<H5>Subject: Re: New Century Network  From: John Van Zwieten <jvz@clark.net> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 95 13:13:18 PDT</H5>
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From: John Van Zwieten <jvz@clark.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 95 13:13:18 PDT
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>Rosalind Resnick is right both that this effort may be starting a bit late 
>and that there remains a lot more to be done if national advertising is to be 
>attracted to online newspapers. The New Century Network, at best, may create 
>a defacto national SAU for online newspapers. At worst, it is a circling of 
>old media wagons on a threatening New Media frontier.

YES!!!

This NCN is more than a year behind infinet which had pretty much the same 
idea and made it happen quickly.  I just got an e-mail talking about 
infinet signing up CBS to provide internet connects for all affiliates.  
These will be directly competative with NCN.  They will have a serious 
head start and plenty of time to sign up new users.  

This newspaper bunch has never made anything happen quickly.  This is another 
reactive response to the continued errosion of the share of mind that 
newspapers hold.

John
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