Topic: Getting

Pyxis Cyberea

On the personal end of the coming news continuum, most individuals will possess some kind of “news assistant” or “agent,” a computer-generated servant dedicated to the task of scouring the reaches of cyberspace for information of interest … To answer the newsgathering patterns of these assistants, we might see the creation or evolution of multimedia databases/wire services, charging the owner of an agent for the amount of stories (or even bits) downloaded … In the same way that USA Today and other national papers specialize various editions for certain sections of the country, these media enterprises would allow a customer (or a customer’s agent) to create a personal newspaper from a wealth of stories.

Pyxis Cyberea

Through the medium of the World Wide Web, … restrictions placed on the distribution of news disappear; readers around the world can look through a local news service as easily as readers in the service’s home town. Small-town papers have the same ability to reach readers across the world as large metropolitan operations, so the polarity between serving a community and increasing market size assumes a new importance. Newspapers are built upon geographical distinctions; when those distinctions disappear, how does a news provider define and serve its audience?

Net Presence

It is a matter of time, I think, until PR practices become common on the Net … network inhabitants’ understandings of their community and its relationship to the larger world will become less innocent as the stakes in their online discussions … begin routinely to contend with these types of professionalized interventions.

Pyxis Cyberea (Lessons from the Florida Compass)

Newspapers are already “webs of information,” but we move through them differently than when we sit in front of a computer screen. Online newspapers will not have the luxury of the structural, material components of print newspapers to provide the framework for information. Discovering how readers move through information when they can’t turn pages or grab the sports section will be one of the greatest challenges for publishers, editors, and everyone involve in the news industry of the future.

News Flash: Building the Global Student News

Based on the metaphor of the traditional newswire and the organization of the Internet itself, the GSN is essentially a set of standards, a collection of “net tools,” and a group of people who agree to use the standards to produce news and feature-related content. With luck and a lot of work, out of those simple elements a useful service will be formed.

Using the National Networks: Bitnet and the Internet

The potential of a comprehensive national research and education network is enormous … There is no doubt that electronic publications will proliferate, and that citations to articles published only in electronic form will become commonplace. Librarians will need to be able to locate these journals for patrons.

Using the National Networks: Bitnet and the Internet

The national networks are inspired by the vision of a scholar linked to colleagues across the country, and with access to a world of resources, some on a personal computer, and others departmental, campuswide, national, or even international in scope. Ideally, the interface to this “wired” environment will be simple to use, and customized to each scholar’s individual tastes and requirements.

Cyberspace: Some Proposals

Neither an advanced degree in math nor extraordinary powers of visualization ought to be necessary for a reasonably well-educated person to spend time productively in cyberspace.

Mind is a Leaking Rainbow

For blind bards as for nearsighted whiz kids, cyberspace will feel like Paradise! Of course donÕt expect to keep your old identity: one name, one country, one clock. For be it through medical reconstruction or through fantasy, multiplied versions of yourself are going to blossom up everywhere. Ideal, statistical, ironical. A springtime for schizophrenia!

Mind is a Leaking Rainbow

What we call reality was only a temporary consensus anyway, a mere stage in the technique … The 21st century will give birth to the geysers of cyberspace, a sensory lava that will find its way through the cracks of that consensus. Computer hallucination will come in the foreground, as cinema verite and documentaries, and their trail of dogma about the real will recede in the distance.

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