Praise for Our Effort--and Suggestions for Improvement
I’m glad to see that you are dedicating more space to technology in the L.A. Times. As a fourth-grade teacher who works with technology in the classroom every day, it is clear to me that as my students grow up, they will be as familiar with computer media as we are with paper and pencil (or newsprint).
I hope you also direct some of your space toward technology in education and not just tech in business.
KARL KIMME
Victoria Elementary, Costa Mesa
https://vic25.nmusd.k12.ca.us
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Great. My L.A. Times is looking more and more like my PC Magazine. But I won’t be canceling either subscription just yet.
JULES BRENNER
Los Angeles
https://www.loop.com/variagate/
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I would like to see articles on successful implementation of technology or innovation of some kind. I hope that you will also focus on the public sector and what it is doing with technology as well as the private. I like to know what is going on in technology around me in neighboring cities and counties.
SUSAN CAROL CURZON
Vice provost, Information and Technology Resources
California State University,
Northridge
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By now it should dawn on you that the Internet and the World Wide Web is the direction everyone in computers should be going. Use your Monday edition to teach people how to learn to use the Internet to the fullest. Become our tech support for simple functions that to us are difficult.
CHARLES A. HENCY
ChuckAH@msn.com
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Thank you for all your work in planning The Cutting Edge. It is substantial, well-written, interesting and useful. How about an (at least) occasional service in the bottom-of-page-one box with titles like Sites for Teachers, (better yet Sites for Math Teachers, Sites for English Teachers, etc.), Sites for Musicians, Sites for Travelers, or Sites for Music Listeners, and on and on?
GEORGE O’BRIEN
Mount St. Mary’s College
Brentwood
OBrien88@aol.com
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Great! Who could AKST for anything more?
JOAN MIHAY
Morro Bay
jmihay@slonet.org
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Still another reason print treatment of computer matters is very worthwhile is that it enables me to clip and paste a “manual” that is customized to my computer interests. Keep up the good work.
HERB VALENTINE
stvalday@ix.netcom.com
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The lead paragraph of Julie Pitta’s article (“The PC Is Fracturing,” March 18) is not really “cutting edge.” It is sensationalist journalism, and not very good at that! Much of the article was factual and informative. But The Times does readers a real disservice by confusing them rather than informing them. Is the $500 Internet box going to provide word processing, spreadsheets, databases and other “heavy” computing tasks? Without [higher-speed communications], the $500 computer will be relegated to simple tasks.
BILL DARNALL
billd@darcominc.com
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Congratulations on the wonderful new Cutting Edge section. It seems that there are so many new media magazines out there, and most of them suffer dearly from quality journalism (as, it seems, do most new publications) and recycling of the same old stories. The Cutting Edge provides a brilliant niche in the expanding world of Internet coverage.
It also is a great leap forward in bringing the sagging L.A. Times into the 21st century.
Cutting Edge seems to bring together the journalistic integrity of The Times and the insight of a more specialized trade publication. It’s a perfect (and long overdue) marriage. Congrats, keep up the good work and get that damn Web page up!
DAVID SOLMONSON
