Sunday, Oct. 31 –
Something interesting has happened to client-server computing: It isn’t dead or dying, contrary to the predictions of some and the fervent wishes of others. It’s changing, though, and in some fascinating ways.
At least I think so. See my regular Sunday column to see why.
My Students Meet New Media, PersonallySunday, Oct. 31 –
Before I started teaching my first new-media class at Hong Kong University on Saturday, I snapped a quick digital picture of the group. As we brought the class to order, I asked them to be patient for a moment, because I wanted to put their pictures on the World Wide Web. That drew a few looks of interest.
The students, many of whom are already full-time journalists, watched as I slipped the memory card from the camera into a PC Card holder, then put the PC Card into my laptop computer. I logged onto my eJournal site, uploaded the picture onto a server computer in California, wrote an introductory line, clicked a button and waited a few minutes for an editor to approve the posting. And then, when we went to this page — or at least yesterday’s version of it — boom, there was the picture.
That, I told the class, is what one form of new media is all about.