Here is where I will put newspaper articles and other web material that I think students in ENGL 348 will find especially interesting and/or useful. I'll announce most new updates on the class email list. Many of the pieces I put here will simply link to the original site. In some cases, though, periodicals either charge for retrieving articles after a given amount of time or they restrict reading to subscribers. In order to make articles from these publications available to students in the class but not to people outside UMBC, I will restrict access to these articles (marked with a red asterisk () to people logging in from a UMBC computer or dialing in to a UMBC modem. If you use an external Internet service provider such as Erols, you will have to use what's called a "proxy server." The library has provided clear instructions for setting up a proxy server. Articles without the asterisk should be available to everyone (the New York Times may require that you register, but they don't ask for very personal information). If you find that an article that you want to read is no longer available, please let me know.

I will add new articles as I come upon them. The most recent update was on May 5, 2000 (this date indicates when I added the most recent article, not when the article was published). Articles currently available:

Cybersex Visits the Ivory Tower

(Wired News - May 5, 2000)

A Film Made Just for the Internet

(BBC News - May 5, 2000)

'Love' Virus Assaults World Computers

(Washington Post - May 5, 2000)

Educators Question Usefulness of Computers in the Classroom

(Washington Post - May 2, 2000)

Why I Won't Be Using Voice Recognition Software

(Marylaine Block's "My Word's Worth" - April 24, 2000)

The Last Book: The Future of Words (Part 1)

(The Washington Post - April 24, 2000)

E-Books are for Writers, not Readers

(Wired News - April 22, 2000)

Can Hyperlinks be Outlawed?

(Salon.com - April 6, 2000)

Jews for Java

(Salon.com - April 6, 2000)

Prof Fights Web Trash Talk: City College Students Use Online Site for Harsh Attacks on Faculty

(SF Gate News - April 6, 2000)

Electronic Books are Here to Stay

(Sacramento Bee - March 27, 2000)

Neural Networks May Transform College Planning

(Chronicle of Higher Education - March 24, 2000)

CyberU: What's Missing

(The Washington Post - March 21, 2000)

Report Finds College Use of Internet Rising, Improving Life On and Off Campus

(San Jose Mercury News - March 15, 2000)

Online Education to be Free

(Washington Post - March 15, 2000)

Internet Voting Clicks in Arizona

(Financial Times - March 13, 2000)

Horrormeister Stephen King Tests the Cyberwaters

(Reuters [please note URL for Barnes & Noble in the article is incorrect--the one here is correct] - March 14, 2000)

Gaga over Google.com

(Time Digital - March 13, 2000)

Students Caught Up in a Web of Giveaways

(USAToday - March 13, 2000)

No More Pencils, No More Books

(Wired - March 9, 2000)

Arizona Makes E-Voting History

(Reuters - March 7, 2000)

Tired of Being the Butt of Jokes, Beaver College Contemplates a Name Change

(Chronicle of Higher Education - March 2, 2000)

Can You Find Your Candidate?: Search Engines and the Presidential Campaign

(SearchEngineWatch - February 29, 2000)

And Now, Live on the Internet: Funerals

(Canoe - February 25, 2000)

Colleges Target Music Web Sites

(Las Vegas Sun - February 25, 2000)

Group Urges Yahoo to Shut Alleged Racist Net Clubs

(CNET News.com - February 24, 2000)

MSN Drops Newsgroup Support

(CNETNews.com - February 23, 2000)

Internet Filtering Debate Brings in National Groups, Divides Michigan Community

(CNN.com - February 21, 2000)

Search Engine Images Attract Copyright Suit

(Los Angeles Times - February 21, 2000)

Online Ethics Should Begin in Classroom, Educators Say

(New York Times - February 16, 2000)

Study Finds Heavy Internet Users Are Isolated

(Washingtonpost.com - February 16, 2000)

For Some Here, Online Means Closer Tabs

(Washington Post - February 16, 2000)

Chinese Web Opens Portals to New Way of Life

(Washington Post - February 13, 2000)

'DotComGuy' Pledges to Live Online throughout 2000

(Nando Times - February 12, 2000)

Increasing the privacy of e-mail

(Fort Worth Star-Telegram.com - February 11, 2000)

Evidence Suggests Web Attacks Were Work of More Than One Group

(New York Times - February 11, 2000)

Online Note Services Lure Students, Rile Professors

(Minneapolis Star Tribune - February 7, 2000)

Virtual Publishing: From Arthur Clarke To Psoriasis Tales

(New York Times - February 7, 2000)

Hackers Strike Again

(Washington Post - February 9, 2000)

Hackers Disrupt Yahoo Web Site

(Washington Post - February 8, 2000)

Computer Creates Fiction

(Las Vegas Sun - February 6, 2000)

Navigation Tools Help the Web Traveler [maybe - jsk]

(San Jose Mercury News - February 5, 2000)

Internet Addiction?: Understanding the Allure of the Internet

(Chronicle of Higher Education - February 4, 2000)

Privacy Issue Makes DoubleClick a Target

(The Standard - February 3, 2000 [replaces similar USA Today article])

All the News that Fits on Screen

(Washington Post - February 3, 2000)

Cookies: how sites know what they know

(USAToday - January 25, 2000)

Take Action Against DoubleClick

(Center for Democracy and Technology)

Site Seeks to Draw Students by Offering a $10,000 Scholarship Every Day

(Chronicle of Higher Education - February 3, 2000)

Letting Silicon-Chip Implants Do the Talking

(Washington Post - February 1, 2000)

Medical Web Sites Faulted on Privacy

(Washington Post - February 1, 2000)

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