Content providers are looking to porn to show them the way to profitability on the Internet. I don’t know what lessons there are to be learned from the porn industry though. I mean, the competitive advantage of selling your wares over the Internet for the porn vendor is that many people are ashamed of buying it in the first place, and they can do it more or less anonymously over the Web. It’s also one of the few products with low production costs that people are willing to pay good money for.

Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall takes on the body modification … dare I say it … fad … in his weekly op-ed column. And I thought he just drew funny pictures.

Do you ever use the “What’s Related” button in Netscape Navigator? I don’t. But I did click on it tonight and discovered that you can suggest related links for sites, if you like. I’ll save you the trouble of clicking on What’s Related, and just point you at the Alexa Related Links Editor.

Hewlett-Packard is still looking for a new CEO. Why not Jim Barksdale?

How many hosts are really out there on the Internet? Leave it up to the guys at Network Wizards to figure it out.

You’ll be hearing a lot more about Echelon soon. I don’t have any opinion on this yet, there’s not enough information available to draw any kind of reasoned conclusion.

Guy Kawasaki sells out. Cynicism reigns again.

Not one, but two people set me straight with regard to the link to the search page for Microsoft support. They knew exactly which search interface I was looking for. I’m much obliged. (If only I could have found it myself.)

The Dell Linux site.

Ahh … the Internet. The most empowering and egalitarian medium for communication yet invented. Andrew Leonard regales us with a tale of the democratic nature of the Internet, and the unfettered channels of communications it provides us with in his story about pro-gun activists, vegetarians, a hacked Web site, and neo-Nazis.