Friday, Dec. 5 — N2K’s holiday party was also in the Digital Sandbox.Many, many music people were there, and a handful of new media types too.One woman (who shall remain nameless) horrified a good number of us as she combed her hands through the pretzel, peanut, cracker Chex mix searching for cashews. Ew! While guests…
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…
EXOTIC ANTIQUE textiles were the backdrop in the Manhattan Internet Lounge (http://www.milounge.com) for “Web Writers in the Flesh” (http://www.xmel.com/webwriters.html). Xander Mellish in a bright orange silk cocktail dress was the final of six poets and writers to perform on December 2. Each writer read a piece of their work in a multimedia fashion. Xander read…
Related Links:Spanker SiteClement Mok presentationWeb Writers in the Flesh December 5, 1997 Sparkly twinkly Spanker.com WELL FOLKS, it’s here — the time of year with sparkly twinkly lights, Christmas bulbs and ornaments, menorahs in shop windows, cozy home mantles — and the time of four parties at least a night. I hope you’re all well…
Thursday, Dec. 4 — What a night! Two big office parties competed with the ExecTech summit at 55 Broad Street for revelers and shop talk. Larry Rosen of N2K schmoozed with daughter Sondra (the company’s publicity director)around the Digital Sandbox, while the money folks like Ronald Celmer of Prospect Street Ventures, Paul Gardi of Geo…
Thursday, Dec. 4 — Meanwhile, uptown, the office of Connors Communications office had an exquisite fresh fragrant evergreen wreath with lovely little white lights and sprite sprigs of holly throughout. All employees wore fresh red or white flower buds pinned on their lapels to identify them from the guests. The caterers were so efficient they…
Thursday, Dec. 4 — The Globe’s party was less subdued by the time I got there. Hits from the 80’s were blasting from one employee’s computer, as the sound system played other hip tunes, a full spread of gourmet hors d’oeuvres were still aplenty and the beverages were flowing. Co-founder Todd Krizelman beamed, as he…
I arrived back in New York just in time to attend the MOUSE Holiday Benefit party on Tuesday, December 3rd. The crisp cold night made the excitement about this organization’s first major benefit even more heightened. Executive director Sarah Holloway’s and president Andrew Raisej’s decision to host the event in Jonathan Leitersdorf’s stunning triplex apartment…
SPANK ME BABY! Or maybe someone should have spanked The Spanker at his re-launch party of the site at Coney Island High on Wed. 12/3. His hideously long diatribe droned on but didn’t keep the crowd from losing interest (for some reason). I guess they were all still dazed by the dazzling fire eating erotic…
Continuing on my travel mode, two days later I flew to Vancouver, British Columbia on Thursday, December 3rd. I was bestowed an honor from Matt Toner of The Canadian Consulate in New York, and co-director of the CanApple program, to speak with two other Silicon Alley-ers at a panel discussion on New York and new…