Word: multimedia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like Gates, Eck has used a multimedia approach to reach audiences. The Pluralism project, which hired Harvard students as researchers, produced the CD-ROM On Common Ground: World Religions in America. It documents the "growing religious diversity across the United States" since 1965, when immigration quotas were significantly relaxed, Eck said. The CD-ROM is now in wide use at the collegiate and secondary school levels...
These break down into three categories: multimedia, commerce and function...
...First, multimedia. As I write this column, I'm listening to a streaming audio version of a Raekwon album I found at www.broadcast.com. With products such as RealPlayer, people can listen to radio stations and watch television programming across the world with steadily improving quality. Yes, you too can listen to KOKL in bustling Okmulgee, Oklahoma...
...students crack their books the minute they get home? Are the Williams-family rules the way to success? Not necessarily. Bismarck Paliz likes to work late at night. "I've had projects due the next day, and I've had to stay up till 5 a.m.," he says. His multimedia work style horrifies his mother: "He has the TV on, the headphones on his ears, and he's doing his homework on the computer," says Wadette Paliz with a shudder. But she doesn't argue with success. Stephen George has also been known to do homework with the television blaring...
...surprise festival success, Williams has been flooded with offers--unfortunately, most of them calling for him to play dope dealers. Instead of cashing in, he is writing a new book of verse and his own script. Following the lead of actor-singer Paul Robeson, Williams hopes to become a multimedia sensation. "Robeson followed his heart to get closer to the hearts of other people," he says. Good words to live...