February 14, 2001
LA Times: Media Giant Serving Two Masters.
Because of its unprecedented size and scope, AOL Time Warner is in a unique position to use its databases to create detailed portraits of the private tastes and interests of consumers, using such data for marketing or selling it to others, privacy advocates fear.
Editor & Publisher: Yes, Interactivity Really Is Good for Your Site.
Steve Outing. New research offers some rationale for making your site more interactive. Studies of the psychological aspects of new media suggest that empowering online users can make them trust and feel better about content as presented in online media.
NY Times: Fighting Free Music, Europeans Take Aim at Personal Computers.
While American music producers pursue their marathon court battle against Napster, European composers and record companies are opening an entirely different front in the war against unauthorized copying: the personal computers that do the actual work.
Inside: Movies aren’t the real threat of DivX.
Tom Watson and Jason Chervokas. TV producers have gotten more savvy of late, offering up full-season packages of Sex and the City, The X-Files, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, on videotape and DVD. But with a simple $40 card for your PC and easy-to-use DivX software, you could capture TV files on your hard drive.
Online Journalism Review: Innovation or Irritant? News.com's Redesign.
The redesign of News.com, and the shockingly large ads that are part of it, may be the first real innovation in online publishing in a long, long time. Those ads, those huge, those enormous ads, are something new. For that, if for nothing else in this design, CNET should be commended.
Mappa.Mundi Magazine: The Netscan Project.
Even though Usenet lacks a single, central authority, its user communities have developed sophisticated social structures and mechanisms and Smith notes, Usenet is a place where cooperation should be hard, but cooperation happens there anyway and with an abundance and profusion that is remarkable.
The Register: Deja UI too costly to save, Google boss tells Reg.
Although the historical archive has been saved from the moribund Deja operation, one of the co-founders of the Internet discussion system added his voice to the criticism yesterday, telling that he thought the new style of user interface was inappropriate.
Business 2.0: Hold the Phone-and Read It.
To help users interact with the wireless Web, new interfaces such as speech, touch screens, and maybe even gesture recognition are in the works. The principle is simple: If phones are going to deliver the Web, they must be designed with that in mind.
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