It's Comcastic. . .

Have you considered what the Internet has brought to you in it's mere twenty year existence? Imagine the world being less informed and everyday tasks such as looking for a car or paying bills a lot more difficult. One site, in particular, has a multitude of these web based tools to offer. The Comcast page can offer almost anything one can ask for. With one click on http://www.comcast.net/ you can learn about world news and all of the latest celebrity gossip with a slide show of pictures and subtitles. If that is not what interests you all of the tabs on the left of the screen will take you anywhere you want. If you simply want to manage your Comcast account, you can do that as well. Furthermore, the Comcast page offers a tab for the Latino population. Just another example of how Comcast is extending it's range to broaden it's reader variation.

When making a comparison between the Comcast page and the newspaper one may think that they are very different. In some aspects they are different, but in many they are very similar. The newspaper can offer a lot of the same news information but in order to find it one must look through the pages to find that particular article. On Comcast there is a nifty search bar where you can enter what you would like to read about and search for in in that manner. Or, the very helpful tool bar on the left, kind of like an index, can be used to navigate your search as well. Thirdly, glance at the main body of the page and look at the compressed, yet descriptive, blogs about the inner lying stories, and make you selection through those.

On the other hand, when implying differences there are many as well. In my opinion I feel that the Comcast page is more interesting than the newspaper. When a reader is choosing a story or article to read sometimes a title as an attention grabber is just not enough. Of course, the newspaper has pictures and includes attention grabbing photos, but most of the newspaper is just text. On the Comcast page there are more pictures and the continually moving slide show in the center of the page is the main attraction. For me, that is what captures my attention and makes me want to read more articles. Another difference would also be the content of the newspaper vs. Comcast. As already mentioned Comcast is multi-functional and not just text based. In addition, you can listen to the radio, send or read emails, look at photos, or even watch a video. All of which are features that the newspaper does not offer alone.

In conclusion, the Internet is a huge integral part of many peoples' daily lives'. Who knows, maybe one day the Internet will take the place of printed text.