Subject: Why are so few e-papers using the Internet to its extent? From: argus@dds.nl (Marko Faas) Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 00:56:09 GMT

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Hello,

I am astonished. Everyday new techniques and faster lines are invented
and implimented. And still there are so few newspapers who use all the
possibilities of the Internet. Anyone who has seen the shockwave
version of CNN-I knows what I mean.

Video, audio, VR are rarely used (VR never) in on-line reporting.
And with the ISDN and cabletechniques combined with superfast
computers available for the large public for only a few thousant
dollars, one can expect a large audience in near future.
Compression techniques and smart editing can make a multimedia news
available even for 14k4 modems and 386 computers (I use one, so I
know).

Multimedia papers are too often publicized in a one-media form.

Many newspapers tend to put the same stories on-line as used in their
written version. Far too long articles are interrupted by links.
No-one seems aware of the 'zap'-culture of Internet. Seldom is an
article cut in several small (teletext/videotext-alike) articles.
Seldom online articles are used to promote the long story in the
printed paper. Seldom journalists and editors face the fact that
Internet is not the right medium for extensive background stories.

Some papers use pictures for their headlines, resulting that some less
important text-headlines are seen first. Photo's etc. are used seldom
and ihmo the wrong way. Often pictures are big, full color and
uncompressed. Why may papers print pictures on inferior paper
(resulting in a bad picture) and are many on-line pictures state of
the art and 500KB big?

I am talking about the Wold Wide Web, because almost no e-paper uses
the full scale of Internet-systems. IRC, Usenet, E-mail are almost
never used to publish.

Of course there are e-papers who use the Net quite progressive, but
there are so few.
Does any of you agree or disagree?


Mail Ya,

Marko Faas                            argus@digitaal.nl
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