Word: siting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Time and Newsweek fall all over each other to add the best "tech pages" to each issue. Local news stations plaster human-interest stories about the latest "can't-miss" Web site on the five o'clock news...
...country known less for freedom than for a historical fear of information, Zeng and Zhang are signs that Beijing has settled on a policy for the Net that is as bold as it is surprising: jump in with both feet. Though China still blacks out dozens of sites (you won't read this story online in China; Time Warner's Pathfinder site is on the list), a rising generation of Western-educated officials is pressing home the argument that the Net is the perfect vehicle to transport the Middle Kingdom into the 21st century. It's as if Deng Xiaoping...
...patience. "Some control is needed at this point, because otherwise China would go wild," says UTStarcom's Hong Lu. "If you just jump too fast, it's not good." In an early attempt at a Net policy, the government in 1996 banned access to a range of sites from playboy.com to time.com in order to help combat "spiritual pollution." But an afternoon's surfing in Beijing shows the government firewalls that block access to these sites are only partly effective. While cnn.com is resolutely blocked, other Western news-focused sites are occasionally accessible because of software glitches on the blackout...
...between online brokers and data providers. In one such deal, Datek signed a $1.5 million agreement in January to sponsor the stock market ticker on TheStreet.com www.thestreet.com) an electronic magazine filled with news and analysis of stocks and market trends. For its money, Datek gets a button on the site of TheStreet that brings viewers to the broker's home page...