April 16, 2001
LA Times: Lone Guns Set Sites on Spam.
But spam has inspired dozens of self-appointed spam-busters. In the absence of an effective public [Internet] sheriff, you will have these private ones," says Jonathan Zittrain, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
digitalMASS: Preserving privacy.
Data privacy has always been a topic that left me completely cold. Honestly, I just couldn't get my bile riled over the notion that someone was tracking what I do online, where I buy gas with my Mobil Speedpass, or what I listen to with my RealNetworks software. Then I met Richard M. Smith.
Internet World: Deconstructing Citibank.com.
Louis Rosenfeld and John Shiple. Lots has changed since the web exploded, but one of the few remaining constants is that large, multifactional organizations will play out their political tensions on their most visible and valuable real estate, the main page.
Online Journalism Review: After the Fall: Late Notes From the Online Journalism Conference.
And through this non-interactive interlude, I was reminded that community-generated comments and no-employee content sites will never replace a cub reporter sitting through a city council meeting and diluting four hours of gibberish into eight inches of copy...
NY Times: TV-Web Link Succeeds in Shopping.
Like its larger competitor, QVC, Home Shopping had an advantage over entertainment television companies in that it was a merchant from the start. But for many entertainment executives, that seemed irrelevant just two years ago.
Industry Standard: Disappearing Act.
Ad killers may be on the verge of critical mass. Makers of ad-erasing software are striking deals with PC and modem manufacturers to include ad-blockers right in the box. Boston-based InterMute expects AdSubtract to be packaged with 70 percent of modems shipped in the U.S. by June.
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