What's a GrayList?

 

Well, a black list is a list of banned sites or addresses. A white list is a list of approved ones. This is a list of sites that might be blocked, some with good reason, some not. The objective is to gain more data about the situation.

 

OK, now that we have a simple tool that will test a list of URL's to see if they are being blocked or filtered ( http://tuttlesvc.teacherhosting.com/filtrchekr/ ) we need a standard list of sites to check. Once we have a standard list, we can build an online database to track the patterns across the country.

 

The idea here is not to test things (i.e., porn) that obviously should be blocked. The objective is to test the availability of resources that are plausibly useful or at least harmless. The main categories are blogs, blog hosts, search engines, web 2.0 tools, news, social networking, webmail. Perhaps there are more.

 

At this point, there are about 270 sites on the list. Filtr Chekr will by default test about 10 sites a minute, so at that rate, it'll take about a half hour to run. It can go much faster, if you aren't afraid someone is going to accuse you of flooding the network. Since you can leave it running in the background, a half hour doesn't seem problematic.

 

 

 

blogs

 

__ed-tech__: primarily, or important to ed-tech people. (56)

http://www.weblogg-ed.com

http://www.edsupport.cc/mguhlin/blog/index.htm

http://tuttlesvc.teacherhosting.com/wordpress/

http://www.speedofcreativity.org

http://www.andycarvin.com

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/learning.now/

http://www.downes.ca/

http://tim.lauer.name/

http://www.davidwarlick.com/2cents/

http://kathyschrock.blogspot.com/

http://www.kathyschrock.net/blog/

http://k12opensource.blogspot.com/

http://sburt.teacherhosting.com/live

http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/

http://www.techlearning.com/blog/main/

http://www.incsub.org/blog/

http://budtheteacher.typepad.com/bud_the_teacher/

http://sxnuss.suprglu.com/

http://www.assortedstuff.com

http://www.learndog.com

http://schoolof.info/infomancy/

http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/

http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/blog/

http://www.pedersondesigns.com/

http://remoteaccess.typepad.com/remote_access/

http://www.shiftedlearning.org/

http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/

http://alex.halavais.net/

http://incsub.org/awards/the-edublog-awards-2005/

http://nonscholae.org/

http://adifference.blogspot.com/

http://nlcommunities.com/communities/alannovember/default.aspx

http://elgg.net/mberry/weblog

http://www.archercollege.com

http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/

http://headrush.typepad.com/

http://www.scripting.com

http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/

http://anne2.teachesme.com/

http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/

http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/

http://apps.nitle.org/blog/index.php/

http://autonolearner.blogspot.com

http://cairns.typepad.com/

http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/mahlness/

http://www.ikiw.org/

http://www.marcprensky.com/blog/

http://www.eibmoz.dk/zombiecasemod/index.php

http://www.ebn.weblogger.com/delaney/

http://www.k12converge.com/

http://www.technosavvy.org/

http://webquest.org/bdodge/

http://www.learningismessy.com/blog/

http://www.knownet.com/writing/weblogs/Graham_Attwell

http://benshead.learningblogs.org/

http://lms.saisd.net/blog/

http://www.ebn.weblogger.com/

http://blog.carteretcountyschools.org/

http://nlcommunities.com/communities/joevans/

http://edublogs.org/

http://wordpress.com/

 

 

__school__: the writer's own school or classroom, or practical issues for teachers. (25)

http://www.practicaltheory.org/serendipity/

http://lewiselementary.org/

http://msfrizzle.blogspot.com/

http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/

http://timfredrick.typepad.com/timfredrick/

http://mt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/bgblogging/

http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/

http://wordgirl.typepad.com/arewedoinganythingtoday/

http://www.ahistoryteacher.com/blog/index.html

http://polski3.blogspot.com/

http://teach-essay.blogspot.com/

http://awhimsy.blogspot.com/

http://www.posthipchick.blogspot.com/

http://thetrenches.blogspot.com/

http://ahighcall.blogspot.com/

http://graycie5198.blogspot.com/

http://www.worldofpig.blogspot.com/

http://www.firstyearteacher.blogspot.com/

http://community.livejournal.com/substitutes/

http://schoolnerdblog.blogspot.com/

http://nyceducator.blogspot.com/

http://www.teachinginnyc.blogspot.com/

http://maineascd.blogs.com/maine_ascd_weblog/

http://community.livejournal.com/1st_yr_teachers/

http://www.huffenglish.com/

http://www.castingoutnines.net

http://capuchinotech.blogspot.com

 

__ed policy__: mostly not about one's own classroom or school, or of direct practical value. (15)

http://www.ed421.com/

http://borderland.northernattitude.org/

http://educationwonk.blogspot.com/

http://drcookie.blogspot.com/

http://www.essentialblog.org/

http://edwize.org/

http://www.eduwonk.com/

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-6z6IhP08cqXp9kfshYQPv87gCfJyFg--%20

http://district299.typepad.com/

http://wildwilliam.blogspot.com/

http://www.letsgetitright.org/blog/

http://instructivist.blogspot.com/

http://www.joannejacobs.com/

http://www.kimberlyswygert.com/

http://thewallofeducation.blogspot.com

 

 

__politics__: not education. (10)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com

http://atrios.blogspot.com

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/

http://instapundit.com

http://dailykos.com

http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

http://michellemalkin.com

http://corner.nationalreview.com/

 

news & other (15)

http://boingboing.net

http://markchristian.org/projects/dbb/list.php

http://blog.wired.com

http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/index.jsp

http://www.ratemyteachers.com/

http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/weblogs/ # about blogs, actually

http://www.salon.com

http://news.google.com

http://www.slashdot.org

http://www.slate.com

http://www.digg.com

http://www.wired.com

http://www.nytimes.com

http://www.cnn.com

http://news.yahoo.com/

 

blog hosts

education-oriented (8)

http://www.edublogs.org

http://www.teacherblogs.org

http://www.classblogmeister.com

http://www.teacherhosting.com

http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/

http://www.gaggle.net/gen?_template=/templates/gaggle/html/index.jsp

http://www.nlcommunities.com/

http://www.elgg.net/

http://blogs3.enoreo.on.ca/

 

 

not ed-oriented (7)

http://www.blogspot.com

http://www.wordpress.com

http://www.blogs.com

http://www.typepad.com

http://spaces.msn.com/

http://www.hrblogs.org

http://www.netvibes.com/

 

 

search engines (12)

http://www.google.com

http://images.google.com

http://scholar.google.com

http://groups.google.com/

http://blogsearch.google.com/

http://www.yahoo.com

http://www.ask.com

http://www.clusty.com

http://www.altavista.com/

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/

http://www.a9.com/

http://search.msn.com/

http://www.alexa.com/

 

web 2.0 tools

 

wikis and wikihosts (7)

http://wikipedia.org

http://wikibooks.org

http://www.wikispaces.com

http://www.xwiki.com

http://www.pbwiki.com (which makes submitting this edit a bit of a challenge)

http://www.jot.com # wiki

http://www.socialtext.com/

http://www.stikipad.com/

 

ed specific (2)

http://www.chalksite.com # slick class communications software

http://moodle.org/ # open source lms

http://www.hotchalk.com/

http://www.nicenet.org

http://www.think.com/en_us/

http://wise.berkeley.edu/teacher/

http://nuvvo.com/

 

 

big archives (3)

http://www.gutenberg.org

http://archive.org

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:_Kufx0zPodoJ:www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3092.html+foo+bar+baz&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

http://www.ourmedia.org/

 

mapping (10)

http://maps.google.com

http://earth.google.com/

http://www.google.com/reader/

http://mapquest.com

http://maps.yahoo.com

http://www.frappr.com/ # social mapping

http://www.sketchup.com/

http://mappoint.msn.com/

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

http://local.live.com/

 

images and video (9)

http://picasa.google.com/

http://www.flickr.com

http://static.flickr.com/32/50288508_bc89a54ecb_s_d.jpg

http://www.youtube.com

http://video.google.com

http://www.bubbleshare.com/

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Welcome.jsp

http://www.shutterfly.com/

http://www.photo.net/

 

 

aggregators (13)

http://www.bloglines.com

http://www.rojo.com # rss reader

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ # syndication feeds

http://www.technorati.com/ # blog tracking

http://suprglu.com # aggregator

http://www.feedster.com/

http://www.newsisfree.com/

http://www.google.com/reader/things/intro

http://www.rsscache.com/

http://www.syndic8.com/

http://www.weblogs.com

http://blo.gs

http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/

 

misc. collaboration (13)

http://www.basecamphq.com/ # project management

http://www.backpackit.com/ # file storage?

http://www.box.net/ # file storage

http://www.writeboard.com/ # shared whiteboard

http://eventful.com # event database

http://openomy.com/ # online file storage

http://www.box.net # online file storage

http://www.43things.com/

http://www.allconsuming.net/

http://www.43places.com/

http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/s3-developer-guide/BasicsBucket.html

http://www.secondlife.com/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cctools/

http://www.epals.com # global collaborations for students

http://upcoming.org/

http://www.trumba.com/corp/default.aspx

http://www.30boxes.com/

http://www.zookoda.com/

http://www.launchpad.net/

http://www.nextaris.com/

http://www.writely.com

 

 

 

bookstores (2)

http://www.amazon.com # bookstore & many other services

http://www.bn.com # just a bookstore

 

 

office and productivity (6)

http://www.tadalist.com/ # to do list

http://www.writely.com/ # online collaborative word processor

http://www.irows.com/ # online spreadsheet

http://www.thinkfree.com/common/main.tfo # online office suite

http://lazybase.com/

http://www.dabbledb.com/

 

chat (6)

http://www.campfirenow.com/ # web chat

http://gtalkr.com/ # flash-based gtalk client

http://blog.meebo.com/ # web-based chat

http://www.3bubbles.com/

http://www.jotlive.com/

http://www.zimbra.com/

 

 

voip

http://www.skype.com/

http://www.gizmoproject.com/

 

 

podcasting and podcasts (6)

http://odeo.com # podcasts

http://jwchat.org # web-based jabber client

http://worldbridges.net # podcasts

http://www.itconversations.com/ # podcasts

http://www.podomatic.com/search/categories/today?category=Education

http://podcasts.yahoo.com/

 

 

bookmarking (7)

http://www.furl.net # social bookmarking

http://del.icio.us # social bookmarking

http://www.scuttle.org/ # open source bookmarking server

http://www.spurl.net/

http://www.jots.com/

http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/

http://www.connotea.org/

 

creative commons content (15)

http://commoncontent.org/

http://www.jamendo.com/

http://www.diesel-u-music.com/

http://www.ccmixter.org/

http://www.magnatune.com/

http://www.dmusic.com/

http://www.opsound.org/

http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/

http://www.soundclick.com/genres/cc_license.cfm

http://ocw.mit.edu/

http://cnx.rice.edu/content/

http://www.berkleeshares.com/

http://openphoto.net/

 

social networking (13)

http://my***space.com

http://xanga.com

http://blackplanet.com

http://migente.com

http://livejournal.com

http://makeoutclub.com

http://www.deadjournal.com

http://www.mydeathspace.com/

http://www.piczo.com/

http://www.orkut.com/

http://www.friendster.com/

http://www.facebook.com/

http://www.linkedin.com/

http://www.dodgeball.com/

 

webmail (3)

http://mail.google.com

http://mail.yahoo.com

http://hotmail.com

 

activism (10)

http://www.citizenlab.org/

http://www.gnu.org/

http://www.eff.org

http://www.publicknowledge.org/

http://www.downhillbattle.org/

http://www.futureofmusic.org/

http://www.lessig.org/

http://www.creativecommons.org/

http://dotank.nyls.edu/

http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/

 

misc open source software (2)

http://www.freshmeat.net

http://www.sourceforge.net

 

free filters (2)

http://www.dansguardian.org

http://www.squidguard.org