Surf these sites: #philosophy -- A satirical and informative view of an online community. . .:.:|::Axis Mutatis ... -- Axis Mutatis is an attempt to revive the bulletin boards (BBSes) of old, infusing them with new world style. Counterculture and technoculture collide in a place where free expression and an open mind are valued above all else... Absolute Cyberculture Books -- Book listing of 50 cyberculture books. Links back to Amazon.com where you can purchase the titles online. BETA Online -- A monthly webzine about technology''s impact on culture. Essays, books reviews, and cartoons. The motto of this webzine should be: "Someday you may be told that the reality didn''t pass the beta test." Basic Internet Terms -- Basic web and internet terms defined. C''est Need To Know! -- Weekly digest from the UK. Hi-tek content, Lo-tek look. "...print it out then take it home..." online:1997. Center for Cyber Communities Initiative -- They say "Keio University and Nomura Research Institute, Ltd., established a new organization for promotion of joint research to support social experimentation and R&D activities aimed at the accelerated development of the infrastructure for cyber communities in Japan" Contact Consortium HomePage -- A Forum about Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Virtual Community. They say "The Contact Consortium was born out of CONTACT: Cultures of the Imagination, a fifteen year old organization which has engaged anthropologists, space scientists, fiction writers and others in pioneering exercises simulating human contact with other intelligences. The Contact Consortium was formed to become a focus for the theme of human culture and contact in digital space." CyberNik - Home of the Politically Incorrect Youth Front -- Cybernik is a collection of politically correct multimedia. The key links are hacker phrase (witty comebacks to innate comments), Pic of the Week (absurd pictures of real people, with commentary), and the politically incorrect movie reviews. CyberStudies Links -- A site full of links to articles, papers, online journals, discussion lists, and other pages of links dealing with the study of the Internet and Internet culture. Cyberanthropology -- Non-commercial resource dedicated to the anthropological study of cyberspace. Includes virtual seminars, an e-library, discussion groups, a course finder, a glossary, a calendar of activities, comics, book reviews and much more.... Cyberspace -- Contains good and various links for topics related to cyberspace. EDGE: To Arrive At The EDGE of The World''s Knowledge -- They say "Edge Foundation, Inc., was established in 1988 as an outgrowth of a group known as The Reality Club. Its informal membership includes of some of the most interesting minds in the world.", and they''re NOT kidding. Outstanding presentations of dialogues, articles, and a virtual certainty that the person behind the words can and does THINK. Highly Recommended. Economic TeleDevelopment Forum -- Dialogue and collaboration with leaders of other communities that are embracing the concept of smart cities or smart communities. Foundation for Digital Culture -- They say "The Foundation for Digital Culture is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to promote and support digital culture and art on-line. It seeks to foster communication and community and to advance an understanding of digital culture that may serve as a reference for content, policy, organization, and practice. It also undertakes to promote its member organizations and encourages mutual support among them." Human Behavior and the Web Research Center -- Research center with useful information on the interface between human behavior and new technology. Llama Links - Cyberculture -- A few Cyberculture links Matt Drudge index by Bob Brand -- A list of linked articles about Matt Drudge, including some Wired columns he has written. Meditations on First Cybersophy -- Descartes goes down as I inject the cyber into his mind/body split. Mutate Project Forum -- Adult language - 18 and over. They say "THE MUTATE PROJECT: a multimedia broadcasting station, a public forum, and a webzine. It''s based on the book, How To Mutate & Take Over The World: an Exploded Post-Novel by R. U. Sirius, St. Jude, and the Internet 21." NetRants -- "MinorSage''s" views and opinions on the lastest Internet issues. New rants appear approx every 2 months. Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies -- The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. Stange''s Cyber Space Shuttle -- A huge, searchable database of Internet addresses regarding both arts and sciences, taken separately and together. Suck -- Daily updated look at the easiest targets around. The Virtual Community -- "When you think of a title for a book, you are forced to think of something short and evocative, like, well, ''The Virtual Community,'' even though a more accurate title might be: ''People who use computers to communicate, form friendships that sometimes form the basis of communities, but you have to be careful to not mistake the tool for the task and think that just writing words on a screen is the same thing as real community.''" - HLR The WELL -- The WELL is a gathering place like no other. This pioneering online community and discussion site is member supported, with over 260 award-winning conferences settled by artists, code-slingers, experts, authors and other interesting folks. Engaging, enraging, informing and transforming since 1985. bud.com -- bud.com chronicles culture online quickly. Users submit their links, and boy are they weird, wild and wonderful. e-vangelism -- The official Web site for the book E-vangelism: Sharing the Gospel in Cyberspace, by Andrew Careaga. Also: articles on Internet evangelism, listservs, and links to evangelistic Web sites. ichimunki.com -- ichimunki.com is the alternative portal site of the future. no banners. no nonsense. go now so you can say you''ve been doing the ichimunki since back in the day. internet savvy Ramdin Chacha from India by Niraj K Gupta -- Series of articles and cartoons from popular column ''from my cell'' in Voice & Data. To popularise telecom and internet using ruralist Ramdin Chacha. Niraj Gupta is a telecom professional and his book "Business of Telecommunications" is being published by Tata McGraw-Hill.
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