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SF WoW Top25 Leaders of the Millenium
Website for the Top25 Women of the Web awards in San Francisco, honoring 25 women prominent in the computer and Internet industries each year.
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A Dot-Com Disaster
A former employee of Urban Box Office Network, a minority-oriented entertainment portal, talks about why the startup failed. (9/7/2000 at Salon.com)
"A" for Effort
Web portals aimed at Asian-Americans are getting hits, attention, and plenty of funding. (1/3/2000 at The Industry Standard)
Africana.com in Time Warner Deal
Africana.com, founded by Professors Henly Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah, has been sold to Time Warner Inc. (9/7/2000 at The New York Times)
BET.com Launches With $8 Million Ad Campaign
BET.com has finally launched with a major marketing campaign. (2/7/2000 at InternetNews.com)
Braille Has Its Place in High-Tech World
Despite voice recognition and synthesis technology, Braille still helps blind computer users get along with technology and media. (11/3/1999 at deseretnews.com)
Closing the Digital Divide
PowerUp, founded by AOL executive Steve Case and Colin Powell, has started providing data centers, computers, and software in poor communities across the nation. (8/16/2000 at The Washington Post)
Computer Skills Open Doors for 'Unteachables'
Profile of the D.C. Youth Information Technology Program, which teaches website creation skills to learning-disabled and disadvantaged kids. (8/8/2001 at The Washington Post)
Coping With COPPA
The history of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and how to ensure you're in compliance. (7/13/2001 at Web Techniques)
The COPPA Is Now Patrolling The Net
COPPA - the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act - will take effect in April; among other things, it requires parental consent for collections of information from any child under 13. (3/13/2000 at ZDNet)
Culture Specialists
A profile of three web design firms which managed to get big contracts by displaying their understanding of those who would be served by the projects - "hip-hop heads." (9/14/2000 at Web Techniques)
Deaf Professor Creates Web Site to Help Deaf Children Communicate
A new web site and software use video clips to help deaf children learn both sign language and the words they're signing. (12/3/1999 at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Digital Deconstruction
Thomas Lipscomb, co-founder of the Center for the Digital Future, is skeptical of government efforts to close the digital divide; as the access gap between ethnic groups shrinks, officials like new FCC Chairman Michael Powell are on his side. (3/1/2001 at MSNBC)
Digital Divide Bill Would Expand E-Rate
A wide-ranging Congressional bill introduced by Democrats would expand the E-Rate and provide more financial resources to help bridge the Digital Divide. (3/9/2000 at NewsBytes)
Divided We Fall?
Three recent reports on the digital divide in the US say gaps are closing, but there is still work to be done; while an international conference focuses on Third World access, and opportunities in providing access to the poor. (10/23/2000 at NUA Internet Surveys)
Emerson Course Examines Online Hate
An Emerson College course is examining the way hate groups use the Internet to recruit new members and spread their messages. (4/24/2000 at The Nando Times)
Firms Vow Millions for Tech Diversity
Adobe, Intel, Sun, and other high-tech companies have pledged $250 million over the next 10 years to train more minorities, women, and disabled people to work in the computer field. (4/6/2000 at Mercury Center)
Gender Gap? What Gender Gap?
According to a recent Nielsen/NetRatings survey, 49.5% of U.S. Net users are female. (11/8/1999 at Wired News)
Group Aims to Connect Latino Tech Companies
Latino entrepreneurs in Los Angeles are networking and cutting deals to corner the market on Spanish-language and bilingual sites catering to both U.S. and Latin American customers. (9/6/2000 at Los Angeles Times)
I Have a (Digital) Dream
Race and diversity will be discussed at the "Race in Digital Space" conference at MIT; organizers want to acknowledge how far minorities have come in use of cyberspace, but don't mean to say the digial divide is closed. (4/27/2001 at Wired News)
Internet Explodes in LatAm, But Only for Elite
The UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) warns that only the elite citizens of Latin America are gaining access to the Internet and other computer technology. (4/10/2000 at Excite News)
Internet Users Come of Age; More Women Online
According to a recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive, more women than men are online; more men than women buy online; and 76 million Americans are "active" Internet users. (8/11/2000 at Mercury Center)
ISO More Women in Tech
Anita Borg is working to get more women into IT jobs, and into positions where they affect the development of technology. (11/15/1999 at Wired News)
IT, Civil Rights Groups Want Digital Divide Dollars
High-tech and civil rights groups are lobbying Congress to fund the $50 million Home Internet Access program and $45.1 million for the Technology Opportunity program. (10/3/2000 at NewsBytes)
Many New Sites Aimed at African Americans Being Created to Meet Growing Demand
None of the players in the African-American-website market are making money; but they expect the opportunities to market to this overlooked demographic to be huge. (1/30/2000 at Seattle Times)
Mars and Venus, On the Net: Gender Stereotypes Prevail
Several researchers are exploring the extent to which computer users in different situations trust or like synthesized male vs. female voices. (10/12/2000 at The New York Times)
The New Entrepreneurs of Silicon Heights
Dominican entrepreneurs in Washington Heights, in New York City, have been bringing technology and training to local minority-owned businesses and organizations. (9/24/2000 at The New York Times)
Not Quite a Dot Farce
The report and recommendations issued by the Digital Opportunity Force, a group announced at the G8 summit in July 2000, offer some worthwhile recommendations on closing the international digital divide. (6/5/2001 at NUA Internet Surveys)
PlanetOut Expands Its Universe
As PlanetOut buys two gay-oriented print magazines, some worry it will result in less diversity in gay media. (9/7/2000 at SF Gate)
Plugging In, Not Dropping Out
A number of programs around the country are training low-income and at-risk students to help build the Internet. (11/4/1999 at Wired News)
Sub-$25K Income Group Tops In New Surfer Growth - Nielsen
According to Nielsen//NetRatings, the number of Web users who make less than $25,000 per year rose 46 percent in 2000; overall Internet growth was 29 percent. (3/12/2001 at NewsBytes)
Taking IT to the Streets
A profile of Anita Brown, founder of Black Geeks Online. (2/7/2000 at Wired News)
Teen Girls Feel the Net Effect
Teenage girls are one of the fastest-growing populations on the Internet; sites catering to them tend to focus on selling nail polish and clothes, and gathering marketing information. (3/14/2000 at USA Today)
UBO Lives
Urban Box Office's editor chastises Salon.com and other media outlets for turning relentlessly negative about purely-online startups, especially "urban" ones. (9/28/2000 at Salon.com)
Web Portals Opening Doors to Asian Market
Online sites that aim to unite the U.S. and international Asian populations are popping up, and finding that the English language is a common denominator among communities. (12/6/1999 at Los Angeles Times)
Web Sites Court 50-And-Older Crowd
Web sites like ClassicYears.com, with celebrity spokesperson Florence Henderson of The Brady Bunch, hope to capture a chunk of the expanding 50-and-over online crowd. (9/26/2000 at ZDNet)
Who Are You Calling Sister?
A look at the tensions between Digital Eve, a new woman-oriented online community which is "stealing" members from the more-established Webgrrls. (12/21/2000 at Salon.com)
Will Women Take a Breath of Oxygen?
Oxygen Media, with both Net- and TV-based offerings, hopes to fulfill women's media needs. (1/24/2000 at Time Magazine Online)
Wired Kids Are into Media
A Simmons Market Research Bureau study says that Internet-using kids use more non-Internet media (TV, movies, magazines, and books) than their peers. (8/21/2000 at eMarketer)
Women Who Think Differently
This year's Top 25 Women on the Web award honored a number of behind-the-scenes folks - activists, designers, etc. - in addition to the usual CEOs and celebrities. (4/24/2001 at Wired News)
You Are Not a Geek – Really
Numerous news outlets analyzed a recent Pew Internet and American Life Project poll which found that, contrary to an earlier Stanford poll, the Internet strengthens people's social ties. (5/12/2000 at The Industry Standard)
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