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...become less accessible to the average user and naturally attain the basic standards of propriety and decency found in other media like newspapers and television. We will look back and marvel at the days when the electronic frontier seemed like the Wild West. Alternatively, if we want this new medium to be an unprecedented democratic experiment in free expression, we should start thinking about new rules to play...
...judge's basic argument was that the telephone was qualitatively different from earlier modes of communication. He decided to abridge the freedom of telephone speech because of the medium's peculiar invasiveness into private life. Whereas speech on the town green or in a newspaper is decidedly public and can be screened out of the home, speech by telephone is more intrusive and less in our control...
Dale says the unique medium of the Web allows him to post letters and responses almost instantaneously...
Here's my prediction: no Web publisher will make money this year or even, maybe, the next few. This is an infant medium; it needs time to find its way. A print magazine can take five years and many millions of dollars before turning a profit, and that's in a proven market where people actually pay for content. We need courage if we're going to create something wonderful. The New Yorker nearly died in 1925, the year it was born. Indeed, it did die for one day, before its patron reconsidered. The magazine at the time...
...spent years in medium- and no-budget films (Remember Chopper Chicks in Zombietown?), playing bad ole boys and inbred rubes with names like Coldface, Lightning and (twice!) Billy Bob. "I was nominated by Joe Bob Briggs for a Drive-In Academy Award as 'the whiny husband,'" the actor says while lunching on "vittles" at a Wolfgang Puck cafe in Hollywood. "I didn't win, but it was absolutely an honor to be nominated...