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We love getting news by e-mail, instead of wasting dead trees (and having to lug the resulting
newsprint out to the curb). Here are some newsletters we read on a regular basis.
Most are on-line and free, some cost actual cash money. (Gads!)
Free on-line newsletters
- Infobeat: Why read the paper when you can get
the daily news for free by e-mail? To sign up to receive a daily dose
of world, U.S., entertainment, and technology news, go to the Infobeat
Web site at http://www.infobeat.com and sign up.
It's free, supported by ads in the mail and on the web site.
You can even get Doonesbury by e-mail!
(Suggested by Margy Levine Young.)
- The Daily Brief: Intelligent Network Concepts, Inc. sends
out this e-mail newspaper, including a stock market
summary and world currency rates.
They request but do not require a small annual contribution for support.
To subscribe, send a message to db-request@incinc.net with the
word "subscribe" in the subject line, not the main text, of the
message. (Suggested by John Levine.)
- The Economist: The British newsweekly, which we like a whole lot
more than Time or Newsweek, sends out every Thursday a pair of e-mail
messages containing the political news and business highlights of the week.
To subscribe, visit the E-mail
Services page at their web site.
(Suggested by John Levine.)
- The Scout Report: Susan Calcari at the University of
Wisconsin scours the Internet for new and interesting things. For
information on how to subscribe, go to the Scout Report's Web page at
http://wwwscout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/.
(Suggested by John Levine.)
- Dummies Daily:
IDG Books, the ``...For Dummies'' people, run a series of
Dummies Daily mailing lists on topics like computing basics, the Internet,
and various popular programs. To sign up, go to their web site at
http://www.dummiesdaily.com.
(Suggested by Margy Levine Young.)
- Net-Happenings: If you want to know what's new on the Net
every day (or sometimes several times a day), sign up for the
net-happenings list. You'll get a listing of new Internet resources
for the day. To sign up, send a message to listserv@lists.internic.net
with the message subscribe net-happenings yourname in the text
of the message (not in the subject), substituting your actual name for
"yourname." To unsubscribe, send the message signoff
net-happenings to the same address. (Suggested by Margy Levine
Young.)
On-line newsletters about the Internet that cost money
- Matrix News is a monthly
newsletter about the Matrix, the
Internet and all systems that connect to it at least with e-mail.
Lots of news about countries connecting to the net, book reviews, and more.
Sample articles and subscription info is on
their web site.
Inexpensive, about $25 per year.
Also available on paper at extra cost.
- The COOK Report is a lengthy monthly newsletter on the
technology and politics of the Internet.
It can be dense reading, but it certainly tells you what's happening.
Frequent interviews with major Internet infrastructure figures.
Quite expensive, $100 or more per year depending on type of subscription.
Info on their web site or
e-mail.
Dead tree newsletters that cost money
- Privacy Journal isn't particularly about the Internet, it's a
monthly newsletter by long time privacy advocate Robert Ellis Smith about
threats to your personal privacy in the electronic age, and what it
reports can be truly horrifying.
(And remember, if you think you have nothing to hide, does that mean it'd
be OK to put a video camera in your bedroom?)
List price is $125 a year but usually there's a discounted price for prepaid
personal subscriptions. You can e-mail the publisher at privacyjournal@prodigy.net.
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Updated: Jun 12, 2003
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