SFSU Journalism: No-Frills Jumplist

Government Resources

Association of Bay Area Governments
Census Bureau home page and 1990 Census tables
FedWorld Information Services (Comprehensive guide to Government databases)
Federal Government Agencies (A clean, easy-to-use listing)
Visit the White House, or the House of Representatives Senate
Thomas (The Library of Congress information service)
USGS

Reference Desk

Encyclopedia Britannica
Research It (All-in-one reference desk: dictionary, quotes, translators, more)
CIA World Factbook
Library of Congress, (Including Marvel and Locis)
The World Wide Web Virtual Library

Finding People & Places

Whowhere and Internet Address Finder
Mapquest (Gives a street-level map for any U.S. address)
Switchboard (Nationwide residential telephone and address directory)
BigBook (Yellow Pages style business information)

Digital Toolbox

No Train, No Gain
IRE Training and Understanding Crime Statistics
Media Training
From copydesk.org:

Writing and Editing Help
Bob Baker's Newsthinking
Journalist's Toolkit
Driving a Newspaper on the Data Highway and Copy Editing for Magazines
Writing for the Web, Advice for Web Writers, and What Writers Do
Writing for the Web (from Scripps)
Be Succinct!
The First Amendment Handbook

News Publications on the Net

eXaminer.com
The Gate, (the SF Chronicle)
Time Warner's "Pathfinder"
New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
Christian Science Monitor
USA Today
LA Times
Philadelphia Inquirer
San Jose Mercury News
Editor & Publisher

Wire Services

Associated Press
Reuters

Politics

PoliticsUSA, from American Political Network and National Journal
All Politics from Time and CNN
Democratic National Committee
Republican National Committee
Federal Election Commission data on campaign contributions
Turn Left calls itself the home of liberalism on the Web
The Skeleton Closet, a bipartisan listing of character allegations against the candidates

National Broadcast News Media

CNN Interactive and CNNfn
NPR, National Public Radio
PRI, Public Radio International
Pacifica Radio
PBS Online
NBC News
ABC Radio

Commerce

Internet Shopping Network
The Internet Mall gives access to more than 7,500 Internet stores
BizWeb: Internet commercial sites by category

Entertainment/Culture/Pastimes

Mr. Showbiz, entertainment news and gossip from Starwave
The Internet Movie Database
National Endowment for the Arts
Internet Underground Music Archives

Miscellany

Student Voice SFSU student surveys
Dead Sea Scrolls
Queer Resource Directory
Project Gutenberg Public-domain books of historical significance

The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat provides a free and useful resource it calls the Ready Reference Collection. Among other things, this page will lead you to dictionaries, encyclopedias, census data, maps, and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

One of the busiest aspects of the Internet is the part where people exchange public messages (as opposed to e-mail, which is ostensibly private), called Usenet. Countless thousands of people participate every day in Usenet's topical, public conversations, and there's no way any one person could ever keep track of all the information (and misinformation and disinformation and inane chatter) posted daily to Usenet newsgroups. But you can sift through those innumerable Usenet messages by author or keyword, through Google Groups.

 

*...This page grew out of an adaptation of the "Navigator" page on the New York Times web server.