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Re: [Air-l] data for time series analysis
by Irene Berkowitz 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

Hi I think our stats at Temple are public, if you don't care what the content of the data is, but rather usage patterns. http://www.temple.edu/stats I know that if you choose the bulletin, you will see lots of interesting patterns. I don't watch the other sites to much. There will be at least 30 months of data there. Where you see sudden drop-offs means that we have changed the servers and the tracking has changed. IB Irene Berkowitz Program Director, Curricular Publications and Systems Office of the Vice Provost Temple University tel. 215-204-7596 fax. 215-204 3175 berkowitz(a)mail.temple.edu >>> tkennedy(a)netwomen.ca 03/14/2003 12:27:47 PM >>> Hi Folks - I am taking a graduate Stats course - "Time Series Analysis" - and I would like to incorporate my own Internet research interests for my final paper. I am looking for any Internet data (use, access, etc) that has monthly tracking. I believe I need approximately 30 intervals for the analysis - so obviously I cannot do this in 'years' for Internet research. If you have any suggestions, please email me at tkennedy(a)netwomen.ca Thanks in advance. Tracy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tracy L.M. Kennedy Graduate Department of Sociology University of Toronto www.netwomen.ca tkennedy(a)netwomen.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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FW: VIRTUAL SIT-IN OF DOW "GREENWASH" SITE, ALL THIS WEEK
by Robert M. Tynes 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 06:51:08 -0500 From: "ricardo dominguez" <rdom(a)thing.net> Subject: VIRTUAL SIT-IN OF DOW "GREENWASH" SITE, ALL THIS WEEK March 10, 2003 VIRTUAL SIT-IN OF DOW "GREENWASH" SITE, ALL THIS WEEK: http://www.dowethics.com/bhopal.com/ Action Ends on March 17th, 2003 Dow Chemical is going to court this week in India. Not as the defendants for their ongoing responsibility for the Bhopal disaster, but as the plaintiffs: Dow is suing the SURVIVORS of the disaster for protesting at a Dow plant, and--we're not making this up--they're demanding US$10,000 from them... about 10 years of wages at local rates. But pesky internet activists are showing Dow there is no escape, with a virtual sit-in of Dow's internet Greenwash headquarters, Bhopal.com (http://www.dowethics.com/bhopal.com/) Dow's unapologetic website, which includes an "incident review," denies that Dow purchased any liability for the disaster when they bought Union Carbide, which was the majority stakeholder in the Bhopal plant (even though Dow did pay up for Union Carbide's asbestos liabilities in the First World). The site also states that "The legacy of those killed and injured is a chemical industry that adheres voluntarily to strict safety and environmental standards." (You may want to read that sentence again just to be sure you got it right.) After the 1984 gas leak, which has killed 20,000 people to date, Union Carbide abandoned the factory site and fled India. For 18 years since, the toxic wastes left by Union Carbide have been bleeding poisons into the groundwater and affecting the health of the people living near the factory. Dow merged with Union Carbide in 2001 and paid up for Union Carbide's asbestos liabilities, but it refuses to do the same for Bhopal. Dow has faced may protests since taking over Union Carbide, but suing the victims represent a new low in Dow's attempts to gag its critics. Most of the survivors come from the poorest sections of Indian society. To reinforce its message, therefore, Dow is asking for a monetary settlement from the victims. The amount they seek represents an average Indian's earnings over 10 to 20 years. The cause? Dow's "loss of business". If Dow sues real-life protesters into silence, protest will spring up elsewhere. This protest hopes to show Dow that the only way to really silence protest will be to spend a small fraction of its US$28 billion annual turnover on cleaning up Bhopal. A virtual sit-in is simply an automated way of sending lots of traffic to a website. Activists around the world park their browsers on a page which does nothing more than automatically load the bhopal.com site several times a minute. In the same way that a real-world sit-in disrupts traffic, the virtual sit-in makes the target site less responsive and slow. Eventually, the site may become so crowded with protestors that it stops serving information completely. The virtual sit-in will be located at The Yes Men's hugely successful spoof of Dow's website: http://www.dowethics.com/bhopal.com/. Dow has been playing whack-a-mole with the DowEthics.com site, launching several abortive legal attempts to shut it down, only to have new activists set it up in a new spot on the internet. Other parts of the site explain more honestly why Dow refuses to clean up Bhopal and why image is everything to Dow.

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RE: [Air-l] usenet stats
by Steve Fox (NISD) 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/ Some great Usenet data here for what Marc calls 'social metadata.' -----Original Message----- From: Barry Wellman [mailto:wellman@chass.utoronto.ca] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 9:39 AM To: aoir list Dear Scot Golder, et al. Some of your Usenet Qs (and ohters you haven't thought of) can be answered by going to Marc Smith's Netscan website at Microsoft research. Sorry, I don't have the URL, but surely Google does. Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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usenet stats
by Barry Wellman 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

Dear Scot Golder, et al. Some of your Usenet Qs (and ohters you haven't thought of) can be answered by going to Marc Smith's Netscan website at Microsoft research. Sorry, I don't have the URL, but surely Google does. Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________

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Intrenet and international politics - An Aspen Institute report
by Michel J. Menou 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

New Aspen Institute Report Examines How Internet is Altering Diplomacy and World Affairs <http://216.181.117.89/AspenInstitute/files/CCLIBRARYFILES/FILENAME/00000000…> The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program (C&S) released a report recently on the impact of network structures and technologies on the conduct of world affairs. This timely report, "The Rise of Netpolitik: How the Internet Is Changing International Politics and Diplomacy" (PDF 263K), reflects the insights of top-level leaders from the worlds of politics, diplomacy, finance, high technology, academia, and philanthropy who met at the Aspen Institute to consider new ways of understanding how information technology is changing the powers of the nation-state, the conduct of international relations, and the very definition of national security.

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AoIR-Internet and Social Mobilization
by Lauren Langman 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

For the next meeting, I am organizing a panel on the role of internet in social mobilization, alternative media etc. I will be talking about World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, where I was last January, my student/colleague and Valerie Scatamburlo will be talking about Indymedia. Leslie Shade will be the discussant. We have room for one or perhaps two more papers if anyone else is working on this topic. Lauren Langman Professor of Sociology Loyola University of Chicago 1773 508 3463 Llangma(a)luc.edu or Llang944(a)aol.com

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fAf Mar03: Dancing about Architecture by Dr Axel Bruns
by linda carroli 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

fAf March 2003 Dancing about Architecture: Arts Resources Online by Dr Axel Bruns fineArt forum = art + technology netnews http://www.fineartforum.org http://www.cdes.qut.edu.au/fineart_online Art Resources This month sees a few additions to Art Resources including an essay, Dancing about Architecture: Arts Resources Online by Dr Axel Bruns. A lecturer at QUT, Bruns inquires into what resourcing the arts online means, providing a contextualising piece for the Art Resources' listing of useful sites and organisations around the world. http://fineartdev.cdes.qut.edu.au/art_resources/artresources_index.html This Month's TEXT :: Moya Baldry, Di Ball, Linda Carroli, Deena Larsen, Wendy Morgan and Jane Turner share the outcomes from a new media writing masterclass held last month. :: Adrian Miles presents the first part of his online tutorial in desktop vogging. :: Kathryn Smith writes about technological and cultural tensions in Johannesburg in her essay, Cultural Translations. :: Jose-Carlos Mariategui cruises through last month's Transmediale in Berlin. :: Jane Turner reviews Terry Flew's New Media: An Introduction. :: Gina Velli explores the website of The Banner Art Collective. :: Ryan Archer takes a look at Rosemary Laing's current exhibition which surveys her works of the last decade. :: Francesca Berger examines the stories and lives which intersect in the history of The Master of Frankfurt's 'Virgin and Child' via the exhibition, Pentimento. :: Linda Carroli wanders through two performance works-in-progress by choreographer, Clare Dyson. TEXT online at: http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n03/reviews/reviews_i… :: Gallery: Blackout and The A4 Refugee Project Launched last month, Blackout is a site created by Jenny Fraser. Blackout features information about and work by Australian Indigenous new media arts practitioners. Blackout was initiated at NISNMA (ANAT's National Indigenous School for New Media Artists) in 2002 when the participants formed the Indigenous New Media Arts Collective. Congratulations to all involved in this spectacular initiative. http://www.fineartforum.org/Gallery/cybertribe/blackout/index.html Also for the Gallery, Jane Gallagher, curator of the recent Brisbane-based exhibition, The A4 Refugee Project negotiated with several of the participating artists for permission for their works to be reproduced as downloadable PDFs. In conjunction with AUSTCARE, the exhibition presented over 100 A4 sized artworks at Metro Arts during Refugee Week. You are welcome to download these works, pin them on your wall, give them away and so on. However, please respect that as the intellectual property of each artist, they are protected by copyright. http://www.fineartforum.org/Gallery/current_index.html . . . . . SUBSCRIBE To subscribe to fineArt forum: Send an email message to: mailserv(a)qut.edu.au with the following text in the message: subscribe fineartforum To unsubscribe - the first line of your email should read: unsubscribe fineartforum GOT NEWS?? Send it to editor(a)fineartforum.org MORE INFO Nisar Keshvani: editor(a)fineartforum.org Linda Carroli: l2.carroli(a)qut.edu.au MISSION fineArt forum is a free, not-for-profit news and information service exploring the relationship between the arts, sciences and technology. fAf aims to inform new media arts and technology communities worldwide of the latest events, developments and opportunities. fineArt forum is assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body http://www.ozco.gov.au. Additional support is provided by QUT Communication Design Department, School of Film and Media Studies - Ngee Ann Polytechnic Singapore and Mississippi State University. fAf is produced on behalf of the Art, Science and Technology Network (ASTN) http://www.astn.net. fAf and Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) are strategic partners. LEA is an online peer-reviewed journal published at MIT Press for the Leonardo Network http://www.leonardo.info.

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Sarai Reader 03 - Shaping Technologies
by jeremy hunsinger 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

> a book announcement that i think will be interesting to some of you. > Sarai Reader 03 : Shaping Technologies > Paperback, 392 pages, Rs. 295, US $ 15, Euro 15 > ISBN 81-901429-3-3 > > Sarai, CSDS and the Waag Society for Old and New Media announce the > publication of Sarai Reader 03 : Shaping Technologies. The book will > be released on the 14th of March 2003 at Sarai, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, > Delhi. > > "Shaping Technologies " sets out to ratchet our engagement with the > contemporary moment a notch higher, in directions that are sober, > exhilarating and discomfiting all at once. The book brings to the fore > a series of situations and predicaments that mark the encounter > between people and machines, between nature and culture, and between > knowledge and power. > > The issues covered span a wide range - from the cognitive and ethical > dilemmas that beset the engineer, to the legal and cultural > implications of copying in a digital realm, from software as art to > the history of science fiction, from wireless manifestoes to the > domestication of photography, from kitchen utensils to airplanes, from > mobile phones to kerosene lamps, from body nets to biotech, from > reproductive technologies to technologies of reproduction, from > computers to radios and from coal mines to call centres. > > A cutting edge collection of original writing and images by theorists, > critics, photographers, philosophers, engineers, activists, artists, > designers media practitioners and programmers from many parts of the > world. > > Editorial Collective : Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, Ravi Sundaram, > Ravi Vasudevan and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Sarai) Geert Lovink and > Marleen Stikker (Waag Society) > > Contributors include : Arun Mehta, Biella Coleman, Ana Viseu, Raqs > Media Collective, Rabindranath Tagore, Sabina Gadihoke, Steve Dietz, > Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Rana Dasgupta, Debjani Sengupta, > Siddhartha Ghosh, McKenzie Wark, Andrew Feenberg, Eugene Thacker, > Joanne Richardson, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, subRosa, Rupsa Mallik & Veena > Das > Interviews with : Arash Zeini, Janos Sugar, Hildegard Westerkamp > Photo Essays by : Shahid Datawala, Monica Narula, Srinivas Kuruganti > > Published by Sarai/CSDS, Delhi > and the Waag Society/for Old and New Media, Amsterdam > for enquiries contact publications(a)sarai.net > > An online edition of the book is available at > http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader3.html > > paperback, 392 pages, Rs. 295, US $ 15, Euro 15 > ISBN 81-901429-3-3 > > For enquiries, contact: publications(a)sarai.net > or write to > Publications > Sarai, CSDS > 29 Rajpur Road > Delhi 110 054 > India

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Web Site Feature Analysis
by Steven Clift 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

Thank you to those who answered my recent user time and e-mail query. I have a new question - what are the best examples of web site feature studies/comparisons? Which ones provide valuable insights and conclusions? For the next few of months I will be doing research for the United Nations on e-government and citizen participation. (More on this later.) I plan to suggest in a paper a set of web site indicators, perhaps a "Democracy Online Index" that could be applied in future years when someone is trying to determine the level of e-democracy activity on a government web site. In the past, most e-government ranking studies have focused on services or general content and haven't had the granularity I'd like to see in the e-democracy area. Below I have done my netizen duty and shared the links to studies that I know about. What am I missing in the e-government/e-politics niche? What about web site feature analysis of media sites or any other category of site? Please reply to (or the list and): clift(a)publicus.net Thanks, Steven Clift http://www.publicus.net (long links need to be pasted together) Specific examples of feature analysis of government/political web sites: ====================================================================== == Global E-Government, 2002 - Center for Public Policy, Brown University http://www.insidepolitics.org/egovt02int.html (and many more ...) Global E-Government Survey http://www.unpan.org/egovernment2.asp The Politics of State Legislature Websites: An Evaluation of Content and Design http://apsaproceedings.cup.org/Site/papers/038/038012FerberPaul.pdf Plugged In, Tuning Up: An Assessment of State Legislative Websites http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/395/1/3/ 2002 Local Government & Community Initiative (Michigan) http://www.cyber-state.org/1_0/1_4_1.html Cyberspace Policy Research Group - A number of items http://www.cyprg.arizona.edu/ Including "Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Age of the Web: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Speculations": http://www.cyprg.arizona.edu/publications/democrac.rtf Webbing Governance: National Differences in Constructing the Face of Public Organizations http://www.cyprg.arizona.edu/publications/webbing.rtf And their "Website Attribute Evaluation System": http://www.cyprg.arizona.edu/waes.html 2002 Candidate Web Sphere Analysis http://politicalweb.info Site Analyzer - 2004 Democratic Presidential Campaign Sites http://politicalweb.info/2004.html NetElection 2000 http://web.archive.org/web/20010424093217/netelection.org/research/sit e-analysis-workshop/ http://web.archive.org/web/20010521145552/netelection.org/features/ http://web.archive.org/web/20010521145840/netelection.org/features/por tals/ US State Political Party Sites Compared in 2000 Election http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@tc.umn.edu/msg00375.html http://www3.uakron.edu/bliss/partywebs/ Congress Online - Turning the Corner on the Information Age http://www.congressonlineproject.org/webstudy2003.html http://www.congressonlineproject.org/appendixa2003.html Interaction between states and citizens in the age of the Internet: "e-government" in the United States, Britain and the European Union http://pro.harvard.edu/papers/040/040004ChadwickAn.pdf e-government - User-friendliness of Websites (NSW Auditor General's Report) http://www.audit.nsw.gov.au/perfaud-rep/Websites-June2002/websites- June2002.pdf Good websites predict 'excellent' councils says Socitms's Better Connected 2003 report http://www.socitm.gov.uk/Public/press+releases/20030228.htm Political Organisations And Online Mobilisation: Different Media - Same Outcomes? http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk/ESRCResearchproject/papers/UK_online_org _participation.pdf Online and On Message? Candidate Websites in the 2001 General Election (UK) http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk/ESRCResearchproject/papers/mpgpaper.html Information Society and the City - Metropolis http://www.metropolis.org/metropolis/meteleclib.nsf/2a6bd98dee287482ca 256915001cff0c/672c5a02d76126b2ca256bb2001bc50a/$FILE/COMISION%204%20I NGLES%2018.04.pdf General Sources =============== Electronic Government Project - Rankings and Reviews... http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/e-gov/e-rankings.htm UK EStatMap Collection http://www.e-envoy.gov.uk/oee/oee.nsf/sections/e-statmap- top/$file/estatmap.htm Critical Choices in Web Research Design http://aoir.org/2001/workshop.htm Lead in part by those with: http://www.webarchivist.org Other ===== E-Government Ranking Survey Is Meaningless http://www3.gartner.com/resources/101800/101888/101888.pdf State of the e-Gov Nation - UK Survey http://www.publicsectorforums.co.uk/page.cfm?pageID=111&language=eng Bericht zum Stand von E-Government in der Schweiz 2002 (Swiss Survey) http://verdi.unisg.ch/org/idt/ceegov.nsf/f130aeb8bd0118d6c1256c8a00416 f95/95530a8996fbb7cdc1256cde002ec918?OpenDocument

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Fwd: ED-MEDIA 2003 Final Call (Hawaii) Due March 31
by jeremy hunsinger 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '03

Begin forwarded message: > From: Gary Marks <GMarks(a)AACE.ORG> > Date: Tue Mar 11, 2003 7:05:48 AM US/Eastern > To: WEB-RESEARCH-UK(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: ED-MEDIA 2003 Final Call (Hawaii) Due March 31 > Reply-To: Web Research UK <WEB-RESEARCH-UK(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> > > >> Final Call for Participation Deadline: March 31 << > > * Please forward to a colleague * > > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm > > The Advance Program/Registration online: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia > __________________________________________________________ > > ED-MEDIA 2003 > > World Conference on Educational Multimedia, > Hypermedia & Telecommunications > > June 23-28, 2003 * Honolulu, Hawaii, USA > > Sheraton Waikiki Beach Resort > > FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION > > ** Submissions Due: March 31, 2003 ** > > Hosted by University of Hawaii > Organized by > Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) > http://www.aace.org > _________________________________________________________ > > ** What are your colleagues saying about ED-MEDIA conferences? ** > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/testimonials.htm > > > ED-MEDIA 2003--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & > Telecommunications is an international conference, sponsored by the > Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This > annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the > discussion > and exchange of information on the research, development, and > applications > on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and > telecommunications/distance education. > > ED-MEDIA, the premiere international conference in the field, spans all > disciplines and levels of education and attracts more than 1,200 > attendees > from over 70+ countries, > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/countries.htm. > We invite you to attend ED-MEDIA 2003 and submit proposals for > presentations. > > > INVITATION: > > This Final Call for Participation is offered for those who were: > - unable to meet the first deadline for submissions (Dec. 19), or > - were not ready to present a finished paper or project, or > - have a work-in-progress topic to present, and > - do not yet have a proposal accepted for presentation. > > All presentation proposals are peer-reviewed and selected by three > reviewers on the respected Program Committee for inclusion in the > conference program, Proceedings (book and CD-ROM formats) and > AACE Digital Library, http://www.aace.org/DL > > We invite you to attend the ED-MEDIA Conference and submit proposals > for > these presentation categories: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/categoriesfinal.htm > > > Brief Papers > > Panels > > Interactive Sessions > > Roundtables > > Video Festivals > > Posters/Demonstrations > > Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations > > These Final Call presentation categories have been quite popular > especially > for the efficient > exchange of information about on-going research, applications, and > projects. > > > COLOR POSTER--ED-MEDIA 2003 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION > Available to Print & Distribute (PDF to print; 200kb) > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/edmed03poster.pdf > > > >> IMPORTANT LINKS << > > 1. Submission Information, Deadline March 31: > Call for Presentations: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm > Presentation Categories: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/categoriesfinal.htm > Submission Guide: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/submitguide.htm > Presenter/AV Guide: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/PresenterLounge > > 2. Color Poster: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/edmed03poster.pdf > 3. Major Topics: www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/topics.htm > > 4. Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/corporate.htm > > 5. Proceedings & Paper Awards: http://www.aace.org/pubs > 6. For Budgeting Purposes: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/rates.htm > > 7. Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii: > http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Honolulu > > > DEADLINES: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/deadlines.htm > > Submissions Due: March 31, 2003 > Authors Notified: April 11, 2003 > Proceedings File Due: May 6, 2003 > Early Registration: May 6, 2003 > Conference: June 23-28, 2003 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > To be added to the mailing list for this conference, link > to http://www.aace.org/info.htm > > If you have a question about ED-MEDIA, please send an e-mail to > AACE Conference Services, conf(a)aace.org > > Mailing address: > AACE, P.O. Box 3728, Norfolk, VA 23514 USA > Phone: 757-623-7588 > > ======================================================== >

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