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...point here is not that a major Asatru comeback is in the cards. Thor's best days are almost certainly behind him (though no fewer than 12 Asatru Websites are listed in the Yahoo! Web-indexing service). But there are plenty of other nearly extinct or quite localized creeds that could expand their compass via the Internet and thus heighten the world's already ample multiculturalism, for better or worse. Paganism, shamanism, voodoo, gnosticism, santeria--these and scores more are out there, accessible worldwide. So is the expanding pool of freshly coined sects, some of which will presumably survive...
...yardstick we use to measure the site's rate of use is the number of visitors at each local site," Collet said. "We've been matching the kind of traffic the local papers get [at the other five sites] and as of now [Yahoo is] basically the most popular site next to Netscape...
Collet and Pierce said Yahoo's primary local competition will be boston.com, a site designed and serviced by The Boston Globe with powerful news and graphics resources...
...While Yahoo lacks the news links of boston.com, the company has established media connections with local news, radio and sports affiliates which will provide the site with up-to-date local news on-line...
Students designed the Yahoo site as part of a project for Associate Professor of Business Administration Marco Iansiti's class, "Managing New Product Development...