I have had a presence on the Internet since March 1995. Being involved since the dark ages of this medium, I got dragged in all sorts of endeavours, some of which still exist today.
IDEAS, a web site cataloguing working papers and
articles (and more) in Economics.
RePEc, the "system" that organizes the bibliographic data used in IDEAS.
RePEc Author Service, formerly called HoPEc, is a registration system that allows authors to build an online CV with works listed in RePEc and obtain citation counts and other statistics.
EDIRC, a directory of economics
institutions on
the web.
QM&RBC, a website dedicated to dynamic general
equilibrium theory.
EconomicDynamics, the website of the Society for Economic Dynamics and the Review of Economics Dynamics.
NEP-DGE, get email alerts about New Economics Papers in Dynamic General Equilibrium.
Bowing to constant pressure, I am finally putting together a list of links
to the resources on the net that I find most useful and that I use.
This is not a complete page yet, but I will add material as I come to
use it.
Economics
Of course I use my own creations on the web a lot, in a sense these are
bookmarks grown outside any decent proportions. But there is other good stuff on the Internet as well:
ressources for economists (Bill Goffe's bible),
Economics journals
(Lauri Saarinen's list), Government
on the web (Gunnar Anzinger's huge effort) and Universities on the Web by Klaus
Förster.
News
There are so many news outlets to choose from now, but you always stick to
the familiar ones, even when they tend to clutter more and more the
content with silly pictures, videos and javaschmuck. But anyway, here are
the ones I read regularly: CNN (very US
centered, and sometimes surprisingly slow in updating the news), Canoe for the Canadians, Tages-Anzeiger from Zurich, and if it
is down Facts. For updates in sports, I
look usually at Yahoo. For local
weather: Montreal,
Ottawa, Willimantic
Computing
Since I dumped Windows, my life is much better... I use Red Hat with much pleasure
and efficiency, but many other linux packages would do the trick as well.
For starters, there is a Linux
newbie guide.
My colleague Steve Ambler has wonderful pages on various Linux links and Unix commands.
When I need to install some software, I usually get it at RPMfind.
Linux has big advantages, the first being that it is stable, not a
resource hog and secure (no virus!). Compared to other Unix flavors, it is
however not as secure (but light years ahead of Windows...). So to
increase security, here are a couple of links: Linux Security, Armoring Linux.
