American Association of Artificial Intelligence Nonprofit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines. 

• Association of Computer Support Specialists ACM is the world's first educational and scientific computing society 

• Center for Office Technology Addresses health and safety issues associated with technology. 

• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility For computer scientists and others concerned about the impact of computer technology on society 

• Computing Technology Industry Association CompTIA certifies information technology and service professionals with its widely adopted and vendorneutral certification programs. 

• Data Interchange Standards Association A not-for-profit organization that offers a variety of outreach initiatives and extensive educational programs for every e-commerce endeavor. 

• IEEE Computer Society The society promotes an active exchange of information, ideas, and technological innovation among computer professionals. 

• Women In Technology International WITI is a business-centered, strategic, inclusive organization committed to advancing women in technology. 

• World Wide Web Consortium An international consortium founded in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. 

• Control Revolution- How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge & Changing the World We Know by Andrew L. Shapiro How do we make sense of the internet and its impact on our day-to-day lives? Who is in control – the individual, corporations or government? Hardcover 

• On the Firing Line- My 500 Days at Apple by Gil Amelio Amelio holds nothing back, including details of his dealings with Gates and Jobs. Is Steve Jobs' current success due to Amelio? It would seem so. Hardcover 

• Running to the Mountain by Jon Katz A journey of faith and change that should be of interest to all who are facing burnout or a mid-life crisis. Katz is a contributor to Slashdot. Hardcover 

• The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest by Po Bronson This is Bronson's novel that is set in Silicon Valley. It's impossible to separate this fiction from the fact in the "Nudist" book. Hardcover 

• The Nudist on the Late Shift- And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley by Po Bronson Bronson proves that fact is as entertaining, as exciting, and even stranger than fiction as he chronicles the winners and losers in Silicon Valley. Hardcover 

• The Plot to Get Bill Gates by Gary Rivlin An irreverent investigation of the world's richest man and the people who hate him. Everyone's dirty linen is exposed in this very readable book. Hardcover 

• Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee Learn how the father of the web, Berners-Lee, and his colleagues at CERN created the World Wide Web. Hardcover 

• Amis, Rod Rod's daily editorial in the IT Manager's Journal often has thought provoking themes. Worth your time to check each day. 

• Berst, Jesse Love him or hate him, Jesse's daily Anchordesk feature is a must read. His take on coming trends and his unwinding of vendor's spin-control just might save your job or your company. 

• Cringley, InfoWorld This column has been written by several people. The humor attempted by the current writer is poor and forced, but the rumors and industry tidbits may be of interest. 

• Cringley, Robert X. The "real" Cringley offers excellent industry analysis from his weekly "The Pulpit." The web design - in a newsletter format - for the column is outstanding too. 

• Dvorak, John Dvorak's columns in PC Magazine have been a source of good information for a long time. His Inside Track columns are also available online 

• Katt, Spencer F. The wild kitty pundit that purrsues industry leads in PC Week takes a little getting used to. If you like your rumors served with humor (and a bit of cat nip), Katt's your guy. 

• Metcalfe, Bob Metcalfe, who invented Ethernet and founded 3Com, often, but not always, writes about communications issues. His columns come backed with solid logic to support his ideas. 

• Nielsen, Jacob Nielsen is a web site useability guru. His columns appear every other week. If you are involved with internet or intranet web site design, be sure to read his archived columns too. 

• Tognazzini, Tog Tog's AskTog site is home for good web useability information. Our biggest complaint is that the site is only updated on the first of each month. 

• Biomorph Desks Adjustable height desks and components for office or home. 

• Can We Talk Portable PC carts with adjustable surfaces 

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Info A patient's guide to the problem. 

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Info Information and links to ergonomic help. 

• Ergonomic Products Complete line of furniture and PC accessories. 

• Ergronomic Sciences Corp. Full line of furniture and PC accessories 

• Global Upholstery Co. Chairs 

• Goldtouch Mice and keyboards 

• Hag Capisco Chairs. 

• Herman Miller Award winning Aeron chair. 

• Magnitude Information Systems Software products. 

• Natural Poster Ergonomics Chairs. 

• Office Concepts Ergometric PC accessories 

• Slashdot Thread on Ergonomic Products Read this to find out what the geeks say works and doesn't work. 

• Stokke Chairs and furniture. 

• Workpace Software for preventing Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI). 

• Big Brother Is Watching You. This PC Week report investigates how user monitoring software is being used. 

• Bland World PC Magazine's John Dvorak writes about bland colored PCs in this column. But the paragraph on cubicle-crammed offices is not bland, it is dynamite! 

• Competition Keeps Linux Lean CNN looks at the competition within the Open Source community that keeps Linux lean and growing, while Microsoft's code bloats and stagnates. 

• Design Differences Web design guru, Jacob Nielsen, looks at the differences between print design and web design. His conclusion? Relish the difference. 

• Dirty Little Secrets In Intelligent Enterprise John Trustman and Susan Meshako say that IT's dirty little secret is that we don't know how to do business requirements anymore. Guilty as charged? 

• Microsoft Financial Questions Lots of little known facts in this one. They only get 35% of their income from products? 

• Right Answer, Wrong Question Bob Evans, Editor in Chief of InformationWeek, thinks we are answering the wrong questions. Are you? Is your organization? 

• TCO of Portables Sandy Reed, Editor in Chief of Infoworld, explores the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of portables. She complains it doesn't include credit for her happiness or productivity 

• Whose Watch Is It Anyway- In this CIO Insight column in Intelligent Enterprise, John Trustman and Susan Meshako tell us when and why we should hire consultants. And when we shouldn't. 

• CERT Advisories Where to get the latest information on net-born viruses. 

• CIAC Hoax Site CIAC's site is a clearing house for the various hoax emails that continually make the rounds. Check here before you warn all your users to not open the "Penpal" email. 

• Help-Site Good starting point for seeking help. Large searchable collection of help desk support documents. 

• HelpAnswers Query search on keywords or use natural language. Has a dictionary search and also an address book search. 

• HP's Customer Care Center The starting point for finding drivers and troubleshooting guides for HP's complete line of computers and peripherals. 

• IBM's Online Support This is the entry point for finding on-line help for your IBM problems - for either hardware or software. 

• IBM XML Info Center Information on XML Security Suite and other free tools. 

• NT Tricks & Traps Reprint of Dr. Bob's monthly Windows NT magazine column. 

• The TechNet Mole The Mole solves sticky technical problems with help from the techies deep within Microsoft. 

• Whatis.com Need the definition of an acronymn or computer term? Look it up fast on this site. 

• America's Job Bank America’s Job Bank is a partnership between the US Department of Labor and the state operated public Employment Service. 

• AmericanJobs.com Site originated in 1994. Searchable database covering all aspects of the IT field. 

• BrainBuzz.com One of the newer job search sites. Offers Dowden & Co. salary surveys. 

• Career Magazine's Recruiter Direcory Directory of U.S.-based recruiters

• Dice.com Job search web site for computer professionals, with thousands of high tech permanent, contract, and consulting jobs listed. 

• Digital City Listing of jobs by cities. (U.S. only) 

• Elance.com A site which lists businesses RFPs for freelance tasks and allows freelancers to bid for the projects. 

• Freelance Technologies Matches independent contractors with businesses needs. European and U.S. listings. 

• GISLinux.com Specializes in GIS jobs 

• Guru.com Site specializes in listing of and for freelancers and consultants. 

• Hi-Tech Club Specializes in jobs for software professionals. Has a nice relocation cost calculator on site. 

• HotJobs.com Well known and heavily advertised internet job search site 

• Infoworks The computer job center caters to IT jobs and other specialties. 

• Monster.com One of the first and largest of the internet search sites. 

• The Job Beat Links to IT job listings world wide. 

• Digital Storytelling This San Jose Mercury feature examines digital storytelling using the net and mult-media. It's not all fun; corporations are also using the techniques to tell their stories 

• Email Hoax Bites TV News Tucson's KOLD TV station led their 10 p.m. news with a item about a "hacker group" conspiring to "create problems in your personal life." Their news source was a hoax email chain letter. 

• Good Help Hard to Keep More problems for Microsoft: How do you motivate and keep multimillionaires? 

• Microsoff Linux 98 You just knew it would come to this! 

• Real Programmers "Real Programmers Don't use PASCAL" is Ed Post's classic from 1982. (Yes, Virginia, there were computers and programmers back then.) 

• Silicon Follies A Salon fiction serial set in (where else?) Silicon Valley. This is the first chapter. New chapters added twice weekly. Warning: May become addictive. 

• Story of Mel, a Real Programmer This story was posted to Usenet by its author, Ed Nather, on May 21, 1983. 

• The New Hacker's Dictionary Learn how to communicate with the department's geeks. From Eric Raymond's revised Jargon File 4.1.4. 

• World's Smallest Server Let the world's smallest server send you a web page with its picture, specifications and how-to-build instructions. It's about the size of a small wooden matchbox. 

• Woz Comments on Pirates TV Movie Apple's founding engineer, Steve Wozniak, has some interesting things to say about Steve Jobs and the TV movie Pirates of Silicon Valley. 

• Business 2.0 Excellent new magazine covering the internet business. Ideas can be used on intranets as well. 

• CIO Aimed at higher level management in the MIS arena. Good special issue on Y2K is available online 

• Computerworld The granddaddy of the computer industry publications. Has lost its luster. 

• Fast Company Outstanding publication for the "people" side of business. Great idea generator for culture, working environment, hire/fire, motivational issues. Full archives of back issues 

• InformationWeek Features in-depth reporting on all MIS-related areas. We love the "Secret CIO" column. 

• InfoWorld Good large format weekly for MIS issues. Home for columnist Bob Metcalfe and InfoWorld's incarnation of Robert X. Cringley. 

• Intelligent Enterprise The subhead for this magazine says: "For managers of business-critical applications and data." They do a good job of targeting for that audience. 

• Inter@active Week Covers the internet and intranet arenas well. 

• PC Magazine Consumer, but technical, PC publication. Good product reviews. Home for columnists John Dvorak and Jim Seymour. 

• PC Week The best resource for corporate PC information. 

• Sm@rt Reseller Covers the PC reseller marketplace. Often has information that can affect your purchasing decisions. 

• Wired