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Vol. 2, No. 24

October 18, 1996

Welcome to another Tripod Insider -- your source for all things Tripod. This week, meet the new staff members, find a stolen coffee maker, and celebrate with 99,999 other Tripod members. Read all of it after the editors tell you what's new on the Tripod Web site.

Content And Services

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WORK & MONEY
Tripod is dedicated to bringing you perspectives from across the spectrum of the modern workplace, and this week's Work and Money section is brimming over with ideas and true-life stories to inform your own career choices. First up, Catherine Hedgecock continues her outstanding "Eclectic Avenues" profiles of women and men on non-traditional career paths with a look at the charismatic Peggy O'Neal, a personal achievement coach who helps others to realize their potential.

Did you ever have one of those bosses who just couldn't let go of the limelight? Bruce Tulgan, author of "Managing Generation X," takes a hard look at managers who steal credit from their worker bees in his latest "X Nugget." Tools for Thought reviews "So...What Are You Doing After College?" The book, assembled by editor Sven Newman, is a lively and invaluable guide to more than 25 post-collegiate careers and opportunities, told in the visceral, "you are there" style by young people making a difference.

Of course, not everyone has such a great time in the workplace. This week's Work and Money Dilemma presents a piercing issue for our times -- a worker was let go for wearing jewelry in his eyebrow and solicits your advice for getting his job back or finding other legal recourse.

Depending on who you talk to, labor unions are either led by glorious saviors of the working woman and man or minions of the hoary netherworld who have driven costs up and forced businesses to downsize. Weigh in with your thoughts on unions in this week's Work and Money Survey.

Randy Williams, Editor

POLITICS & COMMUNITY
Harry Goldstein goes on location to cover the first Presidential debate. His ground floor coverage of Spin Alley offers a real account of national politics in the making. Randy Williams reviews Al Franken's "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot." Laurie Ouellette profiles DO Something, a non-profit organization founded by Andrew Shue (of "Melrose" fame). Look for a new non-profit profile each Tuesday on Tripod. When will a woman become President of the United States? Speculate in the P&C; survey.

Michael Agger, Acting Editor

HOMELIFE
This week in Living and Travel, we conclude the Literatour series with Dirty Harry's Guide to San Francisco. And for the flip-side of SF, read the review of Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City." In the interview, Tripod talks with Paul Theroux about why he's not an Anglophile, what he thinks about nosy interviewers, and his new novel-memoir "My Other Life." This week's survey is about the virtues of vices. Coffee, nicotine, not mowing the lawn -- what's your vice and how would you defend it?

And just to prove that we haven't succumbed to debauchery, the Doctor is in, and though he might not cure your vice, he's always happy to entertain your questions. This week, Doctor Bob chats about abnormal pap smears and ringworm. Don't forget to check his archive for advice on everything from vitamin deficiency to the importance of penis size. Then, play doctor yourself. One correct diagnosis each week wins a Tripod T-shirt.
Emma Taylor, Editor

Tripod Insider

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The office is buzzing this week as Tripod welcomes two new employees. Jesse Milden joins the design staff to give Margaret some much needed help keeping up with the site design. Under Jesse's calm exterior hides a coffee fiend. In fact, unbeknownst to the editors, he commandeered their coffee maker. Looks like there could be some trouble brewing between the two offices, not to mention bad puns.

Tripod also welcomes Josh Glenn, who we poached from the Utne Reader, and is the new Editorial Director. Josh certainly knows how to make friends. He admitted to have read every issue of the Insider and thus gets a big thumbs up in my book.

Last week many of us attended a trade show in New York. The great thing about these shows is all the free stuff you get. I got Jeff, programmer extraordinaire, a Perl T-shirt. He was very excited, not about the shirt, but because the shirt showed the newest version of Perl.

This past week was also historic because Tripod grew to 100,000 members! It's hard to believe that it's been a little more than year since Tripod launched its services. We've had a wild ride this past year and it only promises to get better as we welcome the next 100,000 members to our community.

Tripod Membership

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Tung T. Pham
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This has been another issue of the Tripod Insider, the occasional newsletter on what's happening at Tripod. Past issues of the Tripod Insider are also available.

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