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Some
useful websites to get you started
Yahoo!: www.yahoo.com
The most popular and
comprehensive Web directory.
The World Wide Web Consortium:
www.w3.org
Lots of useful basic
(and advanced) information about the World Wide Web, with Tim Berners-Lee's interesting
Frequently Asked Questions page at www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html.
Wired News:
www.wired.com/news
Daily articles about
internet developments, regulations, and innovations, with an excellent searchable
archive where you can find an article on anything Web-related.
A Brief History of the
Internet and Related Networks:
www.isoc.org/internet/history/cerf.html
Useful short history
of the internet by Vint Cerf.
Resource Center for Cyberculture
Studies: www.otal.umd.edu/~rccs
Lots of 'cyberculture'
resources.
Web Pages That Suck:
www.webpagesthatsuck.com
The excellent Web design
guide.
BBC Online:
www.bbc.co.uk
The BBC's impressively
full, well-built public service site.
Beeb.com:
www.beeb.com
The BBC's useless commercial
site.
Geekgirl:
www.geekgirl.com.au
Cool Australian webzine
thing.
Spark:
www.spark-online.com
Lovingly designed online
pop culture magazine.
World Wide Arts Resources:
http://wwar.com
Gateway to arts information
and culture on the Internet including artists, galleries, art history, and education.
Art Star - Everything Art:
www.artstar.com
Comprehensive art information
site.
The Internet Movie Database:
www.imdb.com
Huge site where everyday
moviegoers, and video-renters, review and rate movies. The site also contains
a wealth of factual information.
Movie Critic:
www.moviecritic.com
The Critic asks
you to rate a set of movies, and then uses clever interactive technology to tell
you which films you'll like. And it's spookily accurate.
Electronic Frontiers Foundation:
http://eff.org
Site of the best-known
cyberspace civil liberties organisation.
McSpotlight:
www.mcspotlight.org
Well-known site which
was established to provide information about London's famous McLibel trial, but
grew to be a huge international anti-corporate resource centre.
Handbag:
www.handbag.com
A curious thing rather
than a 'good' thing necessarily – it's a new UK portal site (see glossary), aimed
at women.
And from our own correspondents...
New Media Studies:
www.newmediastudies.com
The website for the
study of new media, with articles, reviews, web design and marketing guides, web
arts, and more.
Theory.org.uk:
www.theory.org.uk
Media, gender and identity
resources.
International Film:
www.internationalfilm.org
Site about the world
of international film 'directed' by our own Graham Roberts.
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