Ride that Web!

This page is, to be frank, a mishmash of other hotlists I've maintained, whether on separate pages, or at the bottom of my home page. Some of these links are a few years old. I would bet that at least one is broken. If you find it or them, let me know and maybe I can fix the reference, at least.

You can go to a somewhat random link if you'd like.

• A group of things on this page

• Michael Froomkin's HomePage
• Matt's Happy Hyper Page
• Previous Funky Sites of the Day
• H. Abelson's course, Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier
• M. Smith's Center for the Study of Online Communities
• The Progressive Directory
• War on the Internet
• Wired News


• Readable things with my recommendation (many with further links and stuff)

• A sample of E. Dyson's Release 1.0
• The Future of the Future: Wired's Scenarios
• Spoof, Spam, Lurk, and Lag
• Smack's MOO papers pointers
• C. Kadie's Frequently Asked Questions about censorship, harassment, and the Net
• Bruce Sterling Texts on the Net
• "The Electronic Hive" from K. Kelly's Out of Control
• Howard Rheingold has generously made available his book, The Virtual Community
• S. Levy's "E-Money (That's What I Want)" from Wired
• Brock Meeks' Cyberwire Dispatch


• Food for thought (updated every so often):

• Electric Minds was Howard Rheingold's project. Now it isn't.
• It's a Mall, Mall World on the advent and decline of terra firma malls, and the malling of the Web (from Suck)
• Media mergers--commercialization and centralization. From The Nation.
• John Gilmore seeks to secure 5% of the Internet against wiretapping by the end of 1996.
• China and the Internet (from CFP96--requires RealAudio)
• The Future? You don't want to know. (Bruce Sterling on futurism and the future today. From Wired magazine's special Scenarios issue)
• The Last Frontier (NPR Talk of the Nation show on the Internet--requires RealAudio Player)
• What's an Agent, Anyway? A Sociological Case Study on agency and identity--INCLUDES TRUE STORIES!
• Universal Access to E-Mail -- the RAND report, and more than dry infrastructure talk
• "E-Money (That's What I Want)" by Steven Levy, from WIRED 2.12.

• Other distractions

• Mirsky's Drunk Browsing Test (Are you sober enough to surf safely?)
• Mr. Edible Starchy Tuber Head Home Page
• Real Audio: NPR


• Real Audio's Best
• OnLine Tonight (Real Audio)
• Internet Public Library
• Internet Phone
• A parody of the TIME Cyberporn cover


• Magazines and salons

• Salon
• FEED
• C|NET


• Searching

  • Search engines

    The two I use the most these days are
    1. Hotbot and
    2. AltaVista.
    Others from the past . . .
    • Infoseek
    • Netscape's Internet Search page
    • Deja News Research Service allows search of a sizable Usenet News database. (Have you posted to Netnews recently? Search on your name.)
    • Lycos
    • Webcrawler
    • Don't be afraid to follow links from other people's pages! Serendipity still works.

  • Indices

    • Yahoo, of course
    • What was once Point Communications gives reviews as well as indexed links--it's really a Lycos thing, now.
    • The Whole Internet Catalog used to be helpful, too. Is it still there?
  
• The United States Supreme Court has rendered a decision in the lawsuit to overturn the Communications Decency Act. As the animated .gif tells you, this is a victory for free speech on the Net. Follow the link from the graphic below or this link for more information.
  
  

  You can also read the opinions handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court and the opinions of the lower court.