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Scientific American Web Awards
ldopa1 writes "Scientific American has just announced their 2nd Annual Web Awards. The article outlines the very best of the best of the web in the following categories: Archaeology & Paleontology, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth & Environment, Engineering and Technology, Mathematics, Medicine and Physics. Sadly, Slashdot isn't on the list, but some great sites are. It's worth checking out."
This "Awards" are more of a mini directory listing than an true awards. The slashdot blurb states "The article outlines the very best of the best of the web", but on the actual site it is clear that there is no such claim. This is just a list of interesting sites, worth browsing in some scientific oriented categories. I think this is a good service. Hopefully it stays up for some time, and does not grow to much. I think large directory structures, like Yahoo's web directory listings are not terribly useful for browsing. I miss the early ninties when I could browse from home page to home page with individuals listing 5 to 10 interesting sites each. Now days I usually just browse from slashdot; in fact, excuse me while I return to browsing these science links.
SETI is, while not quite passe', at least a little worn.
I understand the basic tenents of SETI and run one, sometimes two, SETI clients myself. Popular interest is notoriously fickle and SETI hasn't delivered any aliens of yet. So, correspondingly, the fickle alien hunters, as well as the general public, have lost interest to some notable degree. SETI does gain the occasional new signup (client-wise), but its peak is done.
In spite of my statements above, I believe that SETI will maintain its position as, at the very least, a quasi-respectable scientic research venture, with many supporters and I support its interests fully.
All things in moderation.
The Way-Back Machine is beautiful for seeing what sites where like 'back-in the day.' I looked at some of the sites I used to code and cringe... It is also amusing to note that alot of the sites won't work with modern browsers due to IE/Mozilla specific tags. Ahh.. the good 'ol days.
For your fun here is slashdot on Nov 11 1998. More?
CNN on Sept. 11
Great tool for future historians.