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                             The Internet Press
            A guide to electronic journals about the Internet
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                     Version 1.6 - 15 January, 1996
                by Kevin M. Savetz - savetz@northcoast.com
             and John M. Higgins - higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org
  This document is copyright 1996 by Kevin M. Savetz and John M. Higgins.
   All rights reserved. More legal stuff is near the end of this file.
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 +Additions: +Caught In The 'Net; +C-NET; +Computer Corner; +Surf's Up;
+Web Review; +@NY; +Cyberspace Today; +Gina; +IceNEWS; +Interactive New Media;
+Internet Daily News; +The Internet Law Journal; +Internet Research;
+Netly News; +Network-News; +Net.Scandal; +Netsurfer Focus; +Netsurfer Tools;
+Newsbytes; +Northcoast Digital News; +Off the Net; +The Online Column;
+Online Design; +Online User; +Suck; +Tasty Bits From The Technology Front;
+Trailblazer; +Websurf; +!WOW!
  -Deleted: @ The Edge; Cyberspace Today; Digital Future; Networks & Community;
NSF Network News

  How to get updates to THE INTERNET PRESS: See end of file

  The Internet is full of many high-quality publications about the net
itself. But surprise, surprise, like everything else 'round here they're
tough to find. Here's some guidance on what's out there and what's good.
Some are pointers to other net resources, some address broader issues of
the net. Some are free, some cost $$$. Be warned that some of these are
startups, which often fail to live up to their promise and publication
schedule.

  NO EXCUSES: Yeah, we know it's been months since this was updated. One
of us is a sloth (we're not saying which one). But we've come up with a
whole mess of new pubs that you might find interesting.
  The bad news is that there's a lot of redundancy out there, with a lot
of the new pubs imitating existing stuff, or at least plowing the same
earth. But there's still plenty of quality out there.
  We've also added a list of print mags focusing on the net that offer some
material online.

  FEEDBACK Y'ALL: Let us know about any other good e-journals or newsletters
discussing the Internet, paid or free. And please send us info about anything
that dies so we can up date. Send details to higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org
and savetz@northcoast.com

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Higgins picks: NetSurfer Digest; Scout Report; @NY; Suck;
               Cyberwire Dispatch
Savetz picks:  Internet Index; Off the Net; Web Review (I write for 'em);
               WEBster

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=TIPSHEETS=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

  BEST OF THE INTERNET - A bi-weekly offering pointers to interesting sites.
Surprisingly good given the prodigy.com address. A recent issue had reviews of
HTML editors plus lots of sites to try out.
E-MAIL - To: TBHF58D@prodigy.com
  Subject: SUBSCRIBE
  Body: SUBSCRIBE Your@Address
WWW - http://pages.prodigy.com/NJ/bestinet

 +COMPUTER CORNER - Tied to a regular feature from Dallas TV station. Mostly
links, but not bad.
WWW - http://www.wfaa.com/ccindex.html

  COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION: A little academic. But since
it's edited by John December, the master of the colossal CMC guide, it's
worth checking.
WWW - http://www.rpi.edu/~decemj/cmc/mag/current/toc.html

  EVERYBODY'S INTERNET UPDATE: Monthly newsletter from the
Electronic Frontier Foundation aimed at picking up up where the EFF's
Guide to the Internet (formerly the Big Dummy's Guide) left off.
E-MAIL - To: listserv@eff.org
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: add net-guide-update
USENET - comp.org.eff.talk, alt.internet.services
FTP -  ftp.eff.org: /pub/Net_info/Guidebooks/Everybodys_Guide/Updates
GOPHER - gopher.eff.org: /Net Info/EFF's Guide to the Internet/Updates
WWW - http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_info/Guidebooks/Everybodys_Guide/Updates/
HUMAN CONTACT - Adam Gaffin, adamg@world.std.com

 +ICENEWS - A monthly on the net with an emphasis on HTML issues.
E-MAIL - To:autoshare@roadrunner.tiac.net
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: SUB ICENEWS Your@Address (Your Name)
WWW - http://www.tiac.net/users/nriley/icenews/

  INTERNET-ON-A-DISK: So-so newsletter on public domain electronic
texts, books, government manuals, etc. Also includes pointers to some
other resources.
E-MAIL - To: samizdat@world.std.com
  Subject: Newsletter request
  Body: subscribe Internet-On-A-Disk your@address

  INTERNET RESOURCES: Web-only newsletter produced by Heriot-Watt
University Library. Although aimed primarly at staff and students at the
Scottish University, it's got pointers useful to others. Not spectacular,
but worth checking out.
WWW - http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html

  THE INTERNET SEX SURFER NEWS ($): Not being much for spectator sports, the
"adult" side of the net isn't our groove. But given that sector's popularity,
it deserves its own e-pub. Bi-weekly. Delivery by e-mail, but you must regis
ter by snail mail with a puny $3 annual subscription payment (to keep every
14-year-old with an AOL account from signing up).
SNAIL MAIL: Phillip Mason
  403 Stringtown Road
  Williamsburg, KY 40769-9727  (USA)
HUMAN CONTACT - phillip@iglou.com

  NEW ON THE INTERNET: Completely different from the similarly-named $$$ pub.
A decent collection of pointers and ideas, though a bit on the breathless side.
E-MAIL - To: new.on.the.net@reply.net.
 Subject: None
 Body: None; mail kicks back the latest issue.

  NETSURFER DIGEST: A great effort that crisply reviews a wide range of
net topics and resources.
E-MAIL - To: nsdigest-request@netsurf.com
   Subject: Ignored
   Body: subscribe nsdigest-html
or Body: subscribe nsdigest-text
WWW - http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/index.html
FTP - ftp://ftp.netsurf.com/pub/nsd/

 +OFF THE NET: A nice monthly newsletter for Web and Internet
developers. Includes short reviews of interesting software of interest to
Webmasters. Worth checking out if you maintain a Web site.
WWW - http://www.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/off_the_net.html

  SCOUT REPORT: Forget building campfires. Scout Report is an excellent
weekly featuring well-edited, hand-picked resource announcements.
E-MAIL - To: listserv@lists.internic.net
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: subscribe scout-report Your Name
WWW - http://rs.internic.net/scout/report

  SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NETWORK NEWS ($$$): Ambitious monthly listing
resources for science professionals from medicine to physics. Very thorough,
loaded with good stuff, but runs $97 a year.
E-MAIL - To: senn@world.std.com

 +SURF'S UP - Broad sweep of net sites. Written too much like a fan magazine.
WWW - http://www.geopages.com/Hollywood/1161

  THE VIRTUAL MIRROR - They claim it's not a magazine, but it looks like one
to us, a good one at that. Regularly updated collection of tips and net
articles.
WWW - http://mirror.wwa.com/mirror/

 +TRAILBLAZER - A pretty good review of recent net news.
WWW - http://www.intercom.net/biz/lma/trailblazer/

  WEBster ($$$) - A great semi-monthly roundup of Internet news. Also features
useful tutorials and features. It's a for-pay pub, but you can get a free
version too.
E-MAIL - To: 4free@webster.tgc.com
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Ignored
HUMAN CONTACT - love-letters@webster.tgc.com

 +WEB REVIEW - A snazzy weekly magazine covering issues related to the Web
and Internet communities. Newsy, with features and tutorials, lots of content.
WWW - http://gnn.com/wr/

  WEBNEWS - Well-edited monthly collection of web-based information. One
issue hooks into the Alabama Shakespeare Festival Homepage, an exotic pet
breeder and a biography ot St. Patrick.
WWW - http://twinbrook.cis.uab.edu:70/webNews.80

  THE WEB WORD - This monthly aims to give pointers like the top
10 web sites, news, and how-to tips. Pretty good. Long.
E-MAIL - To: innovation@euronet.nl
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: intro Your@address Your Name
WWW - http://www.euro.net/innovation/Web_Word_Base/Web.Word.Issues.html

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 +@NY - An excellent bi-weekly focusing on the New York Internet scene,
developers, nifty sites, providers, etc. You wouldn't think there was
enough of a local scene to support even a newsletter, but this is meaty,
not fluffy.  Highly recommended.
E-MAIL - To: tw1@pipeline.com
  Subject: Subscribe
  Body: Ask nicely.
HUMAN CONTACT - tw1@pipeline.com

 +CAUGHT IN THE 'NET - A decent news overview.
WWW - http://www.imagehouse.com//caught/arch.htm

 +C-NET - Relentlessly self-promoting site has a pretty good news outlet.
WWW - http://www.cnet.com/Content/News/

  CYBERSURFING - Regular column appearing in The Age, a daily Austrailian
paper and written by Jason Romney. Worth checking out.
WWW - http://werple.mira.net.au/~jromney/
HUMAN CONTACT - jromney@werple.mira.net.au

  BITS AND BYTES: Good computer miscellanea. But why do so many
publications grab snippets of Edupage, an excellent infotech e-pub? On the
long side.
E-MAIL - To: listserv@acad1.dana.edu
  Subject: ignored
  Body: SUBSCRIBE bits-n-bytes   [case matters!]
GOPHER - gopher.dana.edu: /Electronic Journals
FTP - ftp.dana.edu: /periodic

CYBERWIRE DISPATCH: Very high quality coverage of the Internet and
cyberspace. Editor Brock Meeks (a reporter for Wired)
became famous by getting sued for libel by a "make.money.fast"-type. Short.
E-MAIL - To: majordomo@cyberwerks.com
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: subscribe cwd-l
USENET - comp.society.privacy
GOPHER - cyberwerks.com
WWW - http://cyberwerks.com

  EFFECTOR: The Electronic Frontier Foundation's membership
newsletter, great for telecom policy updates. Short
E-MAIL - To: listserv@eff.org
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: subscribe your@address effector-online
USENET - comp.org.eff {preferred!}
GOPHER - gopher.eff.org
FTP - ftp.eff.org

 +GINA - A lame archive for techie press releases. The best thing to be said is
that the Global Internet News Agency is well organized, so it's easy to find
information you don't want to know.
WWW - http://www.gina.com/gina
HUMAN CONTACT - mshuler@gina.com

  GLOBETROTTER - British Web-based bi-monthly featuring news about the net.
Nothing dramatic and therre too much stuff about other topics, though (OJ,
e.g.).
WWW - http://www.dungeon.com/~globe

  HOTWIRED: The E-version of Wired magazine. For all the hype, it's not
very impressive. Except for Flux, a gossip column, the content is VERY uneven.
WWW - www.hotwired.com

 +INTERACTIVE NEW MEDIA - Surprisingly good update on multimedia news. from a
law firm.
E-MAIL - To: majordomo@case.wsgr.com
  Subject: None
  Body: subscribe multimedia-list
WWW - http://www.wsgr.com

  INTERNET ADVERTISING REVIEW - An occasional newsletter written
by Michael Strangelove, author of a book on doing business on the net.
Send for the second issue.
E-MAIL - To: mstrange@fonorola.net
  Subject: REVIEW2

 +INTERNET DAILY NEWS - Independent startup net newspaper is ambitious, but a
little bland.
WWW - http://tvp.com/idn/

  INTERNET INDEX - A shameless and very well executed imitation of Harper's
Index compiling interesting net stats. Infrequent but fun.
EMAIL - internet-index-request@OpenMarket.com
  Subject: ignored
  Body: subscribe internet-index
WWW - http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/current.html

 +THE INTERNET LAW JOURNAL - Can't find a copy to review, so it's hard to
say if they can match the good cyberlaw coverage available elsewhere
(particularly Computer Underground Digest). But they're charging $12 a
year.
  WWW - http://net.discnt.com/law

  INTERNET MONTHLY REPORT: IMR announces the online
accomplishments, milestones, and problems discovered by a variety of
organizations in the Internet community. Very long, 100K-plus.
E-MAIL RETRIEVAL - To: rfc-info@isi.edu
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Retrieve: imryymm.txt
  e.g., Retrieve: imr9408.txt = Aug. 1994
FTP - venera.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/imryymm.txt
  nis.nsf.net/internet/newsletters/internet.monthly.report
GOPHER - is.internic.net:Internet Info.../Internet Monthly Reports

 +INTERNET RESEARCH - Academic journal largely on the tech side of the net.
Parts are miserable, particularly the "About the Authors" link, which begins to
send a 2-meg file.
  WWW - http://www.mcb.co.uk/liblink/intr/jourhome.htm

  JASBITS: Computer and net miscellanea. What it lacks in newsiness
it makes up in entertainment value.
E-MAIL - To: jsquires@cerf.net
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe Your Name

  MATRIX NEWS ($$$) - Not strictly about the net, this monthly looks more
broadly about cross-network issues issues. Expect Internet, Bitnet, UUCP
plus stand-alone services like the Well and Compu$erve. Pretty
techie/academic. Subs are $25 a year. Samples readily available.
E-MAIL - To: mids@tic.com
  Subject: Ask nicely
  Body: Humans here
WWW - http://www.tic.com/mids/mn.html

  META MAGAZINE: A monthly mostly about net-related stuff. Not bad,
but could use a little more meat. Worth a test drive, if you can handle
the Web-only nature of the pub.
WWW - ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/mlinksva/meta.html

 +NETLY NEWS - Lamely-named feature news on Time Warner's Pathfinder.
It's OK, but there are better sources of news out there.
WWW - http://pathfinder.com/Netly/

 +NETWORK-NEWS - a weekly from a computer consultant aimed a computer
networking dudes. Pretty techie.
E-MAIL - To: network-news@lists.primenet.com
  Subject: Subscribe
  Body: Tell them about yourself
WWW - http://www.primenet.com/~gatlina/

 +NET.SCANDAL - A good, sometimes caustic, review of news about the net. A
recent issue explored "Lawsuit Lacrosse" involving Usenet posts.
E-MAIL - To: net_scandal-request@io.org
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe

  NETSURFER FOCUS: Published sporadically, each edition focuses on one
Net-related issue, such as cryptography and privacy or doing business online.
Thorough, but not published on a regular basis.
E-MAIL - To: nsdigest-request@netsurf.com
   Subject: ignored
   Body: subscribe nsdigest-html
or Body: subscribe nsdigest-text
WWW - http://www.netsurf.com/nsf/

  NETSURFER TOOLS: Supposed to offer pointers to sites for Web and online
developers, but only two issues have come out, and no word since August.
E-MAIL - To: nstools-request@netsurf.com
  Body: subscribe nstools-text
  or subscribe nstools-html
WWW - http://www.netsurf.com/nst/

  THE NETWORK OBSERVER: Monthly commentary and bits about the net. Lengthy.
E-MAIL - To: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu
  Subject: subscribe Your Name
  Body: NADA

  NEW ON THE NET ($$$): Stats about what new domains are signing up to
the net, listed by state, area code, type of company, etc. Short version
is free. A longer version with lots of detail is $10. Presumably a
prospect list for consultants, software companies, etc.
WWW - http://directory.net/netinfo
HUMAN CONTACT - p00426@psilink.com

 +NEWSBYTES - This long-running computer news wire offers a free daily news
summary with plenty about the net.
WWW - http://www.nbnn.com/daily.html

 +NORTHCOAST DIGITAL NEWS - Mostly news about an ISP in California, but it has
some general Internet features too.
E-MAIL - To: ndn-request@nothcoast.com
  Subject: subscribe
WWW - http://www.northcoast.com/ndn/1.2.html

 +THE ONLINE COLUMN - The York County Coast Star has a cyber columnist? This
the Kennebunkport, Maine paper does. It's not bad, but better on local issues
(like Nynex's push into Internet services) than on cyberporn.
E-MAIL - To: skelley@cybertours.com.
  Subject: Subscribe
  Body: Ask nice, human here.
WWW - http://www.cybertours.com/yccs/online.htm

 +ONLINE USER - An unimpressive source of surfing tips and sites.
WWW - http://www.onlineinc.com/online/index.html

  THE ONLINE WORLD MONITOR ($$$) Norway-based bi-monthly reviewing different
aspects of the net. One issue contained a section on the Net in Africa and
assessing the web by e-mail. Author publishes a companion e-book called the
Online World Handbook.
WWW - http://login.eunet.no/~presno/index.html

 +SUCK - Harsh commentary on the net from two deeply cynical Hotwired staffers.
Lots of fun even though they sold out to the great corporate multiplex they
slam regularly.
WWW - http://www.suck.com/

 +TASTY BITS FROM THE TECHNOLOGY FRONT - Terrible name, but TBTF is a solid
twice-weekly pub with an emphasis on commere on the net.
WWW - http://www.atria.com/~dawson/tbtf/archive/current-issue.html

 +WEBSURF - Web-based magzine, largely about non-net stuff, but offers some
links and Web-publishing advice.
WWW - http://www.crl.com/~whisper/WEB1TOC.html

 +!WOW! - Weird Online World has gone through a couple of iterations from a
staffer at Web Week, but when it comes out it's got pretty good news and
commentary about the net.
WWW -http://www.dorsai.org/~tristan/MAG/


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  Print magazines and newsletters covering the net offer resources of uneven
quality online as well. Web Week and Simba are the best, while press-release-
driven sites like Interactive Age (yes, it's not quite dead yet) are lame.

BBS MAGAZINE
WWW - http://www.bbsmag.com

BOARDWATCH
WWW - http://www.boardwatch.com

COWLES/SIMBA MEDIA DAILY
WWW - http://www.mecklerweb.com/simba/internet.htm

D.COMM
WWW - http://www.d-comm.com/

INFOBAHN
WWW - http://www.postmodern.com/

INTER@CTIVE WEEK
WWW - http://www.interactive-week.ziff.com/~intweek/

INTERACTIVE AGE
WWW - http://techweb.cmp.com:80/techweb/ia/current

INTERNAUT
WWW - http://www.zilker.net/users/internaut/index.html

INTERNET WEEK
WWW - http://www.phillips.com/pbi/iw/index.html

INTERNET WORLD
WWW - http://www.mecklerweb.com/mags/iw/iwhome.htm

.NET
WWW - http://www.futurenet.co.uk/netmag/net.html

NETGUIDE
WWW - http://techweb.cmp.com:80/techweb/ng/current

ONLINE DESIGN
WWW - http://www.cea.edu/online.design/

ONLINE MAGAZINE
WWW - http://www.online-magazine.com

ONLINE WORLD MONITOR
WWW - http://login.eunet.no/~presno/monitor.html

WEB DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL
WWW - http://www.awa.com/nct/software/eleclead.html

WEB WEEK
WWW - http://www.mecklerweb.com/mags/ww/wwhome.htm

WIRED
WWW - http://www.hotwired.com/

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