From: Gleanings
To: American People
Subject: Gleanings; Snuck one more in....OPENING THANG
As my former company becomes a f*cked company poster child, I find myself enjoying these articles more and more.
Saly Struthers begs you to save the dot-coms
http://www.satirewire.com/features/savedotcoms/sally.shtml
and the "First Aid for the Dying Dot-Com" safety poster.
http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0010/dotcom
And happy halloween to y'all.. hope your scares have nothing to do with stock prices... here's your treat for being so good.
"Blair Witch Spoofs"
http://www.atomfilms.com/default.asp?spot_id=100&se=1026
Anyhow, off to Holland. See ya in a week!
IA AND DESIGN MATTERS
MIT Technology Review: Toppling the Desktop.
Perhaps the next big step in the everyday computer interface will be in the
direction of more language-based interaction, achieving much of the power of
the arcane Unix command line with most of the simplicity of simple Web
queries.
http://www.techreview.com/articles/nov00/montfort.htm
Useit.Com: From August 1996; The Anti-Mac Interface
http://www.acm.org/cacm/AUG96/antimac.htm
NEWS
Inside: Party on! Modo's Dead but Launch Event Is Live Tonight at Hollywood's Les Deux. This one may set a standard for new economy flame-outs: Scout Electromedia, the maker of the Modo lifestyle pager, will hold a launch party tonight at Les Deux Caf? in Los Angeles, despite the fact that the company ceased operations Tuesday after less than two months of selling the device.
http://www.inside.com/story/Story_Cached/0,2770,12657_13_31_1,00.html
Online Journalism Review: Can You Trust Online Polling?
Other pollsters, like the Gallup Organization, have been experimenting with
online polling by first contacting potential respondents via telephone. If
interviewees have access to the Web, they are then asked to complete polls
online. But Harris has conducted its election polls almost entirely online.
http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=472
Net Retailers Aren't All Losers
By Jennifer Couzin
After taking a beating on Wall Street for their lack of profits, a few
retail dot-coms have finally moved into the black.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,19770,00.html?nl=int
posted by Christina Wodtke 10/28/2000 5:38:36 AM
From: Gleanings
To: Experiensors
Subject: Gleanings: Going DutchOPENING THANG
Okay kids, hope this fix holds you for a week. I'll try to post before I get back on November 5th, but if not, think of me eating picked herring and meeting 200 of my husband's Dutch cousins, uncles and aunts and light a candle...
USER EXPERIENCE MATTERS
"Treating each consumer as an individual is a great objective. It
has been the dream of direct marketers for years. Trouble is, we're
all running after the one-to-one experience at a time when we
should also be saying, 'Know thy customers.' Note the plural there.
Many customers, not one customer."
The full piece is online at:
http://www.personalization.com/soapbox/contributions/usborne.asp
More on designing the customer experience, from a personalization POV
"1to1 Personalization: The Guide to Insights, Issues & Trends"
http://www.1to1.com/1to1/personalization/index.html
Internet Week: E-Commerce Searches Get Smarter.
When site visitors can't find the information they seek, one of four things
generally happens: They fire off an e-mail to a help desk, phone in with the
inquiry, initiate an online chat session, or leave frustrated. Each carries a
considerable cost, according to Forrester Research.
http://www.internetweek.com/lead/lead102400.htm
Industry Standard: How Well Do You Stream?
It is a universally acknowledged truth that slow Web pages inspire surfers to
go elsewhere. But how long will Internet users wait for a site's streaming-
media files before they bail? Keynote Systems hopes to answer that question
with the first-ever streaming-media performance index.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,19631,00.html
NEWS
Newsweek: The 'Semantic Web'.
Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee. At the moment the data is processed for human
consumption, and if it is to be reprocessed [for machines] it first has to be
undressed into raw data. That is very cumbersome. The Semantic Web says,
"Let's get the data on the Web with its meaning."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/479646.asp
ZDNN: Secure digital music hits a sour note.
On Monday, a group of researchers from Princeton University, Rice University,
and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center announced that they broke four test
watermarking technologies the creators hoped would make music identifiable.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2643884,00.html
APROPOS OF NOTHING
dress up Jesus
http://www.normalbobsmith.com/jesusdressup.html
The Word of the Day for today, Tue Oct 24, is:
**** Where is the bathroom? Where is the toilet? ****
French: Ou` sont les toilettes?
Accents are represented by ' (acute) ` (grave) " (umlaut), ^ (circumflex), and * (ring)
You can hear all the translations spoken at:
http://www.travlang.com/wordofday/122.html
EVENTS
Free Speech Advocate, Hastings Law Professor, and Bay Area Cyberjournalist
Explore the Limits of Free Expression on the Net
WHO: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Keith Henson, Joe Liu, Damien
Cave.
WHAT: "BayFF" Meeting exploring the posting of private documents, and
free expression on the Web
WHEN: Thursday, November 2nd, 2000, at 7:00PM PT
WHERE: Moscone Center, Room 101
747 Howard St.
San Francsico, CA, USA
In honor of its 10th Anniversary of defending civil liberties online,
EFF presents a series of monthly meetings to address important issues
where technology and policy collide. These meetings, entitled "BayFF"
(Bay-area Friends of Freedom), kicked off on July 10, 2000, and will
continue on a monthly basis.
http://www.eff.org/bayff
...
Sponsored by The Women's Technology Cluster, the Software Development
Forum and Panasonic Digital Concepts Center:
THE NEXT GENERATION OF PR
Event Info
===========
Date: Tuesday, Oct 31, 2000
Time: 8:30 am - noon
Fee: $49 for Software Development Forum members; $99 for non-members.
(Continental breakfast included)
To purchase registrations to this event, click onto
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=8962&Referrer_id=66
"The Next Generation of PR"
Speaker: Sabrina Horn, The Horn Group
Panelists:
Judy Lewenthal Daniel, former Managing Editor of Business 2.0
Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon.com (formerly with Fast Company)
Kara Swisher, Wall Street Journal
Rebecca Eisenberg, writer for CBS Marketwatch
Moderator:
Richard Brandt, Upside columnist/former editor-in-chief,
Editor/Director
of Busines Deveopment, eFounders
Agenda
8:30-9:00am Registration/Networking/Continental breakfast
9:00-11:00am Seminar
11:00-12:00pm Panel of Media Experts
The seminar will cover the current state of the PR market including
these issues and more...
*Market relations as the "next generation" of PR – the business
of
building relationships and communicating with all the publics in a
company's market: it's employees, investors, business partners,
customers and of course the media.
*New tools for communication in the information age to empower
professionals to use the resources available to them, and streamline
communications, particularly for technology start-ups.
*Secrets of E-PR to reinvent traditional PR services for more
creative and effective campaigns.
Event Venue Info
================
Women's Technology Cluster
1207 Indiana Street, Conference Room 7B
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-970-5090 / Fax: 415-970-5095
Ticketing Instructions
======================
When you arrive to the building, ring the intercom for unit #4 -
Women's Technology Cluster. Go up the stairs to the 2nd floor, but DO
NOT ENTER SUITE #4. Bring your confirmation number, and we'll check
you in at the receptionist's desk.
posted by Christina Wodtke 10/25/2000 6:45:21 AM
From: Gleanings
To: The Multitude
Subject: Gleanings: Scrambling!OPENING THANG
Sorry for the silence folks, been busy as a bee lately, and its going to get worse: I leave for acia 2000 tomorrow, and leave from there to go to Holland for a week. if I can get wired I'll send y'all a hi...
Biggerhand seems to be contemplating his role in the world... it's hard to be an art director!
http://www.biggerhand.com/journal/102000.html
http://www.biggerhand.com/journal/102300.html
Oh, And did I point to these? it's nearly xmas, after all...
Creative Good's new, free, Holiday 2000 E-Commerce Report:
http://www.creativegood.com/holiday2000
The 1999 e-commerce report:
http://www.creativegood.com/holiday99
ECOMMERCE MATTERS
E-Commerce Times: Etailers to lose billions over holiday season
Almost half of all consumers trying to purchase online this Christmas
will leave websites without placing an order, according to a new
report.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/articles2000/001017-1.shtml
NEWS
I call this not-news
Newsbytes: Websites not influencing voters
Campaign websites for the upcoming US presidential election are not
attracting undecided voters, according to a recent Jupiter Media Metrix
survey.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/156834.html
Tomalak seems to be on an AOL kick this morning, but they're all pretty interesting....
Industry Standard: AOL's Rough Riders.
"In the beginning, you're like, 'Hey, we've looked into this space and you're
the best. If you hook up with us, you can really kick ass,'" says ex-AOL
dealmaker Phillip Zakas, who delivered the pitch many times. "I could be
saying that to three different companies at once, but it would always work."
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,19461,00.html
News.Com: AOL offers glimpse of music strategy.
Web portals struggling to harmonize their online music plans are closely
watching moves by America Online and Time Warner to create a music
subscription service, although the strategy may be more difficult for free
sites to pull off, analysts say.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-3274320.html
Wired News: Online Music's Strange Bedfellows.
But if their behavior is any indication, Nullsoft's half-dozen star
programmers seem determined to keep their hacker spirit intact, scripting a
growing series of freely distributed software. And for now, in public at
least, AOL seems nonplussed by Nullsoft's antics.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,39616,00.html
Some goodies from NUA as well...
ZDNet: Websites still too big
While web pages have decreased in size over the past few years, the
average website is still much larger than it should be.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2640862,00.html
Yankee Group: Internet now a tool of the masses
With the online consumer population changing fast, the average Web user
is more likely to be a suburban housewife than a technology aficionado.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/press/D3582D369EFDE9F98525697A0044E01E?OpenDocument
US Department of Commerce: US digital divide narrows
More Americans are using computers and the Internet than ever before,
according to a new report by the US Department of Commerce.
Half of US households now have a computer, while 41.5 percent have
Internet access, up 15 percent from last year. The report puts the US
online population at 116.5 million.
http://osecnt13.osec.doc.gov/public.nsf/docs/fttn-tdi-executive-summary
APROPOS OF NOTHING
FAQ: PlayStation 2
A nerd's-eye-view of the best thing ever
http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0010/faq_ps2/
Smile. Relax. Doodle.
Notes from the presidential debate
http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0010/notes/
posted by Christina Wodtke 10/24/2000 8:53:58 AM
