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All serious web sites these days have policies: privacy policies, user agreement policies, disclosure policies. Not to be left out,Chesapeake World offers the following earnest declarations.
I'm in favor of it. This site does not request, any personal information. If you send any, I'll likely delete it. If you send me an email, I may add your email address to my address book. But if you ask me not to, I won't. If you send helpful suggestions, I'll try to put them into use. If you send flames, I'll delete (extinguish?) them.
Chesapeake World is intended as a helpful listing of web sites pertaining in some fairly direct way to the appreciation, understanding, and use of the magnificent resource that is the Chesapeake Bay. The sites listed tend also to fit those criteria: most have their own pages of links for further research or browsing. Please note that each site is responsible for its own content.
This is not intended to be an exhaustive list. Rather, as the statement at the top of the links page notes, it is an entrée to the places and resources of the region. Specifically, I will not attempt to list all the many businesses in the area; many of them can be found through the sites of the various visitors' bureaus and chambers of commerce...etc.
Please help. "Not exhaustive" doesn't mean incomplete, or lacking, or half-baked. If you think something should be added, please let me know. Criticism is welcome, too, as long as it's constructive criticism. I come from a life-long career in newspaper, magazine, and commercial newsletter journalism, so my hide is pretty thick!
If Chesapeake World has a bias, it's in favor of education, historical preservation, environmental protection, an informed public, and science. Most of the people living in the Chesapeake region likely moved here originally to enjoy the natural, as well as man-made, amenities of the "land of pleasant living". If we (I'm one of those people) don't take care of our heritage, we'll lose it. And taking care of what we've got requires that we understand what we have and, especially in the case of natural resources, how things work. Ergo, science, which seeks understanding, is important.
In a democracy such as ours, there is no substitute for a well-informed public. This web site can't offer the daily news, but it does attempt to provide some help in ferreting out background information. One of the best sites in that regard is the Maryland State Archives which has information on genealogy, state and regional history, and all sorts of current and archived governmental information.
Civility being a necessary element in a democratic society, and therefore essential to the appreciation and preservation of our natural heritage, I have assembled a small collection of web sites that may provide some useful background in that direction. In Search of Civilization offers insights into western civilization past and present, and considers some current pressing world problems.
Your editor is a professional science writer, but I'm not doing this for big bucks. In fact, I'm doing it for no bucks -- for free. My reward is that at last there's somewhere a collection of urls about the Bay that's both comprehensive and regularly maintained. (I will check them at least monthly....all of them. But I do have the help of a handy testing program, Link Checker, in doing this.) Of course, it can't hurt if you visit my professional home page: Scienceworks—writing and editing.
Contributions, corrections, and other comments are very definitely welcome. Send them to John O. Ludwigson, jludwigson@nasw.org. If you're a bit paranoid about someone intercepting your thoughts, you can encrypt them with my PGP public key available here. Or, you can try to find me on AOL Instant Messenger at "Longbote". And, if you're curious as to where the favicon associated with these pages comes from, here's the original: Lighthouse Talk
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