First Radio Commercial

First Commercial Introduced

The Stan Freberg Page - Audio

The Stan Freberg Page - Audio

RadioSpirits.com

RadioSpirits.com

LookSmart's FindArticles

RESEARCH: LookSmart's FindArticles combs through 700+ publications. Most results are 6 months old or older, ack. LockerGnome.

Data Recovery | Data Doctors Inc.

Data Recovery | Data Doctors Inc.: more on spoofed web site URLs.

Secunia - Stay Secure

Secunia - Stay Secure is a site devoted to software vulnerabilities. Offers URL tests for some threats.

EXAMPLE: Movienet page for TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE

Movienet's page for TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE uses javascript rollovers, simple grid (stacked tables?) to promote this animated feature film.

Project Cool's Web Graphics Zone

Project Cool's Web Graphics Zone offers EXCELLENT tips and instruction about color and web work. Color theory, color use, graphic tips, tips for conservingbandwidth, and much much more.

The Color Schemer: Tutorial References

The Color Schemer: Tutorial References includes links to several sites with color tutorials including Color Matters and Web Design Clinic.

EXAMPLE: Culture Shock

What can you do without Flash or Director? The companion web site to the public television program Culture Shock has provocations that use simple html to engage the audience in an interactivity that makes a point about cultural censorship.

Example: BUILDING BIG: Home Page

BUILDING BIG web site is aocmpanion to the tv series of the same name. Includes an educators guide, interactivities to teach with. Also "Local Wonders" data base where users can contribute content to the site.

Welcome to WEATHERHEAD Experience Design Group, LLC

Welcome to WEATHERHEAD Experience Design Group, LLC: example ofNOT so successful design. There is (12/23/2003) a broken page (includes links to files on local drives!), and a page that wastes its space prodigiously (important content is below the fold; space above the fold is occupied by a gratuitous graphic).

EXAMPLE: Entertainment Image

Entertainment Image presents a media design company's services, portfolio, job listings and partners in relatively flat hierarchy. Simple, clean design. Very attractive basic site. Good model for beginners.

Use of tree frog as "logo" is appealing, too :o)

Curricula for Web Accessibility Training

Curricula for Web Accessibility Training includes lesson plans, links.

Active Jump HTML Tutorial

Active Jump HTML Tutorial:

Includes a number of try-it-yourself exercises:


• Bare minimum required tags


• Adding Text


• Text Links


• Adding images


• Picture Link


• The ALT attribute


• Tables

Evrsoft.com Directory of HTML Tutorials

Evrsoft.com Web Developer Directory: a linked list of HTML tutorials.

Evrsoft.com Directory of HTML Tutorials

Evrsoft.com Web Developer Directory: a linked list of HTML tutorials.

EvrSoft Developers' Network

Evrsoft Developers Network: HTML Guides : HTML Tutorials : HTML Help - Web Developers Network -- from the folks who bring you 1stPage. Tips on Web design (HTML, Tutorials, tips, style sheets, javascript, multimedia design), Web development (tech issues, e commerce, online services, domain names, PHP & MySql, Wireless, and more). This URL is their web developers' portal.

Evrsoft

Evrsoft: Home of 1stPage HTML editor. Version 2.0 is FREE.

Dec 19 Decisions re: music file sawpping

Court: RIAA can't have names.

Related story: Court: KaZAA not responsible for swapping.

Dell Support

Dell Support check order status.

Distance Learning | Credits

Distance Learning
DLRN course on using online in K12 classroom.

RadioTower.com

RadioTower.com Radio & Music - Internet Radio Station and Free Music Guide. 115 "variety" stations alone as of 12/16/2003.

TechRepublic - Real World. Real Time. Real IT. - TechRepublic

TechRepublic - Real World. Real Time. Real IT. - TechRepublic Geek news. hlf@post.builder

HTML Goodies - Home Page

HTML Goodies - Home Page: More guides and tutorials for novice coders. Advanced stuff too for the more ambitious.

:: aimup! :: I.T. & Web Design

:: aimup! :: Learning about I.T. and Web Design.

:: aimup :: writing ::

:: aimup :: writing :: for the web

Web Page Design for Designers - Editorial June 2000

Web Page Design for Designers - Editorial June 2000 on backgrounds and type, and the differences between type for the printed page vs. type for the computer screen.

The Web Standards Project

The Web Standards Project keeps you up to date on design and standards issues.

Position Is Everything

Position Is Everything is a great megasite about CSS. Links to tutorials, coding sites, etc.

IDOnline.com - The International Design Magazine - Graphic Design, Product Design, Architecture

IDOnline.com - The International Design Magazine - Graphic Design, Product Design, Architecture

Pringles Yagi "Cantenna"

Pringles Yagi Antenna has links to pages that tell you how to build a "cantenna" out of a Pringles container.

Quick & Easy Hosting

Quick & Easy Hosting offers cheap hosting services.

Pandecta Magazine

Pandecta Magazine offers "in-the-trenches, e-business know-how."

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a grassroots movement toward the commons idea of copyright -- a way to share creative work, and to make your own creative work available to others to build upon and share.

Search Engine Dictionary

Search Engine Dictionary teaches you more than you cared to know about these modern day essentials.

Google Bombing

Articles on how to manipulate Google's returns are to be found on Wordspy, FridgeMagnet, and Microcontent.

Carl Davis's - HTML editor reviews

Carl Davis's HTML Editor Reviews is a page on the Web Commando Site.

Dick Gephardt for President - tv ads

Dick Gephardt for President TV ads.

CSC Comm Studies Test Site

Browse Sections of the communication studies web at CSC -- this is the testbed, not the live site.

Teachers Domain: Home

Teachers Domain: Home offers interactive resources, footage, etc. for teachers. Aimed mainly at K12. At the moment, life sciences are the only topics developed. Physical sciences are coming soon. Also see Professional Development online courses. Username: hfuller. PW: teacher.

Tobacco Settlement

Tobacco Settlement page of links related to S. 1415

Syllabus on Media

This syllabus includes links to assorted readings on the subject of mass media ownership and media in a democracy.

BBC World Service: The Message

BBC - The Message is a piece on HIV prevention messages. "Presenter Nigel Wrench asks why HIV prevention messages have largely failed to make a difference to the spread of the pandemic.

"Working with leading advertising agency J Walter Thompson, he attempts to come up with a new kind of message which learns from the mistakes of the past and makes use of the same techniques employed to sell consumer goods."

This piece aired in NH on NHPR, via PRI, on Monday morning, December 1 at about 5:30 AM.

Aesthetics of Interactive Media - Judie Sell

Aesthetics of Interactive Media - Judie Sell includes links to tutorials in topics like frames, tables, CSS, planning a website, javascript, and HTML resources and basics.

Assoc of Internet Researchers (A(o)IR) benefits

A(o)IR benefits include discount rates on journals and access to their online conference archives.

Download WS_FTP

WS_FTP LE is the limited edition version of WS_FTP Pro, allowing only multiple file transfers and the auto re-get or resuming feature. WS_FTP LE is shareware, available for free to educational users, government employees (U.S. local, state, federal and military) or to non-business home users only.

Cool Tools from OptiView

Cool Tools are web-based applications created by OptiView. Use them for free to check how far your site diverges from optimal. See in particular the QuickScan that accepts a URL and returns a report.

Color Schemer - Online Color Scheme Generator

Color Schemer - Online Color Scheme Generator Pick a color and get a suite of 16 that go together. No accents, just sort of gentle in a scheme.

Builder.com - Beyond the code

Builder.com is a portal to developer tools including web servicces, Web site authoring, Graphics & multimedia and web scripting.

Web Pages That Suck -- Examples of Bad Web Design

Web Pages That Suck -- Examples of Bad Web Design: Vincent Flanders' website teaches good design by critiquing bad design. Occasional links to useful tools as well.

Lost and Found Sound

Lost and Found Sound -- the web site. Webby Award winner, with audio to download/stream and text to amplify.

Lost and Found Sound: Collaborators: The Kitchen Sisters

Lost and Found Sound: Collaborators: The Kitchen Sisters produce audio for radio. This website has biographical info, show descriptions, and links to some audio.

13pt | Design & Development

13pt | Design & Development is an exemplary site -- clean and clear. Links to firm's projects include Yale (nifty rollover/layering), as well as 13 Days/Weeks/Months -- about 9/11.

The Sonic Memorial Project

The Sonic Memorial Project is a project spearheaded by the Kitchen Sisters, documetnary radio producers. The Sonic Memorial exists on teh web as an online audio installation and archive of stories, ambient sounds, voicmail and other archival recording to tell the history of the WTC, its neighborhood and the events of 9/11.

OTR FTP Server - 30,000 shows and counting

OTR FTP Server - 30,000 shows and counting has even more old time radio shows for downloading, for a fee.

Old Time Radio for downloading or listening online

Old Time Radio for downloading or listening online. This site has bunches of links to MP3s and you can also order (for fee) other programs.

Face to Face: interactive web/radio

Face to Face is an interactive multimedia presentation about what it is like to live in America with the face of the enemy.

Online NewsHour: Special Interest Political Ads -- January 12, 2000

Online NewsHour: Special Interest Political Ads -- January 12, 2000

SPecial interest ads in an election campaign can help set the agenda.

Turnitin

Turnitin is a plagiarism detection site.

Section one: Pratkanis and Aronson

Section one: Pratkanis and Aronson

Links about persuasion

Lesson Planet - The Teacher Web Guide

Lesson Planet - The Teacher Web Guide


ideas.

adland ad-rag.com :: by the adgrunts for the adgrunts

adland ad-rag.com :: by the adgrunts for the adgrunts -- lots of footage.

Persuasion Analysis

Persuasion Analysis resource compiled by Professor Hugh Rank

Advertising: Lesson Plan Links

This Advertising Links page hooks to lots of sites and pages with lesson plans and activities on persuasion, advertising, manipulation and other media topics.

Web Links

Web Links

more propaganda resources

Assignments re: persuasion

Assignments

Jim Gaffigan Commercials Page

Jim Gaffigan Commercials Page has links to the Fleet homelink TV ads with Nomar Garciaparra and Derek Jeter, and other stuff.

J363 Lecture Notes

J363 Lecture Notes

on mass comm theory

J363 Key Terms and Names

J363 Key Terms and Names

links to other media theory and proaganda resources

MEDIA MATTERS. Resources about Blogging on PBS

MEDIA MATTERS. Resources | PBS: "WELCOME TO THE BLOGOSPHERE


Metafilter
http://www.metafilter.com/
Become a member of this weblog and post your thoughts or respond to other member's blogs.

Andrew Sulllivan 'Unfit to Print'
http://www.andrewsullivan.com/
Homesexuality, faith, politics, and culture are just some topics covered by former journalist Andrew Sullivan, now a fulltime blogger.

Blogger
http://www.blogger.com/
Blogger helps you create your own blog so you can publish your thoughts and opinions instantly on your Web site.

Weblogs and Other New Forms of Journalism
http://www.well.com/user/jd/weblog/roundup.html
Links to articles on blogging as a new source of news. "

Startups - Full list

Startups - Full list is a site with information about the applications which load at Windows start-up. Each entry also has a code indicating whether or not it is essential to the operation of your system.

Amazing Optical Illusions - Online Illusions - Optical Tricks - Optic Illusions

The elephant's legs is an example of meaning in the eye of the beholder. So is the skull couple. Try also eyetricks.com.

Sounddogs.com

Sounddogs.com has downloadable sound effects -- millions of 'em!

2002 IBS One Day College & High School Radio Conference

2002 IBS One Day College & High School Radio Conference

November 8th -- reg is cheap. sessions include info on webcasting, etc.

AIR | Resources: Links

AIR | Resources: Links

Loads o' links to good stuff - audio technica's mic guide, for instance -- NPRs ethics and style guide, Radio Journalism 101 from NPR, Angry Coffee, and more.

NPR : Next Generation Radio : How to do Radio

NPR : Next Generation Radio : How to do Radio:

"Remote Recording Survival Guide by Tom Lopez

The Radiocollege.org site has excellent articles on topics like giving instructions to edit your story, and how to pitch to the BBC. They also have a job opportunities board and a answer box board for questions from users of the site.

Poynter Institute of Journalism - this site advertises itself as 'Everything you need to be a better journalist'. Highlights include an excellent and comprehensive High School Journalism Guide, and Nelson, an excellent search engine that searches by Newspapers, Print/TV, Beats or Journalism Organizations.

The Minidisc Community Portal. Links, forums, mailing lists, cool uses, etc.

Read short session descriptions from The Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) Producers Summit 2001: Audio Archives, held in October 2001 in Chicago. Some sessions:

Writing for the Ear

Webcasting 101

The AIR Producers Intensive 2003 in San Francisco March 22-23.

The pitch page, how to and where to pitch stories to national programs, from The Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) ".

TSWebCoder

Tangaard Software makes TSWebCoder, a FREE Windows HTML editor with syntax coloring and an FTP utility built in. Testimonials on the side include HomeSite converts and Dreamweaver users.

Mondegreens Ripped My Flesh

Mondegreens are misheard song lyrics catalogued by Joe Carroll. Just as much fun: fun with words from University of Iowa's Dr. Grammar.

Teaching Media Literacy

The Center for Media Literacy hosts an Activity & Lesson Plan Archive with good stuff and links to articles also.

Maryland's Assignment Media Literacy also has curriculum materials.

Cameras don't lie...

Do they?

Consider the George & Tony: Love Duet in mpg video...

FFFBI Home

FFFBI Home of the Fur, Fin and Feathers bureau of investigation. Great ideas, simply rendered.

Uses HTML (Highly Ticklish Monkey Lads).

- h

Radio EFF

Radio EFF is the Electronic Frontier Foundation's audio page full of stuff on "Radio Free Cyberspace" -- Congressional testimony, panel discussion, talks, etc. on the subject of the DMCA and related issues. Files are MP3 and released under the EFF's (0)pen Audio License: "Please copy and share these files around the globe."

Music Sharing and Piracy

Music Sharing and Piracy stories on the L.A. Times website.

Things to Investigate, from WinXP News

This Week's Links We Like. Tips, Hints And Fun Stuff

True fact or urban legend?
http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=030909FA-Snopes

Saying you're sorry: Apology Generator
http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=030909FA-Apologize

Excuses, Excuses.
http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=030909FA-Excuses

Love Palindromes? This Site's for You.
http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=030909FA-Palindromes

Archive of Misheard Song Lyrics
http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=030909FA-Misheard

Optical Illusions
http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=030909FA-Illusions

The New World Odor
http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=030909FA-NWO

TWI's English Education Page

TWI's English Education Page

A networked hjournal and digital community for writers and teachers of writing.

Links for Message Coding/Visual Media

VISUAL JOURNALISM: WWW LINKS is a list of useful sites on things like visual journalism, digital convergence, etc.

File Annotation Utilities

This list is for Linda Ryder.

FNPE51.ZIP (FileNotes(tm))
FileNotes(tm) by JAMWORKSPRO is a File System Annotation program for Windows (WinNT 4.x,WinXP,Windows2000). FileNotes adds the ability to record and present notes about the files on your computer and network. FileNotes works transparently presenting notes and providing the ability to add notes automatically on demand. FileNotes works with Windows Explorer and the File Open/Save As dialogs to provide you the ability to see and edit your notes and annotate files when they are viewed, opened and saved.

Then of course there is also Windows' own file Comments property, accessible by right-clicking on a file name in Explorer. You can type anything you want in that field. There are also custom fields, so I suppose you could create one called "Posted Date" and type in the posting date. Comments are automagically visible, which is a nice feature. I am not aware of any utility or function that will perform the ideal -- that is, automatically capture the posting data and associate it with the file, and make it visible as conveniently as Comments are visible.

Current Online | News about Public Broadcasting

Current Online | News about Public Broadcasting

Radio College

Radio College: Resources for People in Radio, from AIRMedia.org (The association of independents in radio).

From Chicago Public Radio: The Third Coast International Audio Festival

The Third Coast International Audio Festival


From Chicago Public Radio -- Look for features about Randy Thom including a couple of clips of his work.

TLT Website

We are members of TLT. To log in: tltsubscriber/surprise.

Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness

COM 201: Darren Barefoot's Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness has samples of weird, bizzarre, surreal and mostly unintelligible technical documentation. Communicating complex concepts and processes isn't a walk in the park...

Communication Studies Resources from the University of Iowa

Communication Studies Resources is a comprehensive portal site.

CCMS Infobase

CCMS Infobase, a site devoted to communication studies, cultural studies and media studies, was assembled by Mick Underwood, who writes:

"The CCMS Infobase attempts to cover most of the basics of what you're likely to need to know as a student of communication, cultural and media studies in your last couple of years of secondary school or in your first year of university.

British A Level Communication students should be aware that I haven't taught the subject for many years, so, whilst I gather the advice relating to the project is still generally sound, you should certainly ensure you consult your teacher about it.

The material is updated as often as I have time, but there are long periods when nothing changes - my apologies."

Web Tools

Web-quests -- how to...


Calendars Net: Free (or not) Interactive Calendar Hosting

U-Md's ListServ Homepage is home to all sorts of mailing lists, including SRMS.

The Internet TOURBUS

The Internet TOURBUS offers good information on viruses, hoaxes, search engines, urban legends, cookies, free stuff and cool sites. There's a list you can subscribe to, or you can just visit the site.

Environmental audio

My favorite site so far in this category is World Tune, a large (and growing) online library of environmental sounds. Broadcast the noise you like best, or piece together your own playlist of aural oddities -- cowbells on an austrian mountainside, a jar smashing on the floor on of a Finnish pottery, and water trickling in Hong Kong. Or contribute your own environmental recordings.

Also check out EarthEar.

For other environmental sounds, danish soundscapes may have audio worth checking out for COM 314. Loopsound offers soundscapes on CD. See/hear also NY Arts Magazine.

Soundscapes - You've never seen radio like this!

Soundscapes looks like a production house with some stuff I'd like to download and check out. Their slogan: "You've never seen radio like this!"

Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate

Arts & Letters Daily is a daily buffet showcasing the best writing on the web - ideas, criticism, debate.

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Speaking of Open Letters...

Sarah Vowell, whose radio stroy Shooting Dad we feature in an early class, also contributed to this online 'zine -- read Sarah's Open Letter American Dream, a letter on patriotism and The Patriot.

And then there is the Canadian (CBC) "Lost and Found Sound" site. This series originated on the CBC's This Morning program, and also aired on American NPR. The series ended several years ago. In the words of the site's producers: "Think of Lost & Found Sound as a quest: a pilgrimage for auditory archives. Throughout the 1999/2000 season, This Morning asked for your help to uncover sounds that had been lost, misplaced, or left for extinct. We heard audio treasures that had never been heard over the public airwaves, and some that had once been broadcast and then forgotten. "

Dishwasher Pete

Here's a bit of background about Pete Jensen, publisher of the 'zine DISHWASHER, and narrator of the TAL tale about hoodwinking the staff of the David Letterman Show in 1995.

You can pick up a copy of Pete's 'zine Dishwasher for a dollar by writing to:

Dishwasher
PO Box 8213
Portland, OR 97207

Read another piece by Dishwasher Pete in the online 'zine Open Letters.

Boynton Pro Audio

Boynton ProAudio is a reseller of professional audio equipment. Phone them at 607.263.5695, 9 to 5 eastern time Monday thru Friday, or visit them online.

Keirsey Temperament and Character Web Site

The Keirsey Temperament and Character Web Site refines MBTI Type theory in a discussion of the four "temperaments." Links also to related content on temperament, including discussions of the sixteen MBTI types.

Computer-Mediated Communications Networks and the Organizational Life of Schools

Computer-Mediated Communications Networks and the Organizational Life of Schools is an article I wrote in 1996 for CMC Magazine.
From the Introduction:

"The deployment of a computer mediated communications (CMC) network in a school represents a structural change in the organization which has repercussions in many dimensions of school life. Beginning with a descriptive discussion of the salient features of CMC technology, I explore the potential impacts of this new system on the structural, human resource, political and symbolic dimensions of school life.

"I argue that the digital nature of CMC, as well as the way it extends the space/time boundaries of school-related work, can have potentially transformative effects on the nature of school life. I show how CMC is linked to role transformation and decentralization of authority, and how this can in turn lead to specific pressures for change in more tangible features of school life like scheduling, space allocation and student grouping. I demonstrate the adaptive challenge posed for school workers by the introduction of new technology in a fundamental system. I explore the tension between pressures for standardization which are implicit in CMC, and the flexible specialization characteristically demanded in teaching. I discuss the political challenges which are likely to arise, both within the school and between the school and its community environment. I address the politics of system access, the implications of new alliances mobilized by CMC, and the political ascendancy of technologists. Finally, I challenge educators to engage deliberately with the issues raised. I urge the adoption of a principled commitment to the CMC system as a tool for sense-making and community building in which all parties have a rightful stake, and not as a bundle of cabled connections--the arcane domain of a limited constitutency."

Mike May's Perceptions Home Page

Mike May's Perceptions Home Page

"Mike May has regained some sight after being totally blind since the age of three. 43 years later, he is seeing with the curiosity and newness of a child..."

Scientists are studying May's perceptions, and learning that seeing something is not the same thing as interpreting what we see. Mike can see things now, but does not recognize his wife or his children. A cube drawn on a computer screen looked to him like "a square with extra lines" until it rotated. This site includes an account of his surgery and a journal with Mike's first hand account of experiences with his new vision.

The Web Standards Project

The Web Standards Project

"The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards that ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all."

Meet The Makers - Creative people in a technical world.

Meet The Makers - Creative people in a technical world. News, events and conversations with technical people who do creative work in new media.

Listed recently in LockerGnome, which said, "...Meet the Makers frequently comes up because of its success in hosting one-day events focusing on Web design and development. Even if you don't live near a city where the event is hosted, you can read conversations with designers to get a glimpse of what attendees experience. Click on any of the three cities to get more details on the event, speakers, and topics covered. The speakers are talented individuals in the world of Web design. Web designers and wanna-bes can learn from their interviews and Web sites. ..."

Shaking Through.net: Pop Culture Reviews: Movies, Music, Books & Comics

Shaking Through.net. Pop Culture Reviews: Movies, Music, Books & Comics.

Read why Meryl wrote in LockerGnome (8/23/03).

"{Pop culture} What's shakin'? Shaking Through.net's cultural
critics tell ya through their funny and insightful commentary on books, movies, music, and comics. In each section, they provide a rating for item reviewed from 0 to 5, with 0 being utter dreck, and 5 being a masterpiece. You can explore the archives by alphabet, date, and rating. Currently, only two movies, three albums, zero books, and zero comics have the honor of receiving a 5. Agree or disagree? Give them a piece of your mind in the forums. The remaining sections provide advice, opinions, and head-to-head competition between comics and books. Go study your pop culture and impress friends and family with your new knowledge."

Accessibility and Section 508

Accessibility and Section 508 is Jeffrey Zeldman's lecture on web accessibility.

BBC World Service | Home Page

BBC World Service airs on New Hampshire public radio very early in the morning (before 5:00 am). Outlook offers interesting news feature reports, while Off the Shelf broadcasts a daily reading -- sometimes fiction, sometimes not -- often by the author him/herself.

The Student Radio Association

The Student Radio Association represents student broadcaters in Great Britain. They run an annual awards program in association with Radio One (BBC).

Audible.com (My Library)

Audible.com -- My library. This link takes you to the Audible.com audio products I've purchased.

PREPARING OR REVISING A COURSE

PREPARING OR REVISING A COURSE: These notes from Honolulu Community Collge were reallyhelpful to me when I was trying to organize COM201 for the first time (my first time!).

Scratch Pad

Scratch Pad is my Blog on BlogSpot.com.

Page One of the Scratch Pad

Welcome to Scratch Pad...Keep notes here, post URLs here, come back and review your meanderings....