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Welcome to Eszter's Weblog Here you will find my thoughts and comments about all sorts of things from sociology, the Internet, academia, teaching, research, books and movies to current events, fun Web stuff, art, gadgets and just about anything else that comes to mind. If the inspiration strikes you during your visit, feel free to leave a note via the comments link.

[Previous entry: "E-BLOG blocked"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Adbusters"] "Happy Birthday E-LIST" 12/21/2002 Entry Eszter's List - the sister of Eszter's Blog - is celebrating its first birthday today. I started the list a year ago and it's been a blast. If you're a blog reader but are not on my list then you're missing half the fun. Here, I share the list of links I sent out in today's issue. They are examples of people's favorites sites from the past year. (See the full archives here.) The Internet Archive: Way Back Machine pick a Web site and see what it looked like years ago Digital Divide and Libraries: Equity and the Internet - a bibliography Is your email being filtered without your knowledge? Weblogs: a history and perspective Blogosphere: the emerging Media Ecosystem Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (syllabi, book reviews, etc.) Mailing lists related to Internet research SocioLog Sociology references, departments, organizations and much more Creative Commons - a non-profit to help those who "do not want to exercise all of the intellectual property rights the law affords them" The Free Expression Policy Project - on copyright & free expression, media literacy, media violence research and much more Pew Internet and American Life Project reports Visualizing Internet industry partnerships Who Owns What - what the major media companies own a critical look at entertainment giant Clear Channel which owns stations with a total of 103,000,000 listeners in the U.S. and 1,000,000,000 globally & a Salon article on them: Radio's Big Bully "Do the conflicts of interest of our highly concentrated media constitute a threat to democracy?" Visualizing Internet Topology at a Macroscopic Scale The Censorware Project Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet Staying Safe Online 'Have an Excel puzzle you can't solve? Post a query on this board. (people were amazingly helpful and got back to me within minutes) WordNet - "a lexical database for the English language" - it not only gives definitions and extensive lists of synonyms, but also links words together via a web of semantic relationships - very cool Common Errors in English NameBase - great examples (graphical and otherwise) of social network analysis The Dvorak Keyboard - for a healthier and quicker typing experience Online course for teaching yourself Dvorak Tips on Academic Professionalization Metamorphosis: Transforming the Ties That Bind Communication Technology and Community Program Hard-to-find Apple software and hardware (plus donation program info) Women: The Shadow Story of the Millennium Distinguished Women of Past and Present If Men Could Menstruate (great little piece I read in my sex and gender course in college that I was happy to find online) For young women, pass this on: GYN101 Sex Slaves in Europe Prison Sucks - Research on the crime control industry You Are a Suspect WHY: Art about the attack on the World Trade Center & Pentagon Chocolate Exhibition at the Field Museum in Chicago Internet Movie Database Internet Broadway Database The MegaPenny Project - visualizing large numbers The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements December 2002 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31         Links of Interest How to win the Nobel Prize Click for Mammogram Play "Match That Blogger" Blogathon 03 Archives Recent entries » Extending Internet access to low-income communities » Shattered » The story behind red alert » Weekend trivia » Would you cut up a book? » Pizza, cholesterol check, the works » Welcome » A different kind of road trip » Allowing comments on blogs » Paddling for bandwidth » The right to a soda.. at any price » Online communities » Silly.. but we all do it » Paris notes » New book on Social Inequality Previous entries May, 2002 - July, 2003 Blogger info Eszter Hargittai Communication Studies Department Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 60208 blog at eszter dot com Blogs I Visit The small print A few words on what I will and will not post on this blog (taken from my E-LIST entry of January 2, 2002). I have nothing against posting commercial sites as long as they come highly recommended. In fact, I'm quite interested in improving informed consumer choice so I'm very curious to hear about good experiences with online retailers. What I will refrain from posting are sites that require plug-ins or programs that are painful to deal with. Example: I will not post anything that only works with RealOne/RealPlayer as that program is intrusive and annoying beyond belief and I am not willing to reinstall it on my machine (it was hard enough to get rid of it completely in the first place) nor do I want to encourage others to have it. If your site has audio content, please make it available in multiple formats or choose one that can be run on multiple players (e.g. .avi). Feel free to link to my Weblog with or without this graphic button. http://www.esztersblog.com

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