Bartleby Weekly: October 17, 2000

Bartleby Weekly

Volume I, Issue 19. October 17, 2000

Bartleby.com Serves as Outpost for CyberSurfari Fall ’00, a World-Famous Educational Online Treasure Hunt Expedition

Bartleby.com holds a clue that will unlock a treasure chest containing more than $100,000 in cash and prizes for participants of CyberSurfari Fall ’00, an educational and fun expedition where players explore more than 100 hand-picked destinations throughout the Internet. CyberSurfari.org is designed to help students, teachers and families learn to benefit from surfing the Web safely and effectively at school and at home.

Running from October 20, 2000 to March 15, 2001, the comprehensive online expedition is made possible by a 501-C3 nonprofit organization called the Children’s Web Surfing Alliance, Inc. and the contest’s generous sponsors including Lycos, Inc., Clever Island, Discovery School, Education World, Learning Network, Hewlett Packard, BigChalk.com, National Education Association, and Steck-Vaughn Publishing.

Further information on CyberSurfari Fall ’00 is accessible at http://www.cybersurfari.org
The Fall contest launches October 20th at 3:00 PM Eastern time.
Practice and sample clues are accessible by visiting CyberSurfari.org’s practice section and playing the summer contest.
CyberSurfari.org’s Lesson Ideas Section offers curriculum ideas based around themes designed to help teachers incorporate the Web into their daily lesson planning activities.

Bartleby.com Ranked Among Top 50 Most-Trafficked Sites on the Web

Bartleby.com Second Most Popular Book Site

Since October 26, 2000, 100hot, a leading Web-tracking service, has ranked Bartleby.com among the top 50 most-trafficked websites, ahead of such other sites as Napster.com, Nytimes.com and Pathfinder.com. Since October 19th, Bartleby.com has been ranked as the second most-trafficked books website; only the giant e-retailer Amazon.com has more unique users. Bartleby.com outpaced such bookstore sites as Barnes and Noble and Borders, as well as publishers Prentice Hall and National Academy Press. 100hot surveys the daily surfing of 100,000 web users to compile their weekly lists.

Bartleby.com has experienced a three-fold growth in its already large audience in the last two months. Now millions of patrons a month experience the web’s most comprehensive public reference, literature and verse site. Bartleby.com provides the most up-to-date year-2000 editions of the Columbia Encyclopedia and American Heritage^® Dictionary; the best contemporary and classic thesauri and usage guides; the first names in the reference categories quotations, anatomy, language, etiquette, cookery, mythology, literary history and parliamentary procedure; as well as the King James Bible and Oxford Complete Works of Shakespeare, among hundreds of other titles.

See Bartleby.com’s Indexes by Author, Subject and Title.

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