March 11, 1999
SJ Mercury: A Web truth: The `X' files are out there.
Dan Gillmor. [XML] It encourages Web developers to create -- and help their users get at -- information in easier, yet more sophisticated, ways.
A List Apart: The Creative Process.
Creativity and ideas don't come on command, they seem to spring up when we least expect it...
Online Journalism Review: Ethics Debate: It's Time to Move On.
The Web is a young medium, and new forms and conventions will emerge. But we need to help bring those blurred ethical lines into focus.
RCFoC: The Next Years Should Be Awesome, Indeed.
What were the revolutionary changes that brought us to where we are today, where business and social institutions are having to reinvent themselves...
Industry Standard: Making a Global Web Audience Count.
Measuring international traffic with officially recognized yardsticks (or, more appropriately, metersticks) is one of the major challenges these companies face.
News.Com: Firms develop privacy seal of approval.
...WebTrust is administered by accountants who do on-site audits of Net companies'...
Web Review: Information, Architecture, and Usability.
...designing usable organization and navigation systems for large online information environments is so important and so complex, that it requires information architecture design specialists with backgrounds in both IA and UE.
TechWeb: MP3 Will Die, Executive Predicts.
[Mark Cuban, president and CEO of Broadcast.com] ...will fail because it will not scale as much as streaming media systems from RealNetworks or Microsoft...
SJ Mercury: Advertisers demand results from Internet ads.
...many advertisers are increasingly pressuring publishers to offer a performance-based ad buy package instead of one based on CPM, or cost-per-thousand...
San Francisco Chronicle: Boom in Online Media Stocks Raises All Kinds of Ethical Questions.
[At the Online Journalism conference at U.C. Berkeley] Swisher said online writers are ``not the best journalists'' but instead are ``linkalists,'' whose stories are basically links to other Web sites.
Freedom Forum: Can journalism survive the Digital Age?
Jon Katz. Technology isn't predictable. It never behaves the way we think it will, nor do people react to it quite the way we think they should.
News.Com: Content: A rising star.
...but as the population of experienced Web users grows, consumers are spending a greater proportion of their time at narrowly focused sites.
Industry Standard: The Web as Marketing Vehicle: Does Any Model Work?
The Internet has spawned so many upside-down business plans, it's hard not to get motion sickness.
News.Com: Centraal aims to simplify Web queries.
While the new Centraal system may appear to be a short cut to search results that users could pull up on their own with minimal effort, Teare defended the system as a method of direct navigation.
Wired News: UK May Loosen Crypto Rules.
The proposal stresses that the legislation will be technology-independent, that consumers will be free to use any computer products they choose, and that no new wiretapping powers will be created.
News.Com: Microsoft, others invest in Audible.
Industry observers note that Microsoft may be interested in Audible in order to have its Windows CE operating software in as many handheld devices as possible.
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