NewsGroups, NewsLetters en Weblogs

NewsGroups

The best way to handle newsgroups

• Google Groups
  The tool for searching Usenet archives which contains a large collection of indexed archived Usenet articles from past month. The database is updated several times daily. It contains 700 million articles from 15,000 newsgroups. Searching is very fast. Google Groups collects the archives of Usenet newsgroups and makes them searchable. It's a great time-saver. If you're looking for Usenet news, this is the place. Google Groups has the most powerful searches of newsgroups available.
  

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• Browse Groups
  Allows you to traverse the hierarchy of Usenet newsgroups in their database. You can see what's out there, and you get a feel for the structure of Usenet.

  newusers comp (computers) rec (recreation) sci (science) soc (society)

  talk news (Usenet) misc (miscellaneous) humanities linux (Linux)

  bit (LISTSERVs) biz (business) alt (alternative) k12 (kindergarten) schl (school)

  
  

Alternative Newsgroups or via W3C
• alt.education.research

• alt.feminism.individualism (unmoderated)

• alt.society.generation-x
  Forum about lifestiles of the 60 and early seventy generations.

• alt.sci.sociology
  A forum for sociologists.

• alt.postmodern
  Postmodernism, semiotics, deconstruction, and the like.

• alt.society.labor-unions

  Miscellaneous Newsgroups

• misc.activism.progressive

• misc.activism.militia

  Science Newsgroups

• sci.anthropology
  All aspects of studying humankind.

• sci.data.formats
  Modelling, storage and retrieval of scientific data.

• sci.econ

• sci.econ.research
  Research in all fields of economics. (Moderated)

• sci.math.stat
  Statistics discussion.

• sci.psychology

• sci.stat.edu
  Statistics education.

  Society Newsgroups

• soc.culture.latin-america
  Discussing all aspects of all-European society.

• soc.culture.europe
  Discussing all aspects of all-European society.

• soc.culture.netherlands
  Discussing all aspects of Dutch and Belgium society.

• soc.culture.scientists
  Discussing all aspects of the culture of the scientific community.
  Discussion of feminism and feminist issues. Both men and women are encouraged to post to it and discussion is not limited to the pro-feminist viewpoint. (Moderated)

• soc.history

• Qualitative research

• NewzBot: public USENET resources for the masses
  Free news-servers. Looking for USENET news, but can't get access? If your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or organization doesn't carry a particular newsgroup, or you don't have posting access, visit this public USENET services page that has been created by James W. Abendschan.

• nl.internet.algemeen

• nl.internet.misbruik

• nl.internet.www.ontwerp

• nl.politiek

• nl.religie

• nl.wetenschap

• USENET
  A worldwide netwerk of Internet newsgroups on thousands of subject.

• Fight Spam on the Internet
  You've probably seen an increase in the amount of "junk mail" in your email box, or on your favorite newsgroup. This is a site where you can fight back. Join the campaign.

• Google Groups: What's New

• Internet FAQ Archives

• Internet Newsgroups
  An index of newsgroups available on the WWW. With instructions for reading news and finding out which newsgroups are available on various servers.

• A Primer on How to Work With the UsenetCommunity - by: Chuq Von Rospach. by: Horton, Spafford & Moraes.

• Netiquette | it | nl
  By: Arlene H. Rinaldi.

• Usenet References

• Wat is Usenet? by: Albert Benschop (Univ. of Amsterdam)
  Dutch only.

NewsLetters

• Chronicle of Higher Education, The
  A weekly published newsletter for college and university faculty members and administrators. It offers a lot of information on information technology, distance education, and publishing. When you subscribe you get full access to all sections of the site, including daily electronic-mail updates.

• Centre for Research in Social Policy Newsletter (CRSP)

• Disability Information & Resource Centre (DIRC) - South Australia.

• Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Newsletter
  Published by Paul ten Have (Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam).

• ERCOMER Newsletter
  The Newsletter of the Migration and Ethnic Relations Group for European Research. It is published three times a year by the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) in the Netherlands (Utrecht Univ.).

• Left Business Observer (LBO)
  A newsletter on economics and politics in the USA and the world at large. Founding editor: Doug Henwood. And even John Kenneth Galbraith reads it with pleasure.

• Newsletter of the European Sociological Association
  You can subscribe to the newsletter on the website.

• Race, Poverty and the Environment
  A Newsletter for Social and Environmental Justice. From the Urban Habitat Program (UHP) - San Francisco, USA.

• Science Daily
  A daily newsletter about scientific developments. This magazine brings you breaking news about the latest discoveries and hottest research projects in everything from astrophysics to zoology. The articles are actually news releases submitted by leading universities and other research organizations around the world. Each news release is posted in its original form, with a contact name and link to the organization's home page. In addition, ScienceDaily offers links to major science media and other sources of science news on the Internet, as well as a collection of interesting science-related sites aimed at helping web surfers in their online explorations. Readers can also subscribe to free weekly e-mail bulletins that summarize the top science news stories of the past week.

• Social Affairs - Lincoln University, USA

• Sociology of Education Newsletter (ASA)

• Sociology News - University of Cal State L.A., USA

• Sociology Newsletter - New School University, USA

• Sociology Newsletter - Univ. of California, Davis, USA.

• Sozialwissenschaften in Osteuropa - Social Science in Eastern Europe.
  Must be the best actual information on sociology, sociologists and their institutions.

• Social Research Update
  Published by the Department of Sociology, Univ. of Surrey (England). Editor: Nigel Gilbert.

• Theory, Culture & Society - University of Teesside, UK.

• Vrouw & Kultuur - Woman and Culture.