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INDEX
AAP Web Site
Medical Resources for Pediatrics
Newsgroups of Interest to Pediatricians
Useful Pediatric Mailing Lists
Media --Newspapers/TV Networks/News & Info/Radio
Internet Tips and Tools
URL Minder
Bookmarks
Internet Etiquette - Netiquette
Glossary of Terms
NEWSGROUPS (Usenet) Usenet, also known as network news, is a worldwide bulletin board system. It is a great source of current information, but can provide an overwhelming amount of material (often likened to drinking from a fire hose). In addition, the accuracy of material posted on Usenet is not always reliable - so again, make sure to double-check information with another source. It is helpful to remember that the Usenet is a public forum and if you post anything on any bulletin board, other users can get information about you (like your e-mail address). and read anything that you wrote (like your political opinion). You can access Usenet with most commercially available servers (America Online, CompuServe, Prodigy, Netscape) by accessing Newsgroup or Usenet. Usenet newsgroups have names with multiple parts separated by dots, the first part is called the hierarchy and tends to be the same for related groups. If you want to subscribe to any newsgroup, most programs will provide prompts to do so. You may be bombarded with information when you subscribe to any newsgroup, and unfortunately, there is no easy way to select the type of information you will receive from any one newsgroup. Luckily, it is pretty easy to unsubscribe to a service by following program prompts. Once you have subscribed to a newsgroup and started getting lots of mail, it is also pretty easy to save the articles you want and delete the articles you don’t want. PointCast at http://www.pointcast.com offers a service that replaces your screen saver with a screen full of breaking news on specified subjects. Unfortunately, requires that you be logged into your server continuously. If you want to search for a newsgroup, there is one site that specializes in Usenet, it is called DejaNews and is located at http://dejanews.com.
SOME USENET GROUPS OF USE IN PEDIATRICS AND CHILD ADVOCACY
MISCELLANEOUS ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS WITH INTERESTING SITES New England Journal of Medicinehttp://www.nejm.org/public/1998/0338/0014/1.htm April 2, 1998 edition has published the first of a 2-part health policy report on how larger employers have been shaping the health care marketplace. The Center for Democracy and Technology http://www.cdt.org Online advocacy organization operating on Capitol Hill Christian Coalition - http://www.cc.org The conservative organization founded by former presidential candidate Pat Robertson . Citizens Against Government Waste - http://www.govt-waste.org In 1982, President Reagan appointed a blue-ribbon commission, chaired by the late J. Peter Grace, founder of Grace Chemical Co. to root out government inefficiency and waste of tax dollars. This site carries on this effort. Electronic Privacy Information Center - http://www.epic.org EPIC has become the most aggressively outspoken of Washington based advocacy groups lobbying against government control of the Internet. The Taxpayer Assets Project - http://www.essential.org/tap/tap/html TAP has been active in lobbying for broader public online access to federal government documents. Reports from TAP-INFO, the groups mailing list, are archived at this site. Related groups are the Congressional Accountability Project which has pressed for a greater range of congressional information online and the Consumer Technology Project, http://www.essential.org/cpt/cpt.html, founded in 1995 to address privacy, telecommunications regulation, copyright law and pharmaceutical drug development and ownership issues. Internet Caucus - http://www.house.gov/white/internet_caucus/netcauc.html Internet savvy members of both the House and Senate, who promote the web. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION AND POLITICAL DOCUMENTS Awesome List http://www.clark.net/pub/journalism/awesome.html Great place to start your search on just about any topic. Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval - http://www.cnidr.org Congress established the National Science Foundation by in the 50’s to support scientific research -- CNIDR focuses on developing more efficient ways of accessing info on the internet. The constitution of the US - http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html Declaration of Independence - http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html Library of Congress - http://lcweb.loc.gov Speaks for itself. Right Side of the Web - http://www.rtside.com Includes the latest news in the conservative realm. Women’s Issues - http://www.aauw.org American Association of University Women developed this site to get women motivated about voting and politics. International European Governments on the WWW http://www.gep.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de/anzinger/en/euro-govt.html MAILING LISTS Mailing lists allow people with shared interests to send messages to each other and hold group conversations. Mailing lists are different from newsgroups in that a separate copy of the mailing list message is e-mailed to each person on the list. They tend to be more specific and have fewer members than newsgroups. Each mailing list has a central e-mail address, called a list address, to which messages of interest to the group are sent and from which messages are re-mailed to group members. Every mailing list, in addition to the list address, has an administrative address. This is the address to which you should send messages about subscribing or unsubscribing from the list. Some lists are maintained manually (by humans) and do not require a fixed format to make a request, while others are maintained automatically and require fixed format to make a request. Most lists that are automatically maintained include the following in their address: Listproc, LISTSERV, Mailbase, Mailserve, Majordomo. For these automatically maintained mailing lists, you need only write an e-mail message with SUBSCRIBE + name of mailing list. To find out what general mailing lists are available to you, the following are web sites that maintain indices of mailing lists: http://www.liszt.com http://www.newsoft.com/internet/paml Pediatric Points of Interest maintains indices of mailing lists that are specific to Pediatrics http://www.med.jhu.edu/peds/neonatology/elists.html#elists The University of Michigan maintains indexes of mailing lists that are specific to Health Administration http://www.lib.umich.edu/hw/health.admin/e.discuss.html#Anchor21564 and Public Health http://www.lib.umich.edu/hw/public.health/e.discuss.html MAILING LISTS OF USE IN PEDIATRICS AND CHILD ADVOCACY * Manual subscription (all others are automatic subscription).
The Academy has established a presence on the web through the Academy’s homepage, which allows press to find information about the Academy and obtain up-to-date press releases/statements/events/etc. In the not so old days, tracking reporter’s beats, pediatrician’s coverage of events and the AAP’s press coverage was labor and time intensive. Old fashioned clipping services or subscribing to database services was very expensive. Today’s technology offers the ability to do researching yourself with a computer. In addition, the internet allows one to conduct speedy searches of national or local media. A forum is a special area of an online service dedicated to discussing one particular subject. Participating in professional PR forums assists with networking with colleagues and making contacts.
Sampling of Media Related Sites
Sampling of Electronic Political Magazines Online George http://www.georgemag.com Online version of magazine published by John F. Kennedy, Jr. -- political reporting. Hotwired http://www.hotwired.com Campaigns and Elections http://www.camelect.com The Economist http://www.economist.com U.S. News & World Report Online http://www2.USnews.com/usnews Washingtonian Magazine http://www.infi.net:80/washmag Not really a political magazine, but provides lots of scoop on the big players in the media and Congress! MISCELLANEOUS FUN & INTERESTING SITES Al Gore’s Cartoon Gallery http://www.whithouse.gov/White_House/EOP/OVP/htmlCartoon.html Ask Thomas Jefferson - http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/libertarians/ask-thomas-jefferson/jefferson.html Can never go wrong in politics when quoting Jefferson! Babelfish - http://babelfish.altavista.digitalcom/cgi-bin/translate Translation service in various languages. Type in a message in english and it automatically converts it to the language of your choice. Capitol Steps - http://www.capsteps.com Enjoy this political commentary song and skit routine -- they give live performances, but if they don’t come to you, you can get a real laugh at this site. Doonesbuy Electronic Town Hall - http://www.doonesbury.com Excellence in Parodies Network - http://www.clark.net.silhan You can listen to and/or read the lyrics to very funny political songs. Jango - http://www.jango What a way to shop the internet! Select what you want to buy and it creeps like spiders across internet sites and delivers a report to your screen showing who sells it and the price they are charging...no more taking the time to shop around for the best bargain. Music Maker - http://www.musicmaker.com Make your own CD, mixing and matching your favorite cuts from any artist or album. Scroll through 30,000 tracks from hundreds of artists and albums. You can sample the sound bites or go directly to your favorite pieces. Then you select up to 70 minutes of music. You decide the order of play. The disk is delivered to your home with the name you chose printed on the label. National Budget Simulation - http://garnet.berkeley.edu:333/budget/budget.html Interactive game to give you a taste of that complicated process to balance the federal budget. Iowa Electronic Markets - http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem Functions as an electronic commodities market without the real commodities. "U.S. Political Markets" is worth looking at too -- game about presidential campaigning. Political Babble Generator - http://www.webcorp.com/polibabble.htm Random "speeches" containing the same three-word phrases that President Clinton and Gingrich use in real speeches are generated every 10 minutes or so. The Nonprofit Gateway - http://www.nonprofit.gov Vice-President Al Gore unveiled a nonprofit web network, which is a one-stop shopping center for information on how government can empower non-profit groups. Congressional Quarterly Election Information - http://voter96.CQAlert.com Interactive game that lets you rate your representative as you compare your opinions on the issues with those of your elected officials. Select a single member of Congress -- then you’ll be given 10 yes-no questions to answer on key issues and "American Voter" will compare the results. Representative profile information also. Financial Information Motley Fool - http://www.fool.com Great financial web site. Answering questions on line. How much does it cost to raise a child? Check at Dept. of Agriculture. http://www.usda.gov/news/releases/1997/12/0453 Consumer World - http://www.consumerworld.org/pages/money.htm Links to pages that rate charities, figure your estate tax, explain savings bonds and list credit card rates. Yahoo quotes - http://quote.yahoo.com Provides minute-by-minute updates of your portfolio and news affecting your investments. Legal Eagle Eye - http://www.wld.com/widc.htm You can search for lawyers and firms by name, city, state, and area of practice. Also lists the year they passed the bar, education, experience and even birth date. Matt Drudge - http://www.drudgereport.com/ Reference Merriam-Webster Online - http://www.m-w.com Don’t have a dictionary handy?? Search this site where you can browse definitions and etymologies. An on-line thesaurus as well as a report on slang words Encarta Online - http://encarta.msn.com For an occasional peek into an encyclopedia, this is a worthwhile bookmark. Reverse Phone Book AnyWho - http://www.anywho.com lists phone numbers allowing you to see who belongs to what number and where they live. A "map this" button sketches out the surrounding area, or you can click on a street name to see the phone numbers along it. A Web of on-line Dictionaries - http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html You can surf the Web dictionaries in dozens of tongues, including French, Arabic, Welsh - even Klingon, the fictional language of the alien warriors on "Star Trek." Cars Edmund’s Auto Buyer’s guide http://www.edmunds.com Carpoint http://www.carpoint.msn.com Blue Book http://www.kbb.com Car Talk http://www.cartalk.com automotive Web Index http://www2.arnes.si/~uljfntfiz1/auto.html National Highway Traffic Safety Administration http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov Anyone with information on a vehicle’s make, model and year can search recall records, defect investigations and consumer complaints in NHTSA’s files for free Send Virtual flowers/balloon/cards by e-mail! Electric Postcards http://postcards.www.media.mit.edu/postcards Virtual Florist http://www.virtualflorist.com Internet Card Central http://members.tripod.com/~MargaretC/cards.html E-mail photos through http://www.photonet.com Picture Vision Parents and Children 50 Great Sites for Kids & Parents http://www.ssdesign.com/parentspage/greatsites/50hhtml Parent Soup - http://www.parentsoup.com Parents at home - http://iquest.com/~jsm/moms Parents & Children on line together - http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/fl/pcto/menu.html (After searching 50,000 web sites, nine of the nation’s top librarians found 700 they recommend as great for kids. Check out what they found at the American Library Association Web site http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites Kids Fitness Minimizing the Risk of Injury in High School Athletics - http://www.nata.org/prevention/highschool.html Provides information about safety in high school sports as well as sport-specific guidelines. ChildSecure - http://www.childsecure.com Provides childproofing information and products.Also has a childproofing video and plans to branch out to doing in-home childproofing. Childproofers USA - http://www.childproofing.com Sells safety products via its website and plans to expand into training and childproofing distributorships.
Want quick News? CNN’s Custom News - http://customnews.cnn.com Like watching Headline News Newbot - http://www.hotwired.com/newbot Offers to monitor more than 100 different news-oriented sites on your behalf Scans and indexes latest stories Let’s you monitor your interests Game Sites: Virtual Congress through the - http://www.policy.com Health Mayo Health Oasis - http://www.mayo.ivi.com A solid starting place to seek info on diseases, treatments and drugs
Wellness Web - http://www.wellweb.com Treatment Findings Hungry? Ragu Spaghetti -http://ragu.com Cookbook http://www.eat.com/cookbook/index.html Girl Scout Cookies http://www.gsusa.org/cookies/cookie.htm The Cook’s Thesaurus http://www.northcoast.com/~alden/cookhome.html Mama’s Dining Room http://www.eat.com The Gumbo Pages http://www.gumbopages.com Homearts Recipe Finder http://homearts.com/waisform/recipe.htm Mimi’s Cyber Kitchen http://www.cyber-kitchen.com Weekend Gardener’s Herb Seeds Page http://www.chestnut-sw.com/seeds/herbseed.htm Culinary Herb FAQ http://sunsite.unc.edu/herbmed/culiherb.html Algy’s Herb Garden http://www.algy.com/herb
Pregnancy The Whole Nine Months - http://homearts.com/depts/health/OOninec1.htm Loaded with useful info Ask Noah about :Pregnancy - http://www.noah.cuny.edu/pregnancy/pregnancy.html A project of several public and medical groups Parents Place Pregnancy and Birth Center http://www.parentsplace.com/readroom/pregnant.html
Travel MapQuest -- great for driving directions! - http://www.mapquest.com Looking fore a getaway anywhere in the world? http://www.ase.net Accommodation Search Engine lists more than 7,000 hotels in 72 countries http://travel.epicurious.com Conde Nast Traveler Expedia http://www.expedia.com Most user-friendly online travel Travelers Information http://www.cdc.gov/travel/travel.htm Provides international travelers with current info on disease outbreaks and health issues. Includes info on recommended vaccinations Meta-Site: YPN.com - http://www.ypn.com/living/travel Lets you access airlines, online booking services, budget and business travel, restaurants, car rentals, guidebooks, maps, etc.
Magic Trendy Magic http://pw2.netcom.com/~sleight/mainpage.html This site will perform amazing (well, amusing , at least) feats of sorcery before your eyes. Click into the Interactive Magic section, and you can surf elsewhere on the site for links to other magicians’ Web outposts. All Magic Guide http://www.uelectric.com/allmagicguide This guide features instructions to help you perform your own illusions. Card, coin and rope tricks are all represented. SENIORS SeniorNet - http://www.seniornet.org Host to book clubs and learning centers as well as a medication question and answer section and a forum on "successful aging". National Senior Citizens Law Center - http://www.nsclc.org Covers legal issues that "affect the security and welfare of older persons. Senior Link - http://www.seniorlink.com Provides access to "eldercare" professionals, programs and activities SeniorCom - http://www.senior.com carries senior "chat rooms" and the Senior News Network" along with services such as travel packages, wellness programs and online shopping. SeniorLaw Home Page - http://www.seniorlaw.com helps older persons, families attorneys and financial planners to access information about "elder law, Medicare, Medicaid, estate planning, trusts and rights of the elderly and disabled. Miscellaneous Earth’s Biggest Bookstores http://www.amazon.com http://www.borders.com Dave Letterman’s Top Ten List http://www.cbs.com/lateshowttlist Joke of the Day http://www.dfw.net/~phunist Sports Fans -- ESPN http://espnet.sportzone.com |
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