Not Ready For Prime Time? Streaming Video Ads Face Hurdles
Internet.com (Dec. 5, 2000) "It's the future of the Internet," a top executive of DoubleClick evangelized at a Silicon Valley conference on Web publishing last autumn. "Forget…
Attack of the Killer Audio Ads: Part II
Internet.com (Nov. 28, 2000) "Lawrence," said the voiceover on an animated Disney ad for costumes, "you can make Halloween happen by magic." In an age when perfect strangers…
Caching In on the Election
Internet.com (Nov. 22, 2000) Talk about robbing Peter to pay Paul … err, Sam. In hyping it’s election night “Live Interactive Television experience on the Internet,” ABC’s promotions…
Attack of the Killer Audio Ads
Internet.com (Nov. 22, 2000) The music blared from the desktop computer; a pounding, head-banger beat that reverberated through the sedate corporate office. Annoyed co-workers quickly demanded that…
Superheros Plug Super Technology
Internet.com (Nov. 6, 2000) It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's a telecommunications PR campaign. The world of WAP, voice recognition and Internet infrastructure may seem a strange…
Media Morph: Radio and the Web Merge at Dallas Rocker
Internet.com (Oct. 29, 2000) It sounds like a radio station. It markets itself like a radio station. So is Merge933.net a radio station? Yes, but... "We try to blur the line between radio…
Will the Ad Industry Buy Streaming Radio?
Internet.com (Oct. 23, 2000) For the big boys of the advertising industry, web radio is still small potatoes. "We don't know if anyone's listening. We still don't know how we…
Streaming profits: Broadcasters still looking
Internet.com (Oct. 16, 2000) No matter where visitors turned in the exhibit hall at last month's National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention, it seemed there was some vendor hawking…
‘A Strong Voice Coming Up’: A young (and rare) woman lama talks about fear, American dharma, and the importance of ‘ripping your heart out’
October 2000 Venerable Khandro Rinpoche is part of a new generation of Western-educated, English-speaking Tibetan teachers reared in exile. She is also a rarity in the male-dominated world of…
A Share of the Soil
Worcester Magazine (2000) What would make a perfectly ordinary suburban family from suburban Boston with two jobs, two cars and three kids toss everything and go off and become farmers? Organic…
Tibet’s Suffering: Visiting lama survived 20 years in Chinese jail
Worcester Magazine (Jan. 2000) The flight into exile of one of Tibet’s most revered religious leaders this month once more highlights the continuing suffering of the Tibetan people under…
A Family Grieves: Tragedy underlines Worcester’s unique place in the world
Worcester Magazine (Dec. 1999) We are a transient society; a nation of corporate gypsies rarely stopping in one place long enough to learn our neighbor's names. That's the conventional…