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Your electronic daily news http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/9.html particularly useful. You can even take it one step further: Access raw news feeds from major world wire services, automatic article clipping folders, Internet mailing lists, and paperless electronic newsletters. Interact with the digital media as broadcast and print outlets bring their stories, staffers, and the occasional name in the news into the realm of the modem. The cost of reading a given news item varies by online service. An article that sets you back three cents on one service, may cost two dollars to read on another, or be free on the Internet. Note: Expect it to be many times more expensive (or cheap) to read the same article from the same news provider on another online service. So, compare prices. Local news In Norway, we can read local language news from print media like Dagens Naeringsliv, Aftenposten, Kapital, and news wires from NTB and other local sources. Local language news is available online in most countries. Reading local news on national online services used to be more expensive than on major global online services. As competition among global news providers escalates, this is changing. In addition, many newspapers now offers articles for free on the World Wide Web. Here are some examples: The Daily Record and Sunday Mail, a Scottish tabloid newspaper based in Glasgow, offers News, Sport, Features, a Magazine section, Tourism information, Historical Information, Telephone Dating, Competitions, Cartoons, Crossword, Agony Aunt, Picture Gallery and much more. Aftonbladet (Sweden) is at http://www.aftonbladet.se, and Dagbladet (Norway) at http://www.dagbladet.no/. For a country by country listing of online newspapers throughout the World, check http://www.webwombat.com.au/intercom/newsprs/. International news My favorite provider of free daily international news top stories is Integrated Newswire's World News section. This is a selection of headlines dated December 17, 1996: Boeing merger creates airline superpower Johannesburg Star Zimbabwe earmarks farms for seizure Johannesburg Star Annan to press U.S. on U.N. debt MSNBC World Mother Teresa suffers erratic heartbeat MSNBC World Unions, Courts Deliver Blows to Milosevic Reuters World Several Said Hurt in Attack on Saddam's Son Reuters World Rwandan refugee tide swells CNN World News Amid tensions, Arafat telephones Netanyahu CNN World News Their offerings also include Information Technology News, Science & Technology News, and Business News. At Infoseek's News Center, you can search for specific names, phrases or words in the past 30 days of news stories from Reuters, Business Wire and PR Newswire. In addition, you can search current headline news as published by Chicago Tribune, CNN, Los Angeles Time, MSNBC, and The New York Times. Click to access the full texts. You can "Personalize" your news, and have Infoseek deliver only the news that interests you every time you return to the site. Also, you can have news headlines sent you by email. Once per week, my communications system sends off a message to the WWW by email service at agora@kamakura.mss.co.jp (ref. Chapter 12). The message contains the command send http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/webnews/globarc.htm 2 of 14 23.11.2009 15:46
Your electronic daily news http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/9.html After a while, a list of files in the Global Interactive News Briefs Archive arrives in my mailbox. Each brief contains a digest of articles about the Internet printed in media around the world. I return the URL of the most recent news brief to the Agora server to receive the full report. Some time ago, a well known Norwegian industrialist visited my office. I showed off online searching in Brainwave for NewsNet newsletters, and stumbled over a story about his company. "Incredible!" he said. "We have not even announced this to our Norwegian employees yet." Sometimes, American online services give news from other countries earlier than you can get it on online services from within these countries. Besides, you may prefer stories in English. Most Norwegians prefer to read news in Norwegian. The Japanese want it in their language, and the French in French. If they can get the news earlier than their competitors, however, most are willing to read English. Few master many languages. Unless you live in a country where they talk Arabic, Chinese or French, chances are that you cannot read news in these languages. English, however, is a popular second choice in many countries, and it has become the unofficial Esperanto language of the online world. Reading news translated from another language has its risks. Translators often make mistakes. One common reason is time pressure, another inadequate knowledge of the source language. Their cultural background may prevent them from writing an unbiased shorter version of the source text. The risk of inaccuracies increases when a story, for example initially translated from Spanish into English, are being translated into a third language. Avoid news that has been translated more than once, or risk the following type of experience: On September 19, 1991, Norwegian TV brought news from Moscow. They told that Russian president Boris Yeltsin had a heart attack. The online report from Associated Press, which arrived 7.5 hours earlier, talked about "a minor heart attack" with the following additional explanation: "In Russian, the phrase 'heart attack' has a broader meaning than in English. It is commonly used to refer to a range of ailments from chest pains to actual heart failure." Still, expect your "personal online daily newspaper" capable of giving you the news faster and more correctly than traditional print media. Some news is only available in electronic form. Seven minutes way back in 1991 On September 19, I called CompuServe to read news and gather information about online news sources. According to my log, I connected through Infonet in Oslo (see Chapter 13). The total cost for seven minutes was US$6.00, which included the cost of a long distance call to Oslo. (Today, using CompuServe's Standard Pricing Plan, the cost is much less!) I read some stories, while they scrolled over the screen. All was captured to a file on my hard disk for later study. The size of this file grew to 32.000 characters, or almost 15 single spaced typewritten pages (A 4 size). If I had spent less time reviewing the lists of available stories, seven minutes would have given a larger file. Right after having logged on, a menu of stories appeared on my screen. The headline read "News from CompuServe." The two first items caught my attention, and I requested the text. One had 20 lines about an easier method of finding files in the forum libraries, the other ten lines about writing addresses for international fax messages. The command GO APV gave me Associated Press News Wires. You will find many 3 of 14 23.11.2009 15:46
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