Where young volunteers run their own on-line world
Article Abstract:
A Girl's World is a less sophisticated girls-oriented Web site designed for girls between ages 7 and 14. Four Southern California girls founded the site, which is operated by an all-volunteer staff of nearly all girls. The site urges visitors to contribute to its more than 60 areas that span topics from ongoing stories to reviews. A Penpal area allows girls to communicate E-mail addresses without disclosing their E-mail address. Girls can sign up for this feature by selecting from a long list of first names or using their initials. Penpals can share their thoughts from dozens of pull-down menus that suggest ideas. Other offerings include advice columns and entertainer biographies, but A Girl's World also emphasizes education as well as international women's achievements. Enthusiasm and lack of commercial emphasis counter the site's simpler presentation and general lack of text.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Treasures are cloistered but still on view
Article Abstract:
Several Web sites are displaying the 600 treasures from the Eastern Orthodox monasteries of Mount Athos in northern Greece, even after the real collection at the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Salonika closed on Apr 30, 1998. The Treasures of Mount Athos (www.hri.org/MPA/other/Agio_Oros) offers detailed yet concise pages on Europe's most popular art exhibition, as well as links to the 16 participating monasteries. More pictures are available at www.duth.gr/Athos, which includes turgid descriptions and a spectacular view of the 20 monasteries. Welcome to Mount Athos (www.medialab.ntua.gr/athos.html), an English-Greek Web site that contains exquisite full-screen pictures of church surroundings. Poseidon.csd.auth.gr/athos allows viewers to inspect four large, scrollable images, close-ups of the works.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
6 degrees of networking
Article Abstract:
Macroview Communications's Six Degrees (www.sixdegrees.com) public Web site allows users to discover common areas of interest with other people. The 3,000 participants who join each day must form a connection to the existing membership through mutual acquaintances. An initial circle of friends represents the first degree, and those who recruit other friends create the second degree. Members, who restrict their personal information, can share information on a range of interests or even trace the origins of a relationship. Macroview says it will not sell its 675,000 members's names to marketing businesses despite selling site banner ads and demographics statistics. Six Degrees limits a member's E-mail communication to within the first or second degree.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Purchase occasion influence on the role of music in advertising. The three rules of crossing over from gay media to mainstream media advertising: Lesbians, lesbians, lesbians
- Abstracts: Be your own wordsmith. A rewarding experience. Covering the bases for your Web site
- Abstracts: Adventures in the mag trade. Ways of doing time
- Abstracts: The seat of innovation is in the mind, not the machine. Avon calling
- Abstracts: Jumping the Line: The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical