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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags business & internet

December 2006

New Media and Cyberculture library resouces

Library Resources for communication studies site; here, suggested keywords for searches, reference works, periodical indexes, web sites, professional associations, journals and trade publications, statistical sources. updated 2004.

Digital Web Magazine

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see Nov. 27 06 and earlier, "The Rise of Flash Video" by Tom Green; many articles of interest to both designers and theorists in this ejournal

November 2006

SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards

March 06; useful discursive comparison by judges of top contenders in each of many categories, which rhetorically can be used to teach students how to write about the Internet; sizeable honorable mention lists

Google Help : Web Search Features

If you click on About Google on its home page, you can get to this page which lists the multiple services Google offers, an amazing array.

Office 2.0 Database

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Oct 06 list of numerous web2.0 apps related to office functions, plus links to reviews of them, when available.Effort to have all apps be on web and not desktop, including photo, sound, and video editing, web publishing, drawing.

ShopWiki

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"ShopWiki actively crawls more than 180,000 online stores to ensure you’ll find the products you want at the best prices." For a class looking at web2.0 apps, it's the kind of thing students would enjoy playing with.

INTERNET TREASURES OR VERY USEFUL LINKS... AND FREE TOOLS

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Portal with wide variety of categories; most useful are the evaluative and descriptive annotations for each entry, so you can see how the possible "consumer opinion," for example, sites vary. Place to find free reference tools.

Free Fax • Free Internet Faxing

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send a free fax within the USA and Canada, PDF or Word files, maximum two per day or $1.99 per fax for more; I have not used it yet but it sounds promising

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

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rather technical; useful list of many web2.0 bloggers; frequent comparison of sites serving a similar function

tiara.org

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blog by woman interested in feminism and social uses of technology, including marketing, politics and pop culture

Visual thinking school on Squidoo

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basic concepts broken down into useful small steps, with many visual examples to guide process. Web 2.0 in that it provides for interaction and author's introduction to sections.

October 2006

The Google YouTube Tango

essay about the political consequences of marketing based on Internet-use data

MIT Convergence Culture Consortium: Weblog

Theoretically sophisticated and business-informed blog on Interet and media issues.

Critique of Ranking and Listing; Exchange with Kenneth C. Werbin

"Our increasing emphasis on quantitative reductions, like ranking lists, at the expense of critically engaged qualitative thought, can be seen as bottom-line strategies for efficiently navigating our increasingly .. networked cybernetic order."

net critique » Interview with Sole 24 Ore: Crushing the Web 2.0 Myths

social software's potential shaping of the Internet, journalism, business--or not

Pew Internet: Future of the Internet

well worth downloading and printing the 104 pp PDF document; the list of contributors alone is worth following up on; especially interesting on the inequalities and possibilities for repression

September 2006