“The miserable quality of Web content also counts as a major defeat for the Alertbox. I have repeatedly campaigned for a new writing style that is optimized for the Web.”
Web usability Cassandra Jakob Nielsen, on his site’s leading-edge role in discouraging interesting content on the Web, Useit.com, 28 May 2000
“We view our revisions to the government’s plan as putting lipstick on a pig. It’s still irresponsible, it’s still excessive, it’s still damaging to the high-tech economy.”
Microsoft spokesperson Mark Murray, leaving unexplained the link between cosmetics on farm animals, antitrust suits, and the U.S. economy, Wired News, 1 June 2000
“If the Internet should require an unfair and unjust paradigm to perpetuate itself, then it too will crack, crumble and collapse, and it won’t take five decades of Cold War politics for it to happen.”
Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman, comparing dot-communist music pirates to Reagan-era bugaboos, Variety, 29 May 2000
“I believe I’m creating the business magazine of the 21st century. But it’s kind of strange being a rock star because it blurs the boundaries between writing the story and being the story.”
Red Herring editor Jason Pontin, exploring his boundary issues in public, The Independent, 29 May 2000
“We were doing video in a 28.8 (bps) universe … but it’s hard to keep an audience when half of them either can’t log on at all or can’t get the video to stream smoothly.”
Scott Zakarin, who’s repositioning his daily-diary text experiment The Spot as an early broadband failure, Wired News, 29 May 2000
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