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From: lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
Subject: Re: comp.multimedia anyone? (was Re: newsgroup covering DVI?)
Message-ID: <198@tivoli.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 90 14:12:14 GMT
References: <162@sol.bucknell.edu> <7201@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU>
Reply-To: lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman)
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In article <7201@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU> ittai@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman) writes:
>There really ought to be a newsgroup for general multimedia
>discussions.  Given that comp.ivideodisc does not carry much traffic,
>perhaps we should broaden its scope and perhaps even go through the
>hassle of renaming it to comp.multimedia.

Yeah, not a bad idea... but multimedia isn't necessarily interactive,
nor even non-sequential.  Hypermedia isn't a good term either, having 
been devalued by the MacMarketing types "hyping" the nature of hypertext.

I would suggest comp.polymedia.  I coined the term "polymedia" several 
years ago when I was running a BBS with a discussion area for the 
group that became the Computer Video SIG of the Boston Computer Society.

To understand the nuance of "polymedia":  it stands in relation to 
"multimedia" in the way that "polyphonal" stands in relation to 
"multiphonal" (or polytonal/multitonal).

Best of all, this is not a term that marketing types have already 
taken to mean whatever it is that their product happens to do.

-lar

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