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Even at his most strident, Mahbubani writes with a diplomat's charm, gleefully untangling political knots into simple threads. The book has a special force because it comes from a man who is a prototype 21st century leader--he has his own URL--and a leading candidate to one day succeed Kofi Annan as U.N. Secretary-General. That pedigree is surely responsible for some of his buzz, but the ambassador's book is anything but a faddish flash...
...Mark-up Language)--that has come to be the lingua franca of the Web; it's the way Web-content creators put those little colored, underlined links in their text, add images and so on. He designed an addressing scheme that gave each Web page a unique location, or url (universal resource locator). And he hacked a set of rules that permitted these documents to be linked together on computers across the Internet. He called that set of rules HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol...
...meager. But as cyberspace grows, its ultra-narrowcasting will serve even meager appetites. So next time you scorn a lover or a friend, make sure she doesn't have Web-authoring software. Just imagine--your own personal Linda Tripp, mad as ever and now equipped with a URL...
Anyway, i noticed that the URL for the message board began with "lampoon.fatwire.com...
...balance, the lack of editorial standards on the Web makes the value of a good like the Drudge Report hard to determine. An URL does not discriminate; we can't know which of the dozens of Drudge clones on the Web are legitimate, and which are filled with half-truths and whole lies. In short, there's something about the high hurdle to access in the old system that can be reassuring. Notoriety comes from success among peers in the news-room, not a cramped Los Angeles apartment. Internet media may be a great boon for democracy...