: (news:alt.best.of.internet)
• Internet Culture: (news:alt.culture.internet)
• Internet Library: (news:comp.internet.library)
• Interent.media-coverage: alt.internet.media-coverage Charter and FAQ (http://www.dorsai.org/~tristan/AIMC/)
• Internet Protocols: (news:comp.protocols.tcp-ip)
• Internet Relay Chat: (news:alt.irc)
• Internet Services: (news:alt.internet.services)
• Internet Talk Radio: (news:alt.internet.talk-radio)
• Lists of Information: (news:news.lists)
• MUDS: Multiple User Dialogues (news:rec.games.mud.announce)
• New Newsgroups: (news:news.announce.newgroups)
• Internet News (announcements): (news:misc.news.internet.announce)
• Internet Happenings (announcements): (news:comp.internet.net-happenings)
• Internet News (discussion): (news:misc.news.internet.discuss)
• Newsgroups: (news:news.groups)
• PostScript Net Maps: (news:news.lists.ps-maps)
• Technical Reports: (news:comp.doc.techreports)
• Telecomm: (news:clari.nb.telecom)
• Telecomm: (news:comp.dcom.telecom)
• Undernet: an alternative to the current EFNet IRC system (news:alt.irc.undernet)
• USENET Culture: (news:alt.culture.usenet)
• USENET Humor: (news:alt.humor.best-of-usenet)
• USENET Recovery: (news:alt.usenet.recovery)
• USENET University: (news:alt.uu.future)
• WAIS: (news:comp.infosystems.wais)
• WWW Usenet Groups: a listing of the World Wide Web related newsgroups, with descriptions and links to charters (http://boutell.com/~grant/web-groups.html)

ORGANIZATIONS

These are organizations that relate to Internet, CMC, or computing, communications, telecommunications, or other related activities, through the fields of study they represent or through their activities and research.

Academic

• --- Lists of programs in CMC and related fields

• CMC Programs: a directory of programs in CMC (http://www.december.com/cmc/study/programs.html)
• Communications Programs: list compiled by Don Gale of The University of Colorado, Bruce Klopfenstein of Bowling Green State University, and C. Vallath of Indiana University (http://alnilam.ucs.indiana.edu:1027/sources/programs.html)
• Journalism/Communications: by Gary Ritzenthaler and Sherwood Lawrence (http://www.jou.ufl.edu/commres/jouwww.htm)

  --- Departments or organizations

• ACA: American Communication Association (http://cavern.uark.edu/comminfo/www/ACA.html)
• Annenberg/USC: Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California (gopher://cwis.usc.edu/11/University_Information/Academic_Departments/Annenberg)
• BGSU/Telecom: Bowling Green State University, Ohio, Department of Telecommunications (http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/tcom/)
• Brussels: Brussels University, Sercie Telematique et communication (http://sun4.iihe.ac.be)
• Chaosmose: advanced studies in communication, at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM) (http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/comwww/)
• CCCC: Computerized Conferencing and Communications Center at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) (http://it.njit.edu/njIT/Department/CCCC/default.html)
• CICA: The Center for Innovative Computer Applications at Indiana University (http://www.cica.indiana.edu)
• CISM-UT Austin: Center for Information Systems Management, College and Graduate School of Business, University of Texas at Austin (http://cism.bus.utexas.edu)
• CMC Studies Center: an organization devoted to the study of computer-mediated communication research, resource-sharing, and discussion (http://www.december.com/cmc/study/center.html)
• CMU INI: Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, the nation's first research and education center devoted to Information Networking (http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/inst/ini/www/INI-home.html)
• CSCA: Central States Communication Association's Mass Communication Interest Group (http://www.cs.bgsu.edu/~jburns/csca.html)
• Columbia U--telecom research: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research (CTR) (http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/CUCTR_Home.html)
• CUI: Centre Universitaire d'Informatique, l'Universite de Geneve (http://cuiwww.unige.ch/home.html)
• ESCA: European Speech Communication Association (http://ophale.icp.grenet.fr/esca/esca.html)
• St. Gallen-Info Mgt: Institute for Information Management, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland; information management in business and administration, including groupware, work-flow, document management, information management, process engineering and CASE, information markets and communication (http://www-iwi.unisg.ch)
• GLOCOM--Japan: Center for Global Communications, GLOCOM International University of Japan (http://www.glocom.ac.jp)
• IIT-ID: Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design (http://www.id.iit.edu/welcome.html)
• ITI: The Information Technology Institute, University of Salford, United Kingdom (http://www.salford.ac.uk/docs/depts/iti/homepage.html)
• IWI: Institute for Information Management, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland (http://www-iwi.unisg.ch)
• Journalism/Communications sites: journalism and mass communications (http://www.jou.ufl.edu/commres/jouwww.htm)
• KTH: Institutionen for Teleinformatik, KTH, Department of Teleinformatics, The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (http://www.it.kth.se)
• Linz: Johannes Kepler University of Linz Department of Information Systems (http://www.ifs.uni-linz.ac.at/tnf/inf/ifs/home.html)
• Nottingham--comm research: Communications Research Group, Nottingham, United Kingdom (http://web.cs.nott.ac.uk)
• McGill: Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (http://www.facl.mcgill.ca/gpc/gpc)
• Michigan Tech: CCLI (Center for Computer-assisted Language Instruction) at Michigan Technological University (gopher://gilligan.hu.mtu.edu/11)
• MTU HU: Michigan Technological University humanities department (http://www.hu.mtu.edu)
• MIT: MIT Program on Communications and Media Policy (http://far.mit.edu)
• Newhouse: Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University (http://spc.syr.edu/0/Newhouse/NEWHOUSE.html)
• NJIT-CCCC: Computerized Conferencing and Communications Center at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) (http://it.njit.edu/njIT/Department/CCCC/default.html)
• Open U: Open University, British distance teaching, open access university (http://pepper.open.ack.uk)
• Open U-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)
• RCCS: Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. (http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs/noframes.html)
• SSCA: The Southern States Communication Association, an academic organization for the study of human commuication. The organization publishes The Southern Communication Journal and holds an annual convention for the presentation of research. (http://cotton.uamont.edu/~adams/ssca.htmlx)
• Syracuse: School of Information Studies (gopher://cwis.syr.edu/11/othergophers/ist)
• Telecom Paris: part of a larger institution for graduate-level instruction in telecommunications that links the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications and the Institut National des Telecommunications (http://www.enst.fr)
• UCI-ICS: Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine (http://www.ics.uci.edu/ICShome.html)
• UCSD-Comm: University of California San Diego Communication Department (http://communication.ucsd.edu)
• UHM/Comm: University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Communication (http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/con/com/newcom.html)
• U of FL--comm research: Communication Research Center, College of Journalism + Communication at the University of Florida (http://www.jou.ufl.edu/commres/crc.htm)
• USC ISI: University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute (ISI) (http://www.isi.edu)
• ZZT: Telecommunications Department, Zagreb, capital of Croatia (http://tjev.tel.etf.hr/zzt/enstart.html)

Research

• ----lists:

• Communication Research Centers: a list from the American Communication Association (http://www.uark.edu/depts/comminfo/www/research.html)
• Net and Comm: Computers and Internet-Networking and Communications-Institutes, from Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Networking_and_Communications/Institutes/)
• Net Research sites list: emphasis on technical aspects (http://netlab.itd.nrl.navy.mil/onr.html)

  ----sites:

• ARPA-USA: USA Advanced Research Projects Agency (http://ftp.arpa.mil)
• CCAE-Lisbon: Centro de Comunicagues em Ambientes Empresariais, Lisbon, Portugal (http://www.inesc.pt/inesc/centros/ccae.html)
• CCD-Brookhaven: Computing and Communications Division of Brookhaven National Laboratory (http://docserver.bnl.gov/com/www/default.html)
• CCSR-Beckman: Center for Complex Systems Research, at the Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (http://www.ccsr.uiuc.edu/CCSRHome.html)
• CCRC-Washington U: Washington University (St. Louis), Computer and Communications Research Center (http://dworkin.wustl.edu)
• CIT-Stanford: Center for Information Technology, a laboratory operated by Stanford University, the encoding, storage, communication, manipulation, and use of information in digital form (http://logic.stanford.edu/cit/cit.html)
• CITI-Michigan: The University of Michigan's Center for Information Technology Integration (http://www.citi.umich.edu)
• CERN: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva, Switzerland, (and birthplace of the World-Wide Web) (http://www1.cern.ch)
• CNET-France: Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunication, France Telecom (http://www.cnet.fr)
• Computists International: an association of software researchers and advanced technologists, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence and new applications for computers. Their site and publications include software research news, e-journal announcements, online discussion groups, software patents, venture capital, entrepreneurship, electronic publishing, electronic commerce, career tips, self-publishing (http://www.computists.com)
• CRA: Computing Research Association, an association of more than 160 North American academic departments of computer science and computer engineering, industrial laboratories engaging in basic computing research and affiliated professional societies (http://cra.org)
• CRC-Loughborough: The CRC is part of the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University UK. It conducts research and supervises graduate study in the social scientific aspects of media and communications, especially political economy and sociology, including new technologies, includes the Discourse and Rhetoric Group; The CRC is concerned with the Internet and information transfers generally from a social and social scientific perspective. Two key journals, the European Journal of Communication and Discourse and Society have their UK editorial base at the Centre (http://info.lut.ac.uk/departments/ss/centres/crc.html)
• CRC-Ottawa: Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada (http://www.crc.doc.ca/index.html)
• CRL-Japan: Communications Research Laboratory of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications is the sole national institute responsible for the study of telecommunications technologies, radio science, and radio applications in Japan (http://www.crl.go.jp)
• CSL-SRI: Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) at SRI International (http://www.csl.sri.com)
• CTRG-U of CO: Collaboration Technology Research Group (group user interfaces, distributed editors, workflow systems, cooperatively grown information systems), University of Colorado (http://www.cs.colorado.edu/homes/carlosm/public_html/ctrg.html)
• CSHC-U of MD: a catalyst for commercial communications services worldwide via a hybrid information infrastructure (http://wais.isr.umd.edu/CCDS/homepage.html)
• CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands (http://www.cwi.nl/default.html)
• ERCIM: European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, fosters collaboration with the European research community and industry (http://www-ercim.inria.fr)
• ERG-Aberdeen: Electronics Research Group, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom (http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/misc/personnel.html)
• HCRC-Edinburgh: Human Communication Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/hcrc/home.html)
• ICBL-Edinburgh: Institute for Computer Based Learning, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk)
• ICSI-Berkeley: The International Computer Science Institute (http://http.icsi.berkeley.edu)
• IHNS-Japan: Institute for Hyper Network Society, articulate the fundamental structure and dynamics of hypernetwork society (http://www.glocom.ac.jp/IHNS/intro.html)
• IIASA-Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis--Global Environmental Change; Global Economic and Technological Transitions; Systems Methods for the Analysis of Global Issues (http://www.iiasa.ac.at/welcome.html)
• INRIA-France: Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, a French research institute in computer-science (http://www.inria.fr)
• IRIS-Brown: Brown University's Institute for Information Research and Scholarship (http://www.iris.brown.edu/iris)
• ISI-USC: University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute (ISI) (http://www.isi.edu)
• ISR: Institute for Systems Research, focusing on systems engineering research, at the University of Maryland and Harvard University (http://www.isr.umd.edu)
• ISRI-UNLV: Information Science Research Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (http://www.isri.unlv.edu)
• ISS-Singapore: Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore (http://www.iss.nus.sg)
• lily Development Group: The lily Development Group is a volunteer project committed to growing online virtual communities through the application of interactive computer-mediated communications tools. The group designs, develops, and manages the growth of Internet communities (http://www.lily.org)
• LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) (http://www-atp.llnl.gov)
• NECTEC-Thiland: National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (Thailand), a research organization operated under the National Science and Technology Development Agency (http://www.nectec.or.th/nectec.html)
• NRL-AITB: Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.'s Advanced Information Technology Branch (http://www.ait.nrl.navy.mil/home.html)
• OSF RI: Open Software Foundation Research Institute (http://riwww.osf.org:8001)
• OSI-LAB: OSI (Open Systems Interconnecttion)-Protocol Testing Laboratory of the SWISS PTT TELECOM located in Bern, Zurich and Fribourg, Switzerland (http://www.osilab.ch)
• RAND: (http://www.rand.org)
• RENATER-Paris: Reseau National de telecommunications pour la Technologie, l'Enseignement et la Recherche (http://www.urec.fr/Renater/)
• RITIM: The Research Institute for Telecommunications and Information Marketing (http://www.wiltel.com/ritim/ritim.html)
• RLG: Research Libraries Group, Inc., a not-for-profit membership corporation of universities, archives, historical societies, museums, and other institutions devoted to improving access to information that supports research and learning; includes access to Eureka (search system), RLIN (library support system), and Zephyr (Z39.50 services), database, citation files, Ariel document delivery (http://www-rlg.stanford.edu/welcome.html)
• RPCP-MIT: Research Program on Communications Policy (http://farnsworth.mit.edu)
• Sandia: Sandia National Laboratories (http://www.sandia.gov)
• SFI: Santa Fe Insitute, complex systems, including global computer networks (http://santafe.edu)
• SLS-MIT: Spoken Language Systems Group at the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (http://sls-www.lcs.mit.edu)
• SRI: a non-profit organization, one of the world's largest contract research firms, technological and business problems (http://www.sri.com)
• SRC-Digital: Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center (http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/home.html)
• UTRC: United Technologies Research Center (http://utrcwww.utc.com/UTRC/General/UTRCGen.html)

Commercial

• These are commercial organizations that deal with Internet, CMC, or computing, communications, telecommunications, or other related activities.

• Lists
  • Applications--commerce: (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/applications-commerce.html)
  • Computer and Comm Companies: Computer and Communication Company Sites on the Web, by James E. (Jed) Donnelley (http://www.cmpcmm.com/cc/)
  • Internet Consultants: CommerceNet's directory of Internet consultants (products and services) (http://www.commerce.net/directories/consultants/consultants.html)
  • Internet Providers: THE LIST of Internet access providers in all area codes and countries; this is the place to go to find out about Internet Service providers--there's no other place with more listings (http://www.thelist.com)
  • Sourcebook: The Internet and Online Industry Sourcebook, a guide to Network-related companies (http://www.internetsourcebook.com)
• Providers

  • See:

  • Internet Providers: THE LIST of Internet access providers in all area codes and countries; this is the place to go to find out about Internet Service providers--there's no other place with more listings (http://www.thelist.com)

    Below is a partial list of commercial organizations that provide Internet connectivity or access.

  • America Online: : phone 800-827-6364
  • BIX: : phone 800-695-4775
  • CompuServe: : phone 800-848-8199
  • CompuServe: (http://www.compuserve.com)
  • Delphi: : phone 800-695-4005
  • Delphi: (http://www.delphi.com)
  • Dialog: : phone 800-334-2564
  • Dow Jones: : phone 800-522-3567
  • GEnie: : phone 800-638-9636
  • PSI: (http://www.psi.net)
• Consortia
  • ACC: Alliance for Competitive Communications (formerly MFJ Task force) an ad-hoc coalition of the seven regional Bell operating companies (http://bell.com)
  • CIX: Commercial Internet Exchange (http://www.cix.org)
  • IDA: Internet Developers Association, a trade association for individuals involved in the development of content for the Internet (http://www.association.org)
  • IFIP: International Federation for Information Processing, a multinational federation of professional and technical organizations (or national groupings of such organizations) concerned with information processing (http://www.dit.upm.es/~cdk/ifip.html)
  • IIA: Information Industry Association, 500 member companies in the generation, processing, distribution and use of information: mail iia.ipo@his.com
  • NIIP: National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocol Consortium (http://www.niiip.org)
  • NIIT: National Information Infrastructure Testbed (http://www.niit.org/niit/)
  • NIPDE: National Initiative for Product Data Exchange (http://www.eeel.nist.gov/nipde/)
  • NOMA: National Online Media Association: mail natbbs-request@echonyc.com
  • SGML Open: a non-profit, international consortium of providers of products and services, dedicated to accelerating the further adoption, application, and implementation of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (http://www.sgmlopen.org)
  • WIA: World Internetworking Alliance (WIA), coalition of parties working together to help effect a truly international, independent, autonomous Internet institutional environment where diverse bodies - corporate, non-profit, and governmental - cooperate but retain their own identity and independence, working together toward achieving a robust, open, competitive marketplace at all levels (http://www.wia.org)
  • Wireless: The Wireless Opportunities Coalition, a group of organizations and companies seeking to expand wireless communications development, manufacturing, and use (http://wireless.policy.net/wireless/wireless.html)
• Developers

  • ----- Lists

  • Comm+Media: Business-Corporations-Communications and Media Services, from Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/yahoo/Business/Corporations/Communications_and_Media_Services/)
  • Internet Consulting-Yahoo: Internet-Consulting, from Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/Business/Corporations/Internet_Consulting)
  • Internet Presence-Yahoo: Internet-Presence-Providers, from Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/Business/Corporations/Internet_Presence_Providers/)
  • WWW Consultants/Providers: (http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu/~bdelong/res/wwwexp.html)
• Products
  • Cisco: manufactures and sells multiprotocol routers (http://www.cisco.com)
  • Consensus: software support for collaboration, including groupware (http://www.consensus.com)
  • DEC: Digital Equipment Corporation, Marketing Home Page (ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/info.html)
  • IBM: International Business Machines Corporation (http://www.ibm.com)
  • Microsoft: research in fields of computer science that might be beneficial to Microsoft in the future (http://www.research.microsoft.com)
  • Motorola: wireless communications, semiconductors and advanced electronic systems and services (http://www.mot.com)
  • NCD: Network Computing Devices (http://www.ncd.com)
  • NEC: (http://www.nec.co.jp)
  • Novell: (http://www.novell.com)
  • OCM: Online Computer Market, information about computer hardware, software and services (http://www.ocm.com)
  • RNS: Rockwell Network Systems, high-performance, standards-based networking equipment (http://www.cmc.com)
  • TMC: Thinking Machines Corporation (http://www.think.com)
  • SCO Web Page: The Santa Cruz Operation (http://www.sco.com/index.html)
  • Silicon Surf: Silicon Graphics' SILICON SURF Home Page (http://www.sgi.com)
  • Software.com: provides advanced Internet infrastructure tools for OEM customers and end users who require easy-to-use, high performance solutions with absolute security requirements. (http://www.software.com)
  • Spry, Inc.: applications for LANs, AIR Mosaic, NetAccess(a computer industry business directory for Mosaic users) (http://www.spry.com)
  • Sun Home Page: Sun Microsystems distributed computing technologies, products, and services (http://www.sun.com)
  • Xerox PARC: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (http://www.parc.xerox.com)
• Telecom

  • ----- Lists

  • Telecom-Yahoo: Business-Corporations-Telecommunications (http://www.yahoo.com/Business/Corporations/Telecommunications/)

    ----- Selected instances

  • Ameritech: (http://www.ameritech.com)
  • AT+T: (http://www.att.com)
  • AT+T Research: Web server for AT+T Bell Laboratories Research (http://www.research.att.com)
  • Bellcore: (http://info.bellcore.com)
  • Bell Atlantic: (http://www.ba.com)
  • British Telecom: (http://www.bt.net)
  • MCI: (http://www.mci.com)
  • MPT-Japan: Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Japan (http://www.mpt.go.jp)
  • NTT-Japan: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (http://www.ntt.jp/index.html)
  • Pacific Bell: (http://www.pacbell.com)
  • Southwestern Bell: (http://www.sbc.com)
  • Sprint: (http://www.sprintlink.net)
  • Tampere: Tampere Telephone Company, Tampere, Finland (http://www.tpo.fi)
  • US West: (http://www.uswest.com)
  • WilTel: (http://www.wiltel.com)

Internet

• ----- These are organizations that work to develop the Internet.

• IAB: Internet Architecture Board; oversight of the architecture for the protocols and procedures used by the Internet (http://www.isi.edu/iab/)
• IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (http://www.isi.edu/iana/)
• IAHC: The International Ad Hoc Committee, working on proposals for international Top Level Domain names (http://www.iahc.org)
• IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force (http://www.ietf.org)
• 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)
• ISOC: Internet Society (http://info.isoc.org)
• ITU: International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency which coordinates telecommunications (http://www.itu.ch)
• Merit: NSFNet Engineering (http://rrdb.merit.edu)
• W3C: the World Wide Web Consortium, supports the stable evolution of the World Wide Web and its protocols (http://www.w3.org)

Network

• These are consortia, collections of networks, or national or regional networking organizations or groups.

• EARN: European Academic Research Network (http://www.earn.net)
• NEARnet: New England Academic and Research Network (ftp://nic.near.net/docs/)
• NYSERNet: New York State Education and Research Network (http://www.nysernet.org)
• RARE: Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne, European research networks and users (http://www.rare.nl)
• RIPE: Reseaux IP Europeens (http://www.ripe.net)
• SuperJANET: Super Joint Academic Network, an advanced high speed optical fibre network linking a large number of sites within the academic community (http://gala.jnt.ac.uk)
• SURAnet: Southeastern Universities Research Association Network (ftp://ftp.sura.net/pub/README)
• TARENA: Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association, international information and telecommunications infrastructure; fromed from the merging of RARE and EARN (Oct 1994) (http://www.terena.nl)
• US-FNC: United States Federal Networking Council; a forum for networking collaborations among US Federal agencies (http://www.fnc.gov)

  See also:

• NICs: Network Information Centers (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/internet-collections-nics.html)

Non-profit

• These are organizations which work to foster networking or advocate for issues related to CMC, communications, or technology.

• AADN: American Association of Domain Names, a non-profit Association of and for domain name owners; includes support to members involved in litigation where the outcome of such cases effect the rights of all domain name owners (http://www.domains.org)
• APT: Alliance for Public Technology, 'a Washington, DC based nonprofit, tax exempt coalition of public interest groups and individuals whose goal is to foster broad access to affordable, usable information and communication services and technology' (http://apt.org/apt.html)
• ASIS: American Society for Information Science: mail asis@cni.org
• ASIS students: Web page for the Bay Area (San Francisco, USA) Student Chapter of American Society for Information Science, includes links to other chapters (http://ranga.berkeley.edu/ASIS/asis-sc.html)
• CAST: Center for Applied Special Technology, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to expand opportunities for individuals with disabilities through innovative computer technology (http://www.cast.org)
• CCN: The Center for Civic Networking, applying information infrastructure to the broad public good: mail ccn@civicnet.org
• CCN: Civic Network is an evolving collection of online resources dedicated to supporting civic life and civic participation (http://www.civic.net:2401)
• CCN Archive: (ftp://ftp.std.com/ftp/amo/civicnet/)
• CCSR: Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/CCSR/)
• CDT: Center for Democracy and Technology, a non-profit public interest organization in Washington DC which develops and advocates public policy to advance constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies (http://www.cdt.org)
• CIOS: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship, a non-profit organization for online communication scholarship: mail comserve@cios.org Body: "help topics associates"
• CIOS: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship, a non-profit organization for online communication scholarship (http://cios.org)
• CITS: Center For Information, Technology, and Society (ftp://ftp.std.com/customers/nonprofits/CITES)
• CIX: Commercial Internet eXchange Association, non-profit trade association promoting communications services (http://www.cix.org/CIXhome.html)
• CME: Center for Media Education, promotes democratic potential of electronic media.: mail cme@access.digex.net Subject: CME Sub"
• CNI: Coalition for Networked Information, promotes creation of and access to information resources in networked environments (http://www.cni.org)
• CNIDR: Coalition for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval Home Page (http://cnidr.org/welcome.html)
• CNRI: Corporation for National Research Initiatives, non-profit organization dedicated to developing networked information technology (http://www.cnri.reston.va.us)
• CoSN: Consortium for School Networking, helps educators and students access information and communications resources (http://www.cosn.org)
• CPSR: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, alliance of computer professionals who discuss the impact of computer technology on society. (http://www.cpsr.org/home)
• CREN: supports low-cost access to worldwide electronic networking for education and research (gopher://info.educom.edu)
• CSD: The Center for Software Development (http://www.center.org/csd/home.html)
• CSF: Communications for a Sustainable Future (gopher://csf.colorado.edu)
• ECDN: The Educational Community Development Network, A Nonprofit Organization Dedicated to Revitalization of Educational Community Communications, a nonprofit organization established for the sole purpose of providing computer-mediated communication and education services to the K-12 educational community. (http://crayfish.ucsd.edu/home/sinuhe/www/edcom/)
• ECHO: European Commission Host Organisation (telnet://echo@echo.lu) Login as : echo
• EDUCOM: dedicated to the study and access of information technology in higher education and integrating technology into learning and research (http://www.educom.edu)
• EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org)
• EMA: Electronic Messaging Association, foster the development and use of secure global electronic commerce (http://www.ema.org/ema/)
• FARNET: non-profit corporation to advance the use of computer networks for research and education. (http://www.farnet.org)
• GNA: Globewide Network Academy, a non-profit corporation, affiliated with the Usenet University, goal is create an fully accredited online university (http://uu-gna.mit.edu:8001/uu-gna/index.html)
• HPCC Office: the National Coordination Office (NCO) for High Performance Computing and Communications (http://www.hpcc.gov)
• IATH: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu)
• ICA: International Communication Associaton (http://www.io.com/~icahdq/ica/ica.html)
• ICC: The International Center for Communications, link communities through technology (http://www.ifi.uio.no/~terjen/cv/ICC/info.html)
• IEEE/Comp soc: the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society (http://www.computer.org)
• IGC: Institute for Global Communications, improving global network communication and information exchange (http://www.igc.org)
• IRMAC: Information Resource Management Association of Canada (telnet://www.interlog.com/~irmac/)
• IRVC: Institute for Research on Virtual culture (ftp://byrd.mu.wvnet.edu/pub/estepp/IRVC)
• IRTS: the Internet Roundtable Society (http://www.irsociety.com)
• ISOC: The Internet Society, supports the development of the Internet and promotes education and applications. (http://www.isoc.org)
• Kestrel Inst: a non-profit computer science research institute methods for incremental automation of the software (http://www.kestrel.edu)
• NIIT: National Information Infrastructure Testbed (http://www.esi.com/niit/niit_top.html)
• NPTN: National Public Telecomputing Network (ftp://nptn.org/pub/info.nptn/)
• OSF: Open Software Foundation (http://www.osf.org/index.html)
• PD: Public Domain, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose stated mission is to explore the interface between art, technology, and theory (http://noel.pd.org)
• SEA: Society for Electronic Access (http://www.panix.com/sea/)
• UniForum: the largest vendor-independent association for open systems professionals (http://www.uniforum.org)
• USENIX: a forum for innovation and research in UNIX and modern open systems (http://usenix.org)

Standards

• These are organizations that play some part in setting or reporting on technical standards for telecommunications and networking.

• ACM-TSC: Association for Computing Machinery Technical Standards Committee (http://www.acm.org/tsc)
• AIW: Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (APPN) Implementers Workshop (http://www.raleigh.ibm.com/app/aiwhome.htm)
• ANSI: American National Standards Institute, a US clearinghouse for standards, member of ISO (http://www.ansi.org)
• ATIS: Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions: phone (202)434-8845
• Committee T1: ANSI (American National Standards Institute) accredited ATIS (Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions) sponsored Committee T1 (Telecommunications); the focal point for developing US positions for the ITU-T (formerly CCITT) (http://www.t1.org)
• CSR: This is an overview of formal communications standards organizations from Communications Standards Review, publishers of two technical journals reporting on formal telecommunications standards and work-in-progress in the ITU and TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association an ANSI accredited org) on wireline, wireless and fiber optics standards. CSR also publishes two TIA authorized directories of projects in TIA TR and FO committees. (http://www.csrstds.com/stdsover.html)
• DISA: Data Interchange Standards Association, Inc. (http://www.disa.org)
• ECMA: European Computer Manufacturers Association, computer and communications technologies, a Europe based international association founded in 1961 and dedicated to the standardization of information and communication systems (http://www.ecma.ch)
• EIA: Electronic Industries Association, national trade association (http://www.eia.org)
• ETSI: European Telecommunications Standards Institute (http://www.etsi.fr)
• IEC: International Electrotechnical Commission (http://ww.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/ikeda/IEC/home.html)
• IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (http://www.ieee.org)
• IEEE Standards: (http://standards.ieee.org)
• IHS Comm: IHS Communications products, re-publish and produce Telecomm Standards Collection, Video Standards Collection and CommADVISOR (http://www.ihscommunications.com)
• IISP: United States Information Infrastructure Standards Panel; facilitate development of standards critical to the National and Global Information Infrastructure (NII and GII) (http://www.ansi.org/iisp/)
• ISO: International Organization for Standardization, a voluntary body of national standardization organizations: phone +41-22-341240
• ISO: International Organization for Standardization (http://www.iso.ch)
• ISO info: International Organization for Standardization information, by Dr. Hiroaki Ikeda (http://www.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/ikeda/ISO/home.html)
• ITU: International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency which coordinates telecommunications (http://www.itu.ch)
• NIST-USA: National Institute of Standards and Technology WWW Home Page (http://www.nist.gov)
• Monaco Telematique and VEMMI: This service describes the new European and International VEMMI standard (Enhanced Man-Machine Interface for Videotex and Muitimedia/Hypermedia Information Retrieval Services) and how it could be used to create advanced object-oriented multimedia applications on Internet. The service also describe Monaco Telematique MCTEL activities in the VEMMI, multimedia and Internet fields (http://www.mctel.fr)
• SCTE: Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Inc., (SCTE) is a non-profit professional organization formed in 1969 to promote the sharing of operational and technical knowledge in the field of cable TV and broadband communications. (http://www.scte.org)
• VESA: Video Electronics Standards Association (http://www.vesa.org)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

This section lists useful lists of books articles, and bibliographies related to online and network communication. For the sake of compactness, the book list here is short. For longer lists, see the online or paper bibliographies available. I've prepared a list of many books and article readings in CMC and computer networking. That file is the CMC/December bibliography, listed below.

Online

• Online bibliographies and Syllabii

• Beebe's: a number of Internet bibliography collections dealing with computer science and Internet topics (http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/bibliographies.html)
• Bib List: list of bibliographies related to computing literature (gopher://ukoln.bath.ac.uk:7070/11/Link/Tree/Computing/Literature)
• CMC/December: bibliography of selected readings in CMC and networking, by John December (http://www.december.com/john/papers/cmcbib93.txt)
• CMC/Hacker: CMC bibliography, by Kenneth L. Hacker: mail comserve@cios.org Body: "get compumed biblio"
• CMC/Parker: : mail listserv@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu Body: "send netstart info"
• CMC/ProjectH: a bibliography developed collaboratively by participants in ProjectH (ftp://ftp.arch.su.edu.au/pub/projectH/)
• CMC/Shedletsky: (ftp://tcet.unt.edu/pub/telecomputing-info/cmc-bibliography.txt)
• CMC: communication: mail comserve@cios.org Body: "get compunet biblio"
• CMC course/Harrison: graduate CMC theory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Teresa Harrison, John December, Emilie Gould, Laura Gurak (http://www.december.com/john/teach/cmc/rpi94/index.html)
• CMC course/Stephen: description of a CMC course: mail comserve@cios.org Body: "get compumed syllabus"
• CMC ED Higgins: : mail comserve@cios.org Body: "get rescmc syllabus"
• CMC ED Paulsen: : mail comserve@cios.org Body: "get disted2 biblio"
• CMC ED Rice: : mail comserve@cios.org Body: "get cmced biblio"
• CMC Study Review: Ed CMC, a field study of recent research (ftp://tcet.unt.edu/pub/telecomputing-info/cmc-study-review.txt)
• CS Bibs--CMU: bibliographies in computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer-supported cooperative work, database systems, human-computer interaction, logic, multimedia, networks, object-oriented programming, ray tracing, and spatial reasoning (http://www.library.cmu.edu/bySubject/CS+ECE/lib/bibs.html)
• CS Bibs--U Manitoba: A Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies available on the Internet (ftp://ftp.cs.umanitoba.ca/pub/bibliographies/index.html)
• CSCW Bibliography: (ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pub/projects/CSCWbibliography/)
• Ed Tech/England: for a course, Introduction to Educational Telecommunications: mail comserve@cios.org Body: "get EdTel biblio"
• Electronic Publishing: Network-Based Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Work, by Charles W. Bailey (http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v6/n1/bail6n1.html)
• Email books: A survey of books about electronic mail (http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/e-mail-books-survey.html)
• Email 1/Thelen: email in social contexts (A-H): mail comserve@cios.org Body: "get email 1 biblio"
• Email 2/Thelen: email in social contexts (I-Z): mail comserve@cios.org Body: "get email 2 biblio"
• FYI Bibliography: Where to Start - A Bibliography of Internetworking Information (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi3.txt)
• IAT Internet Bib: Institute for Academic Technology, Internet Bibliography, compiled by Carolyn Kotlas (ftp://gandalf.iat.unc.edu/user/home/anonftp/guides/irg-14.txt)
• Info Nets/Newby: course outline and bibliography for a course `Information Networking': mail comserve@cios.org Body: "get InfoNet Syllabus"
• Information Soc: a special issue of the Computer Underground Digest, bibliography by Rob Kling (ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/Publications/CuD/CuD/cud5.68)
• Internet Bks Review: reviews of Internet books, from NETTRAIN list: mail listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Body: "GET NETTRAIN REVIEWS NETTRAIN"
• Internet Books Reviews: reviews of Internet books, from NETTRAIN list (ftp://ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu/nettrain/nettrain.reviews)
• Internet Books: Unofficial Internet Book List, by Kevin Savetz (http://www.northcoast.com/savetz/booklist/)
• Internet Bks Quarterman: (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1432.txt)
• Internet/NREN Pugh: an annotated bibliography of the Internet and NREN by Pugh: mail comserve@cios.org Body: "get internet biblio"
• Intro Internetworking: (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi19.txt)
• JCMC Cite Site: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Citation Site, list of online bibliographies and references (http://shum.huji.ac.il/jcmc/jcmc-citesite.html)
• Network Bib: computer networking and related technical topics (http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/netbib/)
• Network Reading List: (ftp://ftp.utexas.edu/pub/netinfo/reading-list/net-read.txt)
• Networked Info Bib: (ftp://infolib.murdoch.edu.au/pub/bib/stanton.bib)
• New User's Bib: a short bibliography for new users, from NETTRAIN list: mail listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Body: "GET NEWUSERS FAQ NETTRAIN"
• New User's Bib (ftp): (ftp://sluaxa.slu.edu/pub/millesjg/newusers.faq)
• Organizational CMC: Bibliography of Organizational Computer-Mediated Communication, from contributors and editors at Journal of CMC (http://shum.cc.huji.ac.il/jcmc/rudybib.html)
• Telecom/Newby: course outline and bibliography for a course entitled `Telecommunications': mail comserve@cios.org Body: "get Telecomm Syllabus"
• WWW Bib: Bibliography for the World Wide Web (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Bibliography.html)

Special

• Special issues/journals on networks/CMC

• Communications of the ACM (1991). Collaborative computing issue. Volume 34, number 12, December.
• Communication Research (1987). Special issue on Theories of Organizations and Information Technology. Volume 14, number 5, October.
• Communication Yearbook (1989). Issues and Concepts in Research on Computer-Mediated Communication Systems. Volume 12, chapter 8.
• Educom Review (1994). Special Issue on Networking. Volume 29, number 2, March/April.
• EJC/REC V3N2: Electronic Journal of Communication special issue on CMC: mail comserve@cios.org Body: "send EJCTOC V3N293"
• Internet Business Journal (1993). Special Issue on Internet Advertising. Volume 1, numbers 3/4, September/October 1993.
• Internet Society News (1994). Special Issue: A Year in the Life of the Internet. Volume 2, number 4, winter.
• Journal of Communication (1989). Issue on computer communication affecting social power distribution. Volume 39, number 3.
• Journal of Communication (1996). Issue on Internet communication. Volume 46, number 1.
• The Serials Librarian (1991). Issue on technology and information for serials. Volume 21, numbers 2/3.
• Serials Review (1992). Issue on Economic Models for Networked Information. Volume 18, numbers 1-2.
• The South Atlantic Quarterly (1993). Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. Volume 92, number 4, Fall 1993.
• Written Communication (1991). Issue on computers, language, and writing. Volume 8, number 1, January.

Books

• A selected listing of particularly useful paper books.

• Bibliographies
  • The American Center for the Study of Distance Education (1992). Computer-mediated communication for distance education. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University.
  • Burge, Elizabeth (1992). Computer Mediated Communication and Education: A Selected Bibliography. Toronto, Ontario: Distance Learning Office, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor St W, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6.
  • Romiszowski, A. J. (1992). Computer-mediated communication: a selected bibliography. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.
• Internet

  • There are many,many books about the Internet. Check out the lists of books here for oneline support sites for some books; for a longer list, check the Libarary of Congress card catalog or your bookstore.

    ----- Finding Internet books

  • LOC: Library of Congress card catalog (copy at DRA.COM) (telnet://dra.com)

    ------ Lists of books

  • Internet Books: Unofficial Internet Book List, by Kevin Savetz (http://www.northcoast.com/savetz/booklist/)
  • Internet business books: (http://arganet.tenagra.com/Tenagra/books.html)
• Networks
  • Aboba, Bernard. (1994). The Online User's Encyclopedia. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
  • Adams, Rick and Frey, Donnalyn. (1993). !%@:: A Directory of Mail Addressing and Networks, 3rd Ed. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly and Associates.
  • Black, Uyless. (1993). Computer Networks: protocols, standards, and interfaces, 2nd end. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: PTR Prentice-Hall.
  • Kessler, Gary C. (1990). ISDN: concepts, facilities, and services. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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