NetWorld! What People Are Really Doing on the Internet and What It Means to YouRothman, David H.
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NetWorld! What People Are Really Doing on the Internet and What It Means to You
Rothman, David H.
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_The Cook Report_, written for the Net savvy and dealing heavily with
local and state Net issues, costs $85 for individuals and $350-$650
for corporations. Cook’s e-mail address is cook@cookreport.com; his
physical address, 431 Greenway Avenue, Ewing, NJ 08618.
Footnote 2.6:
Rates for new customers increased after the _Times_ article on Larry
Grant appeared in mid-1994.
Footnote 2.7:
Mark Lyon, “Firm gives air freight a lift on Internet,” _Air Commerce
Special_ supplement, page 8, distributed with the _Journal of
Commerce_, December 19, 1994.
Footnote 2.8:
Of course, on occasion, electronic mail can be delayed for several
hours and maybe even longer. So Telnet or the World Wide Web would
probably be better in situations where couriers are on tight
schedules.
Chapter 3—EntertaiNet: A Few Musings on Net.Rock,
Leonardo da Vinci and Bill Gates, Bianca’s Smut Shack,
and David Letterman in Cyberspace
Footnote 3.1:
ISDN means Integrated Services Digital Network, which allows
transmissions faster than the 14.4 Kbps and 28.8 Kbps rates so common
today.
Footnote 3.2:
Barry Walters, “The Internet is a punk rocker now,” _San Francisco
Examiner_, February 27, 1974, page D3 (Style section).
Footnote 3.3:
Laurel Taylor, “The speed of sound,” _Good Times_, August 18, 1994.
Chapter 4—Pulped Wood versus Electrons:
Can the Print World Learn to Love the Net?
Footnote 4.1:
A.C.’s work is on the Net, but in the strictest sense he himself
isn’t. His daughter at a paper in Florida can enjoy his columns online
but can’t even swap e-mail with him. Perhaps she’ll eventually conquer
his technophobia. A.C., I’m rooting for you.
Footnote 4.2:
Frank Daniels III, “One newspaper’s journey on the Internet,” _T
Leaves: A Newsletter for NAA Members_, October 1994. NAA is the
Newspaper Association of America.
Footnote 4.3:
David Streitfeld, “Book report,” _Washington Post_, September 25,
1994, page 19 of Book World section.
Footnote 4.4:
Lewis and many other journalists here do not necessarily serve as
official spokespeople for their publications.
Footnote 4.5:
Teresea Martin, “Like a newspaper, but better: Tablets will succeed
where others have failed,” _Digital Media: A Seybold Report_,
September 13, 1994.
Footnote 4.6:
Jonathan Seybold, “How the rise of electronic media is affecting paper
prices,” _Digital Media Perspective_, March 27, 1995.
Footnote 4.7:
To Baker’s credit, he seems to have learned about the new media since
writing the article. Commendably he came out for an online
royalty-collection approach that would be less onerous to readers than
the approach favored by the Clinton Administration.
Footnote 4.8:
As usual, for aesthetic reasons, I’m using italics to show emphasis in
place of the original capitalization.
Footnote 4.9:
Not to be confused with the former speech writer for Ronald Reagan.
Footnote 4.10:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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