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Though they may have just been filming a TV show about affluent, healthy Americans competing for even more riches, it doesn't mean they didn't learn something about their location, or enough to want to do something about it. Producers of "Survivor: Africa" and online auction site eBay have teamed up to raise money for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation through the auctioning of props and memorabilia. The charity was chosen because of its link to an episode of "Survivor" in which contestant Lex van den Berghe and host Jeff Probst visited the Wamba Catholic Hospital in Kenya, which treats AIDS victims from all over Africa with supplies and financial help strictly from donations. The two delivered HIV test kits and doses of the drug nevirapine, which reduces the transmission of HIV from a pregnant mother to her child. Items up for grabs include all 16 contestant torches, "Out Wit, Out Play, Out Last" flags, the Tribal Council voting urn, autographed memorabilia, and the "Survivor: Africa" immunity idol. The auction is expected to end in early February.
‘Dot.name’ internet suffixes go live today
The latest of the seven new internet domain suffixes will be activated today. “Dot.name” domain extensions are for use by individuals. Previously, people have tended to register “dot.org” web sites, which actually signify nonprofits. Dot.name addresses will cost $30 a year and will adhere to a certain format. Web sites will look like “firstname.lastname.name,” and email addresses will be “firstname@lastname.name.” So far, according to the Global Name Registry, which is managing the dot.name domains, about 60,000 such addresses have been registered. Dot.name and the other new domains were approved two years ago by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers because so many “dot.com,” “dot.net” and “dot.org” names were registered that it was becoming increasingly difficult for people to register anything resembling the name they wanted.
Internet access device sales climb
Gadgets that connect to the internet will start selling like hot cakes over the next few years, according to a report from Cahners In-Stat/MDR. Sales of tools that can log onto the internet will rise 42 percent every year for the next three years, according to the study. Personal computers and mobile phones are expected to dominate internet access; they now make up 93 percent of internet-enabled devices. So-called “smart” appliances, which will be able to alert manufacturers if they need repairs, among other things, will see sales growth of about 100 percent a year through 2005. The report acknowledges that computer sales have slowed down, and that web-enabled phone sales have been slowed by high prices and a lack of widely available coverage.
Holiday flicks draw visitors to ticket-sales sites
Traffic to online movie ticket vendors was up sharply during the holidays, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. During the week ending Dec. 30, several leading movie sites, including Moviefone.com, MovieTickets.com and Fandango.com, saw big spikes in the number of visitors. Visits to Fandango.com jumped 86 percent over the week ending Dec. 23, to 303,000 unique visitors. Moviefone got 1.3 million visitors, up 38 percent, and MovieTickets.com attracted 309,000 visitors for that week, up 80 percent. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, film buffs are logging on to buy tickets, check show times and locations, and figure out which movies are in theaters.
St. Pete Weekly will run Ironminds
Alternative-journalism site Ironminds.com has a new owner: St. Pete Weekly Newspapers, the Tampa, Fla. company that publishes the St. Pete Weekly, an alternative weekly newspaper. According to a report in Editor & Publisher, the managing editor of the St. Pete Weekly, Trevor Aaronson, will now edit Ironminds. Under his leadership, Ironminds will syndicate content from a soon-to-be formed cooperative of alternative weekly papers. Aaronson told E&P that Ironminds will be positioned to compete against alternative journalism chains such as Creative Loafing and Village Voice Media. New York Metropolis publisher Andy Wang, who used to write a column about the internet for Media Life, founded Ironminds about three years ago.
January 15, 2002 © 2002 Media Life
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