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BILL
FERSTER'S VIDEOGRAPHICS NEWSWIRE
NEWSWIRE TO END I
have enjoyed publishing this NewsWire for the past 3 years, but it falls
in a difficult economic space for me. It is too expensive and specialized
to appeal to a mass market, and yet the combination of price and limited
universe of paying subscribers makes it a poor return on investment
for the amount of time it takes to write. You can visit my website for
more information, as well as read and search past issues of this NewsWire,
at http://www.stagetools.com/bill.
I appreciate your subscribing and hope it has been useful to you.
ONLINE NEWSWIRE SOURCES The
web offers a wide range of sources for news about our industry. There
is a lot of repetition among these sites, but seeing an item reported
from different perspectives makes you understand its potential impact
better. In the spirit of teaching fishing, here are the ones I used
daily to gather material for the NewsWire:
--> WALL STREET JOURNAL The
Wall Street Journal has an excellent online edition, which costs $59
per year or $29 you already subscribe to the print edition. (http://interactive.wsj.com/edition/current/summaries/front.htm)
---> THE WAVE REPORT I
have probably gotten more good information on the 3D and VideoGraphics
worlds from the Wave Report than from any other single source. It can
be accessed from their website, or via a steady stream of emails. (http://www.wave-report.com)
--> CMP TECHWEB Major
technical publisher CMP (EE Times, Dr. Dobbs, Windows Magazine, etc.)
publishes a list of tech articles in the news for each day in a single
line list that links to full text of the stories. (http://www.techweb.com/wire/allstories.html)
---> NY TIMES The
New York Times is a good source of generalized tech doings and while
the site is free, you will need to register. (http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/tech/index7day.html)
---> DIGITAL PRODUCER MAGAZINE Lew
Wallace's Digital Producer site is a great source for information on
the VideoGraphics world and is updated daily. (http://www.digitalproducer.com)
---> CREATIVE PLANET Creative
Planet is a Hollywood-based site that summarizes stories in the news
that might interest creative professionals. (http://creativeplanet.com/scripts/cp.exe?get?http://CreativePlanet.com/Week
InReview/Main.s html)
---> SAN JOSE MERCURY The
San Jose Mercury News was one of the first newspapers to put their material
online and offers two excellent daily recaps. (http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/reports/gmsv/)
and (http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth)
--->
ZD NET Publishing czar
Ziff Davis's site has general computer news item that may be of interest.
(http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn)
---> SLASHDOT NEWS Their
motto is "News for Geeks that Matters" pretty much sums up this Linux-centric
web-zine. There are occasionally interesting tidbits that don't crop
up anywhere else. (http://www.slashdot.org)
---> NEWSPAGE NewsPage
is a free service that will allow you to set criteria and have a customized
"newspaper" delivered via email, or from their website. (http://www.newspage.com)
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