March 10, 2000

UTNE MAGAZINE ONLINE ANNOUNCES COMMUNITY SOFTWARE UPGRADE

MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- Café Utne, MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Utne Magazine Online (www.utne.com) announced today a major software upgrade for its Café Utne community. The software upgrade will support Utne Magazine Online's aggressive community-building strategy. "We're building on our past success by developing partnerships with like-minded organizations," said Christopher Pollard, Online Director. "The next generation of Motet will allow Utne Magazine Online to continue as an online community leader."

The next generation of the Motet conferencing software will add a host of new features. "Motet is already the fastest, most stable conferencing software available," said Pollard, "With these changes we're making the best better."

Café Utne, which is currently powered by the first generation of Motet software, will be modernizing its look and feel, creating the ability to customize different conferencing spaces within the community. These changes will bring multiple tiers of public and private conferencing spaces to the site, allowing Utne Magazine Online to host partners' communities within its existing Café Utne community structure.

Utne Magazine Online (www.utne.com) has been published independently in Minneapolis since 1995, delivering a rich archive of Utne Magazine magazine material from "The Best of the Alternative Media" within twelve categories. Content is updated daily, with headlines rotated throughout the site. Utne Magazine Online also includes hundreds of easy-to-browse book, magazine, music, web site and product reviews. In addition, Utne Magazine Online has built one of the nation's oldest and most active online communities with Café Utne. -30-