Word: audio
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...programming mixtures reach us through a variety of pipelines all owned by one of four Great Big Media Companies. These are all exactly alike in their collection of assets, each of them owning broadcast, narrowcast, die-cast, retrocast and cybercast, broadband, narrowband, audio, video, satellite and an upload-and-download phalanx of option-driven interfaces. Each of our Great Big Media Companies has thousands of brands that make us feel all warm and toasty and provide an emotional connection to a past that nobody can actually remember. We love our GBMCs and buy their stocks all the time...
...comparison, a more realistic marker of Keyes' stature among Republican candidates. His campaign--run on a shoestring budget, with the fewest dollars of all the major Republican contenders--is mostly about Keyes talking, whether in person (where they'll let him), in the televised debates or in the audio- and videotapes distributed by the campaign: Keyes on his radio show, Keyes making a fourth of July speech, Keyes on "Politically Incorrect," sparring with a former member of Duran Duran on the role of religion in democracy...
...hundred out-of-state volunteers answered a similar call from Al Gore, banging on Iowa doors for the Vice President last week after being summoned through the Internet. Conservative firebrand Alan Keyes beckoned followers from an audio Web banner. "You want conscience back in America? Put principle back in our lives," he blared from the computer speakers of targeted Iowa and New Hampshire Net surfers. On the campaign bus in Des Moines, an aide for publishing tycoon Steve Forbes beamed a Web-page update from a wireless keyboard the size of an Altoids box. And last week journalists couldn...
KITCHEN NET Next time you have an epicurious.com emergency, CMi Worldwide hopes you'll reach for its iCEBOX, a 9-in. TV with Web access, e-mail, an audio and video CD drive (but no DVD player) and spillproof wireless keyboard. The $500 unit, due out in March, only works with the company's own $20-per-month Internet service--a drawback for those already online with another service. Designed specifically for the kitchen--a bracket, sold separately, makes it a space saver--the iCEBOX can do something few other info appliances can: connect to closed-circuit cameras for monitoring...