How to chat up a superstar

Article Abstract:

It is becoming increasingly common for celebrities such as pop stars to make contact with their fans through web chats. This approach gives considerable potential for merchandising, and has also been found to benefit Internet service providers, as many new users are attracted. Microsoft Network has been responsible for developing, promoting and administering in the UK the three largest celebrity web events ever to have been staged - 'The X-Files,' George Michael and 'Titanic' director James Cameron.

Telegraph & other communications, Internet service providers, World Wide Web

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A global chat with the man on the street, quite literally

Article Abstract:

The 'In Conversation' Internet art project in Brighton, England, brings together two very different types of conversation, linking Internet communications with people on the street, according to Susan Collins, who was responsible for initiating the project. She has found that people have been extremely interested in her approach, and that a Web protocol has even developed around the project. She now aims to take the project to other towns, investigating the different reactions of pedestrians.

Social aspects, International communication

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On the top-level, hi-tech chat line

Article Abstract:

The development of information highways has recently become a matter of universal public policy, and will be debated soon at a G7 summit. There is now strong competition to remain at the forefront of the development of information highways, and television, computer and telephone are linking to become a single, extremely powerful multimedia industry. G7 countries are now looking to address these issues at intergovernmental level.

International aspects

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