Found at CamWorld: Jake Sexton’s list of news trends. After looking around further, I’ve decided that the whole site is worth a visit. The zine is called NewsWatch.
The Economist weighs in with the unsurprising prediction that Internet stocks will fall back to earth. The single best sentence in the article is, “Whereas investors on Wall Street are merely exuberant, the casino capitalists who spend seven or eight hours a day at their PCs trading Internet shares appear to be stark, staring mad.”
The other day in one of his Spotlight blurbs, Jakob Nielsen made an incredible observation, which was that Yahoo is paying 3.9 billion dollars for the 3.5 million home pages hosted by GeoCities. Are the pages on that site worth more than $1000 apiece?
Yet another worthwhile article on the in some ways miserable labor situation in the Internet/computer industry.
Don’t you hate it that issues are always more complex than they seem to be on the surface? The New Scientist takes a close look at free range livestock, and finds that maybe it isn’t the end all and be all of animal-friendly meat production (an oxymoron, I suppose).
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