Writing for Multimedia 101. (includes related article on the history of multimedia)

In which our intrepid reporter ventures down the information superhighway...only to find he needs to make a pit stop before proceeding.

So, you want to write for multimedia. At least, you think you do, after getting hammered with that and a dozen other buzzwords every time you read a magazine or switch on a cable TV show about emerging technologies. Everything else is changing on a daily basis; isn't the way we write next?

Let me tell you a little secret: Multimedia has been with us for a very long time. Film maker D.W. Griffith probably invented the entire industry…