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...that, as term-time settles upon us and the nights grow cooler, the boys and girls of summer can look back on their work with pride and raise each other one last glass of lemonade. - Matthew Hudson...
...mail and e-commerce, add e-office gossip. In industry after industry, the kind of chat that once occurred at the water cooler is moving online. Journalists are hooked on Jim Romenesko's MediaNews poynter.org/medianews) a site that in addition to aggregating news stories about the media posts e-mail from media professionals. (A recent topic: a schoolyard fight between journalists and p.r. agents in which the reporters accused the flacks of being overly aggressive and underinformed.) Investment bankers prefer vault.com where they can keep tabs on which of their colleagues is getting richest and who's sleeping with...
...along with the power come potential pitfalls. Lawyers are predicting a glut of "cybersmear" libel lawsuits by targets of malicious online gossip. "Companies are not particularly sensitive about someone standing next to a water cooler and griping about someone else," says Blake Bell, a New York lawyer and editor of a website called CyberSecuritiesLaw. "But these messages go out to so many people that they're very concerned." Although the sites give their posters--who generally use pseudonyms--a feeling of anonymity, they're usually not anonymous at all. Faced with a subpoena, most sites will readily divulge a poster...
...there's one thing in the Googleplex that's cooler and more popular than free ice cream, it's the company's product (found, of course, at google.com) The brainchild of Stanford University pals Larry Page, 27, and Sergey Brin, 26, Google is the Web's largest and hippest search engine. In just two years it has gained a reputation for uncanny speed and accuracy, delivering exactly what you're looking for in a fraction of a second. The site now does this 40 million times a day--not quite a googol (10100, which is 1 followed by 100 zeroes...
...would ask you how you're doing, but any idiot who's glanced at a newspaper or overheard a snippet of water-cooler gossip knows you're doing just fine. Quite a feat you pulled off in Louisville this weekend, shuttling Bob May back into obscurity and cementing your reputation as a golfer for the ages. If I were wearing a hat, I would take...