Digital Media Perspective

Table of Contents Editorial: Letting publishers be publishers Demo 95: The Experiential Report Small Newspapers, Big Possibilities Conference Announcements Inside the February issue of Digital Media: A Seybold Report Who We Are, How to Reach Us How To Subscribe to DMP and Get Back Issues Editorial: Letting publishers be publishers By Neil McManus A fiery dispute broke out between Apple and The Voyager Co. this month after Apple removed Voyager's "Who Built America?" history CD-ROM from a software bundle it was selling to schools. According to Voyager, Apple asked it to create a sanitized version of the CD-ROM for the bundle in respon...

Table of Contents Online Services: Are We Having Fun Yet? Motorola Takes the PDA High Ground Report from the Floor of CES I/O: Readers Respond Inside the February Issue of Digital Media: A Seybold Report Who We Are, Where to Reach Us How to Subscribe to DMP and Get Back Issues Editorial: Online Services: Are We Having Fun Yet? by Neil McManus What will it take for online services and the Internet to be considered popular entertainment? This question was posed to me by a friend in the TV industry. There are probably hundreds of answers to this question -- and I'd love to hear yours -- but I'm guessing that people will think of...

Table of Contents The Mad Trappers of the High Internet I/O: Readers Respond Inside the January Issue of Digital Media: A Seybold Report Who We Are, Where to Reach Us How To Subscribe to DMP and Get Back Issues The Mad Trappers of the High Internet by Mitch Ratcliffe Back in the 1870s and 1880s, pioneers talked up frontier legends about mad trappers who stalked the various mountain ranges, the Sierra, the Uintas, and the northern Rockies. These woodsmen had come west when there were just bison, beaver and Indians to hunt; but the passing of the frontier and their staple prey supposedly had driven them to stalking humans. There may ha...

Table of Contents Editorial: A Red Line in Cyberspace? The Top Ten digital media events of 1994 Sexist Netiquette Cable customer service: Is it ready for interactivity? Kaleida's ScriptX: It's late but ahead of its time Inside the Current Issue of Digital Media: A Seybold Report Editorial: A Red Line in Cyberspace? by Mitch Ratcliffe We were troubled by one aspect of Time Warner's announcement last month of its full service network in Orlando, Fla. The broadband network, which will host movies-on-demand, shopping and, eventually a variety of data services, will probably not reach the poor and middle-income families in the gia...

Table of Contents Digital Media Perspective: Birth of a Notion McInternet? MCI's Bid to Make the Net Accessible Forever Young: The CD-ROM Market Doesn't Want to Grow Up Life in a "No Newspaper" City Strike Gives San Francisco a Glimpse of the Information Age Inside the Current Issue of Digital Media: A Seybold Report Digital Media Perspective: Birth of a Notion This is the first issue of Digital Media Perspective, the free electronic publication of Digital Media: A Seybold Report. Just what the hell are we doing here, and what can you expect from this thing? Is this another address that will swamp your mailbox with hundreds of me...