TCS intro (w/o 12/05/97) – BVI, Mouse, New Media BC
News Flash! Special first-time coverage of the New Media scene in Vancouver!
Highlights of this week’s column:
* The British Virgin Islands–sailing around the Caribbean, not surfing the Web
* MOUSE Holiday Benefit
* New Media BC–the scene in Vancouver
It’s a rare opportunity when a person has the opportunity to travel from one corner of the United States to the other within a week. Seeing palm trees and sailing around the US and British Virgin Islands over Thanksgiving week to seeing the Rocky Mountains in Vancouver this week has been a unique experience and one that spans the range of digital connectivity on many levels.
You may have noticed my column did not arrive in your In-box last week. For once, instead of attending several new media events a week, I had the delicious experience of sailing from tiny island to tiny island between the USVI and the BVI, snorkeling and lazing around. Eating fresh Caribbean lobster on Jost Van Dyke–an island of 150 people, was something I’d never done before and relished every bit. As our lives get more connected and people become more “wired”–cell phones, Palm IIIs, laptops, voice mail–the chance to escape it all seems harder to do but more important than ever. Sure there were signs of Internet filtration: advertisements for the resorts’, diving schools’, charter boats’, and other tourist companies’ Web sites; but checking them out online was nowhere near my itinerary. This was one trip I’d do totally un-wired.
(Appeared originally in @The Scene in the @NY newsletter)