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
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