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The time has come for me to wi
about how the Internet is melding w
what has been perhaps the most defini
pervasive experience of American life
the final decades of the twentieth centi
> shopping.
The 70s, '80s and early "90s saw
rise of commercialism in the forir
thousands of malls made of shimmer
chrome and glass. Commercialism tot
is still showcased in shimmering chro
and glass, except now they are start]
to be found in your monitor as well
in your mall.
A survey done in April and Ma)
last year showed per capita spending
the World Wide Web had increased
35 percent compared to six months beft
The survey was the third done by t
Graphics, Visualization & Usabil
Center in conjunction with The Hern
Project to study web commerce. T
Hermes Project maintains a page detail
the results
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Despite the growth of web shoppi
the same survey showed that shoppi
is dead last as a primary motivation
using the web. In other words, the sur
found shopping to be a small but grow
USCal
CATHERINE MclNTOSH Staff Write
Carolina Alive will perform wit
Hollywood star and USC alumnus Al(
Daniels April 12 at the Roger Cente
"I understand we're very fortunai
to have him," Carolina Alive Preside!
Steve Hillard said. "That's going to c
nothing more than add to th
excitement of the evening."
The annual concert will honor tl
USC Alumni Association's 150t
anniversary and will begin at 8 p.r
"This is the show where all the hai
work and dedication of the entire yei
is put into one night. It's a spectacuh
evening of dancing and music," Hillai
said.
More than 27,000 pairs of e
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ng, My experience
i in I must confess that, until a few weeks
ny: ago, I had never purchased anything
online. Deep down, I think I was starting
the to worry my credentials as a hip cybergod
i of might be in jeopardy. So, when I saw
ing an opportunity to buy something I needed
lay on the web, I jumped at the chance.
mp Tn this race fVio "onmotViincr" waa on
ing upgrade for a spell-checking program I
as own. The company that makes the
program was allowing users to get details
r of about the upgrade on the web, purchase
on the upgrade on the web and receive it
by online as an e-mail attachment,
ire. Well, to see, buy and receive a product
;he online?what could be more hip and
ity cybergodly than that? So, I eagerly sat
les down in front of my home computer, Visa
he card in hand, to make my purchase,
ing I was impressed. The web site was
a t informative, and the order page took
ss/. advantage of Netscape's security features,
og, It was a secure page that could encrypt
ing my name and credit card number when
for they went over the Internet so they would
/ey be safe from prying eyes,
ing I gleefully filled out the online order
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ir Tickets can be purchased at the
Carolina Coliseum box office by calling
, 251-2222 or in the Koger lobby before
' the show. The cost is $10 for adults,
$5 for students and senior citizens.
^ The ensemble is made up of 30
lt students known for their upbeat
performances. Carolina Alive will
L e perform four new songs during the first
half of the concert and sing backup to
ie Daniels for the remainder of the show,
h "We're doing a wide variety of songs,
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"d Daniels graduated in 1978 with
degrees in both music and theatre. He
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form and submitted it.
Another web page came up
telling me my order had
been received and that I EVjHrl
would get my upgrade via 1;
e-mail within three working
Five working days later, ^
I hadn't received my MMjjrWfM
upgrade. When I e-mailed
the company in question, TECHHOBt
they told me they had no Marc
record of ever receiving my
order! bo, 1 had them run
the order again. This was
when the real trouble began.
Two days later, I got an e-mail from
someone in the company's sales
department telling me the USC
mainframe wouldn't accept an e-mail
attachment as large as the one she was
trying to send me.
So, here are the results of my first
online shopping experience: My online
order was lost. My online delivery was
foiled. Ifs been almost three weeks and
I still don't have the product. Fm hoping
to get it by physical mail sometime this
week. On balance, I don't think I can
call this a success.
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now lives in Los Angeles where he is "]
an actor, stunt man and choreographer, g
Daniels was encouraged by Helen "1
Hayes, the First Lady of the American
Theater, to pursue classical theater, ii
He has earned critical acclaim for his "
staging of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer "1
Night's Dream" at the Globe Playhouse o
in Los Angeles and his directing of "As
You Like It" for the Kern Shakespeare b;
Festival in California. Daniels is now a
directing a film version of a Shakespeare p
play starring Martin Sheen, Olivia a
Hussey, Richard Moll, Connie Seleca ft
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smell what you are buying, at httpT/v
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live salesperson questions purchasii
about it And, perhaps most and softw
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unta^n gratification you do when The G
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store with your purchase on the wi
in hand. if you are
Still, online shopping will continue the onlin
to grow as an industry and work out its not be a 1
problems. Of this, I have little doubt.
And, there are already some very nice, Seen
very respectable places you can go online The p
to make your purchases. Here are a few GVU/Hei
sites you might want to visit: October a
The All-Intemet Shopping Directory, the prim
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go shopping, and this is their search the secur
engine. Available at numbers
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html, this is the place to go to find the Manji
shop you are looking for on the web. technolo
The World Shopping Directory, sources.
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vww.cybout.com/cyberianiitml, * me they think the Internet is unsafe
ne of the premiere sites for when it comes to maintaining privacy.
1g Macintosh and PC hardware Of course, these same people routinely
are. You can see product shots, order products on cellular and cordless
1 free demos and place orders phones.
In reality, the percentage of Internet
rVU/Hermes survey found that users with both the knowledge and desire
s the thing most often purchased to intercept your communications is very
jb, followed by hardware. So, small. At the same time, cordless and
looking to get your feet wet in cellular phone communications are much
e shopping world, this might easier to intercept. They can even be
)ad place to visit. intercepted inadvertently. Just ask me
and my roommates. We pick up other
rity students' cordless phone conversations
reliminaiy results from a fourth by accident all the time!
"mes web survey conducted in
ind November have found that Marc LaFountain, a journalism senior,
ary thing holding web users can be e-mailed at lafourdcun-ma1xM9c.edu.
1 shopping online is fear about To subscribe to an electronic version of
ity of their names, credit card this column, send email to
i, etc. I can't say I think this HstsenMunivscvm.csdLsc.edu with"SUB
stified. T-BABBLE Your Fir stName
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gy from Netscape and other message.
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We were the.featured lot of fun. It's a lot of hard work and
erformers for the 1988 dedication, but there's always a spot
World's Fair, in Brisbane, open, and the majority of the group is
Lustralia. We have visited non-music majors. We're not very widely
mstria, Romania, Greece and known to everyone at USC, and we're
taly. We just got back from trying to make that different because
week in New Orleans it really is an experience that I think
lerforming at the National a lot of people would enjoy, and so we're
lusiness Educators always encouraging people to come
Jonvention, and we've done out," Hillard said,
hat for the past three years. The next auditions will be Tuesday
Ve performed at Reagan's at 7 p.m. in room 210 of the new music
lauguration, and when Pope building.
was here, we performed for If anyone interested is unable to
ard said. make that time, they can call the
isemble has also performed Carolina Alive office at 777-5377 or
mts Nixon, Carter and Bush. Richard Conant at 777-3125 to schedule
nart. nf Carolina Aliva is a an anrlitinn
interviewing tor
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