From Roger Green, EMAP Online
London
It would be nice for EMAP to be able to claim the credit for operating the
excellent General Election 97 Web site, even though you reported
(In Brief, 10 May, p 16)
that it was overwhelmed by the effort of trying to provide a live
results service. In fact, the site was built by Online Magic.
What the experience illustrates is that the Internet isn’t a great publishing
medium for absolutely everything. There were far better ways to get live
information on election night: television, radio—even creaky old
teletext.
