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From: Kathy E. Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Andreas Ramos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Web Consultants List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 12:48 AM
Subject: Re: WC:>: Portals all starting to look and function alike
>Well, folks -- newspapers look "alike" too -- even when they are in
>other languages than English.
Well... German papers don't have a comics page. In fact, no European paper
does. Nor do they have separate sports section. The New York Times has a
rather stuffy, old-fashioned look to it, compared to most modern city
papers.
Anyway, newspapers have been around for 400 years or so.
It is a bit funny to watch the industry go charging off in the trend of the
moment, with the trade magazine pundits announcing that "This is the Big
One, folks!" each time and naive, outsider corps plunking down hundreds of
millions of dollars to buy in (just as Disney did), partly out of greed and
partly out of sheer fear that they'll be left out.
All media have to find their best form of expression. In the beginning, new
media always try to repeat the current successful models. Photography spent
nearly the first 100 years trying to prove that it could replicate nature as
well as an oil painting. Radio spent its early career trying to replicate
the music hall, with radio shows, etc. TV tried to prove that it was radio
(music shows, etc.) So the web first tried to be a mall, then a TV channel
(push technology), and now a mail order catalog (web commerce). Eventually
it'll find its natural form. But we won't take fourty years to do that.
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Andreas Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.andreas.com
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