Links    

Internet/Web

http://www.archive.org/ An exploration into the www past

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html A guide to finding info on the Internet

http://www.irt.org/ Many topics on Internet related technologies

http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.jhtml?prgId=5&prgDate=November/1/2002 Real player story on www and other computer matters.

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen%2d1%2e0%2ehtml A beginners guide to the Internet

http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html  Links to electronic resources around the world

http://www.slyck.com/index.php  All about file sharing/p2p

http://www.cyberjournalist.net/cyberjournalists.html Tips and talk from the wired world

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/bold/devel03/modules/andrew.html Harvard University lectures on the development of the Internet

http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/internet/index.htm A complete guide to using the Internet from the folks "down under."

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/frame_theorie.html A complete history of the Internet

http://www.pewinternet.org/ Internet effects on American culture and society

Website Building

http://webstyleguide.com/ Web Style Guide 2nd edition

http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/index.shtml An interactive HTML tutor for beginners. 

http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewebstyle/contents.html Advice on website building

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/index.html A web-developers resource

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/design/site_building/tutorials/tutorial3.html Lessons for how to build a website.

http://www.davesite.com/webstation/ Much of what you will need to know about the web, including a beginner's guide and web site building.

http://www.themeatrix.com/ A must see! Great example of how Flash can turn you into a movie producer--be sure to download Flashplayer (free)

https://www.tripod.lycos.com/ A free website and blog builder provider (this site's)

http://www.electricteacher.com/tutorial2.htm FrontPage tutorial

http://www.uwm.edu/~vkuhn/mastructure.html Thoughts on hypertext structure

http://www.sitenavigation.net/snguide.html Advice on html navigation structure

Outsourcing

http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/outsourcing

Digital Divide

www.weforum.org

http://www.mediachannel.org/ Global Network for Democratic Media

http://www.oecd.org/home/ Official web site of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

MORE LINKS

• Americans in the Information Age: Falling Through the Net [U.S. Dept. of Commerce]
• Computers for Africa
• digitaldivide.gov [U.S. Government]
• Digital Divide Network
• Digital Divide [PBS]
• Digital Scotland
• EDSAT-Americas: Facing the Challenges With Collective Action Will Everyone Have a Chance?
• The Electronic Commons/l'Agora Electronique - closing the Digital Divide in Canada
• Falling Through the Net: Toward Digital Inclusion: National Telecommuncations and Information Administration
• Gogo Surfer - Internet Community Center
• Greenstar - Solar Ecommerce and Community Center
• Information Rich/Information Poor: Bridging the Digital Divide [BBC]
• International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet (ICRDI)
• International E-mail Accessibility
• The Growing Digital Divide in Access for People with Disabilities: Overcoming Barriers to Participation in the Digital Economy [Cynthia Waddell, ICDRI]
• A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use Of The Internet: NTIA and the Economics and Statistics Administration
• Native Networking - Indian Country
• Resources for obtaining Free/Low-cost Computer items
• Rural Telecommunications Congress
• Senior Net

Hardware

http://www.intel.com/education/teachtech/learning/mpuworks/intro.htm Find out how a microprocessor works

http://intel.com/ebusiness/pdf/prod/related_mobile/wp030401.pdf "White paper" Intel: Untethered Computing: Feasible , Economic , and Desirable

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/ How computer devices work -- Thanks Colin!

http://www.g4techtv.com/screensavers/index.html Lots of shareware and general PC advice

Software

http://infocenter.cramsession.com  An incredible wealth of technical information

http://download.com.com/2001-20-0.html All sorts of freeware and shareware downloads

http://www.softpanorama.org/People/index.shtml A critical history of open-source code. Be sure to check out Chapter 4 on Linus Torvalds

http://www.jasc.com/learncenter.asp tips and tricks with digital graphics

http://www.sdmagazine.com/ A magazine devoted to software development

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/toc.html Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, a free e-book

Technology

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/  Latest news from the "capital" of IT—San Francisco

http://www.wired.com The latest in business and technology

http://hotwired.lycos.com/  Beyond the news

http://www.ncdm.uic.edu/index.htm A resource for high performance and distributed data mining 

http://www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm Z Magazine's IT web page (the politics of the web)

http://www.december.com/ Much about IT, computing, web, and communication

http://slashdot.org/ News for Nerds

http://wfs.org/index.htm Home page of the World Future Society with many resources for those with a future

http://itpapers.cnet.com/whitepapers/default.asp?supercategoryID=4 About 20 gazillion "white papers" on all aspects of technology

http://www.mobitopia.com/ News and views of mobile and wireless technologies

http://www.internetwk.com/ News and info about all aspects of IT

http://www.newsfactor.com/ In-depth IT news

Women in IT

http://www.witi.com/

http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/

E-Business

http://news.com.com/   CNET's e-business e-zine

http://www.itquadrant.com The insiders guide to e-business integration

http://www.zdnet.com  Everything about the IT world

http://www.fortune.com/home_channel/ Home site Of Fortune Magazine (Business & Technology)

http://www.business2.com Web focused business and technology

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ US business magazine's technology reports

http://www.forbes.com/technology/ Another famous US business magazine's tech reports.

English/Education

http://www.bibalex.org The web site of the library of Alexandria, Egypt

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ A good example of a university library on the Internet

http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/eslcafe.html The granddaddy of ESL/EFL site

http://www.webfoot.com/advice/estyle.html?Author A guide to e-mail

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html How to cite electronic sources

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/CALL.html Many free language learning programs

http://snow.utoronto.ca/learn2/intro.html  About learning to learn

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ Purdue University's Writing Lab site

http://www.gpc.edu/~lawowl/esl.htm Another good ESL/EFL resource 

http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/preps/preptable.htm Full discussion of preposition usage 

http://www.number2.com/ Free test preparation: SAT, ACT, GRE, Vocabulary building

http://a4esl.org/q/h/idioms.html For self tests on multi-word (phrasal) verbs, idioms, etc.

http://www.loc.gov/ Library of Congress (USA central library)

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/xwords/index.html Bi-monthly, on-line crossword puzzles to help you build your vocabulary

http://www.edu-cyberpg.com An "edutainment" cyber-playground

http://www.quinion.com/words/ Much about British English

http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/index.htm All of the topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods

http://dannyreviews.com/index.html Recommendations and reviews on reading beyond the canon.

http://www.dcosmic.com/beyond/index.htm Cyber rap (poetry to a hip-hop beat)

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html Semiotics for beginners

http://itemsoft.psih.uaic.ro/index.php?newlang=english Computer based psychology and all the areas related to human behaviors and social sciences

Writing

http://aresearchguide.com/1steps.html How to write an A+ research paper

http://eslbee.com Advanced composition for non-native speakers

http://teenwriting.about.com/ A site specifically for and about young writers

Reference

http://www.netlingo.com/ An Internet dictionary and more

http://www.webopedia.com/ A full resource web encyclopedia and more

http://infocomp.csuchico.edu/metis/fundamental/misc/Jargon_01.htm Computer terms

http://www.intel.com/education/teachtech/learning/glossary.htm More Terms 

http://www.vlib.org/ A virtual library of many subjects

http://www.csupomona.edu/~jasanders/slang/project.html  College Slang Research Project—huge database of real talk

http://www.freevocabulary.com/ List of 5000 essential English words with meanings

http://www.krysstal.com/borrow.html Borrowed (from other languages) words in English

http://onlinenewspapers.com An incredible site connecting you to newspapers all over the world

http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/wrg/brit-amer.htm Differences between British and American English

http://www.yourdictionary.com The last word on words

http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp  "World's largest on-line library."

http://www.country-data.com/ Information about many nations

http://www.theodora.com/wfb/ Another source of geographic information

Search Engines

World Wide Web Logs--send suggestions to webperson

Misc.

http://www.npr.org/  Accesses the files of National Public Radio, a wealth of information on how Americans think.

http://www.latimes.com/news/specials/enrique/ Not about IT, but a great example of multimedia web design--and a learning experience to boot.

http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/ A Blog from Baghdad: a blog from an young Iraqi male's perspective

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ Baghdad is Burning: a blog from an Iraqi Girl's perspective

http://www.theatlantic.com/ Good writing on many different subjects from the American liberal perspective.

http://www.deoxy.org/watts.htm#radio A complete resource for the writings, lectures, and thoughts of Alan Watts

http://ishi.lanl.gov/symintel.html Home of the symbiotic intelligence project

http://lchc.ucsd.edu/ Home of webperson's philosophical underpinnings

http://home.earthlink.net/~platter/index.html The home of "Stop Sleeping": the name says it all

http://www.hrw.org/ Human Rights Watch site source for Freedom of Information debate

http://myhero.com/myhero/go/directory/index.asp Heroes from all walks of life. Do you have a nominee?

http://www.thenation.com/ Unconventional wisdom since 1865

http://www.starcalliance.org/ Students transforming and resisting corporations

http://www.newsfactor.com/whitepapers/category.xhtml?category_id=5 A good source for "White Papers" (longer reports) on various topics in IT.

Note: Please inform "webperson" if you find any links extinct.