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December 2006

BUBL LINK: Media studies

a UK portal's link to media links portals; some entries here will be new to US academics

November 2006

Lists of Bests

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again, I am fascinated by lists of bests, especially as related to literature; they comprise both an ideology of the canon and a sociology of popular tastes, a la Bourdieu; in an extended form, they comprise much of amazon.com

SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards

March 06; useful discursive comparison by judges of top contenders in each of many categories, which rhetorically can be used to teach students how to write about the Internet; sizeable honorable mention lists

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

by 7 others
rather technical; useful list of many web2.0 bloggers; frequent comparison of sites serving a similar function

Pandia Powersearch, all-in-one list of search engines and directories

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new search engine that also has useful tutorial on how to search and explanations of all the major search engines; good for college students to learn how to use Internet most effectively

Place: Cultural, Disability, Ethnic, Media, Postcolonial, Race Studies

huge multi-page database of links on space and place in cultural geography as applicable to interdisciplinary studies

October 2006

Cinema=Jean-Luc Godard=Cinema

by 1 other
site with many links to online essays about Godard

September 2006

Movie Blogs

I have not looked at all these, but about.com often has some new tips to follow up on.

Edublogs

roundup of author's favorite edublogs, sept 06; many listed

Monkey Bites

readers' votes on best and worst web 2.0 sites, sept 06

Intute - the best Web resources for education and research

by 4 others
UK academics and researchers write entries on many topics of interest, a bit like an encyclopedia that you ask questions of.

August 2006

July 2006

Bloglines | About Bloglines

I tried a number of ways to do RSS news feeds but could not get the hang of it. This is a site that keeps a free news aggregator for you. It has an intuitive and practical interface. The disadvantage is that once again I contribute to marketing data co

June 2006

feminism - Sphere

I often try out social bookmarking sites by typing in a key word, such as "feminism," to see what comes up. It lets me compare the sites.

geek women-culturecat h2o

from Clancy Ratliff, major edublogger

*The* Link Portal on Gender in the Blogosphere | CultureCat

the constant question: Where are the women in cyberspace?