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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Electronic Banking
Message-ID: <8408@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 8 May 89 05:00:27 GMT
References: <4160@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <4160@crash.cts.com> ray@pnet01.cts.com (R. Andrew Rathbone) writes:

>But when foraging through a newspaper, haven't you found articles and subjects
>of interest by accident? Haven't you ever started to read something you'd
>never intentionally select, but once finished, been glad you've read it?

This may not be so accidental.  It may have something to do with the layout
and editorial choices for headlines.  The lack of anything similar in
electronic media is the real shortfall at the present.  Moving, storing,
and retreiving text are now relatively easy, but scanning for keywords 
only works if you know what you want to find.  The whole concept of "news"
implies that you don't know what it contains.

>Perhaps electronic clipping services should incorporate a "random" clip
>feature?

Random clippings would soon be ignored.  What we need is a way for the
current technique of newspaper layout to be moved to electronic media.
The difference is not just font sizes and shapes, but that someone with
experience has put a great deal of effort into arranging things they 
consider important so they will catch your eye.

Les Mikesell