Online advertising will come back
Online advertising will come back with a vengeance thanks to outstanding new technology, but this won't kick in until the first or second quarter of 2002. Such was the consensus of the 90 top advertising, publishing and technology executives who attended the exclusive Online Advertising Summit, sponsored by Silicon Alley Reporter, last week at the ultra-hip Hudson Hotel in New York. Attendees to this invitation-only event were treated to an array of live technology demos, all of which offered more intrusive -- and one would suppose more effective -- forms of online advertising than the thoroughly bashed banner and tower ads that are so common today.
http://www.upside.com/Opinion/3b3cf7b91.html
Napster Brought to Heel, Music and Movie Establishment Increases Pressure on Upstart Aimster
Seven major film studios have joined together to take aim at Aimster in a federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, in Manhattan, a group of music publishers is also filing suit against the Troy, New York-based file-swapping service. Aimster, a peer-to-peer file-swapping application that is similar to Napster but uses the popular AOL instant-messaging platform, is already fending off several litigious advances, including two lawsuits by a group of major record labels and some movie studios that include Time Warner Entertainment and New Line Cinema. The new lawsuit brought by the studios, filed Wednesday, accuses Aimster of posing a '' 'Napster-like' threat to the motion picture industry.''
http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?arti...3917&pod_id=13
National Private Radio
We're told we should be celebrating the 30th anniversary of National Public Radio this month, but for many of us who love radio, and what it can do, and what it can be, I suspect it won't be much of a celebration. It'll probably be more like a wake. National Public Radio was set up in 1972 as a national, noncommercial radio network that would, in the words of its founding charter, "serve groups whose voices would otherwise go unheard." And for its first few years, it did exactly that. I remember lying in bed, listening to a talk on NPR one afternoon, sometime in 1979 or 1980. It was one of those programs that move the heart, that make chills go up and down one's spine -- doing exactly what radio does best.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...pr1/index.html
Beauty Over Youth
From the countless music videos portraying young buxom beauties to a flourishing cosmetics industry that promises to slow aging, women are lead to believe men lust primarily after youth, not beauty. But a new study from Britain suggests men may be more choosy than they're usually given credit for, preferring older attractive woman to younger plain-looking ones. Human sexual behavior often mirrors that of other animal species, say researchers. In many animal species, males seek to mate with as many females as possible to increase their number of offspring. Females however, usually choose the best quality mate they can find, one that can provide good genes and resources for their young.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scite...uty010702.html
You can get anybody you want kicked off Hotmail
When we reported Hotmail's zero-tolerance spam policy last week we thought it just might be possible to get the innocent Hotmail user of your choice kicked off the system with a simple email to
abuse@hotmail.com. But it was just a thought - the single incident we reported last week was surely just a mistake, and there's absolutely no way a grown-up operation would do this as a matter of course, right? Wrong, apparently - after reading the story, Fritz Öhman set about to duplicate the circumstances, and guess what?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/20106.html
Phew ! Done for the day !
