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Vol. 3, No. 5

January 31, 1997

Welcome to another Tripod Insider -- your source for all things Tripod. This week the Insider explores the perils of time management, stealth office equipment, and a good old-fashioned haircut. Catch up on the office news after hearing what's new on the site.

Content And Services

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Tripod's Valentine Generator is back! Our new and improved fun_games feature will let you create that special valentine for that special someone. You've got 2 weeks until Valentine's Day, and Tripod is providing the perfect tool. Don't say we didn't warn you.

Premium Membership

"Local Writer's Workshop," "Wrestling, music, and movies," "WEBTV Special Interest Group," and of course "The Loonatarium." What do these topics have in common? These are just a few of the Chat rooms that have been started with Tripod's Personal Chat service. Along with a Personal Chat room, you get 5 Megs of disk space for your free homepage, 20% discounts on all Tripod apparel, and advance previews of new Tripod services -- all for $3 per month. Take a peek.

WORK & MONEY

Retirement plan? Now? As if. But Tripod's expert on financial issues for people in their twenties and thirties explains why it's smart and easy:

Looking for a job that lets you travel? Journey deep into the Amazon Rainforest to meet three young researchers for whom working in a lab or behind a desk is a distant memory.

Why is Scott Adams' "The Dilbert Principle" such a runaway success? Are we really such a nation of losers? Find out.

Also be sure to help a Tripod member with a Dilemma about a Jekyll and Hyde co-worker, and sound off about government plans to "privatize" Social Security in this week's Work & Money Survey.

Randy Williams, Editor

HOMELIFE

Ten artists. They're young. They're discussing the state of the arts and the state of the artist's refrigerator. It's live. And you can join in. Drop by the Young Artists Conference today. In the Women's Room, we're debating the name-changing issue. Now that a woman has the choice to keep her own name, is she betraying the cause by taking her husband's name? Follow the debate, then have your say in the Women's Room conference.

Elsewhere, Doctor Bob checks in with reports on giving blood, yeast infections, and how fingernails are a window into your body's health (or lack of it). And in the survey, it's the movie moralists vs. Larry Flynt: Should movies be more socially responsible? It's all in the Living and Travel section.

Emma Taylor, Editor

POLITICS & COMMUNITY

Didn't make it to the Inaugural this year? Well, we've got the REAL scoop on it. Al "Girl Reporter" Hoff reports from the inside, while freelance photographer Joeff Davis shows what it's like to be shut out of every event.

Get two doses of our new regular column, "Survey Says." This week, we wrap up the recent Ebonics survey. Plus, get the results of last week's survey on whether the President should go courtside over the Paula Jones accusations.

The ratings for network newscasts are way down, and newspaper readership is declining (especially among people our age), so this week's survey asks: where do you get your news? All this and more as we wrap up "Media" month in Politics & Community: Come on by and make your opinion known.

Josh Glenn and Michael Agger, Editors

TRITECA

When is the Internet not the Internet? When it's the strangely restricted China Wide Web. An ex-patriate reports back. 'Fess up, do you ever read those "Read Me" files when you download? A font maker and shareware developer excoriates the thieves among us. Where are the industry lemmings converging this week? Why, on convergence technologies (including, but not limited to, WebTV), of course!

Also: The second part of Norman C. Berns' heroic attempt to build his own computer, more on frames and lack thereof, and all the homepage-building tips and tricks you could ever want. It's all in TriTeca!

Michelle Chihara, Editor

Tripod on CNNfn: News From the Front

Tripod's bi-monthly segment on CNNfn's IT'S ONLY MONEY has changed times: It's still airing every other Friday, but now it's at 1:00 p.m. (EST) instead of at 6:00 p.m (EST).

On Friday, January 31, Tripod's editorial director Josh Glenn will reveal the secrets of electronic banking to the world. Tune in... and call in, because we'll be giving away Tripod T-shirts to any Tripod member who calls CNNfn and whose question makes it to Josh on-air. Identify yourself as a member when you call -- and please stick to the subject. (He's an editor, not a psychic!) To win that t-shirt, call 1-800-304-FNET.

If you can't catch the show, you can stay in the know.

Tripod Insider

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Meetings, meetings, and more meetings. The more the company grows, the more meetings we have. It's getting so bad that the tech guys "went analog" (i.e., Jon and Jeff invested in date books). Jeff is still working out a few bugs with his new time management system, though: He was half an hour late to one meeting because he forgot what day it was. His excuse? "I have a day planner, but it doesn't do any good if I don't know what day it is."

Other office woes concern the lack of equipment and supplies: They just can't ship those computers fast enough to keep up with our ever-growing staff. Recently, however, Membership pulled off something of a coup. In cahoots with the design department, we managed to reel in a brand spanking new 17-inch monitor which very "mysteriously" showed up in our offices one day. Bruce said we could have it (so he wouldn't have to deal with sending it back). I think we've stumbled onto a gold mine.

In another Insider moment, Jon, Jesse, and I were all getting a bit shaggy and, after a particularly punchy Tuesday production meeting, we set off together to a local barber shop that is best described by its name: "Man's World." We all got no-frills trims that prompted Jesse and me to don our hats for the rest of the day. It was, by all accounts, an interdepartmental bonding experience -- and today several of the women in editorial were seen sneaking off to the salon together. Looks like we've started something! Hey, as office politics and production woes start to get to us, we'll always have "Man's World."

Tripod Membership

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Thanks for becoming a member of Tripod.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me.
My mailbox is always open.

Tung T. Pham
Membership Director
[email protected]

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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