The Weekly Bookmark
   April 19, 1996 - Vol 2, No. 20
   http://www.webcom.com/weekly/wb/friday.html
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   Table of Contents

          On My End - Note from the Editor
          Supporters of the Weekly Bookmark
          Out There - Places to Visit
          Weekly Bookmark Information
          Meet The Staff - Contact Info
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   On My End
   Matt Alberts weekly@webcom.com

          I have returned after a few weeks of. I enjoyed my vacation,
          and I would like to thank those that wished me a good one.
          Things are winding down for a good summer of work with the
          HelpWeb, the Weekly Bookmark, and WBAds. Some of my plans
          include a FAQ and improved navigation through the web pages.

          Coming up in the next few weeks will be a coupole of articles
          from our staff. Marian Hank is diligently working on an article
          and should have it completed for you in the next week or so. I
          am still researching a few topics for my article. Look for
          these in the next month or so.

          The Weekly Bookmark should be showing up on time in your
          mailboxes from now on. pobox.com's mail server was running low
          on memory causing a large backup processing some of the
          postings. Those problems have been solved and everything should
          be back to normal.

          Enjoy this issue of the Weekly Bookmark.
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   Supporters

          Imaginary Landscape 
          Hand Woven Web Sites
          It All Begins With Your Ideas
          http://www.imagescape.com
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   Out There
      Art, Humanities, and Music
        enter the eclectic web...
                Offers online and printed resources for writing, editing,
                graphic design, desktop publishing, electronic
                publishing, and Internet marketing.

                Also includes online resources for bicyclists, a
                photographic tour of the University of Arizona's
                astronomy camp, and exhibits of Retallick's graphic
                design and photographic work.
                URL: http://www.azstarnet.com/~lnrider
                This site is ?
                Submitted By: Martha J. Retallick

        Rancho DeNada
                Rancho DeNada has been online since 3/15/96. We feature
                original songs by unsigned South Texas songwriters, we
                have a Cybrary that features guest writers, we have The
                Sports Dog (the only Golden Retriever in the world to
                have his own sports column on the WWW), we have record
                reviews and much, much more.
                URL: http://www.nwpros.com/~newsome/index.html
                This site is contains formatting that does not interfere
                with browsing of the site.
                Submitted By: Kent Newsome
 
        General Music 101
                General Music 101 is a basic Music "history" and theory
                information site.
                URL: http://www.concentric.net/~selzler/
                This site is was designed with tables and frames which
                eliminated nearly 50% of all people from viewing this
                site.
                Submitted By: Bruce Selzler

      Entertainment
        UK National Lottery
                A great source of information regarding all aspects of
                the UK National Lottery. An unofficial site, which
                contains an enormous amount of information, and is
                updated at least on a weekly basis.
                URL: http://www.connect.org.uk/lottery/
                This site is ?
                Submitted By: Donald Eastwood

        101 Hollywood Blvd
                Multimedia site about six film students have a comical
                time making a serious movie.
                URL: http://home.navisoft.com/brewpubclub/101.htm
                This site is contains formatting that does not interfere
                with browsing of the site.
                Submitted By: Steve Merlin

      Government and Politics
        NC Dems
                NC Dems is home for North Carolina Democrats on the Web.
                We offer information concering Democratic activity in our
                state, links to county organizations and political
                candidates and a full range of Internet services. Visit
                NC Dems for all you Democratic politcal needs in North
                Carolina.
                URL: http://soundview.com/ncdems/
                This site is ?
                Submitted By: Randy D McCracken

        Zychik Chronicle
                Some political sites are informative. Some are
                opinionated. Mine is very, very opinionated. I'll let the
                site do the rest of the talking, so to speak.
                URL: http://www.pacificnet.net/~jzychik
                This site is was designed with tables and frames which
                eliminated nearly 50% of all people from viewing this
                site.
                Submitted By: Joe Zychik

        CONSER (Cooperative Online Serials) Program
                Along with the creation of these home pages, _CONSERline_
                issues for 1996 are now available in HTML format via the
                World-Wide Web. Issues for 1994-1995 can be accessed via
                the _CONSERline_ home page which links to back issues on
                the gopher server, LC MARVEL. We will continue to publish
                _CONSERline_ in ASCII format and distribute issues via
                email through listserv software, in addition to making
                the HTML version available on LCWeb.

                On the CONSER Program home page you'll also find general
                information about the program, the current _Annual
                Report_, and documents on serials cataloging issues in
                HTML format. Updated guidelines for cataloging remote
                access serials (e.g., electronic journals) are available
                via the home page. New CONSER record requirements,
                including the seven new core records for special format
                serials, are included as well.

                The program home page includes links to catalogs
                available on the Internet, serials collections online,
                and other Internet cataloging services. The final section
                lists email addresses for asking questions or identifying
                problems relating to serials cataloging or CONSER
                records. The "mailto" link is included here to
                automatically generate email messages provided your Web
                browser can accommodate.

                Additional information and links are planned as well,
                including a section on CONSER Task Forces with
                information about all active efforts. More links to
                catalogs available on the Internet are also planned as we
                are able to support a more focused approach with more
                direct links to individual catalogs.
                URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser
                This site is contains formatting that does not interfere
                with browsing of the site.
                Submitted By: Bill Anderson - via Net Happenings

      Internet and the WWW
        Web Development Resources
                A list of the most useful resources for web page
                developers arranged by category. All developers are
                catered for with resources for beginners, graphical
                developers, CGI programmers, Java, and advanced HTML.
                URL: http://www.eborcom.com/webmaker/
                This site is contains formatting that does not interfere
                with browsing of the site.
                Submitted By: eBORcOM

        SITEGUIDE (TM)
                Announcing SITEGUIDE (tm) at http://www.thebigw.com. How
                do you find the best new or improved websites tired of
                endless lists? Its official - the Web is now an
                electronic jungle save your precious time and let us
                sniff out the good stuff SITEGUIDE is an 'editorial,' an
                opinion, an exercise in taste. There are no boundaries in
                subject matter though sites covering narrow, specialised
                fields of interest should be presented in a way that
                opens that field to the wider audience.
                URL: http://www.thebigw.com
                This site is was designed with tables and frames which
                eliminated nearly 50% of all people from viewing this
                site.
                Submitted By: Derek Ruttle

        InterAct'96, The First Virtual Conference
                It's not just another conference! It's the first truly
                virtual conference where nobody has to travel. Not the
                speakers, not the attendees. InterAct'96 will consist of
                two main sections, a conference section and an exhibit
                section.

                For the conference section we are pre-recording
                introductory comments from speakers and putting those up
                on the web in streaming audio (ToolVox from Voxware) and
                streaming video (VDOlive from VDOnet). Speakers then
                participate in moderated chat sessions during the
                conference that will take place from April 23-25, 1996.
                We have quite an eclectic list of speakers so far, which
                includes Esther Dyson, Shikhar Gosh, Eric Schmidt, Klaus
                Besier, David Gobel, John Patrick, Howard Anderson, G.M.
                O'Connell, Marleen McDaniel, Ted Leonsis, Stewart Alsop,
                Nat Borenstein, Daniel Lynch, Mark Stahlman, Pavel Curtis
                and many many more. You can check for the latest list at
                www.interact96.com.

                We are also having a virtual trade show where exhibitors
                are displaying their goods and services in vrml worlds
                and where attendees can interact though Avatars.
                Companies that signed up so far are Time Magazine,
                InfoWorld, Stratus, NetScape, Digital Equipment, Cascade,
                Voxware, BSDI, Balcksun, VDOnet, The Yankee Group,
                Cornell University, White Pine, Utopia, Gina, Javaworld
                and JARS.
                URL: http://www.interact96.com
                This site is contains tables and frames but is nice
                enough to provide an alternative set of pages.
                Submitted By: Francois Gossieaux

        Small Business Friendly - The New Standard for Business on the
                Net
                The Small Business Friendly program is a non-profit
                service/Web site dedicated to seeking out reliable
                business resources, primarily for small, home-based, and
                niche businesses, on the World Wide Web and Internet.

                Sites are nominated for Membership, which is free, by
                visitors to our site. Those sites are then evaluated by a
                panel of Judges, made up of volunteers from a diverse
                cross-section of fields. Sites selected as Members can
                display the SBF seal on their Web sites, and will be
                included in the list of Members.

                Member sites can also be nominated for Users' Choice Site
                of the Week awards, which will denote companies or
                resources that offer particularly valuable services or
                information. We are now accepting nominations for
                Members, and rely on word of mouth for nominations and
                visibility.
                URL: http://www.bellicose.com/sbf/
                This site is contains tables and frames but is nice
                enough to provide an alternative set of pages.
                Submitted By: Paul Shivery, III

      News
        Lead Story
                Lead Story is a unique new Web news source that saves
                people time searching the Web by providing a complete
                picture of one major business or general news story every
                day. Lead Story's editors find the best news and
                information resources available on the Web and bring them
                together in a single, convenient location to provide the
                most complete picture possible. Lead Story combines all
                the news, analysis, background information, opinion and
                commentary about the story, with links to dozens of other
                news sources. You can get a complete picture of an issue
                -- all biases and perspectives -- at a glance, without
                endlessly trolling through individual media sites to find
                the information. Lead Story is the first of a series of
                Web-based from AT&T Business Network.
                URL: http://www.leadstory.com
                This site is ?
                Submitted By: Mike Spataro

      Recreation and Sports
        Masters Swimming Canada Official website
                This is the first official national website for any
                Masters swimming country in the world. The site contains
                a wealth of information for Masters swimmers (age 19 and
                over) of any age.
                URL: http://www.unb.ca/web/Masters_swimming/index.html
                This site is was designed with tables and frames which
                eliminated nearly 50% of all people from viewing this
                site.
                Submitted By: David J. Tree

        Fantasy Sports Leagues
                Fantasy Sports Leagues provides many different fantasy
                leauges for various sports. The best thing about all of
                them is that they are all free. The only requirement is
                that you have an E-mail address and invest time in your
                team(s). FSL even has it's own NewsLetter which updates
                it's subscribers of current league standings, upcomming
                leauges, free advertising for subscribers and other
                sports features. This service is run by one person so you
                can expect a personal, yet speedy response. Sports
                supported: NFL, NHL, NBA, NASCAR, CART. Comming soon: PGA
                URL: http://members.aol.com/dgilmour95/fsl.htm
                This site is contains formatting that does not interfere
                with browsing of the site.
                Submitted By: Andrew Connell

      Reference Libraries and Indexes
        switchboard
                This page offers a telephone number & home mailing
                address of anyone in the country with a listed phone
                number. It is very easy to use and has a very fast search
                engine. I you desire you can add your e-mail address to
                your listing.
                URL: http://www.switchboard.com
                This site is ?
                Submitted By: Cliff Tesone
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