March 27, 1999
SJ Mercury: Online threat to print journalism will have consequences.
Dan Gillmor. Context, perspective and the ability to sift out something resembling truth are essential, which is why the editorial role will not disappear, whatever the medium.
NY Times: New Home for a Lost Generation of Innovators.
"Computer people in their 20s and 30s, they don't look to Japan but to Silicon Valley for ways to work the Internet."
Useit.Com: Spotlight of the ClueTrain Manifesto.
...I predict that most big companies will still not get it because their internal management structures are too well built and capable of resisting customer-centricity until it's too late.
- Cluetrain: The Cluetrain Manifesto.
However, employees are getting hyperlinked even as markets are. Companies need to listen carefully to both.
DaveNet: Submission.
There's no legal agreement, I see the inclusion of a channel on our site as equivalent to pointing to a website from Scripting News.
Boston Globe: The coming change in business news.
In the next 10 years, however, on-line journalism will become a journalistic force unto itself. Nowhere will this be more true than in the category of business and financial news.
Upside: Loser Interface.
If the Web is to become a real mass medium, like today's phones, it has to adapt itself to the consumer first and technology second. This means idiot-proof design and backward-compatibility.
Industry Standard: When You Wish Upon the Web.
Goldstein says he's already sold out his advertising space through the summer, and his goal is "to double pageviews within a year's time."
Advertising Age: Apparel makers add e-commerce.
How will e-commerce affect the already strained relationship between apparel manufacturers and retailers?
AtNewYork: Alley's Leading Financial Site Eyes Commerce and Broadband
Tom Watson. "We prefer to get as broad an audience as possible, so we don't tart it up with a lot of blinking winking things that don't work. We want to be easy to use, we want to be the facilitator."
ABCNews.Com: Network Solutions Registers Dissent.
"They’re a wealthy company with very high-quality, expensive lawyers," says Michael Roberts, president of ICANN. "I’m sure there’s a legal explanation for what they did."
NY Times: Foie Gras and Chips, Anyone?
...Ms. Sassella has received an education in how difficult it is to convince Europeans, who have a wealth of small shops and age-old shopping habits, that they should shop on the Web.
InfoWorld: Glitzy Webbies paint only a partial picture of the Internet's future.
Internetworkers, by contrast, use Internet technologies to connect people, enable new ways of doing business, make existing processes more efficient, and in many cases to restructure...
Wired News: The Onion Hits the Big Time.
The Onion was founded on the principal that self-important hard-news journalism is a perfect candidate for mockery.
InfoWorld: Don't know a Boolean search from shinola? You'd better Ask Jeeves for help.
...Ask Jeeves looks at your query and tries to match it against a list of questions in its database.
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