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some snips from edupage
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 04:43:01 -0400
REENGINEERING -- OR JUST DOWNSIZING? "People tend to call anything that moves 'reengineering'" -- says the president of CSC Index of Cambridge, Mass. (the company that helped start the fashion for corporate reengineering). A new CSC study finds that many companies say they're doing re-engineering when all they're doing is downsizing. (Wall Street Journal 6/30/94 A1) ELECTRIC PROSE AND POETRY Two views of writing on the net: "It is my overwhelming belief that e-mail and computer conferencing is teaching an entire generation about the flexibility and utility of prose" -- says S.F. Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll. Compare: "In the real world it takes a hell of a lot of work to get published, which naturally weeds out a lot of the garbage. On the net, just a few keystrokes sends your writing out to thousands of readers" -- says poet Mary Anne Mohanraj. (Time 7/4/94 p.66) CYBERTALK When Vice President Gore participated last January in an online conference held over CompuServe, 900 people "showed up," 300 of them got the moderator's attention, and 10 of them got to match their typing skills against the Vice President's. We think he won; he's pretty fast. (U.S. News & World Report 7/4/94 p.70)
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