In addition to Internet World, Internet Today, Net Guide, Net User, .net, and Infobahn, local magazines like Internet Australasia and Internet. Au have joined the fray. More than 2,000 books about the Internet may have been published last year alone. The more media literate a society becomes, the more it craves media to be literate about. Internet-related publications will thus continue to experience a boom as interest in the Net grows.
Autumn is the season for that great British tradition of party conferences.
The Conservatives do not yet seem to have a Web presence. The data communications company Sovam Teleport has launched Russia Online, the first full-feature online service to appear in Russia. The new service, available in English and Russian, is aimed at the mass consumer market and future generations of Internet surfers.