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...activists on call at all times, the Coalition can stir a flurry of telephone calls and letters to lawmakers on almost any subject within a matter of hours. To train its operatives, the Coalition runs leadership schools, instructing supporters to form rapid-response networks, connected by phone, fax and modem, in hundreds of counties, located in every state in the Union. They update their information on the third Tuesday of every month by attending satellite downlinks of "Christian Coalition Live," an hour of specific instruction on political organizing at which Reed himself plays host. The broadcasts feature target lists...
...carry audio programming was painful for home-computer users. For instance, Internet Talk Radio, based in Washington, has broadcast an interview show called Geek of the Week for two years, but home listeners have had to be patient: even using a high-speed, 14,400-bit-per-second modem, it took an average of two hours to download a 15-minute show...
Perhaps Nickell and Everson should publish an audio-only version of their TV show; downloading the entire half-hour video, even with a high-speed modem, takes nearly 24 hours. That's why they break their program into smaller segments that can be retrieved one at a time. For instance, Let's Go Giggin, a five-minute comedy bit broadcast last week that features a nose-ringed clown hunting frogs with a stick, takes half an hour to come to life on a computer screen. Still a long wait, but where else can you find entertainment like that...
...years, allowing him to keep in touch with friends and colleagues, bringing news from around the world. "But at what a price!" he writes. "Simply keeping track of this electronic neighborhood takes a couple of hours every night ... Bit by bit, my days dribble away, trickling out my modem...
...noteworthy -- critiques are coming from a crop of new books written by people who have spent a few years (or in some cases a few decades) in cyberspace and know whereof they speak. One of them is Clifford Stoll-a gangly, wild-haired astronomer who got his first modem in 1971 and jacked it into the Internet's precursor, the Arpanet. His 1989 book The Cuckoo's Egg, which told how he used the Net to trap some German hacker spies, was the first Internet-related best seller. How does he feel now about the place he helped popularize...