All the links from JOMC050 with Bob Stepno, July 1998

These were the "Related sites" and "assignment" links from all the daily pages. Sorry there's not much organization here, just a roughly chronological list. If anything seems completely unfamiliar, take a look! That's probably a sign (under Murphy's Law) that it was the secret to some problem you had on the midterm, or could have on the final! Or maybe not...

Since all of these are full links, you can save this page on your disk and have them forever...

Bob

  1. Rosetta's Mac to PC tips 
  2. ATN's UserID Services 
  3. Macintosh Basics 
  4. What is a browser? 
  5. Search for some information about turkey racing.
  6. ATN's Internet in a nutshell
  7. WWW Search 101 Cheat Sheet, especially Deb's library keyword strategy
  8. UNC-CH Library Search Tips
  9. Library of Congress Subject Headings
  10. The Importance of Keywords
  11. A sample JOMC 050 preliminary topic proposal.
  12. UNC Online Directory
  13. Check out the answers to All Your Questions (so far, at least).
  14. Read Vannevar Bush's 1945 article, As We May Think, to learn why he thought the "memex" was a good idea, especially sections 1, 6 and 7. (If it's busy, here's another copy.)
  15. If it's not clear how Bush's ideas led to this Macintosh lab, see The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker, a chapter about Douglas Englebart in a book by Howard Rheingold.
  16. A quick introduction to HTML Codes. For more good advice, check out the same author's answer to computer disk-housekeeping confusion, Hey--where did my files go?, which inspired my own little rant on files and folders for your Web pages.
  17. CNET's list of 20 Questions (and answers) about the Internet that help explain the basic principles.
  18. A Map of the Internet
  19. Internet Pioneers
  20. Evolution of the Computer focus especially on the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
  21. Two examples of information entry points on the Web: Yahoo and AltaVista.
  22. Why important Internet people are going to Geneva in July. If you haven't had enough Internet history yet, back up to the home page of that Website and investigate "isoc.org," one of the most important organizations related to Internet. You also might want to look at The World Wide Web Consortium, and InterNIC, just to see what they do. While you're at InterNIC, look up "domain" and "domain name system" in its glossary
  23. Try a silly number of new HTML tags.
  24. Steal Our Template, it will give you a head start on your own pages.
  25. ATN's Web Page Authoring Basics
  26. Read the following UNC-CH guidelines on:
    Copyright, Disclaimers, Links to the UNC Home Page, Photographs and Audio/Video Clips, Rights and Responsibilities, Data Storage and Deletion, and Personal Home Pages.
  27. Fetch Help
  28. Uploading Web Pages
  29. ColorCenter: Some help with color, backgrounds, etc.
  30. How to make a web page from nothing
  31. An HTML Primer: a handy reference of many common tags
  32. Pictures on a Web page
  33. Web Topics: Frames, Image Maps, and Emerging HTML Topics
  34. Adobe Submits Proposal to Improve Quality of Web Graphics
  35. HTML Review at www.arachnoid.com
  36. Bob's Image Excess rant
  37. ATN's Web Authoring with HTML, Part 2
  38. Tutorial Overload: JOMC50's How to make a Web site out of nothing--but please make one about something!
  39. Before you "publish" information or pictures that you've found online, look at this page and follow it's link to UNC's advice about copyrights, yours and those of other folks.
  40. Visual information overload: The Mining Company's guide to Web clipart, including Clipart Ring links.
  41. Learn about research and reporting
    from a special guest speaker, Teresa Leonard,
    director of news research at the News & Observer
  42. Check out Bob's Weekend Answers
  43. The News & Observer
  44. News Research at the N&O
  45. The White House
  46. The Government Printing Office
  47. Thomas, the U.S. Congress on the Internet
  48. Federal Bureau of Investigation
  49. Internal Revenue Service
  50. Government FOIA Sites
  51. Library of Congress
  52. The National Archives and Records Administration
  53. Census Bureau Home Page
  54. Government sources from Davis Library
  55. J50's Government resource list, where you can try to find replacements for outdated links!
  56. Catching up with items from last week, including introduction to Netscape Composer and JOMC50 templates as a way to make your three required Web pages.
  57. Take the spring 1998 practice test to help you ace the test. This test is multiple choice and will be scored online! Our test will be in a different format, but will cover roughly the same areas, plus the basic HTML tags you've been using.
  58. Bob's weekend letter, and the review-related links in it, if you didn't get to look at them yesterday.
  59. Because there have been several questions about them, here are some clear explanations of basic HTML table codes
  60. Another Resume template, direct from Netscape (the company). Guess that isn't Wendy after all... Also see the general information on Using Templates.
  61. The bad banjo page (View source to see the solution to the html editing problem.)
  62. Debugging Web pages, Eric Chernoff's excellent list of common Web publishing errors and questions from previous JOMC50 classes... and how to fix them.
  63. Web Pages That Suck, with advice on how to avoid making the list.
  64. Vote Smart Web
  65. Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  66. National Hurricane Center
  67. Office of Accident Investigation
  68. Federal Trade Commission Home Page
  69. Forms And Publications - IRS
  70. Web pages (printouts of uploaded pages due Monday morning at start of class; include URL).
  71. If you finished the Web pages early and want a preview, see UNC-CH Library Electronic Resources, especially the new Academic Universe.
  72. UNC-CH Library Electronic Resources
  73. Academic Universe.
  74. Copyrights at Lexis/Nexis
  75. Lexis/Nexis home page.
  76. Explore your backyard
  77. UNC-CH Library Electronic Resources
  78. Infotrac.
  79. Statistical Universe
  80. Watch the population in real time!
  81. www.census.gov is the Census Bureau online
  82. And its idea of Fun
  83. Explore the variety of information at Sunsite
  84. Think up good questions for Paul Jones, who started one of the first Web sites in the U.S.A.
  85. The Internet Poetry Archive
  86. A discussion of information quality online
  87. Ever MetaLab like this one?
  88. The UNC-CH Libraries Online
  89. Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe
  90. For review (and preparation for the next Treasure Hunt),
    see Teresa Leonard's Links,
    especially the "official sources" and "Computer-assisted reporting" sections.
  91. The Assignment: Treasure Hunt #2
  92. The Assignment: Treasure Hunt #2
  93. J50 Government Resources
  94. J50 Business Resources
  95. Teresa Leonard's Links, especially the "official sources" and "Computer-assisted reporting" sections.
  96. On usability and information quality
    1. Jakob Nielsen on "Usability" of information. (See book, below.)
    2. ProjectCool.com for Web design advice (see book reference below).
    3. Evaluating Web sites (and information), questions and more questions.
    4. Bob and another Bob discussing information quality, (a sample of the kind of old-fashioned Web pages we did in Paul Jones' 1995 class)
  97. Misc. housekeeping
    1. The latest caution on Mac-PC disk problems.
  98. More than we had time to cover on images, tables, imagemaps, frames, forms and some of the multimedia plug-ins for the Web, but still a relatively basic book with a lot of examples online at ProjectCool.com. Also asks important questions like "Is your cool James Dean cool, or Beavis and Butthead cool?"
  99. Read or review the "Electronic Business Information" sections of DTE, including the J50 How to find information about companies page and its explanation of SEC forms, especially the "10K" (which is not "K" for kilobytes).
  100. Answers to your latest questions!
  101. To discuss branding, media and convergence....
    1. WRAL-TV, CNN and MS-NBC, is this television, or print, or what?
    2. American Journalism Review, including Newslink list of online newspapers.
    3. The truth is out there?, another example of media convergence from Fox.
    4. J50 Media Resources
    5. Media: Old, New and Born on the Web (Bob's old list of bookmarks), and another article on "way new" journalism.
    6. The Media-in-Transition project at MIT, and the Daily Fishwrap.
  102. Net abuse and controversy
    1. The Electronic Frontier Foundation says "no" to Internet censorship.
    2. A Wired magazine article on Internet gambling and update on a bill that would make it illegal.
    3. A rant on Kids, sex and nervous adults.
    4. The J50 Online controversies page.
    5. The J50 Help, we've been hacked page.
    6. The J154 Ethics page
  103. More business information online
    1. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)
    2. Federal Trade Commission Home Page
    3. U.S. Bankruptcy Court, NC-M
    4. N.C. Dept. of Revenue
    5. N.C. Secretary of State with business search and Corporations Division info.
    6. J50 How to find information about companies page.
  104. Portals want to be your home on the Web
    1. Search engines, news sources, or "portals"? Yahoo, AltaVista, Pathfinder, MS-NBC, Tripod, Mindspring, Netscape, America OnLine and AT&T, just for a start.
    2. Audio online, a recent magazine article about music on the Web.
    3. The Media-in-Transition project at MIT, and the Daily Fishwrap.
    4. Media Studies, a British view.
  105. The Web and HTML are still evolving
    1. New control for designers, Cascading Style Sheets are next addition to HTML (just when you thought you'd learned it all).
  106. The Assignment: Treasure Hunt #2
  107. More Library Help from the Virtual Reference Desk.
  108. Hoover's business database website. For example, here's what it will tell you about one of the world's biggest media companies,Time Warner. Notice the gold stars on information it will only show to customers.
  109. But through the UNC and state library systems, you are a customer! Compare Hoover's Website with the Hoover's search through EBSCO, the publishing company. (Note: We've had some troubles with the new interface to this database, but keep trying. To get there the long way, go to library.unc.edu, select electronic indexes and databases, then select NCLive. Select "electronic resources," select EBSCO, and either click on "login to EBSCO Host," or click on EBSCO host 1.1" (We've had more luck with the latter; which identifies itself as an older version for Lynx users. The newer version seems to connect, but some searches that should work come up empty, at least as of July 30, 1998.) Finally, select Hoover's from the list of databases and search away!
  110. For even more business sources, see UNC Business Librarian Rita Moss's recently-updated list of Business Information Resources
  111. We've had this as a "related site" earlier in the term but didn't talk about it in class: Project Vote Smart, which is another source of information about your elected representatives
  112. Take the first practice test again. This test is multiple choice, as is the final. The final will cover the full course, with less emphasis on HTML than the mid-term. Study the DTE handouts on library databases, Boolean searching, and government documents.
  113. Take the second practice test!
  114. Review the assignment links for The whole course!
  115. How we spent our summer vacation
  116. Beyond J0MC050 -- Keep learning!
    • The Cool Site of the Day Site, in answer to Mr. Waits' question about a more positive alternative to webpagesthatsuck.com --included is cool zones, which tries to organize past cool sites by topic.
    • Less fun, but more focused, you might want to look at Roger Black's Web Sites That Work site, with some ideas from his book by the same name. I considered assigning this book to the class, but it's terribly expensive. Nice to see he's giving away at least a little of it online. (By the way, he's a famous designer for national magazines, who has branched out into the Web. For some clients, see iab.com/sites/sites.html
    • Netscape itself offers a Web developers page that features how-to tips and good examples. It's linked to Netscape's home page, if you can find it on the growing "portal" menu, or you can go directly to: http://developer.netscape.com/openstudio/.
    • Microsoft has a similar SiteBuilder Workshop page. Both of these sites are good places to keep learning on the Web. Watch for tips on the stuff we didn't deal with in this course, including Javascript, DynamicHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, and probably a new buzzword every month! (That's the way the Web goes round!)
    • Speaking of learning, as the new semester starts, remember you can take free courses on computer applications from UNC-CH Academic Technologies and Networks (ATN), including Internet courses and Photoshop courses.

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...is an old newspaper code for "The End"

Have a great life, and write to me about it!

bob@unc.edu