As you know, you are encouraged to pass along suggestions of books, journals, online sources, or other material you think make a useful addition to our "firm library." Just e-mail them to me (1035393@mcimail.com) and I'll post them here (crediting you as the source). [19970123]
For starters, here are ten samples of online "e-zines" you may find interesting or useful. I will post them here as they come to me. The links will take you to a sample copy of the e-zine. Virtually all are free subscriptions and the issue usually contains information on how you can become a subscriber (which means the issues will come to you automatically as e-mail). (I am distinguishing e-zines from "list serv"s: an e-zine being an online publication that reflects the selection, rewriting and editing function of someone functioning as an editor, and a list serv being an automatic re-publication and distribution of every contribution to the list by its members.) Although I encourage you to examine these sample issues, to give you a sense of "what's out there," I neither encourage or discourage you to subscribe to any of them. That's up to you. As you'll note, a number were sent to me by former UI Law of Electronic Media student David Loundy .
AOL List The AOL List deals with issues involving the AOL service. [NJ]
Cyberwire Dispatch is the creation of an old friend of mine, Brock Meeks. I'm not sure I'd call him a "gonzo journalist" in the Hunter Thompson tradition, but he is one hell of an effective, take-no-prisoners investigative reporter. A top-flight professional for pay (mostly telecommunications trades), he shares some additional stories with the rest of us for free. We had to put together a legal defense fund for him on one occasion when a subject of one of his exposes filed an unjustified defamation suit. David Loundy forwarded this column. [NJ]
Edupage is published by Educom. It is a three-times-a-week distribution of summaries of news items from a variety of sources that I, at least, find one of my most useful surveys of what's going on in IT generally. [NJ]
First Amendment Update is distributed from time to time by its editor, Chris Roth. [NJ]
Hot Flash is an online publication from the folks who produce the creative hard copy magazine, Wired. [NJ]
Netly News [NJ]
Scout Report is not published on a regular schedule. It contains, as the name hints, the results of the "scouts" on the frontier of Cyberspace, reporting the new site-ings. (If such finds interest you, check the "What's New" and "What's Cool" boxes on your Netscape front end.) [NJ]
TELECOM Digest [NJ]
WebActive is a periodically distributed guide to sites of relevance to what it calls the progressive community. [NJ]