Nielsen Venture Will Measure International Web Traffic
9/23/99, Frances Katz, Cox News Service. ATLANTA ACNielsen, the world's top media research company, will buy 10 percent of NetRatings for $12.5 million and form a joint venture to measure Internet traffic around the globe.
199.97.97.16/contWriter/cnd7/1999/09/23/cndin/2831-0141-pat_nytimes.html

The Internet Capital Is Where?
9/24/99, Craig Bicknell, Wired. It's official: Virginia is the Internet Capital. That's what it says on the state's new specialty license plates, unveiled Thursday at a rally in Reston, Virginia, after receiving the official legal blessing of Governor James Gilmore.
www.wired.com/news/print_version/politics/story/21922.html?wnpg=all

From the womb to the Web
9/25/99, ALISON apROBERTS, Nando Media. Meet the newest member of the family: The home page. Be it ever so humble, there's no place like a home page.
www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500037754-500061161-500058498-0,00.html

She has seen the future and it is -- Weblogs
9/30/99, Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune. A Weblog is a Web site that maintains a constantly updated list of links to other sites; those links can deal with any subject or focus on a particular one. Webloggers typically offer pithy, sarcastic commentary about the links.
www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:COMP44/1:COMP44092999.html

Free-Lance Writers Win Electronic Victory
9/28/99, Benny Evangelista, Chronicle Staff Writer. A union representing free-lance writers has won a federal appeals court ruling that print publishers cannot freely reproduce their work in electronic media.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/09/28/BU58228.DTL

Wake Up!
9/30/99, Michelle McCullers, InternetDay. Today I am going to show you some ways I became successful and some tips to help you get organized.
www.internetday.com/archives/093099.html

SETI@Home shows potential for using power of multiple PCs for a project
9/30/99, Simson L. Garfinkel, Boston.com. SETI@Home is one of several projects under way right now that is harnessing the power of multiple computers for a single purpose. Another is Distributed.NET, which is using spare CPU time on several thousand computers to crack encryption keys.
www.boston.com/technology/plugged.shtml

Shape of things to come
9/24/99, BBC News Online: Sci/Tech. "The explosion of the dot com world is a result of the early adoption (of the Internet) by universities, and the federal government is starting the cycle all over again," says Larry Smarr, director of the National Computational Science Alliance and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_452000/452554.stm

You Invented the Internet? Join the Crowd
9/23/99, Ross Kerber, The Boston Globe. A pack of engineers, venture capitalists, and officers of star on-line companies such as Yahoo Inc. and Amazon.com are gathering this week to celebrate three decades of the Internet or something like that....
199.97.97.16/contWriter/cnd7/1999/09/23/cndin/2874-0223-pat_nytimes.html

New scramble among portal powers
11/24/99, Rob Lemos, ZDNet News. A year ago, the big portals raced to outdo each other, dressing up their sites with sundry free e-mail and e-commerce features. But in the search to offer something truly different, portals are looking to entertainment as the next holy grail.
www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2399475,00.html