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METAFORIX MAIL Volume 1, Issue 12 October 5, 2000 CONTENTS AT A GLANCE: ON MY MIND: New Partner,
New Look
ON MY MIND [From the Editor] New Partner, New Look Metaforix Mail's subscriber list is growing, and so is Metaforix Incorporated. To maintain the high quality of our content while streamlining distribution of our eletter, we have joined the eWaydirect.com online publishing community. Hence, our new look. Depending upon your browser, you are receiving this first eWay mailing in plain text, HTML, or AOL format. If you would prefer to receive future mailings in a different format, please email us at editor@metaforix.com and we will promptly make the change. Please let me know what you think of our new look. I look forward to your feedback. Cordially, Lois C. Ambash, Editor
IN THE MEDIA [a recent news article, feature, or opinion piece] "20 Things that Won't Change in the
Next 20 Years" Citing reports and experts to support his point of view, Lemley expects that our houses, airplanes and cars will look pretty familiar twenty years hence -- and we'll still get stuck in traffic. We'll be eating with knives and forks in the West and chopsticks in the East, and we'll still have the option to pay for our dinners in cash. Pencils, paper clips, zippers, and real paper books will still be in vogue. Sadly, so will noise pollution, terrorism, and poverty. To read the full article, go to INFORMATICON Virginia
Postrel CYBERSPEAK [the vocabulary of the Internet age] Domain Name In the address "editor@metaforix.com," the domain name is "metaforix.com." The suffix after the period or "dot" can indicate something about the type of site the domain is: ".com" for a company, ".edu" for a college, university, or school; ".org" for a nonprofit organization; ".uk" or ".ca" or another two-letter abbreviation for a country. These suffixes have not always been used in a uniform manner, however. Additionally, in response to the rapid growth of the Internet and the growing demand for new domain names, new suffixes have been approved. Some examples are ".arts" for cultural organizations, ".store" for merchants, and ".non" for individuals. ".non"? Go figure. Sources consulted: www.netlingo.com and Writing Online: A Student's Guide to the Internet, by Eric Crump and Nick Carbone. SITE OF THE DAY [a nice place to visit] PollingReport.com Although the site -- like the rest of the media -- is currently dominated by the Presidential election, it is also an excellent source of public opinion data on business, public policy, sports, entertainment, and many other facets of American life. Subscribers to the costly print edition of the Polling Report have access to much more detailed and refined analyses. For the rest of us, the free PollingReport.com offers fascinating and useful snapshots of Americans' view of the world. To visit this site, go to: THE FINE PRINT Metaforix Incorporated
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