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...Fresh Angle Alan Rusbridger, editor of Britain's Guardian newspaper, takes a different view. Like VG in Norway, the Guardian was among the first British papers to recognize the Internet as the only portal in the storm that was buffeting traditional newspapers. Its own title wasn't spared. The Guardian's circulation was 516,000 in 1986; last year, it was down to around 351,000 copies. Unlike VG, however, the Guardian has bet its building that the future lies in so-called media integration - the same single staff for newsprint, Internet and the video and audio reportage that...
...year 1990, right when things on the Internet started to get interesting. What about chatrooms? Instant messaging? Whatever happened to America Online's "You've got mail!" guy? And most importantly, when did the Internet evolve from something used largely by universities and the military into a portal for porn? Bilgil fails to include an animated diagram of that...
...picking low-hanging fruit to say that Carol Bartz, the new CEO of Yahoo! (YHOO), can't fix the portal company - its shares went down about 3% on news of the selection. Bartz had a good reputation at Autodesk, the other firm she ran. But Yahoo! is an Internet company, and Bartz is not an Internet executive...
Yahoo! has some assets it could sell to raise money. Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company, and Yahoo! Japan could be worth in excess of $5 billion. Yahoo! may decide that it can buy businesses that do more to help its position as a portal and search company. In a poor economy, even good assets will be cheap. Picking up strategic pieces will be easier with a vault full of cash...
...Ajai Sahni, director of the South Asia Terrorism Portal, dismisses what he calls the "small, incremental" steps taken thus far. "There may be some symbolic movements to hold them up to the public for political impact. But that's it," he says. "We need manpower and technology and matériel on war footing. Normal bureaucratic practice will not work; we need to reinvent procedures. It can be done overnight ... if you are flexible and in action mode." Even after the Mumbai carnage, he claims, the requisite political will and sense of urgency remain lacking. "We have such an incoherent...