Technology, Writing and the Internet Advanced Expository Writing ENGL 249S-02 * Fall 2003

Besides our weekly readings in issues in technology, you should keep abreast of the newest developments in the computer and technology worlds. They will affect you. Be able to discuss the news in class. You may also use them as sources for papers and as material for class assignments.

I am always looking to expand this page. If you find a good site, e-mail me.

On-line Newspapers

• CTNow.com.This site has the news from The Hartford Courant. The local focus makes the site useful for local news, weather, movie listings, and such, as well as technology and other news.



• The Boston Globe. A relatively local paper. Keep in mind that the site will allow you to browse the current news but charges you to access the archives.



• The New York Times. The Times also has a weekly technology section, also on Thursdays. Registration is required but free.



• CNN On-line. CNN, as we all know, is an all-news network on cable television; on the Web, it's another newspaper. The stories are mainstream and very current, although some stories will remain on the main page for days, in case you want to go back to them. CNN also keeps archives, which are searchable, and links to computer stories on the IDG pages. The Computing Section is updated daily.



• The Houston Chronicle's Technology Page. A pretty good selection. Check out Dwight Silverman's "All You Need To Know About the Internet."



• The Los Angeles Times: Technology page. Technology news on a wide variety of topics.



• The San Jose Mercury News. Catch the latest news from Silicon Valley's newspaper. A good choice.



• The Seattle Times Technology Page. Very extensive news listings, from one of the biggest computer and software cities. The news here seems to focus on the commercial and legal aspects of technology, but includes news on technology and culture as well as software and hardware news.



• The Chicago Sun-Times. The technology section is under Business Section. The Sun-Times also runs Roger Ebert's movie reviews.



• Time Magazine. The technology section is listed under Business and Technology.



• USA Today. USA Today's Technology section not only includes top technology news stories, but new and exciting websites, game and software reviews, and a question and answer section.

On-line Technology Magazines

• Internet.Com. Internet.com has an impressive first page index of resources: news, technology, world wide web news, commerce, and general internet resources.



• MacAddict. One of my top picks for the on-line MacIntosh magazines. Like PC Week, PC World, and Wired, MacAddict also comes in the old-fashioned print form. The site includes daily news, technical help, and links to other Mac sites.



• MacCentral On-Line includes MacIntosh and Internet news.



• ZDNet: Tech Update. ZDNet's's site is very thorough, handling both breaking news and providing direction for other computer needs. Story subjects range from software reviews to e-commerce. There is also a link to a news archive that goes back about a week; there's also a search engine.



• PC World. Sections include news, reviews, the Web, how-to, and a link to the current issue on newsstands. A very busy page graphically, it takes time to load, but there's a wealth of information here.



• SlashDot. The site bills itself as "news for nerds." Heavily technical, but very thorough.



• Wired Magazine On Line. Wired has traditionally been a magazine more geared toward techie (if not geeky) men; still, it's bleeding-edge technology and gaming news keeps it at the top of most (non-alphabetical) lists.

News from Overseas

• BBC News: Science and Nature Page. This site offers a view from the other side of the pond. Not all of the news here is computer and internet related, but some is, and they even have a special Internet correspondent.



• London Times Online. And the London Times Business Technology section. The latter is marketed as a "supplement" to the normal paper.



• Japan Times Techno Times. This section of the Japan Times seems to be a weekly, but the stories from previous weeks are archived along the side of the site. Stories are not limited to happenings in Japan.



• SiliconIndia. More extensive than IndiaLine, this site has tech stories from India and elsewhere arrangedby type (tech, analysis, etc.).

Gaming News and Reviews

• Dreamcast.ign.com. Not only for the Sega Dreamcast machine but for Nintendo, Playstation, and PC games. The site also includes reviews, previews, news, and cheat codes.



• Game Spot. A mainstream site that offers a wide range of reviews and previews with a few feature length articles. Recommended by Jim Scannell.



• Thresh's Firing Squad. Probably Jim Scannell's favorite game site. Thresh is the world champion Quake player, but he has a talented staff writing reviews of games and hardware. You'll find in-depth reviews of Athlon CPUs and special cooling fans for people who like to overclock their processors (like Jim, who crashed his hard drive that way). Also contains links to message boards concerning hardware questions.



• VoodooExtreme. The site includes links with short abstracts to all the most current gaming news and reviews on the WWW and is updated around the clock. According to Jim, the site has a sense of humor and the site moderator is in fact a former '70s porn star (don't blame me; I just report the news).

Other On-Line Sources

• C|Net's News Site. This site's opening screen gives a few headlines, but a list on the side gives a generous number and variety of categories of technology news to browse. The weekend edition contains the very handy "One Week View" section which gives you the headlines for the week and the even handier "Week in Review" section on the weekends which sums up the tecnology news of the week. On the whole, one of the best tech news sites.



• Also check out C|Net's Broadband and Radio Page.



• IDG.net provides top news stories in the tech world, as well as reviews. The CNN Computing Section often uses IDG stories as a source.



• NPR On-Line. Like CNN.com, NPR On-Line originated as a broadcast medium. You can get tech news in the News section by scrolling down to Business and High Tech. You can even listen to the news through streaming audio. The news stories, like news stories in audio and television broadcasts, seem to be very short.



• Yahoo!'s Technology Headlines. A fairly mainstream listing of headlines, with links to the full stories.