Of course, it wouldn't be until March of 1999 that we officially became ZATZ Publishing. By that time, we'd launched three magazines: PalmPower, Windows CE Power, and DominoPower. Both PalmPower and Windows CE Power (along with PalmPower's Enterprise Edition and Pocket PC Life) would eventually become part of Computing Unplugged Magazine and DominoPower has become the undisputed leading online magazine for the Lotus community.

Rounding out our offerings, OutlookPower has become the go-to magazine for help with email, Microsoft Outlook, and Exchange, Connected Photographer Magazine found a unique niche in helping people get the most out of their cameras, and WebSpherePower is now the pre-eminent news source for IBM Java, WebSphere, and Eclipse IT professionals.

Let me hit you with some mind-blowing numbers:

• 8 magazines
• 360 authors
• 2,338 in-depth articles
• 36,413 news stories
• 50,381 outbound links to other Web sites
• 1,102,530 email newsletter subscribers
• 529,214,400 individual email newsletters mailed
• 1,866,000,000 Web pages served

Denise Amrich and I started ZATZ after heading up a number of print magazines for Ziff. One of our earliest debates was whether we should produce our magazines online, in print, or both. Obviously, we finally chose to produce the magazines online. No trees were killed in the production of our content.

To learn more about our 10 years online (and what that meant for the environment), tap here.

]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00037427.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00037427.html David Gewirtz

This has been a very exciting week for us here at ZATZ. After many long months of work, my book Where Have All The Emails Gone?, shown in Figure A, is now finally available. You can buy it directly from Amazon.com.

FIGURE A

This is the cover of the book. Exciting, isn't it?

Back in April of 2007, it came to America's attention that some email messages from the White House had gone missing. As the publisher of two of the largest publications dedicated to email and electronic communication, OutlookPower Magazine and DominoPower Magazine, it seemed appropriate for us to investigate this issue.

I honestly expected to write one short article that would discuss the basics of the issue and then forget all about it. Of course, from the news reports in the mainstream media, there was really no way to know there was a nightmare scenario hidden inside the incredibly mundane topic that is email. As you know, I wound up writing 12 articles, spanning a most of our magazines.

Those articles became the basis for this book. Of course, there was a whole lot of rewrite, and I had to transform the material from something suitable to IT experts to something suitable for mainstream media and politicians. The result is Where Have All The Emails Gone?

Where Have All The Emails Gone? is the most comprehensive analysis of White House email ever published, reads like a thriller, and ends with six very doable recommendations that can quickly and easily bring security and safety back to White House email.

What's next?
We've got a busy few months ahead. The promotional process for the book has started and I'm off doing interviews and sending copies of the book out for review. Stay tuned to the news page or the RSS feeds, and when possible, I'll post the details of where I'll be speaking.

We're also getting ready for the holidays, and right after that, for the Lotus crowd, is Lotusphere. As always, I'm looking forward to seeing all my friends at Lotusphere and seeing many of the great new solutions coming out.

If you're really interested in how we (the editors here at ZATZ) produced this book front-to-back, keep reading the magazine. We'll have an article series in the magazines that showcases every step of this book's production, from the Photoshop work on the cover to the use of InDesign for page layout, and even how we generated the index.

By the way, if you want to help out with the book's mission, please tell people about the book. If you're a blogger, blog about it. Send copies to your congress-critters. Tell people about it at parties. Ask your candidates what they're going to do about White House email security. Of course, suggest they read and follow the suggestions in the book.

As much as this might seem like a bit of shameless self-promotion, there's a much bigger message. Email at the White House is dangerously broken. If anyone's going to fix it, it'll most likely be one or more of you folks, the people reading this magazine.

Finally, if you think you can help publicize the book (and help us all work together to fix this serious Homeland Security problem) feel free to contact Denise Amrich at denise@ZATZ.com or (321) 722-4620. She's the point person promoting the book and helping people learn how to take action.

Product availability and resources
Buy the book at Amazon.com.

Visit the book's resource site.

For more than 20 years, David Gewirtz, the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone? and The Flexible Enterprise, has analyzed current, historical, and emerging issues relating to technology, competitiveness, and policy. David is the Editor-in-Chief of the ZATZ magazines, is the Cyberterrorism Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and is a member of the instructional faculty at the University of California, Berkeley extension. He can be reached at david@zatz.com.

FIGURE A

Here's a big version of our little RSS icon.

RSS, which means Really Simple Syndication, is a format that is rapidly changing how people get timely information on the Internet. If you're like us, you need to visit and read many Web sites on a regular basis. This is pretty obvious, since you're reading WebSpherePower right now.

The problem is, how do you keep up? How do you get all the latest information from all the sites you might want to visit? RSS may well be the solution.

By "subscribing" to an RSS feed, like that from WebSpherePower, you're able to see when a site's got updated information, and you can read that updated information from one program, at one time.

Bits of history
To be fair, all of the ZATZ publications have had RSS feeds since 1998. In fact, when we first published our original RSS feeds, we were the first publishing company to do so across all publications. However, back in 1998, RSS feeds were very primitive, usually containing just headlines. The feeds were used primarily by Web site developers to include our headlines on their Web sites.

To learn all about our feeds and get links to feed readers, tap here.


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