Resources On Romantic Fiction And The Law: Romance Novels, Etc. (was at http//comet.net/writers/brockway); Stella Cameron; Marsha Canham; Kimberly Cates; Meg Chittenden; Millie Criswell; Eileen Dreyer (aka Kathleen Korbel); http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/romance.html
Extractions: By Robin Nobles Written for InfoAlert According to Nua Internet Survey, Advertising Age identified ten trends that evolved on the Internet during 1997. One of the trends is that the Internet established itself as a secure and cost efficient place to do business. In fact, according to the survey, total revenues for Ecommerce are predicted to be 2.4 billion dollars for the year. Billion! Yet marketing on the Net is still in its infancy, and at times we feel as if we're groping around with our eyes closed. More and more people are rushing to the Net to market their goods and services, but they don't have role models with success stories to follow. For the purpose of this article, we'll search for the best sites to find information on Web marketing. Let's begin with , an excellent online marketing resource center. says, "The number one reason people are online in the first place is to find information. Specifically, FREE information. Net marketers who provide valuable content will keep people coming back. Keeping people coming back, is one of, if not the most important factor in any marketing campaign. It dramatically increases the chances of someone actually purchasing your wares." And yes
NIPR: On The Net A list of particularly valuable resources related to the environment and specifically to industrial pollution control provided by the World Bank's Economics of Industrial Pollution Research team. http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/onthenet.htm
Extractions: Shaman Presents "On The Net" NIPRs listing of key environmental Internet sites [Data] [Research] [Governmental] [Technical Assistance] ... [News] Following is a list of Internet resources that NIPR contributors or NIPR host, David Shaman, think are particularly useful. Add your suggestions by completing the recommendations form or mailing David Shaman . Our favorites are marked with the little "pot 'o gold" like this: . Recent additions to the list are checked ( Locate specific documents from key environmental Internet sites by using the NIPR Targeted Search Environmental Agencies on the Net provides highlights of what environmental agencies around the globe are putting online. DATA ABOUT INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION AND RELATED TOPICS The Air Management Information System (AMIS) is a program developed by the World Health Organization under the umbrella of the Healthy Cities Programme. The objective of AMIS is to transfer information on air quality management (air quality management instruments used in cities, indoor and ambient air pollutant concentrations, noise levels, health effects, control actions, air quality standards, emission standards, emission inventories, dispersion modeling tools) between countries and cities. In this context AMIS acts as a global air quality information exchange system. AMIS program activity areas include database coordination of air quality information in world mega-cities, act as an information broker, and provide training courses on monitoring and management.
Copyfight May 10, 2004. Fair Use Gets Fair Play on Capitol Hill ( posted by Donna Wentworth) This Wednesday, May 12th, marks the first time since the DMCA was enacted in 1998 that Congress will hold hearings http://www.corante.com/copyfight
Extractions: (Via Seth Schoen Permalink Comments (6) Related Entries ... Email this entry Got a stupid patent you're itching to bust Give EFF the goods , and you might soon see it on the 10 Most Wanted list. Permalink Comments (0) Related Entries Email this entry Doug Simpson links to and provides some good analysis about a recent First Monday article ( Anonymity Inhibits Social Control in P2P Nets? ). The article is Pirates, sharks and moral crusaders: Social control in peertopeer networks and deals with social norms, including copynorms The basic gist of the study is that anonymous social networks have fewer effective norms than large, closed networks. For example, child pornography is much more widely available on the open network than the closed network. Presumably, small, closed networks would have even more effective norms. See also Permalink Comments (0) Related Entries Email this entry Gizmodo has a very interesting story of DRM enforcers making it hard for people to play nice ( How to Un-DRM your Un-DRM'd iTunes 4.6 Songs
