Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Webmasfo ^jOlOOOtOiIMOiOt;. Jk t Last week I spoke about some of the more annoying aspects of the Internet. To be fair, I should point out that there have to be some redeeming qualities of the net, or else there wouldn't be all this hype about it. Here are a few cool things about the net. 1. News sources on the Web. Go to CNN's home page (www.cnn.com), and you'll see news that is updated almost as soon as it happens. "Course, you could always just turn on the TV, but for those who are stuck in the office, or those who are not blessed with cable, CNN and a host of other news sites like MSNBC (wwwjnsnbc.com) are geared tq emulating their realtime cable TV brethren. There is also no lack of newspapertype sites on the web. The New York Are you Doyoi Quit Smoking We'll help Look 1 on t - t( g' Sponsored by Health an Foi a it points o Times is a popular example (www.nytimes.com), but there are specialty news sites out there, such as the Drudge Report (www.drudge.com), which brings you a daily report of whafs \vr? j nut anu niiaio nut in vt aaillllgiuil <111U in Hollywood. 2. Realtime information sources. There are an ever-increasing number of Webcams and doodads out there that give you realtime video feeds of nerdy guys at their desks and other incredibly entertaining spectacles. The coolest realtime video feeds (to me) are the ones you can pull down from the weather satellites. There's something Big-Brother-ish about being able to pull up a picture of South Carolina from space that is only 30 minutes old. 3. Live audio events. Segueing from the last topic, audio and video feeds on the Web have opened up a world of possibilities. I really enjoy being able to pull up an alt-rock station from Houston a QUITTER? u want to be? i for just one day. for the Open Door Tab! he Pickens St. Bridge )day from 10-2 and et vour "Quit Kit!" d Wellness Programs/Thomson Stu more information call 777-8248. tarn * : HI 3f! II fWe need stu for Student work study JEigpr inejooreqi student new magazine or ut cool as over RealAudio (www.realaudio.com) anytime of day. Our own Hootie and the Blowfish recently broadcast a RealAudio live concert through their Atlantic Records site, and it resulted in the most hits ever for Atlantic's site. 4. Net games. Playing a video game with vnnrBplf ia OTC Vnit Viov it crotc lrvnalv j " ? ?*7 *"V) ? *""^V Get on the net, and blow away someone who might be playing from anywhere in the world, and you'll never go solo again. Playing against the computer monsters is one thing, but you never know what a human opponent will do. Sometimes ifs highly entertaining. 5. Hypertext. Ifs pretty obvious, and one of the first intended uses of the web, but the ability to link multiple documents together has possibilities that have still to be fully realized. In a blatant plug, Fll illustrate this using my pet project, ScMusic.Com (www.scmusic.com). Let's say you're looking for your faVorite local band, and you go to the mp le i i i i dent Health Center < / - : .!: ?*:? > lilf* a * tl noi ,^_ learn dim more mark linking of marketing as a career opportunity to get experience o idents to work as Marketing Coi Media Advertising. Internships or part-time positions are ava 11 and Spring semesters. jires selling advertising tor lhe spaper, Garnet & Black Quarter underwriting for WUSC FM st pects of th Bands page. Now, you click on the link | for the band's homepage, and you get j wisked off to their site. Now, you check out their gig calendar, and lo and behold ! they're playing at Rockafellas this | weekend (www.rockafellas.com). So you | click on the link to Rockafellas and you see the calendar there. You see that c another band is playing that weekend, t and you click on their link, which lets j you see their homepage, and so on.... you get the picture. ? 6. Tech support. Ifs really convenient y to use the Web as one big upgrade tool a for all your software. With the Web you y can get new versions of your software j as soon as they are released, and at the a best price available: free. 7. Automation. Maybe you've started c noticing all the cool thing's that start s happening automatically nowadays as t a result of some of the technologies like s Java and ActiveX that are built into the a newest generations of browsers. Hopefully, j\pplications ** ^ of Qam 1997. Applicatic of the Director Suite 115. 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