Dear AoIR Crowd, I've started an announcement (i.e. not discussion) list with mostly Web site recommendations (and anything else I may find of interest to distribute) in large part focusing on the social and policy implications of info tech. Today's issue has several links that I thought may be of interest to the air-l readership so I thought I'd post a copy here. I won't bother the list with future issues. If you're interested, you can sign up at http://www.eszter.com/elist . A Healthy and Good New Year to All! Eszter *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* This message was sent via Eszter's List. Please feel free to forward to others, but please include this introduction. For more information about Eszter's List, including instructions for (un)subscribing, see http://www.eszter.com/elist *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* In this issue: About E-LIST content Web site recommendations: Info.tech/Year in review/Women&Afghanistan First, a few words on what I will and will not post on this list. 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 not post 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). Thanks. Hope the New Year's starting off well for everyone. -- Eszter 20 Yr Usenet Archive - first mention of Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Mac, AOL, IRC, Tim Berners-Lee's announcement of the World Wide Web project, etc. http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html 2001 on the Internet: The Year in Review http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/features/2001review/2001review1.shtml The Year in Internet Law http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/28/technology/28CYBERLAW.html (requires free registration) Number of Web Pages by Language http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/demographics/print/0,,5901_408521... Is Google moving in on Amazon's turf? http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100863,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_nbs... How to kill your spam http://www.jcphome.com/nospam.html Example of problems with email filters (AOL filters Harvard's admissions decision emails) http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/209047p-2015925c.html ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2002 (CFP deadline: March 22) http://www.acm.org/cscw2002 A Frustrated ACLU Tries to Guide Consulates Through a Thicket http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/02/national/02ACLU.html Kabul's Lost Women, Many Abducted by Taliban Still Missing http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62604-2001Dec18 Humanity Denied: Systematic Violations of Women's Rights in Afghanistan http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/afghan3/ Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan http://www.rawa.org Today's quote: History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. -- Abba Eban -- __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/