Backstage: Internet Coverage
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This year, General Synod had extensive coverage on the Internet.
      Electronic News Coordinator Tod Maffin had a palmtop computer, notebook computer, digital camera, and audio recorder with him at all times to record information.  
     This information was transmitted by wireless signal to the host system in the newsroom where it was instantly published on the web site, the Synod98 Direct newswire, or both.
     He was also responsible for editing the nightly Perspectives interactive Synod newsletter.
     This was Maffin's third General Synod; the previous two (1995 and 1992) he attended as a youth member for his diocese, during which time he published a daily unofficial electronic newsletter on the happenings of General Synod.
     He was a member of the national Information Resources Committee and founder of Anglicans Online, the world's largest Anglican web site.