THE ZINE2000 Program by the Society of Publication Designers at the Cooper Union, Saturday, April 25, 1997 was quite good. Some sound-bytes: — Matthew Butterick, Atomic Vision: “The future of the web is in information products, not shopping carts.” — Rebecca Farwell of Discovery emphasized that online journalism is about having a conversation: “We look…
OTHER SOCIETY NOTES: ANOTHER ADVERTISING soiree this past week was a Pointcast party. While they demoed their new model for advertising on the net, I got a chance to catch up with Damon Torres, president & creative director of The I-way Company, Thomas Hespos of K-2 Design, and Myles Weissleder and Scott Heiferman of i-Traffic….
IF I SEE ONE MORE film where self-mutilation is cool, I’ll scream! I saw a screening of “Love God” at the GENArt Film Festival, April 24, co-hosted by ECHO and NY Black Book. PULEASEE don’t let this become a cult classic. The party afterwards in a gutted out Angel Orensanz Foundation Synagogue was a bit…
After a hacker attack and overhauling the server the WWWAC list is back up! Wwwac.org
A Cyber Scene Exclusive! If you went to the corner of Broadway and Bond you might catch a glimpse of Kyle or Chan of Agency.com slipping out for a coffee, or maybe Roland or Joe or Tery from Blue Dingo coming back from a sushi lunch. But who’s that new resident, jetting in and out…
With all this talk of IPOs and conferences cropping up like dandelions, you’ve got to wonder how the average measly computer geek turns into a slick new media executive so effortlessly. This Ugly Duckling story isn’t just happenstance, however. Usually there’s some talented person behind coaxing the charm and wit out of these brilliant 20-somethings….
Well last week they were handing out Pulitzers and this week they were wearing them! New York Junior League volunteers were modeling Lilly Pulitzer dresses at the “A Taste of Spring” cocktail party held at the Junior League’s headquarters on Thursday, April 22nd. I modeled two delightfully springy outfits from Carlisle (if you’re interested, contact…
The early bird catches the worm and some biscuits and bagels too. Breakfast clubs are sprouting up all over (check out Bogen PR’s newest at www.breakfastclubnetwork.com). This week Women in New Media had Tracy Leeds, chief operating officer of StarMedia, speak on Tuesday, April 20th. And then on April 22nd the New York Venture Group…
From there I trekked on over to methodfive’s first After-5 Web Forum held at the offices of NickandPaul in the Chelsea Market on April 21st. Kenneth Goldsmith, who heads up the design department at methodfive, spoke on “Ramping Up Without Dumbing Down: Lessons Learned from methodfive’s Own Site Redesign.” Below is a recap of Mr….
How often is a company incubated within another firm? How often is it that the incubated and firm throw a big bash in classic Silicon Alley style for their baby? Well, Blue Tape (the incubatee) together with Viant (the incubator) launched Sputnik7.com (the incubated) on Wednesday, April 21st at Viant’s sprawling offices. Blue Tape is…