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THE H-REPORTInternetby Daniel P. DernTa Ta For Now, Plus SomeTips And TricksThe H Report is undergoing another one of the periodic refocusings that sections go through. One result is that the page of "H-Report" I've been filling with Internet items this past year has been reallocated. For this, my last H-Report column, my editor has graciously allowed me to "break format" and say good-bye. Be sure to check out my Internet column, Net.Dern, over in NetGuide, another CMP publication. Rather than give you more new resources, I thought I'd close by listing the main cyberwaterfronts I cover in search of cyberpearls for you. (The hard part, of course, is reading the thousands of messages every week.) UseNet NewsgroupsUseNet Newsgroups I follow on behalf of "URL-watching" include: Plus, of course, there are tips I get from press releases, phone calls and meetings, strolling the floor at trade shows, reading other magazines and newspapers, and items sent to me by friends and PR flacks. I'd like to thank a few people in particular who have helped by testing or offering opinions about products and URLs I've found: Glee Cady, Larry Chase, Bobbi Fox, Ken Greenberg, David Williams, Robert Raisch. Again, it's been fun wrangling URLs for you--see you around, cyberbuckaroos and cyberbuckarettes! Book Of The MonthThe Internet Joke Book--the best of Rec.Humor. Funny, published by Clarinet Communications--for information, see http://www.clari.net/inetjoke.html. Hot Off The WebInterestingly enough, I don't use Web-based services for that much of my "info feed." However, the ones I do use are invaluable, and they include: CMP's TechWeb, especially the online Interactive Age reports at http://techweb.cmp.com/ia, and the Cowles/Simba headlines and summaries of Internet/online news items, at http://www.simbanet.com/. Mailing Lists And World Wide Web Search EnginesMailing lists I follow include COM-PRIV (commercialization issues), HTMARCOM (where high-tech marketers gather), INTERNET-MARKETING (talking about Internet marketing), ONLINE-NEWS, CARR-L (Computer-Aided Reporting &Research), NIT (three journalist's list), WdFM (Larry Chase's Web Digest for Marketers) reviewing new business Web sites and WEBster (Internet news tidbits). I also pore over regular and irregular "newsletters" like Tom Vassos' "Web Diamonds" and Robert Seidman's "In, Around and Online." I will use the Web and Web searchers to do follow-up and checking; in addition to Yahoo and Lycos, I've begun using DejaNews, Excite and InfoSeek. December 15, 1995 |
