Computer-Mediated
Communication Magazine /
Volume 1, Number 7 / November 1, 1994 / Page 8
From the Nets
by John December
(john@december.com)
Waves...
Did the crowded hallways, under-capacity rooms, and failed air
conditioning get you down in Chicago? Try the
WWW2 Electronic Proceedings online,
the way the Web was meant to be
... »
Philip Elmer-DeWitt prepared a good
ten-minute overview about the Internet which aired on
"The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour" on October 19th
... »
Welcome to the Web:
Time, Inc.
launched a Web-based magazine,
Pathfinder
offering "writing and photography and a whole
lot of other Internet goodies."
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Wired
launched HotWired
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Changes:
MeckerWeb's
Christopher Locke is no longer president, and
MecklerWeb's general manager Paul Gudelis
is expected to realign the much-hyped, under-sponsored,
graphics-heavy information "community"
to better support Meckler's paper-based publications
... »
Other big projects:
MCI launched network MCI and
IBM has started its
Global Network... but will they come?
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Toronto, October 26th: more than
one hundred "McLuhanites" celebrated Marshall McLuhan's life and work,
including Barry
Nevitt, Eric McLuhan and Maurice McLuhan... a new McLuhan book with
software is forthcoming
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Threads...
The access thread:
How shall the government provide
widespread access to the Internet/Web?
Through libraries (focusing on community-based information
providers with experience in helping people make sense of and use
information)? Or through Post Offices (focusing on federally-controlled
conduits)?
... »
The hype thread: Rance Crain, editor-in-chief
of paper-based
Advertising Age dismisses
the current interest in online communication as
"'cyberspin' designed to build urgency and credibility for
a new technology that to my way of thinking will never be more
than a niche player for our time and attention" (October 24, p. 18).
... »
Catches...
ReliefRock for Rwanda virtual
benefit concert
... »
The US White House
... »
Santa at the North
Pole
... »
radio you can see
... »
beer-sponsored culture
you can read about
... »
Nostalgia: I watched
Lost in Space way too much while growing up
... »
Thinking of
looking up an 800 number online?
You will!
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