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This diversity can exist because the universal resource locators (URLs) which point to Web sites show no favoritism. It costs the end user nothing more to access an individual's home page or the Tommy's Web site than it does to bring up cnn.com or microsoft.com. Just name your destination, and it will appear on your monitor within moments...
Instead of focusing on interactivity and end-user choice, on-line push media outlets focus on the Internet's ability to deliver information quickly. The PointCast network (www.pointcast.com), for instance, delivers news updates several times an hour to your computer via special software...
...user still has more choice over what information is retrieved with on-line push media than with newspapers or television. In the case of PointCast, for instance, users can tell the software to give priority to stories on particular topics or display weather for certain cities...
Baratunde R. Thurston '99 is the Claverly Hall User Assistant for HASCS, a member of the Harvard Computer Society and a Crimson editor...
...been to Logan recently, you've probably seen posters advertising Juno's free Internet accounts. Nationwide dial-up access and Web service is provided at no charge to the end user...