The Help-Yourself Internet
The Internet opened communications and commerce in ways that its founders (Al excluded) never intended, and now it's taking on the features of a self-help movement. Evidence, please?
Roll your own....
First, there's a new web site called Rollyo (today's 10th most-shared URL), in which users create customized search engines, based on Yahoo! Search. Blogger Susan Mernit likes the idea and speculates about its ability to catch on; Rollyo's already being noticed in Germany and Korea.
Pixels for sale
Secondly, the Million Dollar Home Page (40th top link) is the invention of an entrepreneurial 21-year-old college student who's selling real estate on his web site for $1 a pixel; he's already sold 205,000 and covered his college costs. AdJab offers some insight on the idea that's catching on.
News in context
Bloggers are still lit up over the indictment of Sen. Majority Leader Tom DeLay (more blogged-about than Harry Potter!), the lightning-swift swearing-in of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, the Middle East tour by Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes, the political motivations of Texas DA Ronnie Earle, and the did-he-REALLY-say-that comments of former drug/education Czar William Bennett, but a tempered look at hot issues puts things in perspective, doesn't it?...
Posted by Sue MacDonald at September 30, 2005 09:48 AM
