November 30, 1998
NY Times: White House Unveils E-Commerce Plans.
The new goals include pushing companies to work with consumer and privacy advocates, developing guidelines that ensure shoppers have the same protections in "virtual malls as they now get in regular malls..."
Online Journalism Review: Online Newspapers as Cyber Cannibals?
Generally, cannibalization is a "red herring, a non-issue," Nisenholtz believes. "When you have similar products in the same market, they tend to help each other grow the market."
Freedom Forum: Interactive experiment: putting yourself up for a vote.
Jon Katz.
NY Times: Internet Commerce Study Stresses Self-Regulation.
The report -- the foundation of the administration's new Internet commerce policy -- argues for stronger consumer protection and privacy rights...
Ask Tog: Special Holiday Issue. The December roundup of content is in beta for another day. New within-page/off-site icons for links.
ZDNN: Online retailers unleash holiday ad push.
"The money is coming from advertisers who are trying to drive traffic to their sites during peak holiday season..."
Advertising Age: Publishers must set rules to preserve credibility.
But if sites continue down the slippery slope of integrating or even disguising the advertisers' message in editorial content, it won't be long before users begin to doubt the value of what they're reading.
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