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>>From dan@riverofdata.com Mon Oct  2 11:14:37 2000
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 11:29:44 -0600
From: Dan Lester <dan@riverofdata.com>
Subject: Re: Worst Serial Title Change of the Year Awards 2000

Friday, September 22, 2000, 8:52:17 PM, you wrote:

ED> 2.  The "Snap, Crackle and POP" Award: Electronics at it's best?!
ED> "Electronics Now" has merged with "Popular electronics" to become
ED> "Poptronics".  What?!

Not to defend a title change, but this one at least makes sense.
Readers of Popular Electronics have been calling it Poptronics since
the sixties at least.  It was convenient, clear, and sensible, and
easily distinguished it from a number of other "electronics" titles
you saw on the newsstand, such as Radio-Electronics and others.

dan

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>>From marcia.kingsley@WMICH.EDU Mon Oct  2 11:14:37 2000
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:00:41 -0400
From: Marcia Kingsley <marcia.kingsley@WMICH.EDU>
Subject: "award" for electronic journal

Steve Corssin and Richard Moritz are on to something here -the time
has come for a "Most Difficult-to-use New Electronic Journal
/Package/ Aggregator Service of the Year" award. And lack of
conciseness in the name of the award is perfectly appropriate.

Marcie Kingsley
Head, Acquisitions and Serial Resources
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008
kingsley@wmich.edu
(phone) 616 387-5147
(fax) 616 387-5193