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...computer in Sweden." When you go through art school, all your friends become struggling artists, and the thing that restricts your ability to pursue your art or craft is distribution. The writer needs the publisher; the musician needs the label. All of a sudden there was this medium, and we could completely disintermediate the communication process. For us, that was like, Oh, my God, this is going to change everything...
...computer and outer cyberspace basically hitch a ride across the city's network of power lines. There's no interference because electrical current and digital 1s and 0s run at different frequencies. Manassas uses a fiber-optic network to carry data from its central Internet servers to the medium-voltage lines that run underground or overhead along residential streets. Special hardware clamped to every transformer helps the Internet signal jump to the low-voltage lines that disappear inside individual homes...
...first coming was all about grafting old businesses onto a new medium (pet food! on the Internet!), Web 2.0 is all about empowering individual consumers. It's not enough just to find that obscure old movie; now you can make your own film, distribute it worldwide and find out what people think almost instantly. Big businesses are embracing this new world as well, not just through advertising but also by tapping the expertise of everyone out there to enhance their products. Here's how to decode the buzzwords and blaze your own trail through the tangle of websites. You Make...
...Essentially, both sides are betting on who's more disposable: the content providers or the medium. The writers' gamble is that, deprived of Heroes and 'Til Death, enough viewers will disappear to put a hurt on their bosses. (And yet when the strike ends, people will rush back gratefully to see their work again.) The producers are betting that viewers will be satisfied with reruns and reality - hey, TV's TV! - and the writers will have to fold; CBS CEO Leslie Moonves told investors, "We are fully prepared to offer alternative-programming options...
...After World War II, the comic book genre became an unlikely vehicle for civic protest and consolidation of memory. "The hour of immigrant assimilation gave way to the fight for minorities and civil rights," explains Pasamonik. Harvey Kurtzman used the medium to tackle racial segregation, the Cold War and McCarthyism in his satirical MAD magazine. In 1955, when popular awareness of the Holocaust was scant, Bernard Krigstein and Al Feldstein caused a shock by revisiting the concentration camps with the seminal graphic story Master Race. During the '60s and '70s the genre opened up to the banal and biographical, with...