June 6, 1999
FEED Magazine: The Third Wave.
Steven Johnson. But an intriguing new application called Third Voice has done away with the crutch, eliminating even the metaphor of "place," and producing a kind of distributed virtual community that is genuinely unlike anything that's come before it.
NY Times: Narrowing the Electronic News Gulf.
Slowly, however, that great divide -- between the once-a-day multicourse meal of original material served up by newspapers on the Web and the quickly changing menus of original fare of the cable and broadcast sites -- is beginning to narrow.
Editor & Publisher: ONA 'Debuts'; Poynter Expands Reach.
Steve Outing. The group's focus will be largely on editorial issues presented by online technologies, such as promoting the concept of separation between editorial content and advertising on news Web sites.
SJ Mercury: Another try to put some frontier back in the suburban setting.
But we've seen time and again that the vast majority of people who make the crossing to the wired world don't want an unfiltered, unregulated community. They want their communities managed and mediated, planned and policed, focused and facilitated.
MSNBC: Even as stock price drops, Amazon still leads the Net.
It’s dumb middlemen that are being eliminated by the Web, not all middlemen — and they’re only being eliminated when the producers of goods have a compelling reason to do the job themselves and an ability to do it.
NY Times: Television Networks Sell Tie-Ins on the Web.
Faced with a downward curve of network viewership and looking for ways to generate more revenue from every program, the networks are rapidly turning to the Internet to sell goods featured on sitcoms, mini-series and dramas.
BBC News: VW fights online car deals.
"Retailing over the Net is coming. car companies can try to dissuade dealers, but ultimately the whole dealer network is going to come under strain and the days of the exclusive franchised dealer are numbered..."
NY Times: Cisco and Motorola Agree to Buy Wireless Technology Company.
Wireless mobile telephones have become popular, but no company has yet succeeded in broadly and profitably delivering torrents of Internet data using wireless links -- whether mobile or stationary.
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