1) Free ISPs Consolidate in Europe What exactly is a free Internet Service Provider (ISP), how they work, and where you can get one. If you were asking this question in the spring of 1999, you would literally have been witness to an explosion of offerings.

Nonprofit organizations, especially small groups, continue to look for ways to take advantage of he benefits of the Internet while incurring the least amount of expenditures. While there are a range of services that provide free e-mail and other Web-based services, are there services that allow nonprofits to put up and maintain actual websites for free? If so, are they worth the price?

On 10/15/01, the U.S. General Accounting Office released "Elections: Perspectives on Activities and Challenges Across the Nation", which addresses reform measures regarding the voting administration, voter registration, voting technologies, and vote counts and certification in federal elections. It is one of a series of reports to Congress in response to the issues and perceptions raised during the contested November 2000 Presidential election, in which some 57% of voting jurisdictions faced some problem conducting a fair and/or accurate vote.

Marcia Stepanek, writes in the October 26, 2000, edition of "BusinessWeek" about some of the software tools being deployed during this campaign season that are opening up the voting process -- not to increase voter turnout, but to find out more information about voters. Internet marketers and candidates, through the use of data-mining tools, are combining individual voter records and personal commercial data to target candidates, issues, and products to specific segments of the population, potentially crossing the boundaries of individual privacy in the process.