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This Site

• These online pages will be used for course presentation & resources (including additional articles and reviews),
  and will be updated each time I offer the course. The course link (URL) is in the course catalog, will usually
  be emailed to registered students, and can be found under the "OLLI Courses" menu item at top, or directly:
  https://communicrossings.com/olli
• This online version allows you to preview the course before registering, and to explore items (articles, web sites)
  that we skim/skip or that you miss, or want to refer to later; it also allows me to update the course easily with new or revised items.
  It's scalable and mobile-friendly for smaller screens. See Navigation section: menus, search, sizing, slideshows.
• I plan to keep these pages available -- and updated for current courses -- for the foreseeable future.
  However, you should be able to locate current & earlier versions on the Internet Archive (aka Wayback Machine).
  You can also create a .pdf version to print or archive.
• For some courses, TakeControl e-books may be available at a student discount prior to the first class, e.g.,
• Be Safer on the Internet: Take Control of Your Online Privacy
• P@s$w0rdz: Take Control of Your Passwords; Take Control of 1Password

Articles

• For most topics, I generally provide a References section (and more specific subsections), with links
  to many articles; these are good starting points, though certainly not the only ones, for further exploration.
• Besides hovering your cursor over a URL to see the address, you can see the source of the link
  via a short text label on most articles; below are most of those labels you may see
  -- in case you have favorites, or want to avoid certain sites:
• 538: fivethirtyeight
• AARP
• ADT: Ashland Daily Tidings
• Ars: ArsTechnica
• Atl: The Atlantic
• BBC: British Broadcasting Corp.
• CNet: CNet
• CSM: Christian Sci. Monitor
• EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Giz: Gizmodo
• HSW: How Stuff Works
• Krebs: KrebsOnSecurity
• LAT: Los Angeles Times
• LH: LifeHacker
• MB: MotherBoard
• MT: MailTribune
• MW: Mac World
• NPR: Nat. Public Radio
• NYT: New York Times
• OSXD: OSX Daily
• PBS (and some other TV networks)
• PC: PC World
• Reut: Reuters
• TB: Tidbits
• TC: Tech Crunch
• USA: USA Today
• Verge: The Verge
• WaPo: Washington Post
• Wikipedia
• Wired: Wired
• WSJ: Wall St. Journal
• ZD: ZDnet
• Some sites may limit article access, e.g.,
• require login or subscription
• impose a monthly quota -- you may be able to bypass some quotas or a 'paywall' temporarily
  by using private browsing, a 2nd browser, "Reader" view, or by clearing cookies.
• require you to disable your adblocker i.e., allow their site,
• recognize & discourage private browsing.
• Any images or other media provided on this site are for instructional/personal use and should not be copied or redistributed.
• Images on this site are either 1) created by me
  or 2) accessed via public sources, e.g., Creative Commons or WikiMedia Commons, with attribution & license in caption.
• Newest articles usually appear at top of Reference sections
• Some older articles may be less useful / relevant for more recent versions of systems or apps, and will periodically be pruned.
• I usually recheck validity of links prior to teaching a course.
  However, the web is in constant flux, so if you encounter an error or 'broken link', please let me know
  the article name or link -- and the course page where you found it. Or, it might be available in a web archive,
  e.g., Internet Archive aka 'Wayback Machine'; Library of Congress; archive.is,
  perma.cc submit individual pages (similar to the “save page now” feature at the Internet Archive);
  webrecorder.io create personal web archives;
  Los Alamos National Laboratory Time Travel Service: query multiple web archives
• Browser Extensions for Bypassing Paywalls
• How to Get Past a Paywall to Read an Article for Free
  Copy the headline and paste it into the search bar on Google
  Redirect via https://facebook.com/l.php?u=
  Open the link in an incognito window
  Disable JavaScript in your browser; edit HTML elements on page
  Try browser add-ons
  Use https://12ft.io/
  Archive the page to bypass the paywall: https://archive.ph/
  Check out paywall bypass shortcuts on iPhone; LH; 8/7/2023
• If You Want To Know Why Section 230 Matters, Just Ask Wikimedia: Without It, There'd Be No Wikipedia TD; 10/8/2021
• How to Get Past a Paywall to Read an Article for Free LH; 10/5/2021
• Incognito no more: Publishers close loopholes as paywall blockers emerge
  deleting cookies, using multiple browsers, copying the URL, incognito mode/private browsing; 5/14/2019