Word: cyberland
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...happened to enter a computer chat room--looking for kindred spirits in cyberland--it passed copies of itself as well to everybody out there. (Imagine how receptive patrons of a singles chat room would be to a poisoned "love letter.") Nor would you have been protected if your computer was part of a so-called local area network, or lan. The Love Bug would leap that barrier like some hyperactive flea. And there's more. If you were surfing with Internet Explorer, it would reset your home page to a website in the Philippines, from which it would download...
...them up, give them the luster of legitimacy and dispatch them to the wider world. Last week NBC Nightly News gravely confirmed a Drudge Report item that Clinton and Lewinsky once had sex after he attended Easter services. No big deal. More scabrous stuff than that bounces regularly from cyberland to Jay Leno without stopping for the niceties of confirmation...
...media moguls, Cyberland has become the new Klondike. Hardly a week goes by without at least one new newspaper or magazine or television network pushing its stake into the ground and raising an ONLINE banner over the home office. More and more publications seem to feel that if you don't have a claim staked out on the virtual newsstand -- either on existing information services like CompuServe or Prodigy or with your own Website directly on the Internet -- you're nowhere. By the end of 1994, more than 450 publications had embraced the electronic option. CompuServe alone is host...
...online services pay publications for the right to post their journalists' prepaid contents, and some publications charge for access directly. Many online users are happy to surf through these services, checking out specs in Road & Track or downloading photos of models from Elle. But the most successful newcomers to Cyberland are the ones that go well beyond mere postings of content and make their journalists an integral part of the enterprise. By offering message boards and forums, as well as by posting the E-mail addresses of reporters and editors, many publications (TIME among them) have started an electronic dialogue...
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