Media
How About Those Mets?: Chatting about news on the Web.
Have you seen? Usenet groups host on-line
discussions on a variety of subjects.
IOTA Interview: Pablo
Boczkowski, Mellon Fellow, Columbia University.
Assistive Media:
Heard any good magazines lately?
Have you seen? The Assistive Media site offers its visitors RealAudio recordings of
magazine articles. The site is specifically designed for the visually impaired, but
it's a great resource for everyone.
Did you know? Assistive Media won the 1999
Streamers Progressive Award as the best non-profit Web site using RealMedia -
presented by RealNetworks and
sponsored by the Intel Corp.
IOTA Interview: David
Erdody, founder of the non-profit organization Assistive Media.
Music Online:
Will the MP3 digital audio format change the way we purchase and experience music?
Did you know? MP3 format compresses files to about 1/12 the size of
previous high-quality formats such as wav. One of the ways it does this is by eliminating
the highest and lowest frequencies that are less audible to human ears. A true audiophile
with excellent equipment may be able to tell the difference, however.
Have you seen? At goodnoise.com
you'll find tracks and albums from independent artists like They Might Be Giants,
Morphine, and Frank Zappa.
The site also keeps up with music news and provides downloads and
links for audio players,
such as FreeAmp, an Open Source
player, and Macamp, "the
definitive MPEG Layer 3 player for the Macintosh."
IOTA Interview: Steve
Grady, Vice President of Corporate Communications for goodnoise.com
Internet Broadcasting: Will university-owned Webcasts replace commercial television broadcasts
of sporting events?
Have you seen? MGoBlue.com, where you can watch live hockey games,
press conferences and coaches shows. To submit your ideas for future MGoBlue.com content,
send e-mail to Tom Cecchini.
Did you know? There are now more than 50 million registered users
of RealMedia.
IOTA Interview: Tom
Cecchini, Associate Director of Athletics at the University of Michigan and
responsible for the MGoBlue.com site.
Fan Fiction: What
happens when the audience becomes the author?
Did you know? It wasn't until the Industrial Revolution that
popular characters were seen as the intellectual property of large corporations, according
to MIT Literature Professor Henry Jenkins, an expert on fan fiction.
IOTA Interview: Henry
Jenkins, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a fan fiction expert and
author of "Textual Poachers."
News on the Internet: How can the Internet help you follow the news?
Did you know? The audience for Internet news is growing rapidly,
tracked by surveys from
the Pew Center for People in the Press.
Have you seen? The Create
Your Own Newspaper (CRAYON) site allows you to play online editor by mixing and
matching content from your favorite Internet news sources to create a "daily
you."
Grand Rapids Community Media
Center: What would Thomas Jefferson have thought of the Internet?
Have you thought about? The role electronic media can play a role
in a democracy.
Have you seen? The site for the Grand Rapids Community Media Center brings together public
radio, television and the Internet to create a democratic forum on the local level and the
Transatlantic Information Exchanges (TIES)
site, which extends the dialog through foreign exchange programs.
High Definition Television: What happens when televisions go digital?
Did you ever wonder? What is the future of television and
broadcasting?
Have you seen? Immaculate Reception: Standards
and the Birth of a High Definition Television System in the U.S. |
