Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Culture New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Blame it on Rio - The Recording Industry Association of America files to stop Diamond Multimedia from releasing Rio, its highly anticipated portable MP3 player. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]   Blindsided by Science - Your study of insect patterns on windshields may not win you a Nobel Prize, but it could garner you a bunch of laughs and an Ig Nobel award. By Megan Watzke. [Wired News]   Blurb Hollywood Blurb - Disney's marketeers tapped Harry Knowles' Web site, the Ain't It Cool Network, for a rave review to advertise Burn Hollywood Burn - the only problem is, Knowles didn't like the film very much. [Wired News]   Body of Evidence - A multimedia artist uses the Web to stage a mock trial exploring cyberspace violations and issues of harmful Internet content. By Beverly Hanly. [Wired News]   Booting Up the Preschool Set - Little Janey may not be toilet trained, but she's already old enough for her first PC. That doesn't mean she's spoiled. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]   Boston Runs With Anti-Cheat Chips - Marathoners will hit the streets today with a ChampionChip tied to their shoelaces. The high-tech device is aimed at discouraging one of the Boston Marathon's longest traditions -- cheating. [Wired News]   Brain Music Points to Mouseless Future - A musical performance made with the help of an electrode-studded headband shows how new interfaces can free users from technological constraints. [Wired News]   Branding Bigotry - The founder of HateWatch wants netsurfers to "adopt" domains like nazi.net to keep them out of the hands of hate groups. Is this fighting racism or resorting to dirty tricks? By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]   Brill Launches Board - Media watchdog Steven Brill offers the public a chance to bite back when they feel bitten by journalists. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Broder Slams Salon's 'Tactics' - Jonathan Broder, the ousted Washington bureau chief of Salon, talks about the ethics of covering Representative Henry Hyde's affair, and the Net's effects on news. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]   Building Digital Pyramids - A new site sets out to provide a biographical archive of humankind, so one day your progeny can read about your life in your own words. By Joyce Slaton. [Wired News]   Bullish on Van Halen? - The Invisible Hand Electronic Market lets netsurfers trade cultural icons as though they were commodities -- but don't sell Alanis short. [Wired News]   Bushwacking for Rock 'n' Roll - This weekend a handful of South African journalism students will brave everything from faulty modem connections to drug hazes in order to bring one of the country's biggest music festivals online, in near-real time. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]   Buy 'em, Run 'em, Kill 'em - CMP is the latest technology publisher to say prune or perish, closing LAN Times, the networking publication that it bought only months ago. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]   Byte-Sized Films - Digital Film Festival sponsor D.FILM plans to launch New Venue, featuring Web-based cinematic creations. Cinephiles may scoff, but the site's creator believes the Web's challenges to filmmaking will result in creative problem solving and compelling viewing. [Wired News]   CBS.com to Launch on Sunday - Can cookie-cutter content draw enough visitors on a Web that is already overcrowded with city sites? [Wired News]   CNN Journalists Speak Out - Two producers fired for their work on a story alleging that US troops used nerve gas on Vietnam defectors -- a report retracted last week by CNN and Time magazine -- have begun a campaign to exonerate themselves. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]   Can Miss Thang Save Earth? - The Web is a natural home for a sexy new gay comic strip called Queer Nation, its creator says. Online distribution may rescue gay comics from obscurity. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]   Canadian Director Takes Science-Fiction Flick to the Streets - Vincenzo Natali knows how to make the most of what he's got. He made the effects-laden Cube "ruthlessly beautiful" for less than the cost of many single Hollywood effects. [Wired News]   Canucks Stockpile Blank CDs - Starting New Year's Day, blank CDs and DATs sold in Canada will double in price, in an effort to protect artists' -- and the music industry's -- income. But the law is a mess. Matt Friedman reports from Montreal. [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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