You don't have to be an Internet user at all to take this course (though if you're not, you won't see this blog). If you are a user, what do you do?

here are some uses and sites you might want to look at think about or ask others about, if you have the chance.

1. e-mail, e-mail groups

2. search engines: Google , Yahoo!, Cuil

3. encyclopedias and dictonaries: wikipedia, wiktionary

4. new sites and blogs: New York Times; San Francisco Chronicle; UK's Guardian; France's Le Monde; thousands more

5. (nearly) free international Internet phoning: skype

6. short videos: YouTube

7. Music: iTunes; rhapsody; Kazaa; Limewire; nprMusic; 

8. longer video debates and interviews: Blogging Heads TV; Charlie Rose

9. maps: mapquest; Google earth; 

10. art:  Boston Museum of Fine Arts acquisitions;  New Art TV; Google Earth Prado Museum; (You must download Google Earth as first step) 

11. Books: Project Gutenberg; 

12. Science, popular and scholarly: World Science; Public Library of Science One (PLoS ONE)

13. Philosophy: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

14. Movies:  Internet Movie Database; Netflix

15. Social networking: MySpace; Facebook; Twitter

16. Dating: Match.com ; Chemistry

17. Selling or buying a used something: craigslist; e-Bay

18. taking a survey: Surveymonkey

19. online banking or finance (caveat emptor!): Motley Fool