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On Sun, 9 Apr 1995 Awirtes@aol.com wrote:

> Something which, I think, needs to be overcome before online-newspapers
> become a seriously profitable enterprise is the fact that todays on-line
> interfaces are competing against a tried-and- true information interface,
> namely: smearing ink on dead trees.
> 
> I'd rather read the New York Times on paper than on AOL.  It's cheaper &
> I can swat flies with it when I read it on my porch every Sunday morning
> (let me see you do *that* with your laptop).
I sometimes glam onto about 5 "hits" and read them in the bathroom or 
while waiting for the bus.  The difference is that instead of carrying 
around enough pulp to fill my 4" thick briefcase, I have the 4 pages I 
want to read.

> What I can't do with paper (but I can do with the Chicago Tribune on
> AOL) is search the entire Sunday help wanted section for jobs with
> the word "Macintosh" in their description.
Another cute one, search the entire news content for the word Macintosh, 
find out who is developing products, or who is buying them, search the 
D&B or S&P for contact information, and get the federal filings on the 
companies you most want to meet with.  You will know the major players 
and major markets for jobs that were never advertized.  Head-hunters are 
getting real good at browsing news-groups and mailing lists for talent.

> Mark Loundy is right: those "unconventional" thinkers who give us
> new types of information are the ones who are going to make the 
> money.
It's a paradyme shift.  When we thought the world was flat, we didn't
sail west beyond the horizon.  Now we orbit the planet almost daily.

News, to the focused reader is more than just words on a page.  To the 
focused reader, it is endless opportunities to begin projects, complete 
them, and share them with others.

>  If you just want to put your front page on the Web, then 
> can I interest you in an old, expensive Edison wax cylinder
> phonograph?  Sure, the sound quality isn't as good as your
> CD player, but it looks really cool!
That's really groovy man :-).

> -Al

	Rex Ballard


From rballard@cnj.digex.net Mon Apr 10 20:23:57 1995
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