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The Net is a fascinating medium with some unique properties as I'm sure we all know. It has blossomed some strange paradoxes, though, as was pointed out by HotWired's Packet last week.
On the Net most people (like me) are writing about the Net itself. As the HotWired writer mentioned, can we imagine the majority of TV programs devoted to the workings of the cathode-ray tube?
But I don't think its an entirely fair comparison. The Net has far wider reaching implications than TV did. TV was merely adding another level of "quality" to the revolution that began with the telegraph and became the radio to finish with TV. The Net is a hell of a lot more than that and its implications do need discussion. Which is why j-dom will be staying right here (and which is why j-dom is getting a growing readership).
But for the Net to become popularly used by the general populace its going to need to start looking outwards and offering information on everything from basket weaving to underwater hockey. There's already quite a lot out there but its mostly hobbyists providing a bit of info in their spare time. I'm not knocking their efforts, they're great but we need professional productions just like we have special interest magazines fuelling hobbyists delight in model trains to knitting.
You entrepreneurs out there, take the challenge and win!
By Jeep
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