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...helps educate children. But the Internet does not just fail to educate children; it even obstructs their education. The information on it lacks veritable scholastic quality because it is not filtered through the ordinary editing and publishing process of books and magazines. Moreover, the Internet has too many temptations--ESPNet and Playboy come to mind--to distract students bored with their assignments and looking for some...
Many first saw the news of the Harvard baseball team's upset of No. 4 UCLA on the front page of ESPNet Sportszone, the popular internet sports news service. Harvard players had spoken of national recognition all season, but they had not proven themselves truly worthy until that victory...
...consumers is that both new products reflect the Web's accelerating shift from geeky prototype to everyday appliance. Explorer 3.0 debuted two weeks ago, including free access to a number of otherwise fee-based offerings, among them such marquee sites as the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition and ESPNet SportsZone. Navigator 3.0 followed days later, boasting similar deals with 26 partners, notably SportsLine U.S.A. and the New York Times, and spicing them up by offering daily delivery of customizable content--a personal newspaper of sorts...
These days, I have my roommates hooked on ESPNet. Even better, I have discovered Netscape, which gives me ESPNet with pictures (even though, too often, they feature those really ugly jerseys of the expansion teams...
...ESPNet several months ago realized they have a good thing going and decided to make users pay for things like team reports. Even without those team reports (being the good college student I am, I would never pay for anything), ESPNet satisfies...