March 10, 1999
Online Journalism Review: Not Good Enough, Amazon.
If there were a doomsday clock for Web ethics, it would surely be approaching midnight.
Washington Post: Volume, Volume, Volume: A Web Buyers' Club.
Economists say the Internet, with its instantaneous communication ability, is creating more efficient markets in which suppliers save money by gauging demand better and sending to market only the number of products that can be sold.
ZDNN: Byte bites back, as a zine.
Schindler said Byte.com, while it existed only as an archive of old content, received an average of 600,000 page views a month...
Cal Law: The Standards Bearers.
The short answer is to barter off IP rights in a standards swap meet -- although that's easier said than done.
ClickZ: Think!-It's A New Medium.
The future will belong to those like Shneiderman who defy us to think about what's in front of us in new ways.
- Scientific American: Humans Unite!
What people want in their interactions with computers, he argues, is a feeling of mastery. That comes from interfaces that are controllable, consistent and predictable.
Interactive Week: Goliath Wins Out - Even Online.
Reflection on HotJobs.Com and Monster.Com's wagers on Super Bowl TV commercials.
Wired News: A Wired News Farewell.
Steve Silberman. But I'll miss the buzz of working in a new kind of newsroom, where there are only a few crucial moments of decision between the torrent of information flooding in and the steady stream of stories going out.
Online Journalism Review: Online Journalism: The Medium and the Message.
The conference is being held today at the U.C. Berkeley School of Journalism.
News.Com: Microsoft, Legend team for China set-tops.
...a Web browser, low-end personal computer, and video compact disc player in a single box to sit atop televisions for people who cannot afford a PC...
Wired News: The Multinational Net.
The fastest-growing group of people online today don't access the Internet in English.
Wired News: The Postal Service Wants .us.
Details are still scarce, and Wimer offered few more on Tuesday, but one likely plan would be to link email addresses to US mail addresses.
News.Com: Is privacy the price of personalization?
"These message board cases are a dramatic demonstration that if you want privacy, maybe you shouldn't be swimming in those waters..."
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