Multimedia InterCD 96
May 28-30, 1996
World Trade Center, Mexico City, Mexico

The Frontiers and Challenges of Online Publishing

Keynote speech

by John December

The World Wide Web and the Internet offer new opportunties to reach global audiences. Publishers can create structures for reaching users in new ways for information, communication, and interaction. But the technologies and techniques for publishing online are changing fast. New technologies using Java allow for more interactive communications. New techniques for shaping networked hypermedia are emerging. The resulting online environment pushes the frontiers of possibilities while at the same time challenges publishers to develop online environments that are innovative, meaningful, and compelling.

Full text of prepared speech
http://www.december.com/present/micd96.html