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I’m not beating up on the late professor, one of the best teachers I
ever had. In his place, I’d have given the same advice. The
limitations of 1960s technology made it difficult to think otherwise.
Footnote 4.11:
E-mail from Bruce Siceloff.
Footnote 4.12:
Katherine Fulton, “Heirs to newspaper make unlikely pioneers. So why
is Frank Daniels III out on the frontier?”, _Poynter Special Report:
Converging Technologies_, 1994, pages 5-7.
Footnote 4.13:
Ibid.
Footnote 4.14:
Daniels, in _T Leaves_.
Footnote 4.15:
The speculation about _Time_’s role in the cable trade is my own. Jim
Kinsella, one of the organizers of Pathfinder, told me that he liked
this approach but was not necessarily speaking for the company.
Footnote 4.16:
In Raleigh, a locally oriented arm of Time Warner might enjoy a big
advantage over the _N & O_ someday if the newspaper lacked access to
cable for Internet purposes. Cable will probably be much better than
phone connections, the kind the _N & O_ uses. The best cure, of
course, would be laws that (1) assured the _N & O_ a place on local
cable and (2) also let the phone companies there go into the cable
business. Then the _N & O_ could choose between Time Warner and its
phone company allies of the present. Perhaps such laws will be on the
books by the time you’re reading this. Meanwhile, I’ll hardly blame
the people at Time Warner for unofficially talking up cable for the
Internet; as noted before, I’d do the same, given the technical
benefits.
Footnote 4.17:
Conspiracy theorists may take note that another arm of the Newhouse
interests, Ballantine Books, is distributing _NetWorld!_ for Prima
Publishing.
Footnote 4.18:
Laurie Flynn, “Getting on-line—the Microsoft way,” _New York Times_,
November 20, 1994, page F10.
Footnote 4.19:
The Stahlman and Smith quotes are from “Time Inc. raises its
multimedia profile with an Internet test,” by Deirdre Carmody, _New
York Times_, October 24, 1994, page D10.
Footnote 4.20:
Laura Fillmore, “Online publishing: Threat or menace,” speech to the
Online Publishing Conference, Graphic Communications Association,
March 1993.
Footnote 4.21:
Ibid.
Footnote 4.22:
Ibid.
Footnote 4.23:
Fillmore, “Slaves of a new machine: Exploring the for-free/for-pay
conundrum,” Fifth Conference on Organizational Computing,
Coordination, and Collaboration: “Making Money on the Internet,”
Austin, Texas, May 10, 1994.
Footnote 4.24:
Ibid.
Footnote 4.25:
Vannevar Bush, “As we may think,” _The Atlantic Monthly_, July 1945.
Footnote 4.26:
Interview with Fillmore.
Footnote 4.27:
Fillmore, “Slaves.”
Footnote 4.28:
Ibid.
Footnote 4.29:
Ibid.
Footnote 4.30:
Ibid.
Footnote 4.31:
Rory J. O’Connor, “News firms plan on-line network,” _San Jose Mercury
News_, April 20,1995, page 1F.
Footnote 4.32:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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