Web Development: Study Resource & Degree Program Information

Web and Internet development, which also encompasses web design and management, is about creating, building and implementing programs and applications that improve, secure, maintain and enhance websites with content and design. Most of the work deals with creating new applications and improving upon existing programs and sites. The goal is to work towards user-friendly, efficient and effective sites and applications for millions of users.

Web Development Resources

Washington Post

• e-Qaeda
  A Special Report on How Jihadists Use the Internet and Technology to Spread Their Message
  Sections include: Overview ; Babar Ahmad and Azzam.com ; Zarqawi and Al Qaeda in Iraq ; Videos ; Web Sites ; Documents.

AFRICANA-L
Information Technology in Africa
"The purpose of this list is to discuss problems and issues related to information technology planning, distribution, access and policies that promote and/or retard use on the African continent. Participants share experiences of the most cost-effective ways of bringing Africa to the 'global electronic village'."

BitLaw
A Resource on Technology Law
"...is a comprehensive Internet resource on technology law, containing over 1,800 pages on patent, copyright, trademark, and Internet legal issues. BitLaw was created by Daniel A. Tysver, a partner with the intellectual property law firm of Beck & Tysver."
Sections include: Patent Law ; Software Patents ; Trademark Law ; Copyright Law ; Internet Law ; Primary Sources ; Legal Links ; Forms & Contracts.

Business Plan Archive
"To help us learn from history, we are creating the Business Plan Archive (BPA) to collect business plans and related documents from the dot com era. These plans ñ the ìblueprintsî that lay out the assumptions and strategies of Internet entrepreneurs ñ will enable entrepreneurs and researchers to conduct both qualitative and quantitative research. The business plans we collect will ultimately be stored in the Archives and Manuscript Library at the University of Maryland, College Park."
- Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

Center for Democracy & Technology
"...works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media."

• Testimony, Speeches & Filings
• Publications
  Includes law review articles, policy posts, and other publications
• Encryption Issues
  Sections include: Legislation ; U.S. Policy ; Court Cases ; Milestones ; Take Action ; Resources.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Compliance News & Solutions
"A free resource center for Website owners committed to protecting children's privacy online."

China Internet Update

Commission on Online Child Protection (COPA)

• Final Report
  Presented to Congress, October 20, 2000

Council on Foreign Relations

• Backgrounder: Terrorists and the Internet
  By Eben Kaplan, May 2006.

Currents in Electronic Literacy
"...is an electronic journal for the scholarly discussion of issues pertaining to electronic literacy, widely construed. We seek to publish work addressing the use of electronic texts and technologies in reading, writing, teaching, and learning in fields including but not restricted to: literature (in English and in other languages), rhetoric and composition, languages (English, foreign, or ESL), communications, media studies, and education."

CyberJournalist.net
"CyberJournalist.net focuses on how the Internet, media convergence and new technologies are changing journalism. The site offers tips, news and commentary about online journalism, digital storytelling, converged news operations and using the Internet as a reporting tool."

• Great Iraq Conflict Coverage
  Sections include: WarBlog ; Great Online Iraq War Coverage Gallery ; Iraq Conflict Resources.

Cyberlaw

Ethics in Computing
Sections include: Commerce ; Social-Justice Issues ; Computer Abuse ; Speech Issues ; Privacy ; Intellectual Property ; Basics ; Risks.
By Information Technology and Engineering Computer Services, North Carolina State University

First Monday
Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet

• Building Digital Communities: Web-Wise 2002 - (dead link) (May 2002 Theme)
  "Papers from the Third Annual Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World sponsored by the U.S. Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and Johns Hopkins University, 20-22 March 2002, Baltimore."
• Internet in the Lives of Turkish Women - (dead link) (March 2002)
  By Ayisigi B. Sevdik and Varol Akman

GeoURL ICBM Address Server
"GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you."

Harvard University Law School - The Berkman Center for Internet & Society

• The Filter
  "Your regular dose of public interest Internet news and commentary from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society."

http://politicalweb.info
"We are tracking the emergence and development of campaign Web sites, and will be sharing that information with you each week. We will provide data on the percentage of campaigns with Web sites and the kinds of features on those sites...The information and analyses presented on this site are based upon research conducted under the direction of Kirsten Foot and Steve Schneider."
- University of Washington - Center for Communication and Civil Engagement

Human Rights Internet (HRI) - (dead link)
"HRI is dedicated to the empowerment of human rights activists and organizations, and to the education of governmental and intergovernmental agencies and officials and other actors in the public and private sphere, on human rights issues and the role of civil society. HRI seeks to accomplish the above by: Facilitating the application of new technologies toward the furtherance of human rights through transferring knowledge and expertise particularly to Southern non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society organizations; Producing and providing access to human rights databases and a unique and comprehensive documentation centre..."

IBM Systems Journal
"...is a quarterly, refereed technical publication, featuring the work of authors from systems and software fields in information science and the computer industry. The papers are written for a technically aware readership in the software and systems professional community worldwide: technical professionals, researchers, and users."

• New Developments in Web Services and E-Commerce
  Vol. 41, No. 2, 2002 Theme issue

Information Warfare Site (IWS)
"...is an online resource that aims to stimulate debate about a range of subjects from information security to information operations and e-commerce. It is the aim of the site to develop a special emphasis on offensive and defensive information operations."
Sections include: Computer Security ; Hacking &
Cracking ; Military Affairs ; Critical Infrastructure ; Information Operations ; Psychological Operations ; Crime & Espionage ; Intelligence ; RMA & C4I ; E-Commerce ; Legal Aspects ; Terrorism.

Internet News Bureau (INB)
Online Press Release Services for Businesses and Journalists

The Internet Advocate - (dead link)
A Web-based Resource Guide for Librarians and Educators Interested in Providing  Youth Access to the Net
Maintained by Lisa Champelli, Children's Librarian, Monroe County Public Library (MCPL) in Bloomington, Indiana.

Internet Archive - The Wayback Machine
"...was founded to build an ëInternet library,í with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format."
Includes sites from October 1996 to now and contains about 4 billion pages!

Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms
From The Animated Software Company

Internet Lawyer, The

Internet Librarian 2006: Presentation Links
Monterey, CA - October 23-25, 2006.
"This page features links to World Wide Web sites, PowerPoint slideshows, and other electronic resources used in support of presentations at Internet Librarian 2006 and Internet@Schools West 2006. Links are provided solely at the discretion of presenters..."

Internet Pornography: Are Children at Risk - (dead link)
"Pages" include: Pornography on the Internet ; Technology-Based Tools ; Educational Strategies ; Policy and Regulation ; Related Reports.
- National Academies - Web Extra

Internet Society (ISOC)
Sections include: Internet History ; Education & Training ; Public Policy ; Standards & Protocols ; Chapters ; Conferences ; Discuss.

internet-101.com The Television Show - Hoaxes
Anti-Virus, Hoax, Myth, Fraud, Chain Letter and Anti-Spam Sites.
Includes current advisories, alerts and warnings.

IPWatchdoc.com
"...dedicated to providing a free Internet resource for Intellectual Property Law, Internet Law, and Antitrust Law.
By Gene Quinn, Patent Attorney and Visiting Professor, Temple University School of Law

Japan Internet Report (JIR) (ejournal)
"...is a free, monthly e-mail newsletter featuring news and commentary on Japan's Internet industry."

Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
"...is a strategic advisory committee working on behalf of the funding bodies for further and higher education (FE and HE) in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It also works in partnership with the Research Councils."

Journal of Education, Community, and Values: Interface on the Internet
Published by Pacific University - Berglund Center for Internet Studies.

Journal of Online Behavior - (dead link)
"Dedicated to the empirical study of human behavior online"

KFTF: Keeping Found Things Found
"Our current research project focuses on the KFTF problem in the context of World Wide Web use. Follow-on projects will look at variations of the KFTF problem as these occur for email, electronic files and paper files
- A Project of the Information School at the University of Washington.

lessig blog
Blog by Cyber Law guru Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society.

Middle East Media Research Institute - Jihad and Terrorism Studies Project

• Islamist Websites as an Integral Part of Jihad: A General Overview
  By Y. Yehoshau, Inquiry and Analysis Series, No. 328, February 21, 2007.

National Academy Press (free downloads)

• 2005
  • Signposts in Cyberspace: The Domain Name System and Internet Navigation
    Committee on Internet Navigation and the Domain Name System: Technical Alternatives and Policy Implications, National Research Council, 2005.
• 2002
  • The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11
    Committee on the Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from the Impact of September 11, National Research Council, 2002.
  • Technical, Business, and Legal Dimensions of Protecting Children from Pornography on the Internet: Proceedings of a Workshop
    Committee to Study Tools and Strategies for Protecting Kids from Pornography and Their Applicability to Other Inappropriate Internet Content, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, National Research Council, 2002.
  • Youth, Pornography, and the Internet
    Dick Thornburgh and Herbert S. Lin, Editors, Committee to Study Tools and Strategies for Protecting Kids from Pornography and Their Applicability to Other Inappropriate Internet Content, National Research Council, 2002.
• 2001
  • Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits
    Committee on Broadband Last Mile Technology, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, 2001.
  • The Internet's Coming of Age
    Committee on the Internet in the Evolving Information Infrastructure, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council, 2001.
  • Letter Report on Information Technology Research for E-Government
    Committee on Computing and Communications Research to Enable Better Use of Information Technology in Government, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, 2001.

New Architect
[Was Web Techniques]
In addition to their current and back issues includes daily commentary and updates on current events and technologies and also search for reports and white papers from industry vendors and analysts.

On the Net: A Column by Greg R. Notess - (dead link)
"Published in Online since 1993, this column features information resources and tools available on the Internet and the World Wide Web, specifically ones of interest to information professionals." Perkins Coie: Internet Case Digest
"...is a compilation of cases designed to bookmark, collate and monitor important developments in Internet law, including cases that have significant implications for Internet legal issues even if they are not directly related to the Internet. The Digest includes both filed and decided cases to capture the most recent developments as well as new judicial precedents. As a research tool, the Digest is useful as a starting point and points to additional resources that are kept current by those content providers."

Pew Internet & American Life Project
"The Project creates original research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, health care, schools, the work place, and civic/political life. The Pew Internet & American Life Project aims to be an authoritative source for timely information on the Internetís growth and societal impact, through research that is scrupulously impartial."

RAND Technical Reports (free online versions)

• Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail
  By Norman Shapiro and Robert H. Anderson, 1985.
  [The publication date is not a typo - it is a report on E-Mail from 1985.

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
"This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Most sources have been published between 1990 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included."
By Charles W. Bailey, R.

Seattle Times

• How "Search" is Redefining the Web - and our Lives
  Three part article by Kim Peterson, May 2005.

United Nations - International Telecommunication Union

• World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
  Geneva 2003 - Tunis 2005.
  Includes: Outcome Documents ; WSIS Implementation and Follow-Up ; Phase II Documents ; Phase I Documents.

United States Dept. of State - Global Issues and Communications

U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

• Kidz Privacy
• 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

UCLA Center for Communication Policy - Internet Project
"...will provide the first long-term exploration of how life is being transformed by computers and the Internet, with year-to-year comparisons of the social and cultural changes produced as people use this extraordinary technology.  This study is also the first to analyze these broad questions about the Internet on a global scale."

UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy

• Cyberspace Law Bibliography

United States Institute of Peace

• www.terror.net: How Modern Terrorism Uses the Internet
  Special Report 116, March 2004.

Washington Post

• e-Qaeda
  A Special Report on How Jihadists Use the Internet and Technology to Spread Their Message
  Sections include: Overview ; Babar Ahmad and Azzam.com ; Zarqawi and Al Qaeda in Iraq ; Videos ; Web Sites ; Documents.

The Web Standards Project (WaSP)
"...is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards that ensure simple, affordable, access to web technologies for all."

WebABLE
"...is the authoritative Web site for disability-related internet resources. The WebABLE site goal is to stimulate education, research, and development of technologies that will ensure accessibility for people with disabilities to advanced information systems and emerging technologies."

World Bank GenderNet
"This site describes how the Bank seeks to reduce gender disparities and enhance women's participation in economic development through its programs and projects. It summarizes knowledge and experience, provides gender statistics, and facilitates discussion on gender and development."

• Gender and the Digital Divide Seminar
  "The series looks at the impact that information and communication technologies (ICT) are having on gender relations and innovative ways that ICTs are being used to overcome gender inequalities and bridge the digital divide."

Yale Law School - LawMeme
"...a law and technology organization focuses on the mutual influence of technological development and legal doctrine, with a particular focus on civil rights online, intellectual property, and the first amendment."

Zapatista: Neoliberalism, the Chiapas Uprising & Cyberspace (English and Korean) (etext)
By Harry M. Cleaver, Jr., Dept. of Economics, University of Texas, Austin
Originally published by the Galmuri Publishing House, Seul, Korea, 1998.
"This is mostly a collection of my writings on the Zapatistas. Although published in Korean most of the material was prepared in English, so all of the original English versions of the articles contained in the book, and of the introductions I wrote to the book, and to each article, are available here."

Zapatistas in Cyberspace
A Guide to Analysis & Information
"...this guide has been compiled to provide not only an introduction to the variety of efforts that have developed in cyberspace, but also one point of departure for further developments."
Sections include: Analysis ; Internet Lists, Conferences & Newsgroups ; World Wide Websites ; Archives ; Books ; Film, Graphics, Photographs.
By Harry M. Cleaver, Jr., Dept. of Economics, University of Texas, Austin

Statistics
CyberAtlas
Internet Statistics and Market Research for Web Marketers

Global Reach - Global Internet Statistics
"Here are the latest estimated figures of the number of people online in each language zone (native speakers)."

Google Search Statistics from 9/11/01

How Much Information?
"This study is an attempt to estimate how much new information is created each year. Newly created information is distributed in four storage media ñ print, film, magnetic, and optical ñ and seen or heard in four information flows ñ telephone, radio and TV, and the Internet."
- School of Information Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley.

Internet & Networking: Surveys and Statistics - (dead link)
Sections include: Top 10 ; Other Sources ; Papers ; Library Statistics
From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

Internet Systems Consortium

• Internet Domain Survey
  "The Domain Survey attempts to discover every host on the Internet by doing a complete search of the Domain Name System."

The Internet Weather Report - (dead link)
"presents ongoing animated scans of conditions within the Internet. It is like daily newspaper or television weather radar reports, except instead of being about real world meteorology, it is about conditions inside the Internet itself. The IWR is presented in geographical maps that show lag..."
Data since 1993.

Jupiter Media Metrix

Nielsen/NetRatings - (dead link)

Pew Internet & American Life Project
"The Project creates original research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, health care, schools, the work place, and civic/political life. The Pew Internet & American Life Project aims to be an authoritative source for timely information on the Internetís growth and societal impact, through research that is scrupulously impartial."

U.S. Dept. of Education - National Center for Education Statistics

• Computer and Internet Use by Students in 2003 (September 2006)
• Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms: 1994-2000 (May 2001)

U.S. White House

• President Bush Signs Child Internet Safety Legislation (December 4, 2002)
• The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
  • National Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Key Assets

Web Characterization Project
"...an annual Web sample to analyze trends in the size and content of the Web."
Sections include: Size and Growth ; Country/Language ; Economic Activity ; Top 50 Lists ; Publications ; Links.
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

Web Publishing Curriculum Resources
Includes: Workshop Outlines ; Workshop Resources ; Guidelines for Good Practice ; Where to Go for More Information ; Recommended Reading ; Software, Utilities, and Services.
Web site to accompany IT Curriculum, University of Oregon Library System workshop.

Webopedia: Online Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms

Centers & Organizations
Center for Democracy & Technology
"...works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media."

Commission on Online Child Protection (COPA)

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Harvard University Law School - The Berkman Center for Internet & Society

• The Filter
  "Your regular dose of public interest Internet news and commentary from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society."

Internet Policy Institute

Internet Society (ISOC)
"Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. (ISC) is a nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to supporting the infrastructure of the universal connected self-organizing Internetóand the autonomy of its participantsóby developing and maintaining core production quality software, protocols, and operations."

Internet Systems Consortium

Pacific University - Berglund Center for Internet Studies

Stanford Law School - Center for Internet and Society

U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy

• Cyberspace Law Bibliography

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
"...develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential as a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding."

See also Finding Information on the Internet ; History of the Internet ; Internet Directories ; Internet Search Engines ; Intellectual Property Resources .