Word: networked
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Andrew Rasiej, chief executive of a dotcom start-up called Digital Club Network, was visiting a public high school in Silicon Alley in downtown Manhattan and was amazed that it had no computers. He dashed off an e-mail to a handful of fellow CEOs suggesting that they get together over a weekend and put the school online. More than 150 volunteers showed up for what turned into the digital equivalent of a barn raising. Rasiej, 41, was standing on a ladder, pulling computer cable through the high school's ceiling with Gene DeRose, CEO of Jupiter Communications, when...
...computer specialists insist that Carnivore is actually a pussycat of a program. "The tool," or simply "it," as the program is now gingerly called, doesn't sweep the Internet for key words in text or subject line. Rather, deployed within an Internet service provider network known to be used by a criminal suspect, it searches out unique "authentication strings" - screen name, password, telephone number - that are generated whenever the suspect connects to the ISP. All the e-mails identified by those strings are downloaded to an FBI computer housed in a closed container at the ISP office. When the surveillance...
...interesting sidelights of the TV press tour is the nuanced, and often puzzling, tinkering with the names of new series. Every year, through some alchemy, network execs swap one misguided name for an equally misguided one or, more puzzlingly, one bland name for an equally bland, and in fact almost identical, one. Last year, one quickly canceled Fox cop show - "Ryan Caulfield," a.k.a. "The Badland," a.k.a. "Ryan Caulfield: Year One" - had almost as many names as it did airings. And already this year, a good half-dozen new network series have undergone title surgery...
...nominations and success of "West Wing" should serve to make us all admit that we don't really enjoy watching actual "reality," as in seeing Bob the next-door neighbor replace the engine on his lawn mower, but rather that we enjoy watching some network's idea of reality via a neatly edited month or two on a tropical island where no one is going to starve to death and Band-Aids are readily available if you get blisters. Let's face it: If we really liked reality programs (notice the absence of quotation marks, indicating genuine realism), C-Span...
...reason to relegate its convention coverage to halftime of two preseason telecasts of "Monday Night Football." The new plan, with an OK from the NFL: Start the games at 7 p.m. instead of 8, and whatever's still on in Philly and L.A. after the game will have the network's undivided attention...