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Backto 1997 EDUCATIONAL LINKS... by Nanis
http://www.chronicle.merit.edu
Web adaptation of a US academic weekly, including the jobads.
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http://www.britnet.co.uk/ventures/
It's aiming to be the most exciting site for entrepreneursbut Venture, based on the printed title, clearly has someexpanding to do. What is there is good, including an archive ofexpert interviews. Budding Richard Bransons would do worse thanemulate Julian Richer, who built a hi-fi chain on the principleof cheap (the products) and cheerful (the staff). Managerslooking for office space can check the classified list ofavailable premises, and there's a business diary of conferencesand seminars too.
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http://www.aloha.com/~william/vpwg.html
A tragic case, this one. The screen splits into three frames,with a huge vertically scrolling list in the main window, anotherlengthy list in the bottom window (in a strip so thin you canonly see a couple of lines at a time) and a weird animationeffect in the left-hand window. This involves a picture which issimultaneously too tall and too narrow to fit comfortably in theframe, and which has been resized to render its text unreadable.And that's not all, the main window has a transparent GIF whichdoesn't quite come off - and the developers have the cheek tocall this the 'frames enhanced' version of the site! Gawd helpus!
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http://www.newspapersoc.org.uk/
Read all about it! in RealAudio format is about the onlything missing from this comprehensive, clearly laid out site.Information for and about the publishers of more than 1,400regional daily, weekly, paid-for and free sheets is here,including links to the home pages of some 40 papers and industrybodies like the all-important Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC).There's also the latest news on sales, acquisitions andadvertising in this volatile market, and a list of upcomingNewspaper Society seminars and conferences.
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http://power.globalnews.com/
Power PC magazine, edited by industry man-about-town ChrisRose, publishes every two weeks and offers a neat twist to theusual electronic mag story. When you subscribe (free), youreceive the contents page by email. This alerts you to retrievethe stories. Big stories are subsequently sent to you at anytime, when they break, by email and they appear under the headingPowerFlash.
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http://www.dotmusic.com/MWhome.html
Published every week for the past 37 years, Music Week'sclaim to be the bible of the UK music industry is more thanjustified, judging by this excellent presence on the Web. It is,of course, pitched at those in the biz itself but short reviewsof any UK record 'with retail potential' three weeks in advanceof the release date will surely attract a wider readership. Theother sections are equally comprehensive with news, features onupcoming bands and records, and charts, as used by Top Of ThePops and Radio 1. These are particularly well thought-out, withinfo about each single and links to artist-specific sites just amouse click away.
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http://www.keyboardmag.com/
Most of us have an old keyboard or synth gathering dust inthe spare room, but Keyboard Central is a treat for those whoknow how to play more than Three Blind Mice. It offers aselection of news and features from the printed Keyboardmagazine, which covers jazz piano to the latest synthesisersounds. These are enhanced with audio, MIDI and QuickTime moviefiles available to download from the studio. Technicalinformation on the kit itself and advice on buying is here too.
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http://www.hotelier.co.uk/
Hospitality industry's trade paper finds its way online and,to put it very kindly, is still finding its Web feet Ü missinginformation, tedious editorial and pretty primitive design arejust three areas in need of improvement. Sorry! If only you gotmarks for tryingƒ
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http://www.trib.com
Unless you are interested in Casper, Wyoming, this will bemore interesting for its feeds from Time, VOA and CNN and itsgreat travel and finance links. CAN'T FIND.
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http://www.inweb.co.uk/hp/bookmall/
This is actually quite a good site, offering a search servicefor second-hand books and out of print novels, but sadlyenthusiasm for technology has got the better of its developers.Visit the site and you're told to click a link for a differentmenu if you're running Navigator 2.0. Click the link and the sitesplits into two vertical frames. But - and here's the joy! - theinstruction to link to a different menu still remains. Click itagain and another frame appears...and then another and anotheruntil the section you want vanishes like good taste at aseventies party.
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http://members.aolcom/AES01/aes01.htm
Site of the UK Journal of the Exotic and AlternativeLivestock Industry appealing to ñbreeders, or those who likeextraordinary petsî which gives info plain and simple onadvertising rates, a North American breeders directory, calendarof events and editorial job opportunities. The primary resourceis a list of back articles available for $3.00 each. Thisincludes gems such as Why I don't kiss my goat on the lips. Couldput the Animal Protection organizations back for years.
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http://www.dinkytoy.com/review/main.htm
How do you justify a one-time computer journalist writing andranting about other IT journalists? As the instigator of thispage points out, it's a big business and computers continue to bea driving cultural force Ü you might have a lot riding on yourcomputer system and it's up to magazines to tell the truth andstop you from needlessly shelling out. With this in mind,Jonathon has compiled a database of periodicals, all of which arecritically appraised. He also keeps an eye on those publicationspotentially 'in the pocket' of the industry and passes a fewacerbic observations on the clichÚs of the computer press.
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http://pandora.library.ucsb.edu/~lee/guilty.html
Even though this issue is well past its sell by date, this isstill an interesting page to ponder because Time Warner got itwrong!
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http://www.teleport.com/~bluesock/
Blue Stocking alludes to the frumpy female academia of daysgone by, updated for the 90s as intelligent feminist tottie. Thepresentation is predictably lo-fi and the arguments much the sameas they've always been, but Blue Stocking stands on the NaomiWolf side of the feminism fence and is all the more entertainingfor that.
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http://www.scotborders.co.uk/PHOTON/
The broad brief of this photography magazine is wellreflected in its online form. Articles on professionalphotographers, the latest equipment and imaging techniques arecomplemented by bargain small ads for cameras, lenses, scannersetc. Contacts for picture libraries, modelling agencies and apermanent portfolio of artists' work are also here.
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http://www.condenast.co.uk
The publishers of GQ, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Homes & Gardenand Tatler have created an add-on to your Netscape browser forthe purpose of perusing their glossy mags and especially theirpics. To get a butchers at any of them you'll need an IBM PC andto download the software you'll need an awful lot of patience.The result seems to be a combination of speedily rendered graphicor no graphic at all and it probably makes more sense to nip downto the newsagents and read them for free in there!
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http://www.notam.uio.no/rojaro/
A big task for one person to undertake Ü a key to thecontents of music magazines from around the world. Hans-Christianis currently working on such a project, a database searchable bytitle and material reviewed therein. Occasionally the print is amite too small but it appears to work fairly successfully. Theone remaining question is - why?
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http://www.mofile.fi/
Yes, Virginia, there really is a Santa Clausƒ and youcan email him here with your Christmas requests. This site alsohouses Finland's Virtual Embassy, with reams of stuff aboutRussia's nearest neighbour. The highlight, though, is that thisis where The Leningrad Cowboys, the big-quiffed, pointy-toedmusical heroes of Aki KaurismÉki's cult film, go online. All inall, it's a pretty upbeat affair for a country with such a glumreputation, and must have involved loads of work. So now we knowwhat they really do during all those long Artic nights.
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http://www.out.com
The, like, totally best thing about the online version ofAmerica's best-selling gay magazine is its selection of kookyblabbermouth forums. Not only can you chunter on to people inyour local area (including Europe), but there's also lists of topfive people you wouldn't kick outta bed and queenie observationson 'how AbFab changed my life'. Celebrity interviews,book/music/film/tv reviews and back issue stories all availableas well.
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http://www.2600.com
The original, old-school hacking brotherhood have beenpublishing 2600, The Hacker Quarterly, since 1984. Every issuehas been fully indexed so you can search on title, author andalso subject. Unsurprisingly, 'hackers in jail' comes up withremarkable frequency. As hacking goes through a perenniel periodof media interest, you can be sure that, even if the magazine isup on the Web, the real fun is still happening elsewhere.
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http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/
Swotty periodical devoted to deconstructing the arts and theeveryday. Essays include science fiction cinema in the 80s andappropriation of the avant-garde in Northern Exposure. Yup,that's right. And if you're missing The Late Show, they havetheir very own MOO.
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http://www.asia1.com.sg/biztimes
General news, full length features, updates on the moneymarkets and the kind of information that's of interest tobusiness peeps in Southeast Asia.
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http://www.economist.com
For anyone who's recently got connected and missed out on theInternet's first 25 years, or even its last three, the Economisthas made available its comprehensive survey document on the'Accidental Superhighway', which puts 'the whole thing' incontext, with links to the Net's key players.
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http://www.intervid.co.uk/intervid/eye/gateway.html
Not the full fortnightly dose of jokes and journalism butsome bits to make you giggle - Dear Bill, Poetry Corner,Lookalikes, readers' letters and some of the best cartoons. Alsoavailable are copies of back issues, clips of previous coverflexidiscs and Lord Gnome's hotlist to his fave sites. It's deadsimple to make a contribution to the infamous small ads, althoughif you want to read them you have to buy the mag.
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http://www.timeout.co.uk
Inside Time Out, London's weekly listing guide's Web site isan absolute bonanza of information on how to pass the time inLondon, Amsterdam, Berlin, Madrid, New York, Paris and Prague. Ithas fortnightly updated tourist guides to each city, classifieds,postcard stores, city maps, sample features and listinghighlights, making it a prime contender for the UK's proudest Webeffort.
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http://popularmechanics.com/
Popular Mechanics has been showing us 'the easy way to dohard things' since the turn of the century. It provides agenerous selection of stories, a retrospective, a video archiveof America's war machines, Web tools, a pictorial automotiveroadtest guide and much more. It's intended to entice you intosubscribing, and does a pretty good job of it.
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http://www.globalmark.com/globalmark/dim.html
The news on the street from this dedicated publication isthat Kate Moss is out and Jo Brand is in.
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http://www.interaus.net/magazine/welcome.html
Australia's first Internet magazine has many of its articlesgenerously bared online.
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http://mmnewsstand.com
Probably as good a place as any to lodge subscriptions to oneof the hundred-odd magazines here, from Cosmopolitan and Esquireto Cruising World, or to email order videos. Very few magazinesgive a sneak preview, contents or any details other than pricing.
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A taste of the sort of marketing data and sociologicalanalysis you can expect to get when you subscribe to AmericanDemographics.
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http://www.echonyc.com/~xixax/Mediarama/
This media-watch publication aims to take the hype outcontroversial media topics like gun control, AIDS, and semantics.You'll find a few samples and reviews here, but the goal is toget you to subscribe to the paper issue.
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http://www.cnd.org/
This site houses access to several Chinese languagepublications, scenic pictures, Chinese home pages and informationpertaining to China and the Chinese international community.
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http://techweb.cmp.com/techweb/default.html
It's a cramped messy looking home page but dig into the newssearch and you'll be astounded at how much technical andcomputing information is available. Apart from that you canbrowse through publications and even subscribe if you wish.
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http://www.skeptic.com/
The Skeptics Society, the private organisation of theintellectually curious, investigates the pseudosciences,paranormal and claims of fringe groups. At this site, you cansubscribe to the magazine, order books and tapes, readnewsletters and find out what's new in the world of scientificenquiry.
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http://www.ntu.ac.sg/intv/intv_www.html
If you're running Windows you can register to receive a freeTeletext viewer to run in conjunction with Netscape. Other userscan choose the slower Dynamic conversion service, which is justlike ye olde Teletext - slow, undetailed and full of spellingmistakes Ü but it's live, free and once you've sorted out whichpage you want, it can deliver the facts.
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http://www.timeinc.com
The richest of all publishing pages, this has not only usefullinks but real free products on display. Entertainment Weekly,Time Magazine, Time Daily, Warner Books, The Complete GardenEncyclopedia, Money Watch and Vibe, to name but a few, are allhere. This a handsome site, with no hard sell, just goodwill andit makes a pleasant change from Time's direct mail tactics.
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http://forteana.mic.dundee.ac.uk/ft
Fans of strange, unexplained and improbable phenomena willrelish every entry in this taste of the UK magazine ForteanTimes. Read about spontaneous combustion, alien sex-beasts,flying saucers, zombies, Uri Geller and surfing to the stars onwarped space. Highlights of the last 20 years include bizarrephotographs such as the 'magnetic man' and the 'kitten withwings'. You'll want more.
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This includes the bi-weekly newsletter of the Amundsen-ScottSouth Pole Station in the Antarctic as well as links to othergateways to the Antarctic.
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Gopher: gopher.panix.com
This is a New York-based public access Internet service where'anything legal' goes. At present it's no Manhattan Cable,offering as it does a mild mixture of New York City andrestaurant information together with some unusual specialistsections, such as the one containing technical and chemicalinformation about photographic film, and the excellent, MIT Guideto Lock Picking.
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http://www.earthweb.com:8000
This US organisation helps community and non-profit groupsexploit the Internet's potential for low-cost publishing.
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A listing of magazines and periodicals available via theInternet, including links to either details or the full text ofthe publications. Those mentioned range from 3W, the UK-basedglobal network newsletter, to the Electronic Green Journal andUSA Today. The file is pretty extensive, but if you see anomission, let them know. There is also some useful info aboutusing the Net.
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An ambitious free monthly from Vancouver, this invites (andneeds) free contributions. In each themed issue, it has the oddinteresting article, amongst more ordinary stuff. It's sowell-presented, it is a pleasure to flick through, but as isoften the case, it is the potential that is most exciting.
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http://enews.com
Each publication featured on the Electronic Newsstand has amission statement, subscription offer, current issue detailsincluding contents, and at least one complete article plusarchives. Despite its reworked graphical interface it'll stillthrow you out into Gopherspace when you least expect it.
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