From: Ken Meyering (ken@define.com)
Date: Tue Mar 04 1997 - 10:03:48 MST
RavnStCrow@aol.com wrote:
> I am interested in thtis subject matter,
Sorry about the super-long URL.
Try this: Go to ALTAVISTA Advanced Query at:
http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq
In the top form entry box, type:
"Ted Turner" AND "Gerald Levin" AND "Michael Ovitz"
This will pull up some articles about how just a few media moguls
largely control the direction of the industry. This is probably no
surprise to most, so it's amazing that proposals aren't written
*directly* to these players.
Levin is CEO of TIME WARNER, Ovitz is CEO of Disney. Michael Milken
comes up a lot in similar articles. Milken has been active and visible
in the most recent "WAR ON CANCER" campaigns. I respect his ability to
push technologies that will accelerate R&D, hypertext being one of them.
These folks are unbelievable influence. A hypermedia business model
that is presented in terms these guys can understand is much more likely
to be implemented than something comprehensible only to academia.
I hope that the DVD people don't make the mistake of mass-producing
DVD's without embedded identifiers on the discs.
Can ANYBODY use UPC/ISBN databases, or are these proprietary?
Perhaps another universal coding scheme could be adopted that is
intended to be available to the general public.
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