INFO links, from N4

AAP (American Association of Producers)
ACE (American Cinema Editors):
... an honorary society of film editors
ACVL (Association of Cinema & Video Laboratories)
AES (Audio Engineering Society)
AFCI (Association of Film Commissioners International)
AFTRA (American Federation of TV/Radio Artists)
AIAS (Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences)
AICP (Association of Independent Commercial Producers)
AIVF (Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers)
AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists)
AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences):
... home of the Oscars®
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
ARF (Artists Rights Foundation)
ASC (American Society of Cinematographers):
... and publisher of American Cinematographer magazine
ATAS (Academy of Television Arts & Sciences):
... home of the Emmys®
ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee):
... the architects of DTV
ATVEF (Advanced Television Enhancement Forum)
BDA (Broadcast Designers' Association)
... sponsors of Creative Planet's Design In Motion web site
BEA (Broadcast Education Association)
BKSTS (The Moving Image Society)
... creators of a superb series of film reference wall charts
CAS (Cinema Audio Society)
Caucus (The Caucus for Producers, Writers, and Directors)
CEMA (Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association)
CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting)
DAVIC (Digital Audio/Video Interoperability Council)
DGA (Director's Guild of America)
FCA (FibreChannel Association)
FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
... here come the Gov
IECF (International Electronic Cinema Festival)
IFP (Independent Feature Project, and the IFP/West)
IDA (International Documentary Association)
IICS (International Interactive Communications Society)
ITS (Association of Imaging Technology and Sound)
ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
ITVA (International Television Association)
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
LFCA (Large Format Cinema Association)
MAMA (Media Asset Management Association)
MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America)
Motion Picture Editors Guild (IATSE 700)
MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group)
MPSE (Motion Picture Sound Editors)
MSTV (Association for Maximum Service Television)
NAB (National Association of Broadcasters)
NATPE (National Association of Television Program Executives)
NCTA (National Cable Television Association)
NFPB (National Film Preservation Board, Library of Congress)
NFPF (National Film Preservation Foundation)
OMF / AAF: a standard for multimedia content interchange
PGA (Producers Guild of America)
PIAC (Public Interest Advisory Committee on DTV)
QuickTime: a standard for multimedia content distribution
RAB (RAID Advisory Board)
RTNDA (Radio-Television News Directors Association)
SAG (Screen Actors Guild)
SBE (Society of Broadcast Engineers)
SCTE (Society of Cable Television Engineers)
SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics)
SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers)
SOC (Society of Operating Cameramen)
STA (SCSI Trade Association)
1394 TA (IEEE 1394 [FireWire] Trade Association)
USB (Universal Serial Bus Implementers Forum)
VES (Visual Effects Society)
VSDA (Video Software Dealers Association)
WGA (Writers Guild of America)
WIF (Women in Film)
WMPLA (Worldwide Motion Picture Laboratory Association)

Industry trade shows

CES (Consumer Electronics Show):    ... January, Las Vegas
Comdex:    ... various
DCC Expo (Digital Content Creation):    ... December, Los Angeles
DV Expo:    ... October, Los Angeles
Gov't Video Expo:   ... December, Washington DC
IBC (International Broadcasting Convention):    ... September, Amsterdam
IECF (International Electronic Cinema Festival):   ... May, Portland
Internet World:   ... various
Macworld Expo:    ... January, San Francisco / August, Boston
NAB (National Association of Broadcasters):    ... April, Las Vegas
NATPE (National Association of Television Program Executives):    ... January, New Orleans
newMedia conference + tradeshow: ... June, Toronto
Post/LA Expo:   ... February, Los Angeles
Seybold Seminars:   ... various
Showbiz Expo :    ... June, Los Angeles / September, New York
SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics):    ... August, Los Angeles
SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers):    ... various
Videomaker Expo: ... January, Burbank
VSDA (Video Software Dealers Association):    ... October, Atlantic City

Cinema-related schools (also see Training Centers)

American Film Institute (Hollywood, CA)
Columbia College (Hollywood, CA)
Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)
Hollywood Film Institute (Hollywood, CA)
Los Angeles Film School (Hollywood, CA)
SFSU (San Francisco State University)
UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles)
USC (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
UTA (University of Texas, Austin)

For a practically complete listing of schools world wide ... Cinemedia

New technology

DTV

Robert X. Cringely's DTV Crash Course
Miller-Freeman's in-depth Digital Television: The Site
Analog2Digital, resource for DTV transition issues
Sam Churchill's Digital Television Report

Adam Wilt's comprehensive DV FAQs
Bertel & Alexei's DV and FireWire Central (incl. the DV-L mailing list)
Roger Jennings' DV & FireWire technical papers
Peter Gray's international list of Digital-to-Film transfer facilities

DVD

Jim Taylor's authoritative DVD FAQ
Robert Lundemo Aas' comprehensive list of DVD links
Creative Planet's DVD Artist site
the DVD Association
... incl. the Interactive Digital Media Association

E-Cinema

"Star Wars and the Phantom Celluloid":
... a behind-the-scenes peek, by Ron Diamond (incl. links)

"A Digital Cinema of the Mind?":
... essay by Academy Award-winning editor Walter Murch
[requires a brief, anonymous registration to NYTimes.com]

Old technology

Jack Calaway's Museum of Early Video Editing Equipment, a must see!
... incl. an actual sample of Edit Sync Guide (ESG, the predecessor to SMPTE timecode)

Directories of services & personnel

Web-accessible

Crew Net
DVDJobsUSA.com
LA 411
Mandy's International Film & Television Directory
the Pacific Coast Studio Directory
ShowbizJobs.com

Other

Hollywood Creative Directory
International Creative Alliance

Online technical glossaries

Grass Valley Group:
... Dictionary of Technical Terms

Henninger:
... Glossary of Selected Telecine Terms

Mix Online:
... Larry Blake's Film Sound Glossary

Quantel:
... Digital Fact Book and Editing Book

SMPTE:
... Annotated Glossary of Essential Terms for Electronic Production

"Wotsit's Format":
... The Programmer's File / Data Formats Resource

Periodicals & columnists

Advertising Age

AV Video - Multimedia Producer

Broadcast Engineering

Computer Graphics World

Creative Planet, including timely info from:
... CinematographyWorld.com
... EditorsNet.com
... MediaTechnology.com
... PostIndustry.com
... TVIndustry.com

Digital Movie News / Digital Puppet

Digital Studio

Digital Television

DV Magazine (Digital Video):
... excellent coverage of all aspects of desktop video production

EQ Magazine

Film & Video

the Hollywood Reporter

Interactivity

MacWorld

Me!dea Magazine

Mix Magazine:
... the best of the professional audio magazines, with Larry Blake's column on Film Sound a perennial fave

New Media

Television Broadcast

TV Technology:
... incl. edit guru Jay Ankeney's semi-monthly "Focus on Editing," Frank Beacham's "The Big Picture," Mario Orazio's "The Masked Engineer," and others

Variety

Videomaker

Video Systems:
... numerous relevant columns, incl. Rick Shaw's monthly wisdom on all things Graphical and Animational

Videography

WideGauge Film & Video Monthly

Wired

Industry & technical booksellers

Focal Press
Knowledge Industry Publications
Larry Edmunds Bookshop (Hollywood, CA)
Opamp Technical Bookstore (Hollywood, CA)
Powell's Books (Portland, OR)
Samuel French Theatre & Film Bookshops