Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 147

With my usual efficiency: yesterday the daily online publication Grani.Ru opened. I am close to the idea of ​​abandoning the “everything for everyone” concept. I get tired of the news feeds that I read in the amount of thirty every day with a short break on Saturday. The second half of the well-known formula - about “something about everything” on the Russian Internet is implemented quite effectively, which cannot be said about the first, which, as you know, is “everything about something”. In conditions of chronic information overdose, I personally need the opportunity to delve into one topic, and not digest a hundred. Actually, that’s why I’m interested in collaborating with “Grani” (for which I am an editorial colleague and for which I write about the Internet - since, apparently, I don’t know how to write about anything else).

In " Netoscope " there is a lengthy story about the Civil School of hackers recruited from hippies. People wandering around the world in search of gurus still baffle me.

There are fewer and fewer small Internet providers left in Europe, and all of them are doomed to be swallowed up by monsters.

The website RepCheck.com ,the New York Times tells us , collects reviews of people. That is, about people in general, arbitrary, incomprehensible people. The creators claim that this is for employers and parents looking for a nanny for a child. To me, however, this benefit seems more like a side effect. What scope for small dirty tricks.

Today at a press conference , RIA Novosti officially announces the opening of free access to its news feed. Some optimists, however, comprehended this great event last week.

InfoWorld has published a list of the ten most important events of 2000 in the field of information technology. I won’t list it - this is a relaxing and devoid of a hint of surprise reading, so study it yourself.

A human news feed has finally opened on Polit.Ru . More precisely, anti-tape.

Yesterday, a group of conditionally independent experts appointed by the US Department of Justice published the final report on the examination of the Carnivore system. Conditionally independent experts claim that the system is harmless; human rights activists respond by depicting the dance of St. Vitus. For six months now, these people have been seriously trying to resolve the question of whether a black box that can monitor traffic is dangerous. That is, for them it is still a question.

" Russian Virtual Library " began publishing " The Iliad " translated by N.I. Gnedich.

The eMax company locked three young ladies in an apartment for a month and is testing “the modern capabilities of the Internet as a multimedia tool for targeted communication and exchange of information between people.” As far as I can understand, this means that observers at the project site are practicing sports glue, and eMax is evaluating the effectiveness of these practices.

For lovers of Japanese everyday life and fish dishes: it would be a mistake to think that “ Virtual Sushi ” has gone into hibernation.

Nobody believed in this, and now it happened. British Telecommunications has finally put words into action, and on Wednesday its hired lawyers filed their first lawsuit against a US provider over the illegal use of hyperlink technology that BT claims to have invented. The first victim of BT's idiocy was Prodigy Communications .

The New Year has arrived ahead of schedule for Rambler . Why, why is the first gift in the “ Women ” section given to you an iron?

In January, CareScience will launch a Napster-like data exchange service for doctors.

O-la-la, the Russian website of the Babylon 5 series is being auctioned.

ParallelGraphics and Sub-Club.com are planning to open a project "a virtual world of entertainment and e-commerce for children." The world of e-commerce is definitely something that children especially need.

Haxan Films is producing MacArthur Park , a film about the murder of Bill Gates. In general, the idea that an arbitrary someone has actually died, although seemingly alive and well - whoever he is, as long as he is famous enough - causes a burst of creative activity of frightening proportions. You can imagine how happy Microsoft Corporation is in this regard. Bill Gates is still not Paul McCartney , and he has much less freedom to maneuver in using rumors of his death.

" The Language Shop " continues to waltz: André Gide , Joseph von Westphalen , Richard Brautigan , Haruki Murakami , Robert Walser and Ken Kesey , James Laughlin , Philip Larkin , Seamus Heaney , William Blake , Raphael Alberti , Jorge Manrique and Catullus , David Ives , fourth a series of drawings by Leonid Zeigermacher, in " Voices " - Andrei Agafonov , Sergei Kosetsky , Vitaly Bogdanov , Victor Schneider , Anna Glazova and Leonid Zeigermacher , Faina Gurevich , Alexander Belykh and K.S. Farai .