01 December 2006
A List Apart: Primer
by 3 otherstips on a variety of aspects of web sites for new designers and web site owners
AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web
by 1 othernarrative+history+pictures+encyclopedia; "safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest"
28 November 2006
jlesage's reviews
my tagcloud from stumbleupon; just discovered I could import my delicious tags and comments there. Stumbleupon is my newest obsessively visited site.
27 November 2006
Imagining the Internet
by 1 otherpopular site from Pew Internet Project; allows people to make predictions, read predictions from the 90s; nice for kids
Reconstruction
a cultural studies ejournal, with essays on literature and film; fall 06 issue is on blogging theories and practices.
26 November 2006
Cyberstudies webring
collection of sites with interest in cyberculture, many from the social sciences
24 November 2006
H2O Playlist: UDL and Web 2.0: Confronting the Drunk Librarian
considering Web 2.0 in the context of Internet useability for people with disabilities
20 November 2006
Visualising Ethnography
gateway site with links, courses, intereviews, tips
19 November 2006
18 November 2006
New Media Courses by Trebor Scholz
many courses, large site
ZoneZero: from analog to digital photography
a large socially committed ejournal, edited by Pedro Meyer, one of the pioneers in digital photographic art; galleries, essays, investigations into image circulation and production within digital communication, especially the Internet
JEP - The Journal of Electronic Publishing
many of the past issues were on thematic concerns; ever of greater importance in academic and knowledge communities is the how-to of electronic publishing
THE PECULIARITIES OF CYBERSPACE by Albert Benschop
complete book online, covers many areas often not dealt with, such as porn sites and dating sites; one insight that may draw you to read more: "the times that count in cyberspace are highly accelerated and strongly individualized."
16 November 2006
Visual thinking school on Squidoo
by 1 otherbasic 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.
Invisible Culture-An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture-University of Rochester
by 1 otherproblematizes the unquestioned alliance between culture and visibility
Geoff Stahl - Still 'Winning Space?': Updating Subcultural Theory
deals with the impact of computer mediated communication on subcultural theory; refutes role of "authenticity"; good overview of shifts in field
14 November 2006
The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poem
video by Juan Delcan; model for students about good uses of new form of production and exhibition
13 November 2006
Center for History and New Media
by 1 otherextensive site, with resources about historical moments and syllabi, tools for Internet research, and projects undertaken by the Center
Anthro.Net Research Engine: Anthropology and Archaeology
by 2 otherslarge portal, includes cultural geography, ethnic studies, visual arts, postmodern anthropology
"We"--with the words of Arundhati Roy
a 64-minute Internet documentary made anonymously in New Zealand, using Roy's speech and a montage of politically inflected imagery; new style of essayistic documentary; DVD at hi-res available
11 November 2006
Newest Webcams
by 12 othersrandom live webcams from the net, a new kind of documentary media, mostly surveillance
06 November 2006
Henry Jenkins: Taking the You Out of YouTube?
what kinds of censorship face You Tube and My Space, in addition to the site's ownership of content?
BookMooch: a community for exchanging used books (book swap and book exchange and book trade)
by 4 otherssend in your books and request and get others' used books
