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Inside Web Lab
Issue 8.0
December 44, 1999
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CONTENTS
Vague Accolades
In the News
Matchmaker
Web Lab Picks
Can't Get Enough of us?
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Vague Accolades
VAGUEpolitix was named a Yahoo site of the year!
The blurb calls it "raw and exciting", and we couldn't
agree more. To celebrate, the crew at Vague has
added a slew of new content, so drop by today for
some of that "information you need" with all that
"attitude you crave!"
VAGUEpolitix:
http://www.pbs.org/weblab/vaguepolitix
More Yahoo picks:
http://www.yahoo.com/picks/19991227.html
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In the News
NeedCom was featured in a front page article on
Salon.com last month. This great piece, and a flurry
of other stories, including one in USA Today, drove
traffic to the site throughout the holidays. To date,
more that 19,000 people have completed the
panhandler survey. Have you?
Visit NeedCom:
http://www.pbs.org/weblab/needcom
We also made it into the Washington Post Magazine
on December 19th, albeit through a little lucky
product placement. The article featured Community
Wealth Ventures, the consulting group that has been
helping Web Lab identify new revenue opportunities.
If you squint a little at one of the photos, you can just
make out the Web Lab logo on a stack of papers
strewn on a desk. Subtle, eh?
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Matchmaker
Last month's announcement of Web Lab's
Community of Practice initiative was met with a
generous response. Many of you took a minute to
tell us you'd like to pitch in, and then told your
friends about it as well. We'd like to keep this
buzzing, so if you know of any organizations in need
of Web assistance, send them our way (well, to the
URL below), and we'll try to match them up with a
volunteer.
http://www.weblab.org/community.html
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Web Lab Picks
Most Inscrutable Search Engine Results
We got a visitor to our Web Lab site last month
whose referring URL threw us for a loop. The URL?
An Alta Vista search on "first gynecological exam".
We scratched our heads a bit at first, but finally found
the phrase on a lower level page. There's a free Web
Lab speculum in it for the first five readers who can
find it too.
Best Y2K Aversion Plan
Y2K came and went without a hitch for the Republic
National Bank on Broadway here in NYC. Their
ingenious plan to sidestep date confusion is simple:
eliminate the 2000 rollover by staying in 1999 and
just counting up from December 31. No kidding. See
for yourself:
http://www.purim.com/bank/depositslips.gif
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Can't Get Enough of us?
For those of you who just can't wait till December
63rd for another installment of Inside Web Lab, we
announce the Inside Web Lab archives! Yes now you
and your friends can comb through back issues and
get a taste of pre-millennial 'Blab.
Inside Web Lab archives:
http://www.weblab.org/archive.html
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