YOUR SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL GAFFE SURE WOKE THEM UP

“Coverups do work, but only to a certain extent – because of a press corps that has been sleeping.”

Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report, inspired by the Monica Lewinsky affair to cast a few stones from the glass house we call TV, Meet the Press, 25 January 1998

ENOUGH ABOUT POLITICS – CAN WE GET BACK TO THE BLOWJOBS?

“Yes, it’s very worthwhile to get all this info online – but ultimately it’s about relationships.”

Stacy Horn, founder and spokesmodel-in-chief of the East Coast Hang Out (ECHO) and author of Cyberville, sharing her deep insights into computer-mediated communications, The Village Voice, 21 January 1998

CREATING A JAM IS ONE WAY TO DRIVE TRAFFIC

“Snap’s strategy is to be ubiquitous. We want to be in front of as many consumers as possible.”

Karen Wood, CNET’s flack-in-chief, on her company’s plan to put front doors online where there aren’t any walls, Wired News, 21 January 1998

IT’S HIGH TIME SOMEONE GOT THOSE USERS UNDER CONTROL

“[PICS]’s intent is certainly not as a tool for government control, but as a tool for user control.”

Tim Berners-Lee, head of the World Wide Web Consortium, on the purpose of the Platform for Internet Content Selection, a Web-page blocking standard, The New York Times, 19 January 1998

QUICK EXECUTION IS EVERYTHING IN THIS BUSINESS

“We’re having to lay off 400 people. In some companies, that takes six months. In Netscape, that takes three weeks.”

Mike Homer, Netscape’s vice president of marketing, on his company’s dispatch in lowering its headcount, San Francisco Examiner, 18 January 1998