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...appealing new CD, Invincible Summer (Warner Bros.), slides easily into the groove that has proved to be the most comfortable fit between lang and her audience: the smoothly upbeat pop romanticism at which she excels. The theme of Summer, she told Billboard, is "Brazilian surf-pop" and is a by-product of her newfound infatuation with tropical music and the sun-kissed sounds of Southern California, where she recently relocated after living for several years on a farm outside Vancouver. Lang has said she owes much of the inspiration for Summer to several weeks spent listening to old Mamas...
...connections, similar to today's cable in capacity except--a big except--that they allow two-way communication and, above all (this being America), commerce. Meanwhile, our more adventurous neighbors are starting to install digital TV "set-top" peripherals, from WebTV to ReplayTV and TiVo, that allow them to surf the Web onscreen, interact with programming, store TV shows on hard discs or even--horrifying to broadcasters--skip all those commercials...
...suspect that the growth of the Internet has actually been something of a boon when it comes to reading: people with more Beanie Babies than books on their shelves spend more time reading than they used to as they surf from site to site. But it's not a book, dammit, that perfect object that speaks without speaking, needs no batteries and never crashes unless you throw it in the corner. So, yes, there'll be books. Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the binding...
PRIZES VS. PRIVACY Parents who let kids surf online without supervision may want to think again. Though most children and teens know they shouldn't give strangers personal information, a new study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that many young people feel it's O.K. to reveal potentially sensitive family data in exchange for a prize. Nearly 2 of 3 kids were willing to name their favorite stores, and about a third would tell about their parents' driving records, alcohol consumption, political discussions, work attendance and churchgoing habits...
...didn't hurt that there's a new outlaw in town. "When Mp3.com got outmaneuvered by Napster," says Wice, "Napster became the new bad guy, and Mp3.com became someone who needed to cooperate." Newsweek cover boy Napster allows music lovers to surf each others' hard drives and download the contents free; Mp3.com was more of a free-music clearinghouse, but really wanted to be its own little label. It wasn't happening. Now Mp3.com's revolutionary days look to be over - "The digital music space is still in its infancy. We look forward to working with Warner to expand...