Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Culture New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Unspinning the Media - Had enough of Monica mania? NY's Web Lab opens a site to give netsurfers a place to dig beneath the headlines and uncover their own stories. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]   Updata: Spam Cartel? - When we first met Sanford Wallace, his start-up, CyberPromotions Inc., was sending several hundred thousand unsolicited email ads each week. Since then, he's upped the ante. [Wired News]   Upgrading the Human OS - A tribute to mouse inventor Douglas Engelbart proved a brain-bath of ideas and reflections from the leading minds of the tech world. Steve Silberman reports from Silicon Valley. [Wired News]   Urban Desires to Relaunch as Visual Showcase - One of the first wave of webzines will return as an online stop for indie films, animations, and games. [Wired News]   Using Pop Icon to Fight Terror - Amid the multimedia industry's blowout in Cannes, Colombian artist and human rights activist Santiago Echeverry talks about using an unlikely weapon - the image of Carmen Miranda - to battle oppression. [Wired News]   Vaporware: Call for Submissions - Remember PowerAgent? Neither does anyone else. That's why the marketing tool earned top billing in last year's Wired News Vaporware Awards. [Wired News]   Video Fracas Erupts on Web - After a slew of sites trash the pay-per-view digital-video format, fans lash back in support of Divx. Or do they? By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]   Video Spice - "Spice up your life -- or at least your PlayStation. Spice World, Psygnosis' new videogame starring the ubiquitous Spice Girls, hits stores across the US this week." By Moira Muldoon. [Wired News]   Violent Games, Violent Kids - Duke Nukem and other videogames not only profit from violence but encourage kids to use it in real life, two US senators say. By Ronald Warren Deutsch. [Wired News]   Virtual Sex, Real Fun - Your online escapades can enhance your offline sex life, one sexpert says. She's written a book she hopes will help people who talk the virtual talk walk the real walk. By John Alderman. [Wired News]   Visions of a (Snow-Covered) Tech Paradise - The city of Rochester, New York, needs high-tech workers. To lure them, it has launched a marketing campaign promoting the city's myriad job opportunities, friendly atmosphere, and easy commutes. [Wired News]   Waiting to Fast-Forward - The buzz at New York's Plug.In '98 conference: The online music industry is going places, yes, but it's going to be a few years before things really take off. By James Oliver Cury. [Wired News]   Wall of Voodoo - Is Los Angeles burning? Suck takes another look at the politics of paranoia put forth in Mike Davis' City of Quartz. [Wired News]   Warming to a Global Movement - Bruce Sterling, one of the original cyberpunks, tells R.U. Sirius about his plans for a new -- and green -- cultural movement. CFCs need not apply. [Wired News]   Watching the Watchdogs - If a techno-news story sounds too good to be true, it probably is. And a Forbes editor says he has the dirt to prove it. By Judy Bryan. [Wired News]   Weaving Stories from SF to Kiev - Digital Story Bee kicks off Jewish Web Week by teaching women the world over to tell their stories online. [Wired News]   Web 'Oscars' Announced at Comdex - The Global Information Infrastructure awards recognized sites in a wide variety of categories, each of which, sponsors say, have gone beyond cool, to have real impact on the world. [Wired News]   Web Awards Jostle for Attention - Film has the Oscars, Broadway has the Tonys, but what does the Web have? A bunch of insignificant awards vying for the prime slot. By Joyce Slaton. [Wired News]   Web Geeks in Topsiders - Twenty yachts set sail this weekend -- hurricanes permitting -- their solo skippers circling the globe as the online world looks on. By Kristen Bruno. [Wired News]   Web Lab Puts Cash Behind Interactivity - P.O.V. creator Marc Weiss opened up TV to the vision of documentary filmmakers. Now his Web Development Fund is supporting sites where people can 'talk across their differences.' [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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