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  • From: jreisman AT koz.com (Jesse Reisman)
  • To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: news & views
  • Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:57:53 -0500


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Sure, sorry about that. I used to work at work at RR (was a customer
of three of their affiliates, then was an affiliate in upstate NY,
then worked at corporate). The thought was always that RR content was
mediocre (all due respect to friends still there working on content)
compared to folks like AOL and Time Warner.

For some reason, TW never got it through its head to use Pathfinder
content on the RR network (especially as they began to kill
Pathfinder. I can tell you horror stories about that.) That would have
been the only thing that would have kept us on par with AOL. But AOL
has content relationships with everybody (remember the exclusive
Pathfinder relationship: Want People Magazine online? Gotta go to AOL)
so we knew that the biggest thing we had going for us was speed. (It's
still true. Look at Entertaindom.com, Time Warner's broadband
entertainment site. It has few ties to RR - and looks ugly as sin, too
*grin*)

Now that's changed. AOL has its content, TW content (which, outside of
CNN, will probably play second fiddle) _and_ the speed. And, the
strangest thing, is that those of us who helped develop strategy for
the service, strategies that were supposed to keep an enemy at bay,
now wake up to see that we are owned by the enemy. And for those of us
who remember the "good ol' days" of the Net, in effect, we _are_ the
enemy :)

Oceania was the land that the protagonist of 1984 lived in. They were
at war with another country. Until one day, the announcer makes a
mistake, saying that the protagonist's country is at war _against_
Oceania. Doublespeak had turned them into their own enemy.

We live in interesting times.

- -j

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- -----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Beckett [mailto:thomas AT tbeckett.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 6:25 PM
To: InterNetWorkers
Subject: [internetworkers] RE: news & views



Jesse Reisman wrote:
> "AOL is no longer the enemy. Oceania is."

Jesse, could you elaborate? I don't catch the Oceania reference.
Thanks for the elaboration on the AOL tentacles.

Tom

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