Word: networker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three sites I checked out--Digital Entertainment Network den.net) Pseudo pseudo.com and Wirebreak wirebreak.com) which just launched in mid-September--I found dozens of shows on everything from a bilingual drama about Hispanic gang members to documentaries on skateboarding superstars. Watching the blurry images on matchbox-size video windows within a computer screen can be annoying, but it's not all bad news. Instead of waiting for prime time, I can view any show whenever I want just by clicking onscreen. And because many episodes are commercial free and less than 10 minutes long, I can squeeze them in during...
...noted by Hal Varian, dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley: there are different definitions of just what the Internet is. "In a very narrow sense," he says, "it might be defined as a standardized protocol for wide-area computer networks." A broader definition, he explains, would be "the entire system of computers, plus the LANS [local area networks], plus the wide area network." That would come close to embracing most of what is generally considered information technology...
...PEEKING! As the fall TV season heats up, so do the boycotts. Minority groups are fighting the whiteness of network prime time with the biggest flurry of boycotts ever. Here's a guide to what not to watch...
...BOYCOTTERS] Media Action Network for Asian Americans...
...power of the SAT and the keepers of its flame at the Educational Testing Service. Lemann is especially good at describing the "quiet coup d'etat" that the SAT accomplished in the 1950s and '60s, when it booted the Wasp elite by substituting classroom skills for the old-boy network as the key to college admission...