public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags users & portals

December 2006

EVERYTHING 2.0: KNOWLEDGE 2.0

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links to knowledge sharing or knowledge management site; larger site is most comprehensive listing of web2.0 sites I have seen, organized into many categories; blogger is from Netherlands

Black Film Research Online

good discussion of Black film in Chicago; also a large section on how to do Black film research on the Internet

November 2006

A Virtual Library of Useful URLs - Subject Headings Arranged by Dewey

some of the best education Web sites in a Virtual Library arranged by the Dewey Decimal Classification System

Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed

by 4 others
a librarian teaches you about the dark web; originally written 2001, updated Oct. 2006

Cyberstudies webring

collection of sites with interest in cyberculture, many from the social sciences

ArtLex on New Media

entry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful

Research on Place and Space

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huge portal site, across disciplines; "...other terms are sometimes used in place of place, such as home, dwelling, milieu, territory, and of course, space. None of these, though, are necessarily equivalent to the notion of place."

Fixings Shadows - Still Photography

work of individual photographers and photographs of historical and ethnographic interest and value, including a section on found photos

Squidoo

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social bookmarking portal lets users share expertise on some subject; room for author's comments and explanations; more discursive than delicious; less writing than a blog; see "Visual Thinking," also "Ephemeral Films"

Puzzle JumpStation - Links to Puzzles on the Web

visual computer puzzles; if you have kids at your house or visiting, this will keep them busy for hours; levels from easy to difficult

Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources | OEDb

by 7 others
The invisible web, or deep web, is estimated to be 500 times bigger than the searchable web and comprises databases and results of specialty search engines that the popular search engines can't index.

Media Art Net | Overview of Media Art | MassMedia

links to many full text essays on television; site is a little difficult to navigate, but links to much good writing

October 2006

Virtual Society? Projects

"the social science of electronic technologies"; links to major projects on Internet research

June 2006