Word: contentions
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...substance, they're all operating from the same playbook: cram your site with information arrayed as efficiently as possible for the busy exec who needs to find an idea for her kid's Halloween costume during her 15-min., yogurt-at-her-desk lunch break. "Men are content to explore and play games with this technology," asserts Sarah Cabot, co-founder of the women's-tech site SheClicks.com "Women want to solve problems. The sites that get that are the ones that will succeed with this market...
...plans to add eight more types of cancer to its Web site by June and will translate its content into Spanish for a wider audience...
...Homes, not exactly new voices but evidence of Betts' dedication to deft writing. And the opening section's Bazaar Report puts a journalistic spin on style by showing how runway fashions are worn in real life. While the new Bazaar differs markedly from the old one in content, it joins a crowded field of sources from television to the Internet to lifestyle magazines that offer women of all tax brackets style tips on makeup and clothing and peeks at celebrity wardrobes...
...recently," would I have the ethical backbone to say, "Obviously that occurred to me, but I have no intention of letting it influence me in any way"? Or would I take the coward's way out and say, "Yes, but your company co-owns Talk City, an Internet-content site, with Hearst and Starbucks?" (And while he was puzzling over the relevance of that, I could make my escape...
...ability of Web content to reach niche audiences makes e-publishing especially attractive to authors who don't fit a mold. Leta Nolan Childers of Fort Pierre, S.D., writes novels she calls "comedy romances" that combine the passion of conventional bodice rippers with a dose of silliness. In 1998 she turned to e-imprint DiskUs Publishing, then a tiny operation run by free-lance journalist Marilyn Nesbitt out of her house in Albany, Ind. Childers' submission, The Best Laid Plans, was accepted within weeks and went on sale in January 1999. She became probably the top-selling e-author...