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When it comes to delivering information, computers have a lot of advantages over magazines, but being pretty isn't one of them. "There's nothing worse than trying to read text on a monitor," admits Janet Waegel, TIME's online design director. Waegel therefore took it as a challenge to reinvent the magazine's electronic editions, which appear each week on Pathfinder, Time Warner's site on the Internet http://www.pathfinder.com/time) and on America Online. Seven months ago, she and designer Ron Plyman threw out everything they knew about designing for print and started from scratch, trying to create...
Upon releasing the text of Packwood's diaries last week, Ethics Committee chairman Mitch McConnell and vice chairman Richard Bryan fired off a letter to Gramm asking him to explain the passage. Gramm replied that, yes, the National Republican Senate Committee did give the Oregon Republican Party $96,500 shortly after the Gramm-Packwood meeting took place. But Gramm insisted that the money was not used to support Packwood, to whom the N.R.S.C. could give only $17,500, but for legal party-building activities such as voter registration and getting out the vote. Moreover, he said...
...REDFIELD JAMISON IS A world authority on manic depression. She co-wrote the definitive medical text on the disease, which is also known as bipolar disorder. She has been a valued clinician and teacher, first at the University of California, Los Angeles, and now at Johns Hopkins. As a fellow at Oxford, she pioneered research into the link between creativity and manic depression. In concerts, television programs and a lay book, Touched with Fire (1993), she has popularized that research, identifying as manic depressive such luminaries as Vincent van Gogh, Robert Schumann and Lord Byron...
...attraction of the new medium is obvious. Webzines and their primitive, text-only precursors, the E(lectronic)-zines, are relatively cheap and easy to produce. Anyone with a computer and something to say can start one. And since it costs no more to distribute 30 million copies than it does to distribute one, there's plenty of room for small niche markets that mainstream, print-based media tend to neglect...
Netscape, based in Mountain View, California, makes an essential piece of Internet software known as a browser, which can be thought of as the 3-D glasses your computer wears to pick up images, sounds and text on the World Wide Web, the multimedia portion of the Internet. Netscape controls a cozy 70% of the market for browsing software...