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16th February 2000

Advertising Age — The Advertising Century

“In a 1941 essay in Life, Henry Luce famously called this ‘The American Century.’ To which we would add, it was also the Advertising Century, and the two remain intimately twined. Advertising played a key role in powering the miracle American economy of the past 50 years, and has had a profound impact — for good and ill — on our culture.”

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16th February 2000

Artlex Visual Arts Dictionary

“Visual Arts Dictionary for artists, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education. You will find definitions of more than 3,100 terms here, along with numerous illustrations, pronunciation notes, great quotations and links to other resources on the Web.”

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16th February 2000

Current Geography of Domains

“As of January 2000 there were 10,008,475 com, org, net and edu domains registered worldwide. There are another 3,344,305 country code TLDs (.uk or .de) domains registered as well. That’s about 2.2 Intenet domains per 1000 people worldwide. In the US, the figure is 25.2 domains per 1000 people. Combined (com, org, net, edu and country code TLDs) there are 13.35 million domains. They are distributed as follows…”

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16th February 2000

Vinylium dubplate cutter

Is burning your own CDs just too common now? Then wax your own records.

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16th February 2000

On the Web, relaunches can sink you

“In a June 1999 report, Internet research firm Jupiter Communications found 37 major sites had altered their look-and-feel, on average, every 10 months. Yet the evidence suggests site relaunches carry heavy risks. Most Web site visitors want to do something or find something. Make them change the way they do things at your site, and you may confuse or discomfit them to the point where they leave. Faced with a plan for a relaunch, many site managers should Just Say No.”

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