February 3, 2001
Editor & Publisher: News Sites Experiment with Larger Ads.
When CNET introduced a new online ad unit last week, New York Times Digital wasted no time in endorsing the new format. The larger and more-interactive ads are being developed at a time when newspaper Web sites are scrambling to attract advertisers and find alternatives to the banner.
NY Post: New Yorker Online Edition Gets Go-Ahead.
Thanks to a sudden reprieve, The New Yorker is back on track to go live on the Web next month - a mere four or five years after most major weeklies made a similar trek into cyberspace. As rumors of a corporate showdown swirled, Conde Nast CEO Steve Florio yesterday reversed an edict handed down only two days ago...
Newsbytes: ICANN Board Member Rips At-Large Membership Study.
By delaying its internal election process for up to two years, the powerful Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is cheating rank-and-file Web users out of their right to have a voice in shaping Internet policy, ICANN Board Member Karl Auerbach said today.
Computerworld: ICANN faces hearing in Congress over domain selections.
The U.S. House Commerce Committee, citing concerns about the process that ICANN used last fall to select seven new top-level domains, today said it will hold a hearing to investigate whether the organization is thwarting competition by limiting the number of additional domains to the ones it chose.
ZDNN: Are we ready for a cyber-UL?
Bruce Schneier. Applying this sort of thinking to computer networks is a natural idea. And the newly formed Center for Internet Security plans to implement it. I'll talk about the general idea first and then the specifics. A moving target I don't believe that this is a good idea, certainly not now and possibly not ever.
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