Subject: Arizona Daily Star Online From: sidecar@azstarnet.com (Arthur Jacobson) Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 17:17:11 -0700

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The Arizona Daily Star (Tucson Arizona) has just launched its online project
and I'd be interested in hearing from people on this list how the project
compares with online projects they might be acquainted with.

Subscribers get a slip/ppp connection and a suite of applications that includes
Netscape, Eudora, Trumpet, Gopher,  Ws-Archie, Ws-FTP, WnQvt (a telneting app)
Ws-Finger, W-s Ping, Trumpet Winsock, Ws Irc, and MegaEdit.

Subscribers get a Web version of the Star, with a morgue that goes back four
years,
and certain special features that don't appear in the paper Star, for
instance a weekly
round-up of stories about  the cyber world. (Today 30 pieces)

They are running an ad campaign in the paper, with stories about StarNet
(the name of the service) and pictures of support people. They are on public
radio, and on TV. They have established what I suppose you could call a
separate StarNet newsroom, 
which is responsible for content and for locating hotlinks to stories that
appear in the paper.

In the paper Star  you find a "StarNet" dingbat at the bottom of any story that
has an hot link  to sidebars and background material in the computer version. 

They have established a series of forums, available only to StarNet subscribers,
with subjects of ineterst to seniors, local politics, travel, movies, etc
etc.  Senior editors and staff reporters are posting to these forums, asking
reader input and so on.

The Starnet costs 20 bucks a month...for unlimited time!

If this is an old story to you ( I'm new to the list) I'm sorry for the bother.
I'd be interested in discussing this with anyone who has the time. E-mail is
fine,
to the address below.

About myself, I'm a freelancer here in Tucson who does a variety of writng
and research chores, and spends a good bit of time on the net. I am not a
computer guru,
but I dropped CompuServe and jumped on StarNet like a duck on a junebug
because of the service and the great support.

Art Jacobson....who is otherwise  Sidecar@azstarnet.com


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