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From: lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
Subject: Re: Call for discussion: comp.multimedia
Message-ID: <224@tivoli.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 90 16:33:26 GMT
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Reply-To: lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman)
Organization: Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin, TX
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In article <4011@mindlink.UUCP> a544@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack) writes:
>I wonder if we could consider a name for the group that stresses the
>*Inter-Active* rather than the *Multi-Media*?   As this group is called
>*Ivideo*, (I feel the I-part could be expanded to IA as in IAVideo), a logical
>step would be to *Comp.IAmedia*.

I like Kathy Strong's suggestion for comp.interactive, I think (unless there 
is a groundswell of preference for comp.polymedia, of course).  I don't 
know that I want to see too much convergence of the computer-video stuff 
into the interactive media stuff - there is a lot of computer video 
activity that is non-interactive and not multimedia.  

I still have to object strongly to comp.multimedia.  Multimedia is almost 
useless as a descriptive word.  I went to a multimedia art show recently, 
that featured art, for example, of papier-mache, gouache, and acrylic.  I 
have attended multimedia lectures with three slide projectors and a 
tape player.  I have seen a multimedia tutorial that I just sat and watched 
after pressing the Enter key.  

Interactive is the key word here.  (I have no objection to subsuming 
hypertext into the group.)  

-lar

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