Sunday, July 11, 1999

Symantec on Back Orifice 2000.

Jakob Nielsen: Believe the Data. "Don't make online advertising the center of the marketing plan for your own site - instead combine offline advertising with Internet-appropriate marketing methods like affiliate programs and email (to customers who ask to be notified; never send spam if you want a reputation as a reliable and high-trust site)."

7PM: Everything's back to normal at My.UserLand.Com. The improved weblog editor is working too. Whew!

Just for fun.. The hip turtle movie.

NY Times: "While literally billions of speculative dollars are being amassed, invested and turned into overnight fortunes in this effort to develop and control the means of transmission in the coming age of instantaneous information, investment in the actual gathering of information by conventional journalistic means is in apparent decline, under the banner of cost control, in all but a handful of traditional news organizations. ... The Internet ... is a wonderful place to collect raw data. But it's not, so far, a wonderful place to find reliable and original reporting, real news, except where it has been siphoned off the old."

Dan Gillmor on LastMinute.Com.

Po Bronson: Instant Company. "Eleven weeks ago, despite not having a single line of code written or even a paper sketch of the Web site they wanted to build, they got $8 million in seed financing from venture capitalists."

XML-RPC: Eric Kiebler wants to send XML structures as params to RPC calls and returned values.