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Vertical marketing in a narrow niche takes advantage of online marketing's ability to be 'local' to a million different people all over the world. This article by Nick Usborne on the ClickZ Network shows you how one entrepreneur goes vertical.
Have you heard about a new software program called Investigator 2.0? It lets your boss monitor every keystroke and click that you make at your desk. Cool, huh? This article in Wired by Chris Oakes makes it sound downright scary.
How much should webweavers know about you?
Your privacy is paramount, your anonymity is essential. You need the liberty to escape into a wonderworld and behave in a way that would not be acceptable in the 'real' world ... if you choose.
It follows that webweavers should know nothing about you, the "real" you, whoever that is.
Compared to old media, the Web is interactive, dynamic, and many-to-many. The more the webweavers know about you, the more useful they can make the webs.
You Own Your Own Web. Click on the Privacy link.
If you have nothing to hide, what are you afraid of? TALK to others about it in the Privacy Online forum.
That whole Kosovo thing was bad enough when it started last year. To say anything intelligent about it, I first had to find out where Kosovo is. Now the hotspot is East Timor. Sounds like an island somewhere, right? Turn to the United Nations Cartographics Section and learn about East Timor as well as the dozen and a half U.N. peacekeeping mission currently deployed around the world.
Go to Ditto.com and enter
your search term. I tried:
"Matteo Ricci" and got a map he drew
"Manx cats" and got a color photograph
"Herman's Hermits" and got three dozen black and white PR shots from
the old days
Searching, by Chris Sherman, research guru of About.Com. Note also the section with practical advice on using the Web for gathering competitive business intelligence.
September use of RicciStreet.net, its parent site toLearn.net, and its affiliate site ClearLightStudio.com rose steeply compared to August. Page hits trebled.
Six new countries appeared in the September server logs: Bahamas, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guadeloupe, Jamaica
... in the MBA Program forum's Registration thread. Pete writes:
Are there any MBA students interested in making a proposal to the administration on improving registration? I would like to propose, for thought and discussion, the following ...
Pete has a thoughtful list of six. Join the conversation.
That's an interview question that Mo Krochmal of TechWeb recently asked Michael Kahan, professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. They were discussing Kahan's use of course webs, like Ricci Street, to supplement his classroom. Kahan's answer:
Absolutely. The teacher, especially at the college level, is more and more going to become a referee, a problem solver, a consultant to the class.
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