December 2006
BBC - collective - the interactive culture magazine
by 4 othersa social networking site in which BBC offers cultural reviews, with clips, and readers comment or write alternative reviews; readers also submit own reviews
AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web
by 1 othernarrative+history+pictures+encyclopedia; "safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest"
BUBL LINK: Media studies
a UK portal's link to media links portals; some entries here will be new to US academics
artists and art...the-artists.org
by 1 otherextended visual, biographical, and textual database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists
November 2006
Lists of Bests
by 5 othersagain, 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 othersrather technical; useful list of many web2.0 bloggers; frequent comparison of sites serving a similar function
Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog: The Intro Textbook: A Comparison
an entry in a film blog that I like that compares and contrasts the Film 101 textbooks commonly used
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
Media Art Net | Overview of Media Art | MassMedia
links to many full text essays on television; site is a little difficult to navigate, but links to much good writing
Weekend Magazine web 2.0 special | Weekend | Guardian Unlimited
by 4 othersNov 06. Foremost UK online newspaper has roundup of issues, people, in "new" Internet.
Pandia Powersearch, all-in-one list of search engines and directories
by 1 othernew 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
Tracking Down Educators that Use Photo Sharing (flickr) | Teaching Hacks.com
aiding social networking and sharing of resources for using photography in education
Main Page - AcademicBlogs
by 1 otherA wiki about academic blogs, with links to blogs in each academic area of study
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 othersUK academics and researchers write entries on many topics of interest, a bit like an encyclopedia that you ask questions of.
BlogDance--The best film / movie blog posts from around the web
uses rss feeds to keep track of movie blog news, useful daily roundup of film gossip and news
August 2006
Film Fest Journal
film blog that indicates many films you might like to put on your netflicks list
Jeteye :: Digistories
links page for digital story telling
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
