Internet-on-a-Disk, free blog-like newsletter

Internet-on-a-Disk is the newsletter of electronic texts and Internet trends. The full text of all issues is available here for free, with hypertext links to the sites referenced. (Please keep in mind that URLs frequently change. We will attempt to update the information in this on-line edition, but don't expect perfection.)

I've been publishing this online newsletter since 1994, frequently posting my insights and opinions to share for free with all, rather like a blog, only as plain and simple Web pages.

My Internet: a Personal View of Internet Business Opportunities by Richard Seltzer, on CD, includes four books, 162 articles, and 49 newsletter issues that will inspire you and provide the practical information you need to build your own personal Web site or Internet-based business, helping you to become a player in this new business environment.

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Internet-on-a-Disk #70, June 2009

• When to buy “book-collection files” for your Kindle
• How to Move Your Documents to Your Kindle Without Depending on Amazon
• Kindle Books by Richard Seltzer

• Thoughts about the importance of little-known books

• Goodbye to Gamestop

The Choice, a short story by Richard Seltzer

Internet-on-a-Disk #69, April 2009

• Off the Wall Ideas
• Heavenly Gossip (perhaps the beginning of a novel
• The Abraham Effect: Be Careful, Be Proud -- the Future of the Human RAce Depends on You
• Simple Stop-Gap Measure to Slow the Decline in Home Values
• Use Tax-Rate Penalties and Incentives to Make Financial Markets Less Volatile
• Fuzzy Thoughts about Big Questions
• Fuzzy #4 -- The Master-Plot Generation Seeks Meaning
• Book Notes
• The Mystery of the Mystery of Edwin Drood -- a Review of The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
• Read It and Week (and Laugh and Enjoy and...) -- a Review of Tiny Little Troubles by Marc LeCard
• The Russia Hand by Strobe Talbot
• Web Notes
• The Risks of the Internet Depending Too Much on Google
• Ancestor Surfing
• Ebay Raises Fees While Claiming to Lower Them -- Can Anyone Challenge This Monopoly?
• For Reading Books on Your PC, Try Free Software -- the MobiPocket Reader
• Online Education
• Hyperllinked Text and Instructional Design

Internet-on-a-Disk #68, December 2007

• Off the Wall Ideas
• A simple way for humans to cope with reduced weight on the moon
• Another product recall
• Time stumbles forward
• Junk DNA mystery finally solved
• Why not let agencies handle bank business?
• Cigarettes -- why not put the filter on the other end?
• Movie idea
• Fuzzy Thoughts About Big Questions
• The Challenge
• Fuzzy #1 -- Is Reality Discontinuous?
• Fuzzy #2 -- Getting Personal
• Fuzzy #3 -- Scared to Life: the Plus Side of Night Terrors
• Sports Notes
• Boston Celtics conspiracy theories
• Football rule suggestion -- the four-point field goal
• Reinventing football (reflections on the New England Patriots)
• Customer Service Notes (venting frustration)
• Once again, the US Post Office drives away business
• RCN shoots itself in the foot
• Travel Notes
• London tourist notes
• London theater is dead
• Book Notes
• A pause that refreshes, review of "Ten Days in the Hills" by Jane Smiley
• The political impact of a work of fiction -- review of "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
• Free ebook of the week: Eureka by Edgar Allan Poe, in which he anticipated black holes and the Big Bang Theory
• If I only had a brain -- trying to understand "Warped Passages"
• Recommended reading
• Book Collections on CD and DVD
• NY Times article about our book collections on CD and DVD
• Do you want your computer display to look like a printed book???
• Reading books with Linux, and dragging books to your desktop
• New store design makes it easier to find what you want
• Web Notes
• The agony of being "spoofed" and problems created by spam firewalls
• Carbonite online backup service is a lifesaver for small online businesses
• Try buying and selling at Floofie
• Trying to benefit from Amazon Associates "widgets"
• Someone hacked into my Web files and inserted spam in the header of all the index pages
• Online Education
• Online high schools -- is that the right way to go?
• Coping with the "digital divide" in the classroom
• About Writing Fiction
• Advice for young authors

Internet-on-a-Disk #67, September 2006

• Off-the-Wall Ideas
• There ought to be an invention — people-oriented photo-editing software
• Customer Service Notes (venting in frustration)
• Remind me never to buy anything from Panasonic again
• The upromise ripoff
• The curse of McAfee
• Travel Notes by Richard Seltzer
• A week in Paris — when you travel the devil is in the little unexpected details
• The last time I saw Paris — 43 years ago
• A week in Paris — the view from Chinatown, and miscellaneous tidbits for travellers
• Atlantic City — the next Katrina-style disaster?
• Book Notes
• Recent recommended books
• Free ebook of the week — the Middle East series and other good books
• Web Notes by Richard Seltzer
• Followup to item about "Can Google Sitemaps help increase “real” traffic while decreasing webcrawler traffic?" from http://www.samizdat.com/news 66.html
• Google Base — enormous potential, now’s the time to experiment for free
• Ebay — lots of details and lots of devils; trying to figure it out as a seller

Internet-on-a-Disk #66, July 2006

• Thoughts about keeping your "edge"
• Killing flies, moths, and Mosquitoes in Mid-flight

• Can Google Sitemaps help increase “real” traffic while decreasing webcrawler traffic?
• Filling Station -- fill your memory card with books
• Introducing “bookfinder” a linked list of all our books (close to 10,000)
• Voice from the past: Open Texts — a Rallying Cry for Schools and Libraries
• Beware of the advice of “SEO gurus” — focus on content that helps your customers
• Trying "business chats" again

Internet-on-a-Disk #65, January 2006

• Off-the-Wall Ideas by Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com
• Web Notes by Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com
• New eBay Insights by Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com

Internet-on-a-Disk #64, August 2005

• Southwest Travelogue: an account of our recent vacation in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, with travel recommendations
• Political Correctness Wins Out over Science: "Puebloan Ancestors" vs. Anasazi
• Theory of the kiva: Speculation about the Anasazi

Internet-on-a-Disk #63, July 2005

• Maybe we should rename Norfolk "Pearl Harbor 2" -- when well-meaning folks do bad things for good reasons
• Selling money -- An alternative to taxes
• If you could time-travel to the ancient world, could you make a difference?
• Why didn't southern plantation owners make Indians slaves?
• Alternate "War of the Worlds" plots
• Reinventing Football

• Google Desktop Search

A Day in the Life of a Surgeon, review of Saturday by Ian McEwan

Internet-on-a-Disk #62, November 2004

• Another Product that Doesn't Exist Yet, but Would be a Natural -- Oral Sex Toothpaste
• Second life idea for AOL -- become a gated community, at least for email
• Need for new kinds of baseball statistics
• Washington Monument as site for deep-underground bunker for president and Congress
• Service exchange as a way to finance long-term care
• Selling groceries by weight
• Likely scenario for the development of outspace -- private companies run space stations and cities on the moon
• Outsourcing government
• Bush may be far more intelligent than you ever imagined

• The joy of changing Web hosts
• PayPal's free shopping cart
• Tsunami -- an Alternative to Babelfish for free, fast, online translation

Internet-on-a-Disk #61, October 2004

• Suggested Slogan for Kerry -- "Fight Oil, Not Terrorism"
• A Product that Doesn't Exist Yet, but Would Be a Natural -- Perfume Remover
• Scalping for Charity

• Thoughts on How Ebooks Can Change Our Lives

Internet-on-a-Disk #60, September 2004

• Books on DVD
• Book CD of the Month
• Free Ebook of the Week

• Selling Your Own Stuff at eBay -- Updated Tips for Serious Sellers
• Surviving as a Small Company in the Age of Google

Internet-on-a-Disk #59, June 2004

• The Day After "The Day After Tomorrow"
• Why not EMTs and firefighters on motor cycles?
• Kerry should donate instead of advertising
• The new calculus -- coming soon
• Expandable car roof, as an alternative to the traditional trunk
• Why do we have to sit through boring graduation ceremonies, even at business schools that teach "marketing"?
• Cell phones for safety -- don't ban them; require them
• Romney should encourage, rather than oppose, out-of-state gay marriages
• Polygamy/polyandry next? It makes financial sense
• Newspaper obituaries should be in large type
• Why didn't God make little green mammals?
• Why not the Holy Grail Constellation, instead of the Big Dipper?

• Books on CD can provide context that's missing with downloaded books
• Free ebook of the week club
• Don't spend money doing things that drive away customers
• Google toolbar is handy, but the page ranking is bogus
• Turning abandoned shopping carts into sales

• Farewell to "Business on the Web" chats

Internet-on-a-Disk #58, April 2003

• Creative financing for the Gulf War

• Personal Anthologies

• The Arrogance of Amazon
• Going Fishing Again -- Testing Sitechatter as a way to hook customers

Internet-on-a-Disk #57, March 2003

• Could the "failure of diplomacy have been deliberate?
• Biological hacker
• Why not run government like a business? Citizens as shareholders rather than taxpayers
• Toward a "simple" society

• Keep It Simple -- Use Low-tech Methods for Better Results at Low Cost
• Teleseminars -- using telephone concalls for marketing, training, and education
• Learn from online universities -- join them, don't fight them, and help transform education

• link: at Google

Internet-on-a-Disk #56, February 2003 (This issue is under construction. I'll be adding new articles up until Feb. 15)

• Off-the-wall ideas
• Learning from Mr. Sterling: Thoughts on campaign finance reform -- focus on reducing costs, instead of raising campaign funds
• Dust magnets -- the physics of household filth
• Web Notes
• Search results at Google
• Book reviews
• The Bombast Transcripts by Christopher Locke, reviewed by Richard Seltzer
• Articles
• Forget key words

• Print industry vs. ecommerce -- trying to answer the wrong question
• Web site suggestions for bed and breakfasts
• "Google it" -- word of mouth makes household words
• Divergence and fragmentation of Internet activities and markets

• Keep it simple -- sometimes an ordinary list is more valuable than a database
• Hunting wild tunes and videos with Kazaa
• Group grope -- trying to get business benefit from Yahoo Groups
• It's alive! Alive! -- XBox goes online

Internet-on-a-Disk #53, November 2002

• IP addresses, SmartWhois, and learning more about your audience
• ReadPlease turns plain text books into talking books
• Ask Richard: free advice on Web design and marketing and free advice about writing and publishing fiction -- questions and "expert" answers
• Quick advice about Internet business
• Solutions to HiQ (AKA peg solitaire) and the continuing value of "flypaper" on the Web

• Dialogue about metatags with important information about Google ranking

• eBay update -- what's changed over the last few years and how you can take advantage as a seller: details that pay
• Sailing into the wind -- real-time marketing navigation on the Web, Part 1 -- Price changes

 

Web Notes

• Streaming to a monitor near you: Full-length full-screen mainstream movies
• Do you know where your traffic comes from?
• Internet nostalgia (remember the days when the Web was new and very few companies used it for business?)

• Using Yoda to teach English

• Small Pieces Loosely Joined by David Weinberger

• Coping with email pollution -- viruses, scams and spam
• Clues to unline success in today's down business environment

Ebooks

• B&R Samizdat Express
• Course about using books on CD ROM in the classroom
• Fiction by Roberta Kalechofsky

• Book Reviews by Deane Rink

Mindlabs

• SiteChatter

• How to get the most out of books on CD ROM
• How search engines distort Web page design and lead to the rise and fall of business models -- the price of "popularity"
• With voice for input and output, computing enters a new realm

Articles:

• Google's weakness and AltaVista's strength
• Coping with income tax and financial aid in 2002
• Building a store at Yahoo
• To palm or not to palm? coping with ebook format mania
• How to make money on the Web -- hypothetical example from the car rental business
• The Serge Solovieff mystery -- a WWI variant of the Spanish Prisoner scam
• Mercy Warren: Conscience of the American Revolution -- Review of her book "The Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution"
• Movie Endings -- what works and when?

Off-the-Wall Ideas

• Commercial sponsorship of military units and vehicles :-)

• Airlines, online shopping and focusing your business on what matters
• Business model in motion -- Yaga offers an alternative to advertising for content-rich Web sites
• The microphone may be mightier than the keyboard: business uses of speech recognition
• A great way to get feedback -- but will anyone use it? Quick Topic Document Review
• Building a business that can last

Off-the-Wall Ideas --

• You Can't Take It With You. com, a business airline with no luggage and no carry-ons

• Books, stories, poems, and artwork available for free in the Readers' Room and Writers' Showcase at B&RSamizdat Express
• Books for pennies a piece on CD ROM (from Seedy Press books on CD)
• Renascence Editions
• Christian Ethereal Classics Library

• Cyberwinds -- which way are the winds of change blowing?
• Redesign your site for the post-Minda era -- browsing behavior is changing; users have turned off java and active scripts
• Assessing Usability for People with Disabilities Through Remote Evaluation and Critical Incident Reporting by Mike Paciello
• How to use content to attract traffic to your Web site, even when branding rules saddle you with a search-engine unfriendly design

Articles:

• Yaga, Yaga do! -- P2P meets micropayments
• Business opportunities for peer-to-peer (P2P) networks
• Baseball -- the killer app for audio over the Internet
• Beyond McLuhan -- many parallel media, and discussion -- no message
• Message from Mongolia
• PalTalk -- a free voice chat alternative for distance education and business
• Evaluating synchronous/real-time platforms for distance education
• Text chat choices

Internet-on-a-Disk #46, May 2001

Curious technology --

• Free search dedicated to your Web site
• Free automatic translation to and from dozens of languages
• Automatic translation with free chat service

• Audio-text books

• Update on search engines
• Rethinking "books" and "ebooks" -- stating the obvious (which often seems to be ignored.)
• What free stuff is left and why? -- recommended sites
• Free talk flourishes
• Beyond banner ads: how to turn a newspaper audience into revenue
• Half is more than enough -- half.com's online retail business model
• Using stats to improve your Web site

• from Bartleby
• from Gutenberg

 Curious technology -- free translation for Japanese Chinese and Korean Articles --

• Make navigation easy for visitors and search engine crawlers: Build a sitemap page
• Search engine submissions -- links to the key pages
• DSL vs. cable revisited -- Jan. 2001
• Book Review -- Why great companies fail: The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen and Living on theFault Line by Geoffrey Moore

 Internet-on-a-Disk #44, December 2000

 Articles

• Banner ads are dead, long live online advertising
• How businesses can capitalize on Java Puzzle Cards
• Misconceptions about "search engine optimization"

Internet-on-a-Disk #43, November 2000

 Curious Technology

• Your private disk drive on the Web

• Going fishing: hooking Web page visitors and turning them into customers
• The New New Thing by Michael Lewis, a book review
• Bridging wired and wireless, and putting the user in controlNew electronic texts -- from Gutenberg

 Web Notes --

• Web Business Bootcamp
• The Internet Archive

• Javapuzzlecards
• eBookIt

• Make your presentations in Internet, instead of PowerPoint
• Advice to a friend redesigning a company Web site
• The leap to multimedia -- it all depends on disk space
• Expanded translation capabilities at AltaVista's Babelfish site
• Brief history of DEC's Internet Business Group

Internet-on-a-Disk #41, September 2000

• Learn to ask the right questions by Richard Seltzer
• Web site style -- how to appeal to a general audience by Richard Seltzer
• Barter and swapping sites -- an alternative to online auctions by Richard Seltzer
• New electronic texts -- from Gutenberg

Curious Technology --

• Use email to "beam" information to other palm users
• Use live text chat to help your Web visitors
• Get free voicemail

• Start the day with the start of a good book

• Let books grow -- implications of electronic books and print on demand by Richard Seltzer
• Dialogue about the implications of epublishing and print on demand for authors and publishers -- Jeff VanderMeer, Jeff Thomas, and Richard Seltzer

• High Stakes, No Prisoners by Ferguson

• from Gutenberg

• Weight and exercise, from Alfred Thompson

• Off-the-wall ideas: Just can't weight? Trying to make sense of the relationship between exercise and weight loss
• The Web and your palm -- sometimes less is more, when it's the right less by Richard Seltzer
• Sync to people: building relationships palm-to-palm by Richard Seltzer
• The Internet and books -- transformation of an industry by Richard Seltzer
• Further thoughts about the Internet and books by Richard Seltzer
• Many of today's "online publishers" are really just "online printers" by Richard Seltzer
• New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

• Survival of the startups - how to recruit the right people and build loyalty and create a motivating culture - who has time for this? by Richard Seltzer
• What belongs on a Web page, and why? by Richard Seltzer
• Tips for working at home, for yourself by Richard Seltzer
• When progress is a step backward -- in praise of plain-text email by Richard Seltzer
• New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

• Web Notes: Becoming media
• Turning Web traffic into revenue -- affiliate and related programs by Richard Seltzer
• Brand names on the Web -- a raging success story by Richard Seltzer
• New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

• Building businesses on top of businesses -- the AuctionRover example by Richard Seltzer
• Sales channels and the Web by Richard Seltzer
• Internet lessons from London by Richard Seltzer
• Thoughts about 3D on the Web by Richard Seltzer
• Letters to the editor: Using the Internet to dialog with voters by Alfred Thompson
• New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

• Political web sites and community by Alfred C. Thompson II
• Whatever happened to virtual companies? by Richard Seltzer
• Web-site superglue -- the Nutrition Calculator at Healthwatch by Richard Seltzer
• Content wars: video vs. text. Welcome to Lilliput, Mr. Gulliver. by Richard Seltzer
• New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

• Web Notes -- AltaVista, CompareItAll, iSyndicate, Learnlots, flypaper, Harry Potter, and free Internet access
• Off-the-wall ideas -- URhell.com, baseball salaries, author chats
• Feature articles:
• 3D Advertising by Mark Neely
• Sprint marketing: what should you do when time is more important than money? by Richard Seltzer
• Opportunities lost: trying to make sense of sprint marketing by Richard Seltzer
• Book Review: The Cluetrain Manifesto by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, David Weinberger, and Doc Searls
• The importance of "listening" by Richard Seltzer
• New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

• Defining "Internet marketing" by Richard Seltzer
• Book Review: Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee
• Experiment in participative democracy: car recalls by Richard Seltzer
• Internet litmus test for candidates
• Alternative to ISBN for electronic books

• Varieties and value of content (spontaneous, crafted, and engineered) and how to turn content to value on the Internet by Richard Seltzer
• How to make chat work for your online business by Richard Seltzer
• Search engines and directories: when to use which by Richard Seltzer
• New electronic texts -- from Gutenberg

• DEC, not Digital -- -- the right thing to do: An experiment in human engineering by Richard Seltzer
• Where the people are -- now it's Boston/New Hampshire by Richard Seltzer
• Why didn't the walls come tumbling down? An outsider's view of distance education by Richard Seltzer
• New electronic texts -- from Gutenberg

• Web Notes -- B&R Samizdat Express
• Business on the World Wide Web -- fall schedule for this chat program
• DSL vs. cable for high-speed Internet access by Richard Seltzer
• Business opportunities opened by high-speed Internet access by Richard Seltzer
• Wireless Internet from a business perspective by Richard Seltzer
• Here comes wireless -- watch out for the riptide by Richard Seltzer
• New electronic texts -- from The Gutenberg Project

• Advice for authors about electronic opportunitiesby Richard Seltzer
• How not to do ecommerce: learning from the mistakes of othersby Richard Seltzer
• Book reviews --
• Taking a fresh look at Durant's Story of Civilization, and thinking about the Internet
• Making Sense of the Internet Business Environment,a review of 'The Great Disruption' by Francis Fukuyama
• The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
• The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
• Steve Erickson's The Sea Came in at Midnight
• New electronic texts -- from The Gutenberg Project
• Letters to the editor

• Curious Technology -- Linkbot
• Web Notes -- Web sites I keep returning to, Tips on selling at Ebay
• Off-the-wall ideas -- The Law of Collectibles
• Content-based Internet Marketing by Richard Seltzer
• Have you read or published an electronic book lately? by Richard Seltzer
• Movie Review -- Random Thoughts on "Message from a Bottle" by Barbara Seltzer
• Letters to the Editor -- Online Ambassadors, Generalists, Email Format
• New Electronic Texts -- Gutenberg Project

• Generalists needed, but not wanted by Richard Seltzer
• It's getting really crazy -- now how do we compete? by Richard Seltzer
• Random, variable discounts -- shopping the slot-machine way, one way to cope with the new Internet business environment by Richard Seltzer
• Volunteer e-business ambassadors -- a way to go high touch without going broke by Richard Seltzer
• Soundbytes from "Measuring and Improving Internet Marketing", an IQPC conference held in San Francisco, Jan. 13-14, 1999 by Richard Seltzer
• Has the window closed for would-be online trading companies? And is it closing rapidly for other niches as well? Maybe not. by Richard Seltzer
• Playing to win. Suggestions for transferring game techniques to the world of business. by Richard Seltzer
• New electronic texts from the Gutenberg Project

• Curious technology
• Play vintage videogames on your PC, with free emulator software (Retrocade and Mame)
• Downloading is a lot easier now than it was a year ago -- using SmartDownload
• Web notes
• Internet shopping
• AltaVista PhotoFinder
• E-Books will bring a new era of opportunity for writers/authors -- post-filtering instead of pre-filtering content by Jon Noring
• Basic questions for developing an Internet business strategy by Richard Seltzer
• Dharma and Greg and Internet business by Richard Seltzer
• The two faces of Internet business: traditional and revolutionary by Richard Seltzer
• Aim for more than just delivering training. Create a learning environment by Richard Seltzer
• Off-the-wall ideas
• The extraterrestrial descent of man? by Richard Seltzer
• Reviews --
• Unexpected gem -- Granta 64, Russia: The Wild East (added 11/29/98)
• Love that quote: "A plenitude of information leads to a poverty of attention"
• New electronic texts -- from the Gutenberg Project, the Internet Public Library, and PLEASE COPY THIS DISK
• Letters to the Editor -- Making a Web site accessible for the blind

• Web notes --
• Automatic email updates to AltaVista queries (from TracerLock)
• Reverse telephone lookup (from Anywho)
• Changes to Advanced Search at AltaVista
• Halloween strikes again -- the power of content for driving traffic to Web sites (added 11/2/98)
• Please share your on-line shopping experiences (added 11/2/98)
• Looking for jobs and consulting work (added 11/2/98)
• Anyone need a consultant? I'm on my own now (added 11/2/98)
• Portable electronic book readers by John Mark Ockerbloom
• Recommended plug-ins and utilities by Tracy Marks
• New electronic texts -- from the Gutenberg Project, from The Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection
• Off-the-wall ideas
• "Cultural citizenship" -- an alternative form of government made possible by the Internet by Richard Seltzer
• Reply from Alfred C. Thompson
• Castro, baseball, and a possible end to political conflict with Cuba -- by Richard Seltzer
• Response from Larry Eldridge (retired sports editor of the Christian Science Monitor)
• Baseball -- time for a rule change: from intentional walk to "home walk" -- by Richard Seltzer
• Response from Larry Eldridge (retired sports editor of the Christian Science Monitor)
• Why Clinton might resign -- by Richard Seltzer
• Response from Alfred Thompson
• Letters to the Editor
• Marketing the book vs. marketing the author -- from Brett Hart
• Asking for advice re: do-it-yourself Web hosting by cable modem -- from "martin--the birdscaper" and from Eric Eldred
• Advice regarding anti-hate pledge -- from Denise Rogers

• Curious technology -- Help Read, AltaVista Discovery, FaceWorks
• New electronic texts -- from The Gutenberg Project
• Modular distributed Web sites -- a kludge for personal and small business Web sites that offers richness and variety at no cost
• Book Review -- Welcome to the revolution (Cybercorp by James Martin)
• Do-it-yourself Web hosting -- some say it can't be done; others are doing it already
• Letters to the Editor
• Reactions to "Web hosting and cable modems"
• Cable-company policies get in the way -- from Manny Wise
• Linux PC at home using cable modem -- from Eric Eldred
• Flies in the ointment -- from Jerry Green
• DSL, not cable modems -- from Perry Schager
• That is exactly what is happening -- from Jim Carroll
• Cable modem connections are totally unsuitable for serious web hosting -- from Gabriel Ioan
• Risks and hassles -- from Chris Cavallucci
• Content becoming more relevant than presentation -- from Radu Hociung
• Reactions to Internet-on-a-Disk #23 -- from Eric Eldred
• Automatic translation -- from Eric Eldred

• Marketing the book vs. marketing the author -- the differing interests of authors and publishers
• Courses anyone? From book to distance ed -- proposed course outlines
• Associate/affiliate/referral programs and the old Internet culture
• Promoting books on-line
• Book Review -- How, but no clue of why (aol.com by Kara Swisher)
• Book Review -- Machine-gun Larry: right on target (Essential Business Tactics for the Net by Larry Chase)
• Web Notes
• Finding live events and getting yours listed
• Red Tide (an artist's site)
• New Electronic Texts
• from The Gutenberg Project, Renascence Editions, Edmund Spenser's Home Page, Biographies, The Naked Word, the CIA
• Movie stuff
• Sites for movie lovers
• How to find movies on TV/cable
• Business opportunity -- movie previews
• Endings Then and Now -- from Taxi Driver to Silence of the Lambs
• Off-the-wall ideas
• Information sharing and communism
• What price privacy?
• Letters to the Editor
• Why do you do it? -- Maxine Hartley
• Web-based distribution -- Ken Laws
• On-Line Communities -- Jared Bradley Goldstein
• Web hosting and cable modems -- Jake Moskowitz and Jeff Field

• Thoughts on branding on the Internet
• No more excuses. Build your own personal Web site. It's time to experiment.
• From Web-hosting back to do-it-yourself -- the likely impact of cable modems
• Quick summary of current Internet trends
• Comparing on-line shopping experiences -- getting better
• Upcoming chat topics -- Business on the World Wide Web
• Book Review -- Everything you need to do to MOO: guide to an alternative environment for on-line discussion, business communities, and distance education
• MOO wishlist -- why not add a time dimension?
• Book Review -- The death of demographics
• Book Review -- How easy is it to build a business by building a virtual community?
• Coping with discontinuous change
• Off-the-wall ideas
• Profile in courage
• Venture capital and Christopher Columbus
• Slavery and industrialization
• The energy cycle
• Revival of silent movies?
• The evolutionary value of the speed of light and the distance of stars
• Einsteinian space-time
• World War II legacy
• New electronic texts

• Web notes-- Acunet Internet Commerce Services, Amazon.com Associates Program, Power Searching with AltaVista, Mainspring, The Elsop Webmaster Resource Center, Language Tags at AltaVista Search, Example of use of AltaVista, PriceScan -- Web-based computer price search engine, A Clue...to Internet Commerce by Dana Blankenthorn, Barcode Web, Windweaver, Center for International Legal Studies
• Educational resources -- Study Web, LIVE FROM MARS, Empowerment Zone, Distance Education Clearinghouse, Online Class
• Curious Technology -- AltaVista Search Personal eXtension 97, Cosmo Player, PGPcookie.cutter for Windows 95 and NT 4.0
• Internet resources for the blind -- National Braille Press, dev-access mailing list
• Reviews of Internet books -- Net Gain, Rules of the Net
• Features
• Building On-Line Communities by Alfred Thompson
• What it Takes: Skills for Successful Communities by Richard Seltzer
• Push? Maybe. Maybe Not. by Richard Seltzer
• Speculation about the Effect of the Internet on the Economy by Richard Seltzer
• Letters to and responses from the editor What Did You Learn from All that Reading? Updike's Rabbit Novels, How to Publicize a Web Site? Culture and Web-Site Design
• What's new -- (etexts available on the Internet): B&R Samizdat Express, The Gutenberg Project, Naked World, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Screenwriters Utopian Home Page, MIT Press, On-Line Books Page new books listing, Accessing the Internet by Email, Moths to the Flame: The Seductions of Computer Technology, The Duke Papyrus Archive, The Secular Web (formerly called the Freethought Web), Russian Story - Russian Periodicals Online, CultureWork, Athena Pages, American Literary Classics - A Chapter a Day
• PLEASE COPY THIS DISK

• What's new -- (etexts available on the Internet): B&R Samizdat Express, The Gutenberg Project, Project Bartleby, Bibliomania, Macmillan's Que Books, CIA, Naked Word, Voice of the Shuttle, Zvi Har' El's Fairy Tales and Stories Site, Writers' Haven
• Sources of info about copyright
• PLEASE COPY THIS DISK
• Web notes -- Amazon.com, Top 100 Electronic Recruiters, Mainspring
• Friends on the Web-- Robin & Berthold Langer, Dave Stamps, Jack Rahaim, Dan Kalikow, Alfred Thompson
• Educational resources -- LIVE FROM ANTARTICA 2, LIVE FROM MARS, Science Textbooks and Historical Science, Cybrary, Resources Pathways College Information Community,
• Curious technology -- Live Topics at AltaVista Search, Voxware, Four11's Internet Phone and Video Phone Directories, MapQuest, Internet Classroom Assistant, WebEtc from Microtest
• Internet resources for the disabled -- "Design Considerations: Readers with Visual Impairments," Empowerment Zone (employment info for the disabled), Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation
• Features--
• Internet Advice for Newcomers by Richard Seltzer
• Training, Not Censorship -- The Road to Eden is Closed, Need for Cyber-Street-Smarts by Richard Seltzer
• Flypaper Dialogue -- Making Web Sites Interactive without Interactive Software by Richard Seltzer
• Toward a Learning Community/Market by Richard Seltzer
• Another Look at the Future -- Divergence is the Next Challenge by Richard Seltzer
• Letters to and responses from the editor -- Reaction to article "Internet Advice for Newcomers," Reaction to article "How to Make Business Chat Work," What is the market for electronic books? How do you make money? Advantages and disadvantages of intranets, What does "Samizdat" mean? Corelli's Mandolin

• What's New (etexts available on the Internet): B&R Samizdat Express, The Gutenberg Project, The Bartleby Project, Bibliomania, Theology on the Web, The Tech Archive, Philosophers (The U. of Idaho), The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia, The Tolstoy Library, the Jules Verne Collection, The Screenwriters Utopian Home Page, Wordman Production Company, Macmillan Computer Publishing Online Books, Chalidze Publications, The Online Medieval and Classical Library, The Virtual Bookshelf, Book People
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• Web Notes The Changing Face of Technology, Electronic Recruiting News, Mapping Your Future, CollegeBound.NET, Contact Center Network, Terra Chess, Live Computer Help, Lawguru.com, VersusLaw, Web Consultants Association, IBM Patent Server
• Curious Non-Use of Technology Telephone over the Internet, Internet Fast Forward
• Curious Technology Firefly, Site Watch, internet-now, Broadcaster, NewsMonger, LookSmart, Filez, Coola
• Curious Business Models Millenium Interactive
• Resources for the Disabled "Guidelines for Reporting and Writing about People with Disabilities", In Touch Network
• Other Educational Resources Live from Antarctica 2, WebCT, Index of Resources for Historians, Al Bodzin's Home Page
• Reviews of Internet Books
• 24 Hours in Cyberspace
• Features:
• How to Make "Business Chat" Work by Richard Seltzer
• People with Disabilities Can't Access the Web! by Mike Paciello
• Letters to & Responses from the Editor

• What's New (etexts available on the Internet): B&R Samizdat Express, The Gutenberg Project, Internet World Magazine, Henry James Scholar's Guide, Bartleby Project, Bibliomania, Moby Lexicon Project
• On-line Commercial Publishing Experiments Que Publishing, O'Reilly, Reality Software
• Web Notes : Intranet, Health, Blindness/Disabilities, Telephone Etc. Directories, Government, Travel, Miscellaneous
• Other Educational Resources : Copyright & Fair Use, Passport to Knowledge, UK Boarding Schools, CubaNet, MapQuest, Teaching about the Americas, Astronomy
• Curious Technology : Faxes and Voicemail Delivered by Email (JFAX), Zap Banner Ads and Kill the Cookie Monster with Internet Fast Forward, More on Cookies and Other Insidious Traps, Free Email (HotMail and Juno)
• The Joy of Being Found: What to Connect to Old Friends, Customers, Employers? Try Using Flypaper by Richard Seltzer
• Suggestion -- No Frills Web Pages for Community Service Organizations by Richard Seltzer
• Let Plain Text Take You to a Different World -- the Potential of MUD by Michael Andrew Clubine and Adriana Cristina Oliveri
• Degrees of Separation: a Design Goal by Richard Seltzer
• Letters to the Editor

• What's New (etexts available on the Internet): B&R Samizdat Express, The Gutenberg Project, The Bartleby Project, Bibliomania (Data Text), Notre Dame, REESWeb, Oxford Archive
• Web Notes : Context & Concept Filtering, First Steps: Marketing & Design Daily, Switchboard, Telstra, Four11, Liszt Directory, The Meaning of Life, Web Etiquette, Virtual Institute of Information, Union of International Associations, Web Digest for Marketers, Computerist Magazine
• Other Educational Resources : Focus on Words, Student Book Reviews, Eco Travel in Latin America, New South African Constitution
• Metasites: Boston.com, Travelocity, Matchpoint, Classified2000, Let's Talk Business, Mississippi River Home Page, Ireland On-Line, Hearthnet, Birmingham Assist, College Guides and Admissions
• Places to Discuss Internet Marketing Issues: Business on the World Wide Web chat session, Asian Internet Marketing, Guerilla Marketing Online, Web Consultants mailing list, Intranut, Internet Marketing Communications mailing list, International Business Discussion Group, Internet-Sales Discussion List, Internet Developers Association, ISBC Business Discussion Group Newsletters, Abracadabra, Conference on Sales and Marketing via the Internet, Market-L List, CAN-IMARKET, Oracle-Agora, Marketplace
• Curious Technology : EarthWeb Chat, Smart Bookmarks
• Low-Tech Web-Page Design by Richard Seltzer
• Advertising on the Internet -- Is it Worth the Price? by Alfred Thompson
• Letters to the Editor

• What's New (etexts available on the Internet) -- B&R Samizdat, The Gutenberg Project, Electronic Frontier Foundation, E-Literate Enterprises, Basement Full of Books, Vile Goller/ Fine Arts Printing
• Web Notes -- net.radio, Amish Paradise, SubmitAll, wURLd Presence, International Union of Gospel Missions, Asian Internet Marketing, FindLaw
• Update on Metasites -- Village Group, ArchitectsOnline, Canadian Real Estate Association, The HomeScout Guide
• Educational Resources -- African Literature, Live from the Hubble Space Telescope, Monster Exchange Project, Web66, Latitude28 Schoolhouse, H-net (Humanities and Social Sciences), Vietnam: Yesterday and Today, The Biology Place
• Curious Technology -- Netcharger, VDOPhone, DialWeb, A-Mail
• Features
• All that Glitters -- If I Had Bandwidth Enough and Time by Richard Seltzer, plus responses from Mike Macomber, Alfred Thompson, and Vijay Mukhi
• The Internet Software Tug-of-War by Richard Seltzer, plus response from Russ Jones
• The Web and People with Disabilities: Cutting Edge Developments by Michael Paciello
• Letters to the Editor

• What's New (etexts available on the Internet) -- B&R Samizdat, Gutenberg, Edward Lear's Nonsense, Drew's Scripts-O-Rama, Into the Wardrobe, On-Line Books Page
• Web-Based PC Support?
• Web Notes -- Expertspace, Internet Business Network, Ecola's Newsstand, Searchable list of discussion mailing lists, NetTax '96, Akropolis Arts Magazine
• Other Educational Resources -- K-12 Administrator's Connection, Bosnia Page, H-NET, The Book Nook
• Features:
• Just Enough Quality -- Richard Seltzer
• Up-Dating the Circles Model: Value-Added Internet Services -- Richard Seltzer
• The AltaVista Revolution -- Richard Seltzer
• Making the Web Accessible for the Deaf, Hearing and Mobility Impaired -- Mike Paciello
• Are Participants Born or Made? The Potential of Web-Based Discussion for Distance Education -- Richard Seltzer
• Letters to the Editor

• What's new -- B&R Samizdat, Gutenberg, Edmunds Spenser, Douglas Adams, Unofficial Internet Public Domain Index,Unofficial Internet Public Domain Index, Basement Full of Books, Omnimedia, Association of Research Libraries, World Anonymous ftp sites
• Web notes -- Open Text, Scout Report, B&R Samizdat, Real Results, Zip codes from US Postal Service, Brain Treatment Center, BargainFinder, InterLotto from the government of Liechtenstein
• Other educational resources -- 1995 CIA World Factbook, Live from the Hubble Telescope, Bioblast Project, K-12 Opportunities from Global SchoolNet, Voices of Youth Project from UNICEF, Galileo -- Online from Jupiter, Primary Destination New Hampshire from Foster's Dailly Democrat
• Curious Technology -- WWW Homepage Creation Center from The-Inter.Net, VDOLive, StreamWorks from Xing Technology Corp.
• Features
• Video and the Internet -- Richard Seltzer
• Will the "news" go away? -- Richard Seltzer
• The evolution of technology and the Internet -- Richard Seltzer
• Who controls the context? Search engines and the fate of carefully contructed Web sites -- Richard Seltzer
• Letters to the editor

• What's new -- B&R Samizdat Express, Gutenberg Project, Edward Beach, The Seven by Nine Squares
• Web notes -- Central Source Yellow Pages, Travel Time Trip Planner, EnviroLink Network, MendelWeb, Trace Research and Development Center, Web Digest for Marketers, The Internet Index from Win Treese, Family pages or "Cyberhomes"
• Other educational 4esources -- Primary Destination New Hampshire, from Foster's Daily Democrat in Dover, NH and Digital Equipment Corporation, Quest! Home of NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative, Live from the Stratosphere, Washington Social Studies, International Honors Program, Newton's Apple, The Armchair Scientist
• Curious technology -- Free Services Page from NetMind, Free Services Page from NetMind, NetBuddy from Internet Solutions, Tiger Map Service, Excite, Webwhacker from Forefront Group, Netscape Navigator 2.0 (beta) from Netscape, Workgroup Web Forum from Digital Equipment Corp.
• New business models -- Cartoonist by-passes syndicators (Borderline Cartoon Archive), A new kind of advertising (Webconnect)
• How do you define success? The Real Results Directory
• Features:
• "Hit-Vitations" -- What's going on? And how do you play this game? -- Richard Seltzer
• How to publicize a new Web site over the Internet -- Richard Seltzer (updated version)
• Movies notes: Lost in Cyber Space -- My Very Personal Reaction to "Hackers"
• Letters to the editor

• The Way of the Web (poem) -- Richard Seltzer
• What's new -- B&R Samizdat, Gutenberg, Richard Bear, Banned Books Online, Scott "Omar" Davis, Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Mississippi State University, U.S. Department of Labor
• Incredible! We made the "top 50" list of Web sites
• Web notes -- Welford and Wickham Primary School in Berkshire, England; the Lenox Group; Foster's Daily Democrat in Dover, NH and Digital Equipment Corp.; Gargoyle fans; four sites devoted to Ethiopian culture and history
• Other educational resources -- EdWeb, Net-Happenings, Distance Learning Library
• Curious technology -- Jazz drive, Crayon, Experimental Search Tool from Steve Glassman at Digital Equipment, Submit It
• Book notes -- Desire for the Land by Richard Bear
• Movie notes -- Just enough tech: "The Net" works well
• Features
• Will the real Tomorrowland please step forward? -- Richard Seltzer
• Making the Web accessible for the blind and visually impaired -- Mike Paciello
• And the blind shall lead them: New ways to perceive cyberspace -- Richard Seltzer
• Letters to the editor

• What's new -- B&R Samizdat, Gutenberg Project, Richard Bear, Data Text, Project Bartleby, United Nations, Electronic Text Center at U. of Virginia, Contemporary American Poetry Archive, Reality Software, Sam Sternberg, Gary Kline
• Web notes -- Zip codes from US Postal Service, National Institutes of Health, Internet Chess Club, sites devoted to the blind and disabled
• Other educational resources -- Live from the Stratosphere
• Curious technology -- RealAudio, Zip drive
• Feature -- Hey, that's your picture -- Web pages as tools for recognition and motivation -- Richard Seltzer
• Book note -- Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte
• Movie note -- Johnny Mnemonic: forget it
• Letters to the editor

• What's new -- B&R Samizdat, Gutenberg Project, Project Libellus, Data Text, Project Bartleby, U. of Pennsylvania, La Bibliotheque d'ABU, United Nations, Radio Free Europe, The Online World
• Web notes -- Yahoo, Children's Literature Web Guide, Smithsonian Institute, James Joyce in Cyberspace, Mark Twain Library, Hillside Elementary in Minnesota, Mark Lottor of Network Wizards, Proyecto Cervantes, Amistad Research Center, Tarlton Law School, Montgomery County Pennsylvania
• Curious technology -- Vocaltech, Electric Magic
• Feature -- The associative power: This ain't Kansas, Mr. Broadcaster -- Richard Seltzer
• Letters to the editor

• What's new -- Gutenberg, Live from Antarctica, Data Text, Freethought Web
• Web notes -- Hillside Elementary, Library of Congress: Thomas, Montgomery County Pennsylvania
• Curious technology -- converting HTML to plain text, converting files to HTML, hypermail
• Readership: who's out there
• Feature -- The Internet and the human spirit -- Richard Seltzer
• Hope for the disabled -- Microsoft opens Windows for the blind

• What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Stony Run Farm
• Web notes -- United Nations, US House of Representatives, Yahoo, Greenwood Publishing, U. of Michigan Press, Gordon Joly
• Curious technology -- Modus Internet, Vocaltech,
• Using electronic texts in schools
• Feature -- Commerce, democracy, and the Internet -- Richard Seltzer

• What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Live from Antarctica, CIA, Classics site, Proyecto Cervantes, Roadmap from Patrick Crispen
• Web notes -- Yahoo, Lycos, Digital Equipment, Gleason Sackman, Canada's Schoolnet, IRS, UK Treasury, Wall St. Journal, Taylor Road Middle School, Internet Mall, California Virtual Tourist, chess on the Web
• Curious technology -- SlipKnot, Web FAX
• Features
• We don't need cities anymore: Reflections ont he meaning of commerce on the Internet -- Richard Seltzer
• Lynx means access to the World Wide Web for the blind -- Richard Seltzer
• Lynx letters

• What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Wiretap, Association des Bibliophiles Universels, Country Studies on World-Wide Web from Library of Congress, U.S. Army Area Handbooks, United Nations
• Web notes -- Netscape browser, Yahoo, search tools, White House, California election, Britannica
• Features --
• Eureka! I can run a Web server from my PC at home with an ordinary modem and SLIP account -- Richard Seltzer
• Cataloging the Internet -- Richard Seltzer
• Hey, this is great. But how can I use it -- Richard Seltzer

• What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Wiretap, Libellus Project, Oxford Archive, Diana collection of human rights resources, Congressional Quarterly, Legal Information Institute (Cornell), Marvell Comics, Spunk Press, Alex Catalog of Texts, Directory of e-text centers, Novel in Progress
• Features
• Diskette power -- Richard Seltzer
• Alternatives to traditional academic publishers -- Richard Seltzer
• Letters to the editor

• What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Wiretap, US Dept. of Education, The Fourth World Documentation Project, Baha'i World Centre
• Features
• Suggested tactics for building an electronic library -- Richard Seltzer
• Clarification: Authors and the Internet -- Richard Seltzer
• The Internet: A new dimension -- Richard Seltzer

• What's new -- Gutenberg Project, US Dept. of Education, NATO, Helsinki City Library, Project Runeberg
• Landmarks -- Elementary schools on the Web, Peru (in Spanish) on the Web
• Feature -- An author's view of electronic rights and the public domain -- Richard Seltzer

• What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Wiretap, Oxford Archive, Libellus Project, Electronic Frontier Foundation, US Dept. of Education, University of Maryland, NATO
• Feature -- Open Texts: A rallying cry for schools and libraries -- Richard Seltzer

• What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Wiretap, Oxford Archive, Electronic Frontier Foundation, White House, US Dept. of Education, U. of Pennsylvania, Case Western Reserve University, NATO
• Feature -- The public domain and the World Wide Web: Keep the frontier open -- Richard Seltzer

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