iXL Shares Well Received After $72m IPO.
Shares in iXL Enterprises Inc, the Atlanta, Georgia-based web site development and e-commerce company, jumped as much as 104% Thursday after the company's initial public offering, before closing the day up 49% at $17.875. Volume was 13.8 million shares. iXL sold six million shares at $12 in an offering...

Once again: ten stories that puncture the deadly silence of U.S. mass media. (Late Edition).
Each one of the following stories should instill in our readers as much fear as any threat by terrorists. They detail how what we know depends on a few centers of power; how education may be sold to the highest bidder; how the U.S. is as involved in Latin...

Anti-spin: using Internet resources to unwind political claims.
THE RECENT ELECTION broke records in many areas--most first-time voters, most people voting for a winning candidate, most people voting for a losing candidate, probably most money every spent per candidate, etc. This election also enjoyed the participation of millions of citizen contributors drawn into the campaigns by a...

Kuh Ledesma in another US concert tour.
Now on another concert tour in the US is our very own pop diva, Ms. Kuh Ledesma. She has been concertizing in North America many times over but it seems out compatriots there don't tire of her all. After launching her much talked-about album "K: Para sa...

'Pop Princess' Kitchie Nadal has turned into 'Drama Queen'.
Byline: Crispina Martinez-Belen Yes, Kitchie Nadal, recognized as the country's pop princess is also now a drama queen, with the release recently of her album titled "Drama Queen TV," which demonstrates once more her amazing power as singer-composer. However, "Drama Queen TV" was created just...

Responses by the Federal Communications Commission to WorldCom's accounting fraud.
WorldCom's disclosure of billions of dollars of financial fraud on June 25, 2002 challenged the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") in several major ways. The FCC proclaimed its commitment to enforce its rules to protect consumers against service discontinuance as well as the priority of rooting out corporate fraud. The...

Endangered species, lassoes, and unmet promises.
I. INTRODUCTION II. A LEARNING EXPERIENCE III. DOING BETTER NEXT TIME A. Endangered Species B. Lassoes C. Unmet Promises IV. CONCLUSION I. INTRODUCTION The Eighth Circuit, in its famously evocative scolding of the Federal Communications Commission CFCC") for overstepping its jurisdiction, wrote that the division...

Combo del ICE despues de las protestas segundo sondeo telefonico entre el 15 y el 25 de mayo del 2000.
RESUMEN Este artículo relata los resultados de un sondeo de opinión pública realizado semanas después de las movilizaciones en oposición al llamado "combo" del ICE (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad). Analiza las posiciones en torno al combo, las percepciones sobre los servicios que presta el ICE, los principales...

Communication changing lives: the communication and information technology revolution has reached far and wide, and as Bamuturaki Musinguzi finds out, it is now touching rural Uganda.
Standing at his residence in Kiyindi Landing Site in Mukono District, Uganda, Ali Kadudu tells me he has earned a lot from the telephone he is holding in his hand. "I have bought a lot of things; like a plot of land, a bicycle, selling of used cloths on...

Work and display.
Contributing to the general miasma of pseudocriticisms of art on the Web, Michael Kimmelman wrote recently in The New York Times: "Mostly bad artists exploit the medium to get attention they otherwise couldn't: after all, the Internet is a way for them to circumvent the commercial system that has been...