They often serve to introduce people to the Internet, and to those already familiar, they offer convenient access. That's seems to be the thinking of Weiss, who's opening up shop on the heavily traveled Wickenden Street. Even in the face of lots of competition from other coffee shops, he remains confident that the Internet will help set him apart. Rhode Islanders are going on line by the thousands, according to a recent poll by the University of Rhode Island. We want to know what you are doing once you get there.
Horror stories are welcome, too.
We'll print the most interesting responses in a future Cybertalk column, along with a chart of the local Internet providers and their rates. The meeting is at 7 p.m. in the East Conference room of the Community College of Rhode Island, Warwick. The meeting is free. Timothy C. Barmann is a Journal-Bulletin staff writer. His column runs every other Sunday on the On Line page.