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Small Towns, Big Successes. Some of the most obscure corners of the country — tiny towns in Utah, for example — are nurturing some of the fastest-growing companies. [xBlog: Visual thinking linking | XPLANE]

USA Today: Study: Net use doesn't increase depression, after all. Using the Internet at home doesn't make people more depressed and lonely after all. A new, longer follow-up from a study that linked Web use to poor mental health — heavily publicized three years ago — shows that most bad effects have disappeared. [Tomalak's Realm]

Converting DTDs to XML Schemas. Having introduced you to the W3C's tool for converting DTDs to XML Schemas, it's time now to look at a specific example. Michael Classen runs the RSS 0.91 DTD through the converter and supplies us with a critical analysis of the results. 0719 [WebReference News]

Henry Norr: “A Web browser is really just an application, not — or at least not necessarily — an operating-system function. That should have been obvious all along, but Microsoft did its best to hide it under a torrent of nonsense about technical necessities and user convenience.” [Scripting News]

Web Photos that Pop. You can't expect to add life to your Web page by using lifeless photos. Convert your pics from muddled messes to eye-catching attention-grabbers using only a few simple techniques. Wendy Peck shows the way. 0711 [WebReference News]

I have a theory about why [WebVan is] gone. It's that Americans, no matter what they say, are cheapskates and penny-pinchers. They always go for the lowest prices. [inessential.com]

Henry Norr: “An appeals court that showed little deference to Jackson during oral arguments ended up accepting (unanimously, at that) his Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law.” [Scripting News]

Network World: Starbucks wireless network a sweet deal for MobileStar. The initiative is a boon to MobileStar Network, the ISP responsible for the wireless LAN connectivity in each Starbucks stores and the backbone network connecting the shops to the Internet. MobileStar expects Starbucks will account for 50% of its network footprint by 2003. [Tomalak's Realm]

Do Java programmers really need SOAP?. Why is adopting SOAP in Java premature? First, a simple form of Web services can already be implemented with Java Servlets. A Servlet can receive an HTTP POST with an XML document as the content and return an XML document as the response. Thus we could define a simple… Continue reading Do Java programmers really need SOAP?

Consumer Project on Technology. The Consumer Project on Technology was started by Ralph Nader in 1995. Our work is documented extensively on the CPT web page. Currently CPT is focusing on intellectual property rights and health care, electronic commerce (very broadly defined) and competition policy. [Privacy Digest]