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March 2002’s Posts.

  1. Planting sources, spaying ships

    Waterloo police admitted to a shocking abuse of power: planting false information in that city’s newspaper.

  2. CNN charging for video

    With every new announcement, the sense of inevitability grows stronger. Yahoo is considering charging for content, and CNN is ready to do the same.

  3. Get a Coaster this St. Patrick’s Day

    Any country country that got me dancing, can’t be all that bad—happy St. Patrick’s Day!

  4. March 16, 2002

    You can now comment on the Living Can Kill You posts

  5. Media mergers, and paying for PDA browsers

    The McKinsey Quarterly has republished an excellent article on media mergers an article from The Wall Street Journal. What makes the piece worthwhile is its clear, concise explanation of why these companies are really merging and what challenges they face.

  6. Salon’s former quality seen in Mozilla article

    Salon.com was once the example of intelligent online journalism. In my mind, they slipped from that pedestal shortly after doing to the American Republicans exactly what they’d been criticizing that party of doing to the Clinton and his Democrats.

  7. Strike; CSS Masters Series

    Well, I won’t be working for a while.

  8. Mozilla 0.9.9; increasing the copyright tariff

    Mozilla 1.0 is almost—finally—here. Version 0.9.9 has been released and its a good one. Download and use it now.

  9. March 11, 2002

    Updated the Web Design Resources section with some new resources and templates—including some CSS-based ones

  10. AOL offers Mozilla a boost; tabless layouts

    Last May, I quoted a StatMarket survey showing Netscape would jump to a 20 percent marketshare if AOL switched to the Gecko-based browser. That 14 percent gain looks to become a reality: AOL version 8 will reportedly switch from IE to Netscape. As I said then:

  11. CANOE at six; AWOL show

    CANOE had its sixth anniversary on March 4, and unlike past years, there was no big mention of it on the site. In fact, go to the history section and you’ll see no mention of it. The message that greets you is from last year, and the timeline has been updated since last January.

  12. March 5, 2002

    The Web Building Tips are now available for syndication, all you need is one little line of HTML, and your page will display a common Web design question linked to the answer. Get saila.com’s Web Building Tips now

  13. The state of the Net

    Bruce Sterling, always an interesting read, has a good article in The Austin Chronicle, ostensibly about SXSW Interactive, but really about the state of the Net now. In it he initiates a great little meme: “What if it turned out that the Net was just plain too much for business to handle? That it was downright toxic to free enterprise?”

  14. March 3, 2002

    Added a feature letting Living Can Kill You be alerted by email when there’s a new posting

  15. Slashdot subscriptions

    This is it. Slashdot.org has decided to do the subscription-thing, and as expected from the site, its a unique system. Instead of a flat monthly or annual fee, subscribers pay US$5 to read 1,000 pages.

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