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...Covers Keep score--and cash in--as TIME Daily's two gridiron gurus size up the NFL slate...
...browser, a software robot employed by Microsoft scurries around gathering the latest version of those Web pages and then, periodically, "pushes" the information down the Net to your computer. The idea behind so-called push media is that you don't have to remember to go to, say, Slate every day; the new parts will be sent to your computer automatically. It's like having the newspaper delivered to your driveway, except you don't have to crawl under the car to find...
...credit, Microsoft has embarked upon what is probably the Web's most ambitious content-development program to date, creating offerings ranging from family fare (such as Click & Clack's wacky Car Talk site) to inside-the-Beltway political analysis (Michael Kinsley's highbrow journal Slate). But its haste to build an online empire has left Microsoft throwing lucrative contracts at pretty much any Web developer who knew how to work a mouse, hoping it would create something--anything--for MSN. A Web novice tells of walking into a meeting to pitch ideas and being asked instead for his company...
Michael E. Kinsley '72, a friend of Dowd's, and also once a Crimson executive, quickly picked up the challenge in his on-line magazine Slate (www.slate.com). The Slate 60 is now a mainstay of the magazine, listing the top 60 American donors for each quarter of the year...
Most students, like Lamelle, cultivate a slavish dependence on their neatly parceled timetables-whether Vinyl metal spirals from the bargain bin at CVS or leather-bound volumes printed in acid-free ink and stored in the glass cases at Bob Slate's. Worshipped like prayer books and handled like the latest edition of Playboy to hit the men's locker room, complex planners are as common among students as red books in Mao's China...