“i live in a very large city, full of people and buildings and hot, roasted peanuts. a friend recently posited that, for an urban dweller, approximately 70 per cent of their visual stimuli is some form of advertising. it’s probably true. if you leave your home, and especially if you deign to travel on public transportation, advertising is an overwhelming and inescapable form of communication. no matter how much you keep to yourself, you’ve always got someone talking to you. this diary will be a dialogue with my constant urban companion: advertising.”

“Say goodbye to anonymity on the Web. DoubleClick Inc., the Internet’s largest advertising company, has begun tracking Web users by name and address as they move from one Web site to the next, USATODAY.com has learned. The practice, known as profiling, gives marketers the ability to know the household, and in many cases the precise identity, of the person visiting any one of the 11,500 sites that use DoubleClick’s ad-tracking ‘cookies.’” DoubleClick claims you can opt out of this profiling hoo-hoo: Go here to kill your cookie.

For emergencies, I think I could like this: Edit your website anywhere, anytime. “OmniEdit is a free, browser-based web page editor that liberates you from your web development computer. Now you can edit web pages anytime, anywhere in the world: at home, in the office, at Internet cafes, public kiosks — anywhere that you have Internet access. And you do it right in a browser using OmniEdit! Imagine correcting a typo, updating a headline, price or date and even fixing a broken or changed link, on the fly, right in the browser. And you don’t have to configure a single thing. Moreover, it is completely free! Access your existing ftp account with the same level of security as with a normal ftp client and editor. No account information is stored by OmniEdit.”

We’re talking pretty good coverage here: from prehistory to Rome to the Renaissance to the Jeffersonian, Industrial, Modern and Post-Modern ages.

A web-based place to store memories. Interesting only in a voyeuristic way because, obviously, this isn’t where I’m going to keep the thing I don’t want to forget.

“Introducing Ceiva, a digital picture frame that has the power to load its own pictures directly from the Internet. At first, the new Ceiva digital picture frame looks, feels and acts like a traditional wood picture frame. Plug it in and you’ll discover that Ceiva is anything but traditional. Ceiva can receive pictures directly from the Internet. It’s not a computer. In fact, it’s remarkably simple.”

“Introducing Ceiva, a digital picture frame that has the power to load its own pictures directly from the Internet. At first, the new Ceiva digital picture frame looks, feels and acts like a traditional wood picture frame. Plug it in and you’ll discover that Ceiva is anything but traditional. Ceiva can receive pictures directly from the Internet. It’s not a computer. In fact, it’s remarkably simple.”

“These free services enable you to access your bookmarks with any web browser… this section of Useful Bookmarks is comprehensive rather than selective.”

“The internet industry seems to change daily. New companies appear, existing companies find partners, older companies buy younger firms[and occasionally vice versa], while poorly positioned players disappear in the chaos. [This] is an interactive map of key players in the internet space along with a portion of the alliances they have formed. This visualization demonstrates the forces that agents exhibit upon each other in a complex interconnected system. The interactions amongst the nodes emerge from the pattern of direct, and indirect, ties throughout the network.”

“Say goodbye to anonymity on the Web. DoubleClick Inc., the Internet’s largest advertising company, has begun tracking Web users by name and address as they move from one Web site to the next, USATODAY.com has learned. The practice, known as profiling, gives marketers the ability to know the household, and in many cases the precise identity, of the person visiting any one of the 11,500 sites that use DoubleClick’s ad-tracking ‘cookies.’” DoubleClick claims you can opt out of this profiling hoo-hoo: Go here to kill your cookie.