September 1, 1999
BBC News: Hitch-hiker's guide to the Internet.
"On the Internet, there is no 'they'. There's only a very, very large 'us'," he says. Thankfully dodging the all-too-predictable conclusion that this will revitalise tired notions of democracy, Adams considers the fact that chat groups and single-issue Websites create communities of interest.
Salon: Holey Hotmail.
Scott Rosenberg. But there's one huge disadvantage that the Hotmail saga neatly illuminates: Once your data is on someone else's machine, its privacy and safety is utterly in the hands of that someone.
CIO WebBusiness: Calling All Web Sites.
Known as Web site/call center integration, integrated contact center or teleweb software, this business tool aims to provide unified administration of all contact points while simultaneously and transparently routing callers to appropriate information resources.
USA Today: Web ad rates may be pay-per-view.
In the next four years, the Web will shift from the advertising model on which most off-line media are based -- the cost per thousand impressions -- toward a pay-for-performance standard.
Editor & Publisher: Washingtonpost.com's 'Afternoon' Web Edition.
Steve Outing. Feaver says the Web site has had Post reporters filing stories for mid-day coverage for some time, but this was limited to occasional, significant stories. PM Extra basically takes all the top stories of the day and provides staff coverage of them in advance of the print edition on a daily basis.
NY Times: Some Analysts Cut Through Fog of Growth for Net Retailers.
Their method is simple -- perhaps deceptively so. They are taking the two numbers that E-tailers love to trumpet (because they are always growing) total revenues for a quarter and total customer base and dividing one by the other. The results are eyebrow raising. They go straight down.
DaveNet: Automated Deep Linking.
Do you mind if other websites continually read the HTML of your home page, break it up into individual headlines and links to stories, repurpose the URLs to point thru their servers, and distribute those links to people who want to read your news, along with news from many other sources?
Editor & Publisher: Online Journalists Find Comraderie.
The San Francisco meeting was only the third event of the ONA. The panel focused on the art of online storytelling, which some believe is lacking at online news sites.
Salon: Micropublishing comes of age.
Unknown self-publishers without promotion budgets by contrast are locked in a Catch-22. If readers can't see what they're getting, it's hard to interest them. But if would-be buyers can get the book or document without paying for it, then sellers don't make a cent.
PC Week: Web publishing takes center stage at Seybold.
...Tim Gill, chairman and chief technical officer of Quark Inc., who said that, in essence, the Web is becoming "PrintTV." Although immediate accessibility to content will be a main feature, sites also have to figure out how to repurpose content to get more value.
TechWeb: Traditional Printers Wrestle With The Web.
Four trends will determine the future of Web publishing, said Norman Meyrowitz, Macromedia president. They are production values, dynamic websites, the degree of difficulty of Web production, and the ability to design for several form factors.
CIO WebBusiness: Internet2 and Counting.
UCAID's goal: to develop fundamentally different technologies that can be dropped into the current Internet protocol infrastructure as they become ready for prime time.
ABCNews.Com: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Privacy concerns aside, I find both these features oddly addictive — not because they help me buy more stuff, as Amazon apparently intends, but because they set me either to pondering or laughing.
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