Rough Drafts

Thanks to the Web, now you can put GOVERNMENT DEBT ON YOUR CREDIT CARD. A new Web site from the U.S. Treasury Department (www.savingsbonds.gov) lets you purchase U.S. savings bonds online, paying for the bonds with your credit card. Cool, huh? But still, something strikes me as odd about putting the

TWENEY REPORT UPDATE: I’ve changed the look and feel of my Web site, www.tweney.com, and among other things I’ve added a Weblog. I’m building this log with Blogger, a cool tool that I found out about through Keith Dawson’s fine Tasty Bits from the Technology Front newsletter. I plan to use this webl

If you’re in New York for Fall Internet World this week, don’t miss my presentation, “The Web in 2004: What Won’t Be,” Friday at 10:00am. Find out the real future of the Net’s biggest myths: online advertising, digital Darwinism, broadband speed, and online customer service. Judging by the amount of

FORWARD-THINKING COMPANY: Perhaps epitomizing the fear and confusion that the Internet engenders in the music industry, Taylor Guitars [1], a manufacturer of high-end acoustic guitars, last week told its dealers that as of May 1 the dealers would no longer be able to advertise or sell the company’s

When a company decides to get into e-commerce, who’s in charge? Usually the IT managers, if you believe a recent survey of — yes, IT managers — by Cambridge Technology Partners’ Cambridge Information Network. According to this survey of 170 CIO’s, in 72% of the cases the IT department is a primary d