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1996 Bookmarks
December 20, 1996
Nonviolence Web’s Bookmarks
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Nonviolence Web
- Discussion Board
- Links
- Full Listings
- War Resisters League
- National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Fellowship Magazine
- SIPAZ
- Pax Christi USA
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Private Posting Systems
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NVWeb Adminstration
- Putting the Nonviolence Movement online, one page at a time.
- NVWeb Homepage
- File Manager
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Miscellaneous
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Statistics
- Full Access Statistics
- Graphic Web Counter
- Linked Folks
- This will give you a listing of every web page in Alta Vista’s directory which has a link to the Nonviolence Web.
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Martin’s Homepage
- Martin’s homepage
- Martink Web Counts
- How popular is my page? See for yourself.
- Vortex Videos
- Martin Kelley’s Bookmarks
- The Combined Times
- Based on the idea of the CRAYON newservice,this is a frame-based compendium of mainstream news services I use.
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News and Resources
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Children of the Light
- a.ka. the Religious Society of Friends, a.ka. the Quakers. “Children of the Light” was an early name for the Quakes that I’m personally trying to revive.
- Friends’ WWW
- Quakers on the net!, oh my what would George Fox have said? Well, you don’t need to guess, since he’s online here (I kid you not).
- Philly Young Adult Friends
- See what we cool cat twentysomething Quakers are getting ourselves into.
- PYM draft page
- This is the longest-running draft page I’ve ever put together. Quaker committees can be an experience in themselves, and this Philly Yearly Meeting’s web committee barely has a pulse.
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Philly Stuff
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Indexes
- LibertyNet
- Lots of good Philly groups broadcast out of LibertyNet.
- Inky/Daily News
- Ritz Filmbill
- The two Ritz’s are the only interesting theaters left in this town which experts agree has one of the lowest theater/capita ratings in the country.
- Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema
- City Paper
- The local alternative weekly’s online. Fancy graphics (too fancy perhaps) mark this foray into cyberpublishing.
- SEPTA
- Public-transit authority SEPTA is the leader in ambiguous P.R. Take their shit-tank name for starters, then add their wacky slogans like “SEPTA: We’re Getting There” or “We’re Trying to Do Our Best.”
- Philly Weather
- From Intellicast, a great weather site complete with forecast, synopsis and the latest radar images.
- Philadelphia Radar
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Miscellaneous
- Crayon News Service
- NY Times Quick Read
- NY Times Late News Update
- MSNBC
- National Public Radio
- Timecast: The RealAudio Guide
- Library of Congress
- The Library’s on line.
- Switchboard (phone directory)
- The WWW Purity Test
- FedEx Tracking
- UPS Home Page
- Amtrak Schedules
- This August I took the Broadway Limited from Chicago. Now I read they’re going to cut the line from the schedule. Is this progress? This site is independent of Amtrak but has all the schedules.
- Amtrak�s Station
- The official Amtrak homepage has lots of interesting information about the trains, but no schedules!
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Regular Checks
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Websites
- DataRealm
- —FAQs
- —Mailing Lists
- —Message of the Day
- Net Access
- This is my service provider. Very Web friendly folks. If you’re in the Philly area, definetly consider getting an account.
- –telnet
- Peacenet
- –telnet
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Computers
- The Web is the most self-referential medium ever. Despite the corporate hype, most pages are still concerned with how to create pages, etc.
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PERL/CGI
- Matt’s Script Archive
- Take 10 Minutes to Learn ™ — PERL
- Resources for PERL
- Web Development Information
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Web Design
- Yahoo Web Page Design
- Net Access’s guide
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Reference Material
- Justin’s Links from the Underground
- This has some great, right-on manifestos about why we need to publish on the web, along with some great HTML tips and tricks.
- The Kick-Ass Website Award
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Web Toys
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CD/Disk Problems
- TOSHIBA — Disk Products Division
- Setup Does Not Detect Standard IDE Drive On IBM 9353
- Hardware Questions FAQ: Is there a list of CD-ROM drives that require real-mode drivers?
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Computer Stuff
- McAfee antivirus FTP
- Microsoft Word Software Library
- Windows95 Annoyances
- Tricks for getting around the annoyances, plus convincing essays which posit that Windows might just be a particularly-popular virus…
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UNIX
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- Internet Movie Database
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Alta Vista
- As far as I’m concerned, you can forget all the other search engines. Alta Vista is the one that passes my most important test: it has me listed the most times.
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Music
- the ultimate band list
- Olga Index-MIT
- Shel’s stuff
- Michelle Shocked has her stuff online
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Schmucks I know
- Mud’s Email
- Mud’s Bookmarks
- Ann Farnsworth-Alvear’s
- Constance Cooper
- Dan Birchall
- Jacob Mattison
- Jill Mulvey’s lame page
- Jorj’s home-page
- Kris Tapp
- Michael Burke
- Peter Selinger
- Rafael Richards
- Steve Pyne
- My housemate, awwww.….
- Thomas Taylor
- Tom Diling
- World Game Institute
- Penn Math homepages
- Discussion: “WWWBoard…”
Circa 1996, recovered via Archive.org
History of Nonviolence.org, 1995 – 2008
October 13, 1995
Nonviolence.Org was founded by Martin Kelley out of a home office way back in 1995. Over the 13 or so years of its existence, it won accolades and attention from the mainstream media and millions of visitors. It’s articles have been reprinted in countless movement journals and even in a featured USAToday editorial.
From 2006:
The past eleven years have seen countless internet projects burst on the scene only to wither away. Yet Nonviolence.org continues without any funding, attracting a larger audience every year. As the years have gone by and I’ve found the strength to continue it, I’ve realized more and more that this is a ministry. As a member of the Religious Society of Friends I’m committed to spreading the good news that war is unnecessary. In my personal life this is a matter of faith in the “power that takes away occassion for all war.” In my work with Nonviolence.org I also draw on all the practical and pragmatic reasons why war is wrong. For more personal motivations you can see at QuakerRanter.org, my personal blog.
A Nonviolence.org Timeline
In 1995 I was editor at an activist publisher struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing book world. Many of the independent bookstores that had always supported us were closing just as printing costs were rising. The need to re-invent activist organizing and publishing for the 1990’s became obvious and I saw the internet as a place to do that. One of the earliest manifestos and introductions to the Nonviolence Web was an essay called The Revolution Will be Online.
I began by approached leading U.S. peace groups with a crazy proposal: if they gave me their material I would put it up on the web for them for free. My goal was to live off of savings until I could raise the operating funds from foundations. “Free typesetting for the movement by the movement” was the rallying cry and I quickly brought a who’s-who of American peace groups over to Nonviolence.org. I knew that there was lots of great peace writing that wasn’t getting the distribution it deserved and with the internet I could get it out faster and more widely than with traditional media. For three years I lived off of savings, very part-time jobs and occasional small grants.
Nonviolence.org developed into a web portal for nonviolence. We would feature the most provocative and timely pieces from the NVWeb member groups on the newly-redesigned homepage, dubbed “Nonviolence Web Upfront.” A online magazine format loosely modeled on Slate and the now-defunct Feed magazine, it also contained original material and links to interesting threads on the integrated discussion board. With these popular features, Nonviolence.org attracted a growing number of regular visitors. The combined visibility for member groups was much greater than anyone could obtain alone and we earned plenty of awards and links. Some media highlights of the era included a New York Times tech profile, a featured guest Op/Ed in USA Today, and an interview on Oliver North’s nationally syndicated radio show.
But this model couldn’t last. A big problem was money: there’s were too few philanthropists for this sort of work, and established foundations didn’t even know the right questions to ask in evaluating an internet project. Nonviolence.org was kept afloat by my own dwindling personal savings, and I never did find the sort of money that could pay even poverty wages. I took more and more part-time jobs till they became the full-time ones I have today. At the same time, internet publishing was also changing. With the addition of blogging features and open-source bulletin board software, Nonviolence.org continued to evolve and stay relevant.
Through the early 2000s, Nonviolence.org continued to be one of the most highly-visible and visited peace websites, being highly ranked through the first Gulf War II, the biggest U.S. military action since the web began. This model of independent activist web publishing was still critical. The Nonviolence.org mission of featuring the best writing and analysis continued until 2008 when Martin finally mothballed the Nonviolence.org project and sold the domain.