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...company recently changed its name to Netscape Communications Corp., and its Web browser, Netscape, is considered by some to be superior to NCSA Mosaic. In particular, Netscape displays graphics as they are being downloaded, as opposed to Mosaic, which forces the user to wait until the download is complete...
...think the Web is so popular because it provides a simple way of presenting graphic text and making it interactive over the Internet," Bhan says. "It provides a user-friendly format for presenting info...
...less freewheeling about its own intellectual property: it has bullied smaller publications into dropping the word wired as the name of a column. Now the newsletter Information Law Alert reports that Wired once tried to trademark (the symbol universally used on the Internet to separate a user's name from his domain) as the magazine's logo. "We see no inconsistency between the editorial and business practices of Wired," says editor Louis Rossetto (http://wired.com) Besides, he adds, Wired lost all interest in the "at sign" when it was adopted by the online service of the fuddy-duddy New York...
...information on-demand" functionality of interactive media will also allow for a more informed populace. Granted, technology as it is today requires the user to be somewhat well-informed anyway, but as interfaces grow and society habituates to new media, the method--and the impulse--of Joe User to extract information from the Infobahn will become intuitive...
...left this institution and made an example of her/himself we actually dig? Can we find just one individual who has strayed deliberately from the horde of garbled-Gen X-rhetoric manifesto-creators who scream "I have a New Kind of Feminism" or "I am a New Kind of Prozac User"? Such an individual exists, and she is not self-congratulatory. Her name is Alice Stone...