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Les nouvelles écrites par un ordinateur
Les amoureux de littérature instantanée qui vont faire un tour sur le site instantnovelist.com sont invités depuis la semaine dernière à choisir parmi 5 nouvelles celle qui leur paraît la meilleure. Elles ont la trahison comme thème commun qu'elles déclinent en deux feuillets ou moins. Des textes qui ne retiendraient pas spécialement l'attention si on ne savait pas que l'un d'entre eux a été rédigé par un ordinateur. Lire l'article dans netsurf.


Francis Pisani est un journaliste indépendant. Installé à San Francisco, il couvre les Technologies de l'information et de la communication pour El País / Madrid, Reforma / Mexico et Le Monde / Paris.


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La Presse Francophone sur le Web [ 12.11.99 ]
Emploi
La Cinquième veut devenir médiateur en ligne
Depuis le 1er novembre la chaîne publique à vocation éducative cherche à s'imposer comme le médiateur en ligne entre demandeurs d'emploi et recruteurs. Yahoo Actualités



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English Press From Around The Web [ 12.11.99 ]
Mahir Mania : Fun Online
For Turk, Web hijack equals sudden fame
For the hundreds of thousands of people who have amused themselves the past two weeks e-mailing to friends the Web address for the Net's hottest Turkish bachelor, Mahir Cagri has a message:

Please stop calling his cell phone.

Tuesday, Cagri put up a new page, explaining his plight: "Somethings in life happen bayond one's control," it begins. He then asks readers to consider "the realities of the world," starving children, prisoners of war and the environment. He ends. "Everything if for peace, friendship, humanity and love". "As a world's citizen, I love all of you." USA Today




Some notable Mahir links
Salon Article which started it all I Kiss You!!!!! - Nov 4
Second Salon Article More Mahir mania - Nov 8
Mahir Central All the links and world press coverage
Pictures Sent to Mahir Like those on the right!
Mahir Gets Funky Mahir Hampster Dance


Dot.com Buzz
Ubiquitous Dot-Com Suffix Is Dropped By Some Firms in Effort to Stand Out
Many Web firms are dropping the "dot-com" from their names and otherwise trying to dissociate themselves from the online rabble. As the Internet industry bombards the nation with ever-crazier ad campaigns, Lucy.com is taking marketing to its next brazen step: It's forgoing advertising this year and is mailing out hundreds of thousands of catalogs. "Our strategy is Lucy not-com." WSJ Paid subscription required.

Dot-com dollars filling airwaves with ads
The flood of dot-com ad money into the media marketplace is creating a problem: dot-com clutter. "It's a time of great excess," says Annie Williams, marketing vice president at Cnet, which announced a $100 million ad campaign during the summer. The larger issue isn't just dot-com ad quantity, it's quality. With so many dot-coms screaming for attention, it's tough to figure out who's promising what. USA Today

E-Commerce ads break records at newspapers
E-commerce has powered two more newspapers' special sections into record-breaking advertising revenue for a single section.

On Sept. 22, The New York Times published a section focusing on e-commerce The 70-page national section, which was 65% advertising, generated 2.6 million in advertising revenue according to the paper. Media Info


Y2K
After Y2K, expect a spending boom
Tens of millions of people are expected to take extra hundreds of dollars out of their banks before the millennium weekend just in case bank and credit card computers crash or lose their electricity as the year changes to 2000. When the threat has passed, how many of those people are going to take the time to line up at the bank to redeposit the money? USA Today



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Stats

Britain has some 15 million mobile-phone customers (The Industry Standard - November 11)


Wise & Wired
Odigo Ding-dong, you have visitors!
When a visitor enters a page, Odigo pings them with a small audio alert -- much like a doorbell. The user can then send the visitor an instant message, initiate a chat right on the page, or ask to send them an e-mail. Or, the user can simply monitor the page, to see who comes and goes. (URLWire article)

Daily Quiz
Will Your Love Survive the Holidays?
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Chris Hiers
Editorial Cartoons
"Grounded"