Sites that say something:

• 24 Hours In Cyberspace

  Big blue ribbon on home page, links to EFF page.

  Elegant blue ribbon on secondary page, superimposed over main graphic on page.

• Bernie DeKoven

  Blue ribbon, link to EFF page.

• Books That Work

  Big blue ribbon, link to EFF page.

• Chris Gulker

  Big blue ribbon, link to EFF page, strong personal statement.

  Beautiful job, very creative!

• City.Net

  Black background, editorial and pointer to EFF page.

• DaveNet

  Black background, two blue ribbons, link to EFF site.

• FinanceHub

  Blue ribbon, link to EFF page; links to web-present venture capitalists.

• GNN

  Black background, blue ribbon, link to EFF page.

  GNN is AOL's Internet access provider.

• Gina Smith

  Blue ribbon, link to EFF page.

• HotWired

  Animated blue ribbon, black background.

  No link to EFF page.

• Java

  Black background, big blue ribbon, link to EFF page.

  This is the Java site at Sun.

  They give it their whole home page. Wow!

  Note that Sun's corporate page has nothing to say.

• John Perry Barlow

  Black background, no ribbon, link to editorial page is broken.

• Marc Canter

  Blue ribbon, link to EFF site.

  Marc: how about doing some animated blue ribbons?

  With music!

• MecklerMedia iWorld

  Blue ribbon, link to EFF page.

• Mitch Kapor

  Black background, big blue ribbon, link to EFF page, strong personal statement.

  "Any material that's legal in Barnes & Noble or the New York Public Library should be legal online!"

• Netcom

  Blue ribbon, link to EFF page.

• Netscape

  It's black, with beautiful editorial statement, link to Yahoo protest page.

  "Netscape supports open standards, including First Amendment rights to free speech."

• PC Magazine

  Black background, link to editorial.

• Project Cool

  Black background, free speech statement, link to EFF page, rings of Saturn are blue!

• RealAudio

  Black background, link to editorial at bottom of every page.

• Rockument

  Big blue ribbon, link to EFF page.

• Rockweb

  Black background, beautiful blue ribbon with a guitar in background, link to EFF page.

• SALON

  Blue ribbon, link to EFF page.

• SafeSurf

  Black background, link to editorial, JavaScript banner asking for email on the Telecomm bill.

  Interesting site -- these guys do software that filters sites based on content

• Software Publishers Association

  Black background, link to an editorial page.

• StarFish Software

  Black background, blue ribbon, link to EFF page.

• Suck

  Large blue ribbon, link to EFF page.

  One of the first sites to do a blue ribbon and go black.

• The Well

  Black background, blue ribbon, link to EFF page.

  "this is what censorship looks like"

• Upside Magazine

  Big blue ribbon, link to EFF page.

• WebCrawler

  Black background, blue ribbon, link to EFF.

• Yahoo!

  Black background, better than a blue ribbon!

  Oooops -- as of 10:30AM Pacific -- it's back to a gray background, no free speech message.

Sites that don't say anything:

• Accel Partners

  Accel backs lots of net-based software and service companies, prides itself on competent web presence

• Adobe Systems

  PhotoShop, PageMill, Acrobat, PageMaker, FrameMaker company.

• America Online

  A leading online services company. Usually outspoken in Washington.

• Apple

  Maker of Macintosh.

• Berkeley Systems

  Screen saver software company, in Berkeley (of course!).

• Borland

  PC development tools, including a Java development system.

• CNN

  A leading news website.

• CompuServe

  A leading online services company.

• Cool Site of the Day

  One of the most popular sites, according to www.webcrawler.com.

• Cybersmith

  An Internet coffee bar in Cambridge, MA.

• Digital Equipment Corporation

  DEC -- makers of PDP-11s, VAXs, servers, and the fantastic Alta Vista search engine.

• Draper Fisher Associates

  An early-stage venture capital firm.

• Farallon

  Networking hardware and systems.

• General Magic

  Recently repositioned Telescript as a web communications system.

• HAHT Software

  Web development tools.

• Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

  Humwin backs lots of net-based software and service companies.

• IBM

  Makers of mainframes, accounting and database software, owners of Lotus.

• Illustra

  Web database company, sold to Informix.

• InfoWorld

  A leading computer industry publication, serving corporate users.

• Infoseek

  A leading Internet search engine.

• John Gilmore

  EFF board member and founder of Sun Microsystems and The Little Garden.

• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

  Kleiner backs lots of net-based software and service companies

  Not sure if this is the Kleiner home page.

• Lotus

  Makers of spreadsheets, suites, Notes; owned by IBM.

• Lycos

  A leading Internet search engine.

• MacTech Magazine

  The Macintosh geeks magazine.

• MacUser

  One of the leading Macintosh magazines.

• MacWEEK

  The only Macintosh weekly print magazine.

• Macromedia

  Makers of multimedia development tools. A Java licensee.

• Metrowerks

  Makers of professional development tools for the Macintosh. A Java licensee.

• Microsoft

  Makers of operating systems, both client and server; suites, web browsers. A Java licensee.

• Oracle

  Maker of databases and web back-ends. Larry Ellison is chairman.

• PC Letter

  Industry newsletter written by David Coursey.

• Pathfinder

  Time-Life online presence.

• PointCast

  An up-and-coming online software company.

• Scott Rosenberg

  Writer and editor for Salon.

• Spectrum HoloByte

  Game company.

• StarNine

  They do WebStar, the leading Macintosh web server.

• Sun Microsystems

  Maker of workstations and Java.

• The Little Garden

  Pioneering service provider in San Francisco.

• The White House

  Contains politicians who fear free speech on the Internet.

• UUNET

  Internet service provider, partnered with Microsoft.

• Vail

  One of my favorite ski resorts.

• Virtual Tourist

  One of the most popular sites according to www.webcrawler.com.

• WebLust

  Black background, but no ribbon, no link to editorial.

  Fred Davis's site.

Reference points:

• Accel Partners

  This page points to the companies that Accel has invested in.

• DW's Clay Basket Glossary

  Sites mentioned in past DaveNet pieces.

• EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation

  Focal point for the blue ribbon protest.

• Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

  This page points to the companies that HumWin has invested in.

• The Blue Ribbon

  Design guidelines for webmasters on blue ribbons.

• The Center for Democracy and Technology

  Focal point for the black-page protest.

• The WebCrawler Top 25

  They keep a list of the 25-most pointed to sites.

  It's pretty out of date, last time they built it was 10/2/95.

• Voters Telecomm Watch

  A huge list of sites that went black.