August 14, 2000 - From Minnesota Public Radio, this is Future Tense for August 14th. I'm Jon Gordon. Today, tipping your favorite musicians at Fairtunes.com. You like what you hear, but you're feeling a little guilty the Jayhawks aren't making a cent off you. Now, you can send money directly to musicans, bypassing the entire music distribution system that enriches recrord labels, promoters and other middlemen. You can do this at a new Web site called Fairtunes.com. It's a new site started by recent college dropouts John ___ and Matt Goyer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Goyer says...
August 10, 2000 - Computers and the Internet are changing the way we live and work. Technology has added new words and phrases to our language. But there's also unnecessary hype, and a new style of tech-speak that's more likely to mystify than enlighten. Jon Gordon reports on the nearly impenetrable language of technology.
August 9, 2000 - From Minnesota Public Radio, this is Future Tense for August 9th. I'm Jon Gordon. Today, contextual commerce on the Web. -- Marketers have long been looking for a way to promote products on the Web. So-called "banner ads" aren't as effective as they hoped. Now, we're starting to see more "contextual commerce" marketing. That is, product promotions directly related to whatever you are viewing on the Web. Dan Janal is a Minneapolis-based Internet marketing consultant. Dan Janal, an expert in Internet marketing and commerce. In the news today... Germany is moving to Web addresses that contain Nazi slogans, after discovering someone had registered www.heil-hitler.de. De is the domain suffix for German Web sites. Officials who are worried about rising neo-Nazi violence concede there's little they can do about sites based elsewhere in cyberspace -- especially the United States. --
August 8, 2000 - From Minnesota Public Radio, this is Future Tense for August 8th. I'm Jon Gordon. Today, the rise of "advertainment" on the Internet. -- Advertisements that appear on Web sites --so called "banner ads"-- haven't proved very effective as tools to sell products and services, mostly because consumers ignore them. Web sites that rely on banner ads to pay the bills have found the ads just aren't enough. So we're starting to see Internet marketers try some new tricks. One is called "advertainment." As you'd imagine, it combines entertainment and advertising. Basically, it's Web sites offering games you can play that are related to the product. For example, at CapnCrunch.com, you can play a game called hunger attack where you shoot hungry aliens with little nuggets of cereal.
August 4, 2000 - From Minnesota Public Radio, this is Future Tense for August 3rd. I'm Jon Gordon. Today, judge gives the FBI a deadline on "Carnivore" --- It looks like a privacy group will soon be getting its hands on the FBI's email surveillance system known as "Carnivore." A federal judge says the FBI has 10 days to respond to a privacy group's request for information about the government's "Carnivore" e-mail surveillance system. But the FBI might cough up the information even sooner. The Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, is seeking documents and software concerning the inner workings of Carnivore, which is designed to monitor and capture e-mail going to or from people under criminal investigation. The privacy group had asked the FBI to grant expedited review of its request filed under the federal Freedom of Information Act. David Sobel is EPIC's lawyer. David Sobel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. --
August 3, 2000 - It looks like a privacy group will soon be getting its hands on the FBI's email surveillance system known as "Carnivore." A federal judge says the FBI has 10 days to respond to a privacy group's request for information about the government's "Carnivore" e-mail surveillance system. But the FBI might cough up the information even sooner. The Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, is seeking documents and software concerning the inner workings of Carnivore, which is designed to monitor and capture e-mail going to or from people under criminal investigation. The privacy group had asked the FBI to grant expedited review of its request filed under the federal Freedom of Information Act. David Sobel is EPIC's lawyer.
August 2, 2000 - People are becoming increasingly addicted to the internet. They need to constantly check their email and need to be up-to-date on everything possible.
August 1, 2000 - Republican convention on the net. Cable television and the internet are picking up the slack that standard television channels are dropping. The internet is covering indepth information regarding the convention.
July 28, 2000 - From Minnesota Public Radio, this is Future Tense. for Thursday, July 27th. I'm Jon Gordon. Today, the National Federation of the Blind withdraws its lawsuit against AOL. First the news. -- Napster says it will appeal the ruling that shuts down the trading of copyrighted music on the Internet company pending a trial. A federal judge in San Francisco says Napster encouraged "wholesale infringing" against recording industry copyrights and would likely lose at trial. The injunction goes into effect atmidnight Friday. Napster attorney David Boies comments.
July 27, 2000 - From Minnesota Public Radio, this is Future Tense for Wednesday, July 26th. I'm Jon Gordon. -- Napster is in court today. A judge will hear an argument from the Recording Industry Association of America that the digital song-sharing software company should be shut down because it enables theft of copyrighted music. -- Major Internet and computer companies are putting aside their differences to mount a public service campaign about online privacy. They're forming a group called Privacy Partnership 2000. It will fund print, radio and Web ads dedicated to educating the public about privacy issues and offer tips on how to protect personal information online. The group includes AOL, IBM, Microsoft and Intel. TRUSTe, company that runs a Privacy Seal program that shows that a Web site adheres to privacy principles, organized the initiative. Dave Steer is TRUSTe spokesman.