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In a month or so, it will be that time to start preparing new lectures and sprucing up old lectures for teaching multimedia. As this is a subject with fundamentals that do not change but also a lot of new stuff each term, it is imperative to introduce and position many new happenings in the past year. Toward that end, I subscribe to several services which send out alerts. I save the more interesting ones of the past month or two to use in the introductory lectures. Later, of course, here will be much more substance.
Another service that offers a similar, but not identical function, is http://www.individual.com. This is a free customized news service and not strictly an alert service. Here, you pre-select topics, creating a default profile. Individual reports back to you news items on these topics. Its model is preparing an individual personalized page. It is an example of interactive multimedia in itself. Typical topics in June include the following under the topic of Internet Media: "World's Greatest Classical Music Available via Download From Public Library Websites". One such library is the Naxos Music Library. Another article is on Comverse's announcement of a new Mobile IM and email service. The results tend to be more business oriented. Some cell phone services offer alerts, but I am not aware of any that allow you to specify keywords like Google or news topics like Individual. Of course it is only a matter of time. To be correct, my cell phone does get e-mail and the Internet, but it is a kludge and cumbersome. Its only a matter of time though and the time will be very soon. In fact, my Individual service reported a while ago that Verizon Wireless is partnering with CNN for TXT alerts of news alerts so we are getting there. Go To Page: 1
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