Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:38
From: Aimee
Here's a web site that might fit the bill for tomorrow night's discussion. I haven't thoroughly explored it yet, but it looks promising:
The Cambodian Genocide Program
http://www.yale.edu/cgp/
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 15:34
From: Becca
Here is my site. It is called the kassandra project and
is a collection of sites concerning the study of German culture.
http://www.reed.edu/~ccampbel/tkp/links.html
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:16
From: Fran L.
I have been using the American Memory Pages that we have read about in a few of the articles for my thesis research. But since that is one that has already been thrown out there, I'll provide another. I found a page called "texts and contexts" that has individual sections on various authors (from all over and from many different time periods) that contain the texts, pictures and quotes.
http://paul.spu.edu/~hawk/t&c.html
Just to let you know how smart I am, I clicked on Anna Karenina as a text to view. It took forever to load up!
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 08:56
From: Jami
Hi, all. I'm not sure whether this is exactly the kind of site you were looking for, but here's a URL for a site about Ellis Island:
www.icgnet.com/users/phil/ruins/ellis/index.html
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 14:44
From: Jami
Subject: The African-American Mosaic
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
When I got home from class on Tuesday and checked out my _Newsweek_, there was an article about this website. I don't know if Randy already included it in the links he built, but I figured it might be kind of perfect for our purposes. Also, I had wanted to look for Harlem Renaissance sites (for class two weeks ago) and this should have some info contained within.
Enjoy spring break!!
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 14:46
From: Jami
Subject: Women Come to the Front
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html
Okay, it's me again. I thought this might go nicely with Krissi's interest in women's history... others may be interested, too! It's from the same LOC site.
Jami
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:41
From: Jonathan S.
Subject: Cyberpsychology
Hey all,
Here's an interesting site on the psychology of cyberspace:
http://www1.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/psycyber.html
I hope someone out there finds this useful...
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 00:10:07
From: Jonathan & Ivana
Subject: Beautiful Site
This is an "Interactive Art Book," a collection of mystical photographs and musings, and an open call for accompanying stories from any and all who log in. Definitely a site to watch...
http://www.myth.com/mythopoeia/mythopoeia1.html
This seems to me one of the more elegant uses of the Web I've seen in a while.
I did a search on the history of the American flag, and I came up with two interesting sites.
The first is from a site: The History of the Flag
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4182
This site is a timeline that contains numerous links to sites outside of the page's domain, which I though was of note since the site seems to explicitly make use of the capacity of the web for joining disparate ideas together.
The second site is The Flag of the United States at
http://www.icss.com/usflag
This site is much more attuned to the controversies surrounding the flag, such as flag-burning, as well as patriotism and the flag, and even how to fold your flag. This is perhaps the most comprehensive site on the US Flag, as it provides numerous internal and external links, as well as a site-specific search engine. The site includes sections on the history of the flag, web sites of special interest relating to government and Virtual tours, a directory of historic and current flags of America, and an index of patirotic writings, essays, songs, speeches, poetry, etc. It also includes a salute to members of the Armed Forces of America. Clearly, the writer of the site is of a specific political/patriotic bent, but he makes an effort to include contrary views, such as in his section on whether or not flag desecration is a crime.
This site is not just about the flag...it's about American history overall and our use of symbolism, as the site includes links to the Declaration of INdependence, the National Anthem and the Bald Eagle.
The author also welcomes input and contributions to the site from visitors, so it is a dynamic document that reflects a wider range of tastes. The combination of subjectivity and objectivity creates an important historical overview of current beliefs and feelings about the flag, IMHO.
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 13:57
From: Karen
I found a terrific site on William Faulkner at:
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html
This site was put together by a (surprise!) English Lit graduate student at the University of Mississippi. This site is attractive to look at, but more importantly, it is incredibly comprehensive. It contains a library of Faulkner's novels, short stories, poetry, essays, letters, etc., biographical material on Faulk, including a family tree, info about Oxford, Mississippi (with maps), Faulkner's screenplays and film adaptations, a humorous "Play Room" for Faux Faulkner writing contests and quizzes, links to other Faulkner sites, and a compendium of scholarly resources. Whew!
I really like how the author of this site created an "index" for his site. The author uses the ruse of calling his web site "Yoknapatawpha County," and treats his web site as though it were a town. Thus, the index includes seven main categories to evoke places you might find in a town, such as the Library, a description of the Sole Owner & Proprietor (Faulkner himself), The Town, The Moving Picture House, the Carriage House, etc. Just under each category is a hotlink to various subsections you might wish to jump directly to instead of having to go through the main headings--a terrific design feature.
The site is designed to keep you from straying from the olemiss server. There are no outside links, except for the pages that are marked as specifically faulkner resources and other faulkner sites. There are tons of links on every page, but they all lead to some other place on the faulkner web site. I think this is a strategically good move because it prevents readers from surfing away from the topic at hand.
I really didn't notice any design flaws worth mentioning. The site is quite nice looking, but it could be further aesthetically improved. However, the content is fantastic, and that's the most important thing.
Also, you have to visit this bloody but fascinating
Faulkner-related site at:
http://www.crimescene.com
This is Yoknapatawpha County's law enforcement division homepage, which is a "repository of investigative information regarding the murder of Valerie Wilson." This site allows you to participate in solving the murder of this woman.
Enjoy!
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 09:25
From: Krissi
Someone suggested this as a cool site for us to look at...
253, or Tube Theatre--A novel for the Internet
http://www.ryman-novel.com/
Geoff Ryman, a science fiction writer, offers this experimental fiction to web surfers looking for something with a little literary elan. Working from the fact that a seven-car train on the Bakerloo line of London's Underground will seat 252 passengers and one driver, Ryman has written a character study of each person on a fictional train. The twist is that each section of the text is precisely 253 words long. There are links between the characters' stories, so that the reader develops a sense of the relationships between these strangers on a train. For those who desire an actual plot, there's an optional train wreck at the end. Cars 1 through 4 are on the track now, and 5 through 7 are promised soon. [ML]
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 15:42
From: Krissi
Subject: Re: Good Scientific American article on the Net
thought we should be aware of this...I think it is good for understanding differnt ways to organize knowledge. Particularly important for our database discussion.
The Internet: Bringing Order from Chaos--_Scientific American_
http://www.sciam.com/0397issue/0397intro.html
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 18:53
From: Krissi
Subject: women's history archive
Site title: WORCESTER WOMEN'S HISTORY PROJECT/WOMEN 2000 CONFERENCE
This site give lots of information about the 1850 Convention held in Worcester, Mass. It explains the Convention's significance as well as its relation to the more popular 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.
I found this site off a jump page provided by the National Women's History Project at http://www.nwhp.org
Enjoy!
http://www.assumption.edu/html/Academic/history/WWHP/front.html
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 14:16
From: Krissi
Subject: DROP EVERYTHING!
This represents the most creative use of frames I have seen to date!
"Each page forces you to unscroll a piece of clothing to reveal an essay
where one might expect a crotch. It's the story of a woman
"appropriating the signifiers of [her] objectification," and ending up
with nothing more than a dirty wink and a few phone numbers." --
Tripod's words, not Krissi's.
I think it is well worth our attention as a discussion piece, in class
or on line. How is the medium the message?
http://www.word.com/desire/garterbelt/index.htm
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 09:55
From: Krissi
For those of you investigating gaming (on a long-term basis), you may want to check out this book. As you will notice, the pub date is not until our projects -- and the semester -- are long finished. Still, it could prove interesting...
Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds by J.C. Herz (Little, Brown & Company, $23.95. Pub date: June 11, 1997
If you want to read a review of it, check out this URL:
http://www.tripod.com/triteca/perspective/
Once again, you will notice the "tripod" connection. (Think back to garter belts) I'm tellin' ya, this site is really really cool and continues to please week after week. Its better than "Cats"!!!
I found a nice cultural, historical web site at:
http://homepage.interaccess.com:80/~arduinif/other07.htm
I hope this is the kind of thing you're looking for.