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TIME.com ON AOL To meet more Innovators and nominate your own candidates, visit us at time.com/Innovators
...cyberspace, but websites that rely on advertising for their dollars, such as news and magazine sites, have been hit especially hard. Why? Because no one--stop us if we're wrong here--cares about those annoying, ubiquitous banner ads. The solution? Bigger ads! A coalition of websites, including AOL and Yahoo, has agreed on standards for larger, harder-to-ignore ads that will supplement the much maligned banner ad. For a glimpse of things to come, check out the tech-info site News.com which is already running the new ads. Let's hope they have a banner year...
...movies. There's still video, of course: "Kong" is easily available for rental or sale, there are rumours of a notoriously bad German DVD, and it shows up on AMC and TCM fairly often (last Tuesday, in fact). I'm guessing the Turner library (a part of AOL Time Warner, by the way, which owns all the old RKO releases) is preparing a DVD for U.S. release. (There was also an excellent Criterion Collection laser disk. Do you still have your laser disk player...
...Chat on AOL with TIME's Robert Sullivan about NASCAR at 7 p.m. E.T. on Wednesday. Keyword: LIVE
...cover story three weeks ago on the AIDS epidemic in Africa has drawn hundreds of letters from readers, many of whom have donated money to Netaid.org an arm of the U.N. So far, more than $200,000 has been collected. If you would like to help, simply visit Netaid.org AOL members can go to Keyword: Breaking the Silence. And for those who want to drop a check in the mail, the address is Netaid.org Foundation, 336 East 45th Street, New York...