Subject/General Research Guides

• www.yahoo.com - As always a good place to begin. After you are finished looking at the different subject listings, consider looking at the news, at the atlas and telephone pages, and so on. Also, after you are finished searching for an item, click on the links to additional search engines at the bottom of the page, and you will find that you search is 'forwarded' to that search engine automatically. Get to know these different search engines. Each turns up different kinds of information.
• www.infoseek.com- another good search beginning
• www.infospace.com- is a good place to find addresses and city information.
• www.excite.com- provides reviews, yellow pages, etc. I suppose this might be a site to 'surf' from since one does get reviews. However, I like things unfiltered and so prefer Yahoo. A strong search engine nearby.
• www.lib.utexas.edu/resources/ - and don't forget UT!

The information economy/ information politics

• The Information Economy- A large collection of information on the new economy.
• The Teledemocracy Page- A large collection of material on impact of the Net on Democracy
• Texas Telecommunications Policy Institute- Your local resource on what's happening in Texas. Check it out!
• Planning and Community Resources- Another massive local link that provides all kinds of access to information infrastructure, access, and other issues.
• EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation- A major repository for material on privacy, encryption, and legal issues about the new communication environment..
• Vote Smart Web- Provides voting records of major political figures, ratings by various organization, ways to get in touch.
• WebActive: What's New in Activism Online- For those looking to get involved.
• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet- A Resource Central for the US Govt online. Here you can get the bills, at Vote Smart you can chose analysis from different perspective.
• Benton's Telecommunications Act of 1996 Page- If you want more info on the policy side of the new regulations. But also go through the Texas Telecom Page.
• Information Infrastructure Articles- Let the whole page load. Lots of ideas.
• wIRED nEWS- People taking this class want to keep up to date. Changes hourly. Lots of industry and cultural news related to the Internet.

Other links of interest

• Citing online resources- Different templates about how to cite from the Net in a bibliography
• Communication Studies Resources- Including Film Studies, Journalism, Advertising, etc.
• Online Career Center- post your resume, get assistance.
• College Money and College Loans Page- find loans and some grant money
• Online Worlds- some of the links are getting dated. An entry to new worlds. And don't forget to look at Howard Rheingold's Virtual Worlds articles page!
• Software to go online with: Windows at Strouds; and Mac stuff via Dr. Shareware with the classic being, probably, Info-Mac. There are always sites like Zdnet to check out.
• Reading and stuff- Hard to avoid ads and pitches: Electronic Newsstand Homepage,
• Sound- if you have headphones, aren't in a shared computer area, here's examples of what's to come, RealAudio 3.0 Sites Directory, The AudioNet Jukebox, the internet jukebox, www.TheDJ.com.