Links
In this issue: E-LIST is back:)
Web site recommendations: IT/politics/humor
Sorry for the long silence, this latest dissertation chapter took a while to finish.
Feedback tells me some of you don’t like the really long E-LISTs so I may start cutting back.. after this issue that is, since so much has accumulated. I always welcome your thoughts, by the way, so keep ‘em coming.
And now onto the current finds. Lots of IT related links. If you don’t care for those keep scrolling, there are some very good “:-)” links at the end.
New data archive related to issues of cultural policy and the arts - amazing resource very nicely put together, very user-friendly, lots of interesting data (includes some IT related survey data as well)
http://www.cpanda.org/
Third Annual Graduate Webshop - great for grad students who have Internet related interests
http://www.webuse.umd.edu/webshop03.htm
Q & A with expert tech tinkerer Ed Felten
“If average voters view censorship of technologists in the same way they view other forms of censorship, we’ll be in much better shape.”
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/1222220&mode=thread&tid=153&tid=123
Internet diffusion levels off in US
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=88
Being Googled: Web search tool is not without critics
http://www.iht.com/articles/90737.html
Google: Is all the news fit to post?
http://news.com.com/2100-1025-996100.html
Experts: Microsoft security gets an ‘F’
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/02/01/microsoft.security.reut/
Text messaging used by government to allay SARS fears in Hong Kong
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,928906,00.html?=rss
Tracking blog coverage - graph of changes in blog coverage in mainstream print media
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000275.html
New virus to watch out for - plays off of current events, yuck
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000917.shtml#000917
Ruling Backs Anti-Spam Activist
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51418-2003Apr7.html
Judge: File-swapping Tools Are Legal
http://rss.com.com/2100-1027-998363.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news
Multi-region DVD players do exist
http://www.canadacomputes.com/story.asp?id=9937&sb=122
Streaming audio files from the 13th Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy
http://www.cfp2003.org/cfp2003/program.html
Call for Report Proposals: gender and Internet use (two-page proposal due on Apr 30th)
http://www.wmn.ca/uncsw/call_e.htm
Gender equity project post-doc
http://www.rfcuny.org/hr/pvn/cgi-bin/show_job.asp?pvn=RRS-119
“Well-behaved women rarely make history”
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/04/09/anita_borg/index_np.html
Summer internship opportunities at MASS MoCA - a very cool contemporary art museum in Massachusetts
http://www.massmoca.org/jobs/
“THE UNITED STATES may be at war — both with al Qaeda and in Iraq — but the military still knows a domestic threat when it sees one: gay linguists in training.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34475-2003Apr15.html
Equal Access to Israel’s Western Wall Denied
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1297/context/outrage
Critics Call On Education Secretary to Repudiate Published Statement or Resign
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59692-2003Apr8.html
At a Model UN conference, Israeli and Palestinian teens succeed where their leaders have failed
http://tinyurl.com/8w79
The Museum of Unworkable Devices - very cool!
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm
Some non-traditional portrait busts with extreme expressions on their faces from the 18th century
http://insel.heim.at/hawaii/310945/Charakterkopfe.html
New Fox Reality Show To Determine Ruler of Iraq 
http://www.theonion.com/onion3915/new_fox_reality_show.html
Looting as an American value
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/looting.html
Patriotic items for fanatical flagwavers
http://www.totalobscurity.com/mind/flagstore/
Today’s quote:
“War is about dead people, not gorgeous-looking soldiers.” — Susan Sontag