*************************************************************** ****************** WELCOME TO SGML NEWSWIRE ******************* *************************************************************** * * * To subscribe, send mail to sgmlinfo@avalanche.com * * * * (Please pass along to interested colleagues) * * * *************************************************************** NEWS OF WORLD WIDE WEB APPLICATIONS: ON EDUPAGE AND IN THE PRESS ==================================== News about the World Wide Web has appeared several times on EDUPAGE, an Internet-based service that delivers news on information technology. I've compiled a few here to demonstrate its emergence in several areas over the past few months. Immediately following the EDUPAGE cites is a short bibliography of recent articles on the WWW, contributed in part by the "www-sites" mailing list. - E-d-u-p-a-g-e 03/13/94 PROJECT MUSE. Johns Hopkins University will make three scholarly journals available on the Internet for the next few weeks, and is soliciting feedback on its system for displaying full text and images electronically. Project Muse uses the World-Wide Web protocol and Mosaic software. Directions for finding it are available from ouru@stasi.bradley.edu. (Chronicle of Higher Education 3/9/94 A25) - E-d-u-p-a-g-e 03/10/94 ELECTRONIC JOURNALS. As a trial of electronic publishing, Johns Hopkins University Press is making three of its journals available to users at Johns Hopkins University through the WorldWide Web: Configurations; Modern Language Notes; and English Literary History. (New York Times 3/9/94 A25) - E-d-u-p-a-g-e 02/03/94 NET SALES. Meckler Corporation is planning MecklerWeb, a new Internet publishing and communications service offering companies a turnkey service for establishing an Internet presence via the ability to announce goods and services on a World Wide Web based server accessible via such browsing tools as Mosaic; additional services coordinated by industry based coalitions are also planned. For info: clocke@panix.com. (Cook Report, Gordon Cook, Feb. 1994, cook@path.net). - E-D-U-P-A-G-E 11/4/93 INTERNET OVERLOAD. Anyone who uses the Internet already knows it-- the global network is getting overcrowded. The National Center for Supercomputer Applications reports an increase in World Wide Web requests from almost 100,000 in June to almost 400,000 in October. Center officials say "the only solution may be to take a $15 million supercomputer away from its normal scientific number-crunching duties and employ it full-time as an electronic librarian." (Tampa Tribune 11/3/93 A9) - E-D-U-P-A-G-E 7/8/93 ON-LINE CONGRESSIONAL HEARING. On July 26 at 9:30 EDT, the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance will hold the first congressional hearing ever held over a computer network -- the oversight hearing on "The Role of Government in Cyberspace." Chairman Markey has asked that this historic occasion demonstrate the potential and diversity of the global Internet. Thirty Sparcstations will be in the hearing room, allowing members of Congress, staff, and their guests to read e-mail, use Gopher menus, read testimony in WAIS databases, browse the World Wide Web, and otherwise use the resources of the global Internet as part of the hearing. Your messages to congress@town.hall.org will help demonstrate that there are people who use the Internet as part of their personal and professional lives. To communicate with a human being about the hearing, write to hearing-info@town.hall.org. * To subscribe to EDUPAGE, send a note to edupage@educom.edu with * your name, e-mail address, and complete mailing address * including institution. Bibliographic cites posted recently to the www-sites mailing list by Iain O'Cain, : Internet World, May '94 issue Technicalities column, "WWWW (What's a WorldWideWeb?)" begins on p.20. Also, information about Microsoft Windows NT running Mosaic on p.38, and the Amiga Mosaic port, along with much Amiga TCP/IP info, beginning on p.46. InfoWorld, 31.Jan.94 issue, Network Curmudgeon column, Mosaic is suggested as a navigation aid, p.35. In a more recent issue (wups, lost the date...), the Uniforum report mentions that, "Digital Equipment Corp.'s Robert Palmer not only attended and spoke, but also gave a tribute to Mosaic." Fortune Magazine, 7.Mar.94, "The Internet and Your Business" begins on p.86. On pp.92-93 are glowing references to Mosaic, including a reference to it as, "the Internet killer applciation". P.96 mentions GNN, though it doesn't say it's a WWW service. Open Systems Today, 7.Mar.94, "SCO augments its basic operating-system offering with a tool that makes use of Mosaic, the popular Internet navigational tool," on p.5. Mosaic will be bundled with IXI.desktop (formerly X.desktop) for Sun, IBM, HP, DEC, and SGI workstations, as well as SCO's OS. Business Week, 28.Mar.94, article beginning on p.170 has an article that Kevin O'Neill at QMS mentioned. Der Spiegel, ~22.Mar.94 (?), according to Oliver Laumann , mentions that Spry will market Mosaic in the U.S.A. My local bookstore carries der Spiegel, so I'll have to have a look! * To subscribe to www-sites send mail to majordomo@qiclab.rain.com * with "subscribe www-sites" in the text (no subject). Additional recent coverage of the WWW: Brief mention of the WWW in a 13-page spread on the Internet. Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing, "Using the Internet for Publishing," 4 April 1994, Peter E. Dyson. * Contact Seybold at (610) 565-2480. ************************************************************** * SGML NEWSWIRE LIST MANAGER * * * * Linda Turner * * Corporate Communications * * Avalanche * * 947 Walnut Street * * Boulder, CO 80302 * * sgmlinfo@avalanche.com * * linda@avalanche.com * * Vox: (303) 449-5032 * * Fax: (303) 449-3246 * **************************************************************