Wow, what a handy resource: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, which I found by another handy resource, Digital Koans. A lot of this stuff is really about digital resources in academic libraries, but still a potentially very useful research resource.
Oh, and along these lines and also from the Digital Koans site I came across “Lessons for the Future Internet: Learning from the Past,” by Michael Roberts, in the July/August 2006 version of Educause. It’s a nice little history (more or less) of the Internet that might be useful in a class like English 516.