World Wide Web Resources for
Speech Communication

• AltaVista
  One of the most powerful keyword search engines because it searches for Web pages or Usenet groups.

• AOL NetFind
  Use keyword searching or check one of the time saver areas.

• Electric Library
  You can use this commercial metasearch tool for finding a host of sources. There is a monthly fee to use it, however. The library also offers a thirty-day free trial.

• Excite
  Excite will perform concept or keyword searches using a natural language approach. You can further tailor a search to find sites that have been reviewed by topical areas, called Channels.

• Galaxy
  Galaxy is one of the most comprehensive Internet search engines because you can tell it to search for gopher and telnet sites as well as pages on the Web. You can also narrow the search by identifying whether you want Galaxy to find pages for any of your particular search terms or all of them.

• Hotbot
  This search tool is sponsored by HotWired Magazine. It can do rather impressive searches for multimedia files. It also has built in chat capabilities if you have a JAVA based browser.

• Infoseek
  Along with keyword searching functions found on most other search engines, Infoseek features Quickseek, so that you can customize searching functions on your desktop. MSIE users can also download an ActiveX control that works with 3.02 browser (or higher) to integrate infoseek search capabilties into your browser toolbar.

• Internet Sleuth
  The Internet Sleuth is a metasearch engine that searches through the databases of as many as six searching sites at one time. You can also use it to browse or to do keyword searching for rated sites, business sites, discussion groups or software.

• Lycos
  Lycos enables you to search for sound and picture files. Another fun feature is its mapping function. You can locate your street address on a city map of your community.

• Magellan
  Distinctive to Magellan is its system of rating the quality of a Web site. You can ask it to search unrated sites as well. Green dots designate that the site is OK for kids.

• Webcrawler
  Developed for America Online, but you donít have to be an AOL subscriber to use it. Check out its statistics about the most commonly accessed URLs on the Net.

• Argus Clearinghouse
  The clearinghouse is a virtual library organized by what it calls "topical guides." These are lists developed by "Cybrarians" who have investigated particular subjects.

• World Wide Web Virtual Library
  Affiliated with CERN, this virtual library is organized by an extensive list of subject areas.

• Yahoo!
  One of the best for browsing topical lists of types of sites. It is the most extensively used search engine on the Web. Its main directories are Computers and Internet, Education, Entertainment, Government, Health, Recreation, Reference, Regional, Science, Social Science, and Society and Culture. Each of these branches to more topical subdirectories to browse.

Find Internet Directories:

• AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors
  Contains directories of email addresses, and Web and Gopher sites, as well as listings by subject.

• Who-Where Yellow Pages
  Finds email addresses, personal Web pages and regular phone numbers.
  

  Find Advocacy Groups:

• IdeaList
  This site, produced and maintained by the Contact Center Network, contains a directory of every nonprofit resource CCN could find on the Web, arranged by both topic and geographic location.

• Think Tanks
  Browse an alphabetic list of policy study organizations that was developed by Lycos.

  Find Books and Libraries:

• Bibliomania
  This site from the UK provides online versions of classic works of fiction and non-fiction. There is also a section for poetry and reference works. Some of the titles are in PDF format and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

• Books Online
  Scroll down the alphabetic list of authors. Good for finding classics that have been digitized.

• Library of Congress
  Go to the national library. You can find information about exhibits at the Library, as well as its holdings.

• Libweb
  From Berkeley, this server provides links to hundreds of library collections around the world.

  Find Reference Sources:

• The Librarians' Index to the Internet
  Enter a keyword or narrow your search to one of more than thirty categories to find the reference information you need.

  Find Newspaper or Magazine Stories:

• The Drudge Report
  Updated daily by Matt Drudge, this list links you to headline stories and a wide variety of newspaper and wire service sources. A special feature is the set of links to syndicated columnists.

• E & P Media INFO
  Using Editor and Publisher Media INFO, you can find online versions of newspapers from around the world.

• The Monster Magazine List
  Be sure to check out the e-news top 50.

• Pathfinder
  The Pathfinder page will help you find online editions of the various magazines that are part of the Time-Warner Network.

• Total News
  A one-stop cite for finding various media outlets, including FOX News, MSNBC, CNN Interactive, CBS News, USA Today, ABC Radio, NPR, Reuters, the Nando Times, and TIME Daily. With its Paradigm News feature you can type in keywords for headline news to locate stories from various news sources.

  Find Electronic "E-zines":

• Electronic Journals in the World Wide Web Virtual Library
  The e-journal page is organized by topic. Of special interest are student-refereed journals as well as peer-reviewed titles.

• E-Zines Database Menu
  Identifies many e-zines on a broad range of topics.

• Yahoo! Magazines
  Yahoo! enables you to browse its categories or enter a search string. Some of the e-zines are online as well.

  Find Usenet Discussion Groups:

• DejaNews
  This is one of the more user-friendly ways to take part in newsgroups. It uses your Web browser to emulate a newsreader.

• Liszt of Newsgroups
  This is a user-friendly directory to browse or search for a newsgroup. The opening page enables you to do a keyword search of usenet newsgroups. To find online discussion groups, check the LISTS button for another page where you can find listserv, listproc, and majordomo groups. If you want to browse, try the Liszt Select option.

• Tile.Net/News
  This source uses alphabetic lists that you can browse to find newsgroup topics.

• Yahoo!: Usenet
  As with other types of searching, Yahoo! is great for browsing for a group.

• Usenet: FAQs
  A FAQ is a list of frequently asked questions about a newsgroup and how to participate in it. It is often useful to find the FAQ before subscribing.

  Find E-Mail Discussion Groups:

• Communication Institute for Online Scholarship
  This organization sponsors "hotlines," email discussion groups that share information about communication scholarship. You can also join one of their forums. An individual or institutional membership is required for access.

• Liszt Directory of Email Discussion Groups
  This URL will take you directly to the LIST of discussion groups.

• Email Discussion and Newsgroups for Scholars
  This list is a searchable directory to find scholarly sources for numerous academic disciplines.

  Find Online Bulletin Boards:

• Forum One
  Search this index of 200,000 different online groups.

  Find Live Events and Chat

• Netguide
  Find out when live events and chats take place dealing with stories in the news, shopping, health, the Internet, money, travel, entertainment, life and sports.

• Timecast
  Daily guide to RealAudio and RealVideo programming in news, entertainment and sports. In addition, there is a calendar of events for the entire upcoming month.

• Yahoo! Chat Events
  Use this topical list of choices for a variety of types of online interaction. You can also find out times for live chat on the Yahoo! Politics page.

  Find Government Sources:

• FEDSTATS
  This site is maintained by the Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy. You can find statistics from over 70 federal agencies.

• FedWorld Information Network
  Developed by NTIS (National Technology Information System) this is an excellent source for finding a host of government sources.

• Federal Web Locator
  Do a Boolean keyword search to get to pages of various federal departments, or browse down the extensive list of links. This is an outstanding source because of the breadth of its offerings.

• Government Xchange
  This page provides access to government documents.

• Govbot
  This robot from the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval will search through the databases for government agencies and military sites around the country.

• National Technical Information Service
  This agency from the Commerce Department can help you search for government reports.

• Project VoteSmart
  Explore this page for the types of information that you can learn about your congressional representative or senators.

• THOMAS, Legislative Information on the Internet
  Library of Congress site for learning about Congress and government. You can research current legislation and the Congressional Record since 1993. To go directly to the Congressional Record.

• U.S. Government Printing Office
  The GPO is an arm of the Congress, and it is the largest publisher in the world. This site allows you to access its catalog. It does not link you to the sources themselves, however.

• U.S. National Library of Medicine
  Use this for free medline searches and for finding reliable information on health related topics.

• World-Wide Web Virtual Library of U.S. Government Information Sources:
  This site is maintained by the National Technology Transfer Center. It links you to numerous federal agencies and government commissions.

  Find State and Local Government Agencies

• State and Local Governments on the Net
  Search this site maintained by Piper Resources to find servers for each of the fifty states. On each page, you will also find links to various branches of the state government, agencies, and county or city servers on the Internet.

• Yahoo! Directory of State and Local Governments
  Browse the listings of states in alphabetic order.

  Find Legal and Judicial Sources:

• FedWorld Supreme Court Decisions Home Page
  This is an excellent source for finding cases heard by the Court between 1937 and 1975.

• FindLaw
  Do topical search with a broad range of types of issues and court decisions.

• LawRunner
  LawRunner works in conjunction with AltaVista to target legal resources in the AltaVista database. You can also use it to narrow your search to U.S. government agencies, particular jurisdictions or to a state.

• USSC+
  U.S. Supreme Court Database. This is a very comprehensive source providing decisions for cases from 1967ñ95.

• U.S. Department of Justice Search
  Use this page to find crime statistics and legal matters.

  Find Multimedia Materials and Browser Plug-ins:

• Images and Graphics from the Librarians' Index to the Internet
  This site provides links to 28 databases for finding clip art and images.

• Lycos Pictures and Sounds
  Try out this function of lycos to locate images and sound files that it has indexed.

• NetGuide Plug-in Primer
  This is a handy reference source about plug-ins with instructions for where and how to download them.

• Stroud's Consummate Internet Apps List
  Search through its list of 16 and 32 bit shareware options to find software for your multimedia computer.

• World Wide Web Virtual Library for Audio
  This WWW3 library provides links to live radio programming around the world. This site also has some useful links for finding sound archives, Usenet groups dealing with audio, and locating software for sound. Listen to it all: from bird songs at the Australian Botanical Gardens to tunes from the Rock íní Roll Hall of Fame.

• The ACLU
  On most contemporary hot button legal issues, the American Civil Liberties Union has taken a stand that might start you out with choosing a legal topic. The page also provides briefs submitted by the ACLU in high profile court cases.

• The Brookings Institution
  This is a very good source for topics if you are interested in domestic policy, especially economic issues. Be sure to click on its areas for policy briefs.

• The Cato Institute
  This is a conservative think tank that has published studies on a variety of domestic and international policy areas. The Cato Institute also offers an option to do a keyword search for topic ideas. Note the archive of RealAudio and RealVideo presentations on policy questions.

• The Electronic Policy Network
  This page is sponsored by The American Prospect, a progressive political magazine. The links from this page lead to studies on a host of domestic policy issues.

• IdeaList
  This website, produced and maintained by the Contact Center Network, contains a directory of every nonprofit resource CCN could find on the Web, arranged by both topic and geographic location.

• Rand Corporation
  Highlight its "HOT TOPICS," "Research Areas," and "Publications" for policy studies, especially on issues of national defense and international affairs.

• National Academy of Sciences
  This site provides an alphabetic list of current social problems studied from a scientific perspective.

• National Academy of Sciences Behavior and Social Sciences
  The NAS also has a link to societal issues studied by a variety of social sciences on this page. Be sure to scroll down to the online reports for links on pertinent to your informative or persuasive speech.

• Townhall.com
  Enter the townhall where you can find a number of organizations that develop a conservative point of view.

Encyclopedias:

• Encarta Online
  This is the home page for Encarta. You can also do a keyword search of its online contents at http://www.encarta.msn.com/find/find.asp

• Encyclopedia Britannica
  This page provides information about the online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. To access it you will need to be a subscriber.

• Free Internet Encyclopedia
  Organized by micro and macro reference areas and arranged alphabetically.

• Index Encyberpedia
  This completely online encyclopedia provides coverage of a broad range of subjects.

• The Encyclopedia Mythica
  This collection of links about myth, legends and folklore includes hypertext for some of its entries.

  Dictionaries and Glossaries:

• The Acronym Expander
  Just type in those pesky initials and the Expander will give you the meaning.

• Animated American Sign Language Dictionary
  See and understand sign communications.

• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
  Popular in hardcover since 1879, there is now a hypertext version. Use the alphabetic method of browsing or go to the main Bibliomania page to search at

• The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
  Developed at Carnegie Mellon, this is a pronouncing dictionary that uses a system of phonetic markings.

• Dictionary of Occupational Titles
  Alphabetic listing of common job titles and credentials. In what trade or profession do you find a "Jawbone Breaker?"

• English Oxford Dictionary Online
  This is the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary Online.

• Ispell English Spelling Checker
  Stumped on the correct spelling? Type it in wrong and Ispell will tell you what is correct.

• LatinñEnglish Dictionary
  Find those expressions in italic that make their way into English sentences here. Especially useful for law, medicine, or gardening. Declaro!

• Life Science Dictionary
  Developed by BioTech, you can use this to define terms in various fields of biology, chemistry, ecology, medicine, pharmacology, and toxicology.

• Logos
  Non solo parole? You can search for words and phrases from around the world at this source.

• OneLook Dictionaries
  This dictionary includes categories in computers, technology, business, science, medicine, religion, sports and just about anything else.

• A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
  Quotes from famous scientists in the natural sciences, social sciences, environmental studies, and technology.

• A Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
  Type in a search word and you can see if there is a perfect match, a syllable rhyme or a homophone. Sounds like?

• A Shakespearian Glossary
  Stuck on a phrase attributed to the bard, find it here in this alphabetic listing of words from Shakespeareófor sooth!

• The Unofficial Smiley Dictionary
  Check out those strange typographical symbols inserted in email messages. ;-)

• Usenet Acronym Dictionary
  These are the forms of verbal shorthand commonly used on bulletin boards and Usenet discussions . . . BRB!

• WWWebster Dictionary:
  This is the online version of the Merriam Webster dictionary. You can search for phrases as well as words.

• The WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server
  In addition to finding the meaning of an acronym, this database allows you to type in words to determine if they are included in an acronym.

• What is
  Handy reference for speaking the language of computer geeks. You can scroll through a top frame of alphabetic terms or search using Excite.

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations:
  Need a quote for your speech? Get it online from this classic source.

• Citing Electronic SourcesóMLA
  Consult these guidelines from Middlebury College to determine how to credit the works you cite for a research paper or speech.

• Online English Grammar
  This page is associated with the Digital Education Network. The English Grammar Clinic provides answers to common problems on grammatical form.

• The Purdue University Writing Lab
  Useful source for writing tools.

• Roget's Thesaurus
  This is the 1911 edition, but still useful to find the synonym you need.

• Strunk & White: The Elements of Style
  Got a grammatical question or concern about written form? You can find the answer here.

• The Chicago Tribune
  This is the interactive edition for news from Chicago.

• The Christian Science e-Monitor
  From the Site Express navigation tools, you can explore the wealth of features on the e-Monitor including RealAudio reports from Monitor Radio called Audio Briefs and an excellent forum. The Monitor also enables you to search its archive for issues as far back as 1980.

• The Los Angeles Times
  News from the West coast. A fee based archive of past stories is also available.

• The New York Times
  Premier national newspaper; "all the news thatís fit to print" online.

• Philadelphia Online
  You can select online versions of the Philadelphia Inquirer or the Philadelphia Daily News.

• Real Cities
  Links to 31 Knight Ridder newspapers around the country. Use the image map to pick a region of the country or scroll to browse the list of newspapers.

• USA Today
  Daily national newspaper, and like its print counterpart, the online version is heavy on graphics and color, and light on the news.

• Village Voice Worldwide
  Published weekly, this online version has the same social commentary and pop culture features as the tabloid version. Want to rent an apartment in SOHO?

• Wall Street Journal
  This online version requires a subscription. You may do a two-week free trial subscription.

• The Washington Post
  Read the online version of the premier Washington daily. The online Post allows you to jump to sections with its keyword search.

• The Associated Press
  This link from newsday.com allows you to access the Associated Press.

• Reuters
  British news service.

• Atlantic Monthly
  The online version is called Atlantic Unbound and provides you with complete texts and an interactive forum called "Post and Riposte."

• CNN/TIME Magazine's Allpolitics
  Get the dayís summary of news. To join the discussion, scroll down to "Bulletin Boards" at the end of the page.

• The Economist
  British magazine for discussion of a broad range of international topics.

• Forbes Magazine
  Economic news from a business perspective from the Ditigal Tool "capitalist tool."

• Foreign Affairs
  Prestigious journal for international policy.

• George
  Quarterly journal of politics and trends. Check out its interactive features. It is available only on America Online.

• HotWired
  This online verson of Wired Magazine proclaims its role as "defining the Web."

• Intellectual Capital.com
  This online publication features weekly topics on a range of social issues that would be very effective for persuasive speeches.

• National Geographic
  Includes excellent multimedia tours featuring graphics and RealAudio sound.

• The Nation
  Digital version of a traditional political magazine. A special feature is its link to RadioNation, a weekly broadcast in RealAudio format originating from the Pacifica network.

• National Review
  Conservative journal on political issues, published by William F. Buckley.

• The New Republic
  Journal of opinion emphasizing current political topics, offering a range of ideological perspectives from liberal to neo-conservative. The online version provides a sample of the articles in the full hard-copy edition.

• Policy Review
  News and political magazine from the conservative point of view of the Heritage Foundation.

• Scientific American
  This is the home page for Scientific American.

• Salon Magazine
  Find materials on popular culture and social trends in this magazine.

• Slate
  Online news magazine created by Microsoft, solely as an Internet political and social policy magazine. Access to this e-zine is by subscription only. However, you can try a free trial subscription.

• Time
  Use the pathfinder to search for current and past issues of Time Magazine.

• US News and World Report
  Weekly news journal.

• ABC
  The page from ABC offers links to the various national news programs on the network.

• CBS
  From this page you can link to the various news offerings on the CBS network.

• CNN Interactive
  Be sure to scroll down to browse the range of topics and discussion areas availble from CNN.

• FOX NEWS
  From the FOX you can read headlines and link to some of its news programs.

• NBC
  Go to TV Central for NBC programs. You can also link to MSNBC from this source.

• PBS
  The Public Broadcasting System is online. Many PBS programs provide a wealth of online information in conjunction notes about the programs themselves.

• The Federal News Service:
  This is a source used by journalists to find transcripts of Congressional hearings and to find statements made by national and international leaders. It is a commercial site, and thus some of its features are for subscribers only. But the free parts are worthwhile.

• U.S. House of Representatives
  House homepage provides links to information about the legislative process, bills under deliberation and a directory for House members. The page also provides links to other government sources.

• U.S. Senate
  Find the address for your senator. There is also a useful guide to Senate committees.

• House of Representatives Internet Law Library
  Briefing materials on a host of subjects that lawmakers deliberate. Note especially the link to for "Law on all subjects," which provides an alphabetic topical listing of current issues. Court cases and legal briefs on a variety of issues are also included.

• Laws by Subject
  Browse through laws by topics that are arranged alphabetically. This page is a comprehensive topical listing of the most laws and judicial findings enacted by state and local agencies along with U.S. Federal law and judgments of international courts.

• Major Legislation in the Current Congress
  Browse the list of bills under consideration by the current House of Representatives and Senate. You can find out the status of a bill, read a digest of it that summarizes the key features of the bill, and download the full text of the bill itself. (Warning: some pieces of legislation can be so long, theyíll make your phone book feel slim!) The citation for each bill also identifies the main sponsors of the bill and links you to references made to the legislation in the Congressional Record.

• Policy.com
  This nonpartisan site provides news and analysis of political topics.

• Statistical Abstracts from the U.S. Census Bureau: Information you can search from the last census.

• Social Statistics Briefing Room
  Data from a variety of government agencies are available here including crime statistics, demographic statistics, education statistics, and health statistics.

• The White House
  Send email to the president or vice president. You can also tap into various units of the Executive branch. Search the archives for past presidential statements and RealAudio files of presidential speeches.

• American Communication Association
  The ACA Center for Communication Law provides a variety of links to aspects of communication law and free speech issues.

• Court TV Law Center
  Links from this page direct you to resources for some of the most popular cases that have been aired on this cable TV program from its case files. There are less notorious cases as well. Of special use for giving a persuasive speech are the sections on elder law and family law. Click on each to find a list of topics and brief background about some issues. To browse for topics, go to http://www.courttv.com/lawlinks/for an alphabetic listing of cases in its lawlinks.

• CyberSpace Law Center
  This is an excellent source if you are looking for a topic dealing with legal issues surrounding the Internet.

• Federal Courts Finder
  Use this to locate decisions from circuit courts around the country.

• Federal Court Locator
  Go to Center for Information Law and Policy at Villanova University to search for decisions at various levels.

• Justice Information Center
  From its image map you can find a host of topics in law enforcement and criminal justice. Some of the downloadable documents require that you use Adobe Acrobat.

• National Institute of Justice
  This is an agency of the Department of Justice that does research and makes recommendations on policies for dealing with crime problems.

• Uniform Crime Reports
  Use the University of Virginia Social Sciences Library to look up statistics on types of crime. The UVA Library uses FBI crime statistics. You can sort by types of crime and a geographic reporting unit. Follow the directions for making your selections and the form of the output of the data.

• United States Department of Justice
  This cabinet agency of the federal government bills itself as the "largest law firm in the Nation."

• WWW Virtual Law Library
  Go to the Indiana University

  Legal Dictionaries

• Court TV Glossary of Legal Terms
  Alphabetic listings of legal terms.

• The Law Office Dictionary
  This is an online version of a legal dictionary from the Microsoft Network.

• Legislative Indexing Vocabulary
  LIV terms used to label legislation at the Library of Congress. Legislative Indexing. Vocabulary terms are used in laws. When you type in a popular term, the LIV equivalent will be provided.

• WWWLIA Legal Dictionary
  You can find terms from American law, or for other English speaking countries with a legal system based in Anglo Saxon Common Law.

Demographic Studies:

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
  Use this source to find socioeconomic data.

• The National Election Studies Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
  The NES creates demographic profiles of the American electorate. Tables track the demographic facts that voters have identified about themselves since 1952.

• National Survey of Families and Households
  Go to the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin to access results from this study of family arrangements, patterns of communication and family psychological well-being. After reading the page, you may download the study and its results.

• PerceptNet
  PerceptNet is a company that helps religious organizations target their ministries by assessing religious preferences, attitudes and behavior. They also provide some of their data online that you can use to analyze the religious attitudes of an audience. Check out their Ethos City Map at http://www.percept1.com/pn4/ethoscity.htm/ to find profiles of religious attitudes for "people areas" located in proximity to major American metropolitan areas.

• World-Wide Web Virtual Library Demography and Population Studies
  This is a mammoth list of links to places around the globe on various facets of demography. It is maintained by the Australian National University.

• University of Virginia Social Sciences Data Center County and City Data
  This is a handy interactive page for finding demographic data for many cities in the country. The County and City Books are based principally on U. S. Census data.

• U. S. Census Bureau
  Find reports from the last census as well as frequent updates on the U. S. population and economic indicators. The page offers a variety of tools for accessing demographic data. A particularly useful tool for learning census information about a particular community is found at the U.S. Gazetteer link. Go to http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer/. You can use this page to search for demographic data by zip code.

  Psychographics:

• Equifax
  This marketing research firm develops lifestyle profiles by looking at a variety of demographic categories, geographic factors and consumer habits. You can take their "Lifestyle Game" to determine the profiles in your community. Go to http://www.natdecsys.com/low/lifequiz.html and simply type in a zip code.

• What's Your Internet VALS Type?
  This page features an interactive questionnaire for identifying your psychological profile. The profile, called VALS, captures a cluster of values. A VALS-Type represents one's lifestyle.

• World's Smallest Political Quiz
  This page offers an interactive tool for identifying your political ideology.

  Public Opinion Studies:

• The Gallup Organization
  This is the home page for Gallup. On it you will find links to a few of its most recent studies on national opinions. Harris Polls: (See Institute for Research in Social Science Public below).

• The General Social Survey
  Use the "omnibus" personal interview of U. S. households done by the National Opinion Research Center to find attitudes on a variety of social issues. The "Subject Index" provides an alphabetic listing by topics. Use the GSS "Module Index" to see batteries of questions on themes.

• Institute for Research in Social Science Public Opinion Poll Question Database
  From this database you can enter search terms to find questions and results from polls taken in the last thirty years. The database, which is maintained at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, features results from polls conducted Lou Harris & Associates and a number of polls done in the South.

• The National Election Studies Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
  The National Election Studies (NES) is affiliated with the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. This page provides data about religious affiliation, ideological identification, and results of opinion research on a wide range of social and political topics.

• LA Times Polls Index
  Most of the polls are on California issues.

• Yankelovich
  Use this site to learn about studies conducted by Yankelovich. There are descriptions of a few studies, but to access the entirety of each report, you need to purchase Yankelovich reports.

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Multimedia

• Adobe Systems
  It¹s Photoshop is the standard in the field. Another useful product is Adobe¹s PDF, (Portable Document Format) for converting a variety of types of multimedia file formats for use on HTML pages.

• Astound, Inc.
  Astound is one of the most useful software packages for creating presentations for public speaking. From this page, you can download free trial versions of Astound or StudioM. If you use Astound or Studio M, Astound, Inc. also offers a free encoder that converts your presentation to a web document and the Astound WebMotion program that works with JAVA equipped browsers.

• Beginners Guide to HTML
  This is a primer for getting started using HTML.

• The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
  This is an online guide to coding HTML specifications. It also explains Netscape extensions.

• CUSeeMe
  This is the homepage from Cornell University, which produces the CUSeeMe technology for doing interactive video conferencing.

• Corel Home Page
  Check out this page for information about Corel products. Of special value to public speakers is Corel Presentations for creating multimedia slide shows.

• DSP
  Put sound files on your web page compressed with True Speech. The DSP page offers a free download of the software you need.

• HTML Goodies
  This compendium of resources for developing Web pages was created by Dr. Joe Burns. You can find free art work and scripts for your web page.

• Microsoft Downloads
  For users of Windows, this is a great source for downloading free software. A number of multimedia tools used for web viewing are available, including the Microsoft Internet Explorer, the PowerPoint Animation viewer, the PowerPoint Viewer, ActiveX Controls, Microsoft's VRML Viewer, and web authoring tools that work with the various components of the Microsoft Office. This page also links you to product information about PowerPoint, the component of the Microsoft Office most useful to public speakers for creating presentations.

• JASC
  JASC is the producer of Paint Shop Pro, one of the most versatile graphics programs for manipulating bitmap images.

• Netscape
  Download the latest version of Netscape, one of the premier web page browsers. The Netcenter provides additional links to resources for using the Internet and creating web pages.

• Marke Pesce-Outside the Light-Cone
  Pesce is a pioneer in developing virtual reality. This is his web page with links to the various papers that he has presented.

• RealNetworks- The Home of RealAudio
  Go here to download a copy of the RealPlayer for receiving streamed audio and video in RealAudio and RealVideo formats.

• Webmonkey Tutorials
  This page features tips from the creators of HotWired.

Live Chat

• Propaganda Public Forum
  This bulletin board features discussion of persuasion and propaganda on the Net. Its main page, http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/propaganda/contents.htm, features tutorials on propaganda techniques.

• WebChat Broadcasting System
  This online forum hosts a number of "hubs" for ongoing conversation. For public speaking topics, the "Current Events" hub includes political and social topics.

• Yahoo! Events
  Find a list of chat activities in a wide range of subjects and in many venues.

Live Events

• Broadcast.com
  This page provides a daily update of scheduled live events you can tune into using RealAudio.

• C-SPAN Online (RealAudio)
  Listen to sessions of the House and Senate and find a directory of what is going on on the Hill.

• C-SPAN Online (RealVideo)
  If you have the RealVideo Player, you can watch live video from Congress. Along with links to live events from Capitol Hill, this page also provides links to its archives of recent video events.

• FedNet
  You can listen to RealAudio coverage of select House and Senate committee hearings as well as floor action from Congress at this site. FedNet also maintains past RealAudio files.

• NetGuide
  Find out when live events and chat take place. Subjects include stories in the news, shopping, health, the Internet, money, travel, entertainment, life and sports.

• RealAudio at SMS
  This site features broadcasts from Great Britain at Satellite Media Services covering news and sports. Where else can you get the scores from recent football games?

• Sites and Sounds from ABC
  This page offers news reports and commentary on the day's news.

• The YO ! Radio Project
  From Youth Outlook in the San Francisco Bay area, this page provides weekly commentaries on problems faced by young people. The commentaries are presented in RealAudio.

• American Memory Collection
  Search or browse for historical documents in the Library of Congress.

• Biography.com
  Search this database of famous people to learn how every life has a story.

• Douglass
  Use this archive to read texts of famous American orators. The files are organized by speaker, speech title, chronology and by subject. There are also notes on rhetorical studies for courses at Northwestern University, where the site resides.

• Gateway to Presidential Libraries
  The National Archive maintains this page as a directory to holdings at the libraries for each of the U.S. Presidents since Hoover.

• Grolier's American Presidency
  This online segment from the encyclopedia can help you appreciate the rhetorical situations faced by U.S. presidents.

• History Channel Archive of Speeches
  A speech is highlighted daily. In addition, check out the archive of RealAudio files.

• Inaugural Addresses of U.S. Presidents This collection from Columbia University links you to each of the Presidential Inauguration Addresses from George Washington to George Bush. For both Clinton Inaugural Addresses, you can go to the White House, http://www.whitehouse.gov.

• MSU Vincent Voice Library
  From this archive you can download .au and .wav files, including some recordings of U.S. Presidents and other historical figures or events.

• White House Audio Archive
  Go to this page to listen to Saturday Radio Addresses presented by President Clinton. The page includes a search engine that you can use to find a speech by topic area or date.

• Supreme Court Oral Argument
  You can listen to actual voice recordings of oral argument in cases heard by the U. S. Supreme Court. This site requires RealAudio.

• U. S. Senate Historical Office
  The historian of the Senate is compiling biographies of all past U.S. Senators. A special feature is a section on the "Famous Five," the orators Webster, Calhoun, Clay, LaFollette and Robert Taft.

• WebCorp Historical Speeches Archive
  Sound bites from speeches since 1930's on a variety of topics. There is also a video collection from the Nixon era and the Watergate scandal. Some sound offerings are available in RealAudio.

  News Archives:

• Back in Time
  This is a collection of selected articles from issues of Time Magazine dating to the 1920¹s.

• CNN Interactive Video Vault
  Apple QuickTime movies and video clips using the VIVO format are featured. You can find highlights from the latest stories carried on CNN as well as clips from stories from the past three years.

• Vanderbilt Television News Archive
  Find text transcripts of TV news programs on the major networks since 1968.