Again the searchable index there came up blank. So I poked
through some more sub directories, and finally under "Other
Information Servers" was what we wanted, "Outreach and
Technical Assistance Network (OTAN)".
Moral of the story? General purpose search engines like Veronica
can be very useful but may never be comprehensive enough when
looking for a particular source. Sometimes, you just have to
hunt around and play detective.
More on Transparent GIFs
In previous issues,
we have mentioned the use of
transparent GIF images in WWW pages. There is now
a FAQ
(Frequently Asked Questions) with just about
all you might need to know.
In Windows, the program LviewPro 1.9A can save GIFs as interlaced
and as GIF89a format with the background color transparent (and
it's a full-featured graphics manipulation program). Check it
out at your favorite SIMTEL mirror FTP sites
- ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos
- ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/ibmpc/msdos
- ftp://archive.orst.edu/pub/mirrors/simtel/msdos
In our last issue,
we discussed some of the useful Mac applications.
Web Newsgroups
Depending on your site, you may or may not be able to use the Web
access to USENET newsgroups. For those not familiar with newsgroups,
they are more or less subject-oriented electronic discussions like
listservs, but rather than getting a flood of mail you access a server
that receives a daily "feed" of the latest "news". In this way, you can
pick and choose when and what to read (although the volume of data is
so large that a site can only hold them a few days).
Most news groups periodically publish a list of "Frequently Asked
Questions" or "FAQs" which are intended to cut down on the volume
of "newbie" questions. These have been stored in the past at a
ftp site at MIT
(the machine-name in the internet address is an abbreviation
for a common-response to ridiculous questions..)
A site at Ohio-State University maintains a WWW
list of all USENET FAQs.
Here at Maricopa, we all have access to news groups when you use the
lynx interface via A1. Before everyone groans about the using the
non-graphical index, recall that newsgroups are text only!
To get to newsgroups from lynx (you get there by typing www at the A1
prompt), type "g" (for "Go to the location....")
and at the "URL:" prompt type:
news:_____._____.____.____
where the blanks represent the name of a news group. There are THOUSANDS,
well maybe, HUNDREDS to choose from! Here are some ones to try:
-
Contents of the Net-Happenings Listserv (moderated by Gleason Sackman)
- This is one of my prime spots for finding new "links" to
put on our server.
Note that you can also search Net-Happenings at these sites:
http://www.mid.net:80/NET/
http://www-iub.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/nethaps/index.html
-
The Web Announcements Newsgroup.
- This seems to now be the main site
for announcing new WWW sites. See below for instructions on
submitting to this group
- WWW Providers
- This group focuses on issues of creating WWW pages
(HTML) as well as questiona and answers about the various WWW
server systems.
Okay... I have to admite that I do like the interface to newsgroups
from NetScape. It allows you to eaily follow "threads" of discussions.
Anouncing Your Site
From: grant@coho.halcyon.com (M. L. Grant)
Subject: Send announcements to COMP.INFOSYSTEMS.WWW.ANNOUNCE
Date: 16 Jan 1995 21:43:44 GMT
Hey! There's a new Web newsgroup exclusively dedicated to posting
your Web announcements. You don't need to post them to the other
groups any more!
Mail your announcement to www-announce@medio.com -- make sure your
URL's work and that they're in the following format:
<URL:protocol://path/to/file/or/directory>
If you want a copy of the charter or complete announcement
procedure, send mail to:
www-announce-request@medio.com
I'll post your announcement within 24 to 48 hours of receiving
the correct URL's. It will show up on your news spool within
a day or two. So less than a week after sending me your
announcement, your customers/users/patrons/clients will find it
in the group it belongs in, and they won't have to sift through the
other Web groups to find it!
What a concept! comp.infosystems.www.announce! Post there today!
M. L. Grant
Moderator, comp.infosystems.www.announce
Definitive HTML Book?
These comments are from:
news:comp.infosystems.www.providers
I've seen an announcement for a SAMS Publishing book called
"Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week" by
Laura Lemay. (ISBN 0-672-30667-0, price $25, Pub. date:
Dec. '94.
I bought one called "HTML manual of Style" that I liked.
basic, but I thought it was good. it's Ziff-Davis, author
is Larry Aronson.
I'll second that. Larry is usually lurking around this
newsgroup, too. It's ISBN number (in case that helps) is
1-56276-300-8 -- I happen to have it open sitting right
next to me!
I'll third that, it is a very well done book.
Interactive Age
This is one of the many useful information sources that I
rely on to stay tuned to the Web. InterActive Age is a
free print magazine focusing on the Internet, especially
trends for the future and the impact of business and government
regulation or lack there of. You can sign up for a subscription
from the IA home page.
or by electronic mail by sending a message to
ianewsub@interact.cmp.com
Interactive Age is a division of CMP publishing, which has an
interesting home page called TechWeb.
Sites of Intrigue
-
CUNY Multimedia Initiative
is an incentive program to encourage CUNY faculty to experiment
with the latest in multimedia technology. The site features
examples of WWW lessons written by faculty as well as other
multimedia projects developed at CUNY.
- New Media Centers
is a non-profit organization committed to helping institutions
of higher learning enhance teaching and learning through the use
of new media.
- Voyager
the multimedia company that produces CD-ROM, laser disc titles,
as well as the Expanded Book series.
- 3SIXTY
is Voyager's beautiful full-color source catalog for
interactive media, where you can find a human perspective
on a variety of outstanding CD-ROM titles, by Voyager and
other publishers.
- The Paris Review
is the international literary quarterly edited by George
Plimpton, now entering its fifth decade.
- Tom Robbins
the contemporary American author
- GORP - Great Outdoor Recreation
features descriptions of most of the U.S. National Parks, Forests
and Wilderness Areas. The site also contains information on a
number of outdoor activities (such as hiking, biking, climbing,
fishing, paddlesports, skiing, caving, etc.) and includes
pointers to city/state/country pages which include outdoor
recreation and travel information.
http://www.gorp.com/
- Hawaii Visitor Bureau
Here you will find not only the usual information on
accomodations, entertainment, dining and attractions, but also
very specific information on such diverse things as hiking
trails and hula competitions. Together with this information is
provided a cultural and historical backround of the Islands.
- The Alaskan Center
offers information about Alaska. If you have an intrest in our
state, plan to visit or would like to rekindle fond memories of
passed visits this is for you. Travel agents will assist with
all your tour or travel needs via free fax forms.
- Traveler's Japanese with audio.
Sound files of typical expressions needed by travelers to the country.
- European Weather
- Interactive Graphics Rendering
a forms based interface to a raytracer that allows you to
generate your own unique bullets or lines for use on world wide
web pages. If you produces a graphic you like, you may simply
click a button an a anti-aliased, reduced-color (for small
downloads), already transparent backgrounded graphics file will
be sent to your machine. Also included on the page is a link to
a resource list of HTML authoring tools and other web based
graphics resources.
-
Worst of the Web
provides links to, and original commentary on, what's the worst
on the Web. Subjective, satiric and constantly growing, it's
WWW-indigenous humor. A graphical browser is required to view
the pages, which will otherwise appear even worse than intended.
- Hands-on Science Centers
is a list of museums stressing
interactive science education.
- International Lung Sounds Association
Since its establishment in 1976, this society has provided a
forum for physicians, physiologists, physicists and engineers
who study respiration acoustics
- Information on the
KOBE city earthquake
-
Consummate Winsock App List
- PharmInfoNet
is devoted to delivering useful, up-to-date, and accurate
pharmaceutical information to pharmacists, physicians, and
patients.
- The Committee on East Asian Libraries maintains a page directed to the
needs of librarians who must deal with the growing volume of Asian
electronic information and should be useful for anyone interested in East
Asia or in Asian studies.
- Youth Music/Youth Culture page has been assembled by students at Drake
University studying music and its affect on culture. A good variety of
links show the way beyond performers to on-line magazines, academic sites
for music/culture, listings organized by type of music, song lyrics, audio
clips, and Usenet newsgroups.
- The National Service Learning Clearinghouse for K-12 gopher
server is part of a 3-year federal grant from the Corporation
for National Service, which houses the old ACTION and VISTA
programs, the new AmeriCorps program, and Learn and Serve
America, the K-12 education portion of national service. The
National Information Center gopher provides access to online
searching of resources, programs, and organizations.
- Jazz: The 1950's - Records and Photography
A readable and interesting page includes links to "TIME" magazine
articles from the 1950's, the "Stars of Jazz" TV series,
nightclubs, a list of books that focus on the West Coast Jazz
movement, an index of musicians, and more.
- CYBERKIND
features prose, poetry and art submitted by the
Internet population. All genres and subjects are included, as
long as there is some connection to the Internet, cyberspace,
computers or the networked world in general. The January, 1995
edition features two new nonfiction articles by R.J. LaRoe and a
great new art exhibit by Ralph Ivy.
-
The Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy
announces the Federal Web Locator service. This is a World Wide
Web page for accessing over 210 different World Wide Web servers
with federal government information. The Federal Web Locator is
intended to be a one-stop kiosk for jumping off to federal
sites.
- Starting Point
in their opinion "provides your single best starting point for
World Wide Web exploration." Rather oriented toward the
business and entertainment arena.
- BMI
is a non-profit making organization representing more than
160,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers with a
repertoire of more than 3,000,000 works in all areas of music.
BMI distributes royalties to its affiliates for the public
performance and digital home copying of their works, and in the
future, will distribute potential new royalties for the use of
their works in cyberspace.
- Macmillan USA Information SuperLibrary
the world's largest computer book publisher, Macmillan Computer
Publishing. Visit our imprints - Adobe Press, Alpha, Brady,
Hayden, New Riders, Que, Que College, and Sams. All books and
software in the SuperLibrary are offered at a 20 percent discount.
- Skeptics Society
is a member-supported organization of scholars, scientists,
historians, magicians, and the intellectually curious, that
sponsors a lecture series at Caltech and publishes the quarterly
magazine Skeptic, for the purpose of promoting science and
critical thinking, and disseminating information on
pseudoscience, pseudohistory, the paranormal, magic,
superstition, fringe claims and groups, revolutionary science,
protoscience, and the history of science and pseudoscience, in
articles, essays, reviews, and letters.
- Graphics Archive Web
- MacInTouch
The Web site for the MacWeek columnist Ric Ford
- Universal Studios
- Chaos Group at the University of Maryland at College Park
Chaos is a multidisciplinary science, and this is reflected in
the fact that the members of the group are affiliated with diverse
departments and institutions
- Virginia Library and Information Network (VLIN)
Primarily designed for librarians, VLIN provides links to hundreds of
reference resources and frequently used information services
- Thomas
In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson,
a service of the U.S. Congress through its Library.
including full text of legislation and
full text of all versions of House and Senate bills searchable by
keyword(s) or by bill number.
- Virginia Tech New Media Center
provides the regional community free access to high-end
digitization and manipulation tools for the development of new
media projects.
The center is divided into a development lab and a classroom.
- Department of Energy's Yucca Mountain Project
- Sega of America
-
Computer Graphics
- Computer Companies
-
Internet Font Archive
- Diane Kovacs Electronic Conference List
is organized by subject and is also searchable
-
Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials
This document provides brief information about selected Internet
and BITNET lists and electronic serials that are of interest to
librarians. It only includes lists and electronic serials that
are open for general subscription.
- The Oracle Information Highway
- Voyage to Another Universe - 1994
by Karen G. Strom, is a narrative and picture book
of a journey through the American Southwest and the
Native American sites in Arizona dn New Mexico.
- Sony
online music, pictures, electronic, publications
-
Association for Educational Communication and Technology (AECT)
is an international, professional organization dedicated to the
improvement of instruction through the use of media and technology.
[contrib by Sharon Blanton, SCC]
- fX TV network
is a new cable television network created by Fox Television.
- World Wide Web Yellow Pages
- E-SPAN Interactive Employment Network
Job listings,places to post resumes, search for job titles,
and even an interview simulator.
- Tic-Tac-Toe
- World Wide Web Virtual Library- Education
- World-Wide Web Home
is the web about the web, with
everything you ever needed to know or pointers to it. This
server is supported by the WWW team at CERN, the
originators of WWW, with the help of collaborators
worldwide.
WWW News 02-07-95
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI)
Maricopa County Community College District
The Internet Connection (1993-2006) at MCLI was
Alan Levine --}
Comments once went to levine@maricopa.edu (no one is at home there)
