The Fishwrap personalized news system

Author

Chesnais, Pascal R. ; Mucklo, Matthew J. ; Sheena, Jonathan A.

Author_Institution

Media Lab., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

20-22 Jun 1995

Firstpage

275

Lastpage

282

Abstract

Fishwrap is an experimental electronic newspaper system available at MIT. Fishwrap attempts to address the needs of the freshman integrating into the MIT community. Fishwrap attempts this by balancing an individual´s desire for personalization with the need to participate and know about the world at large. This paper describes the scope of the experiment, the underlying technology, and the evaluation by participants. Access to Fishwrap´s personalized news system appears as a World Wide Web (WWW) hypertext link. This link calls upon programs to subscribe the individual to the news service. At this time an individual access password is provided. After the initial session students can get Fishwrap from any computer connected to the MIT network with a WWW browser

Keywords

education; educational computing; electronic publishing; hypermedia; information networks; publishing; Fishwrap personalized news system; MIT; WWW browser; World Wide Web; experimental electronic newspaper system; hypertext link; Calendars; Cities and towns; Cultural differences; Data structures; Global communication; Joining processes; Laboratories; Prototypes; Wire; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Community Networking, 1995. Integrated Multimedia Services to the Home., Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Princeton, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2756-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CN.1995.509583

Filename

509583