About BigEye.com and NewsWatch.org

Webmaster in 1996 BigEye.com was born in October 1995, beginning as a listing of links to an increasing number of educational and interesting web sites. In the web's early months this site provided a useful resource for intelligent computer users. To find information on the Web today, visit Bigeye's Expanded Search Center.

Webmaster in 2011 Click photo for autobiographical blog

	This search/portal model is designed to help you easily navigate the Internet, and to give you the pleasure of finding some of the best sites on the Web. This site should meet your need for a rational starting point online.. This site strives to be fully self-supporting through unobtrusive on-line promotions, as not to require financial donations or contributions.
BigEye.com was selected by Mecklermedia as "World Site of the Day" and I was overwhelmed when Newsweek Magazine featured us in its Cyberscope section. The American Library Association included a review of BigEye in Knowledge Quest, its national magazine for academic librarians (Nov/Dec 1998, page 36). I am very grateful for the support of the many schools, colleges, and libraries that now link to BigEye from their own web sites. BigEye receives nearly 400,000 unique page views per month.
Personally, I am appalled by the sweeping changes taking place in The United States and the current direction of our government, propelled by large corporations, toward international piracy. Politically, this is cloaked by a cultish cadre of neoconservatives under the guise of forcing "democracy" and fighting "terrorism". The new buzzwords, modernization and globalization, are euphemisms for imperialism. Costly warfare should be avoided, not chosen, in international affairs. In my view, tax-resources would be far better used on behalf of our own citizens who are paying them. Our country's own natural disasters and infrastructure ought to be the rightful business of its people's elected officials. I am skeptical, however, about using a central government to handle such wealth on behalf of We the People and feel that we, the working people of our own communities, have the ability to do a far better job of handling our own social responsibilities and our own resources if we could maintain control of our own incomes, rather than being over-taxed. National defense is a valid issue, but it ought to be just that: defense. The Neocons are currently 'liberating' Iraq — having brought horrors of modern warfare to its citizens and defenders. They have turned a world that was largely sympathetic to us following September 11th against The United States of America. Until things change, I am using this popular personal web site as a publishing medium for articles and sentiments not generally found in commercial mass-media in an attempt to combat untruths, inflammatory rhetoric and officially-crafted propaganda. In addition, I have developed NewsWatch.org as a "media watchdog" to critique the commercial media and to expose the blatant social irresponsibility of their corporate owners. I try to keep NewsWatch fresh in my spare time, usually during green-tea breaks at Starbucks, a formidable hobby in which I could use a bit of help. You might like to check out a rating of NewsWatch at Net Top 20. The increasing popularity of these sites results primarily from one person telling another about BigEye and NewsWatch. You can help to spread the word around by telling others about these sites. If, after becoming familiar with this web site, you'd like to communicate with me, send email addressed to "Stewart-at-bigeye-dot-com" (this address has been deconstructed to hide from spammers — you know how to do it; in the Subject line, please put COMMENTS ABOUT BIGEYE) — it is always good to hear from anyone who wants to discuss websites. I have a personal home-page at www.wisebird.com. After a little experience with BigEye you will understand how easy this site makes it to access the web for any purpose. The best place to begin is the the opening page.