WHEW! IT MUST be the pending hot summer days that have slowed things down after the frenzy of last week. BRIGHTLY COLORED clunky keyboards, large screens of Ren & Stimpy, four-feet-tall big orange balls . . . who could ask for anything more? The launch party for Nick.com (the on-line service of Nickelodeon TV) on…
ON MAY 21 GOULD Resources & Internet Telecommunications–that’s GRIT for short, partner–held an inaugural broadcast from The Museum of Television & Radio (http://www.mtr.org). This event honored GRIT’s donation of interviews, news, and talk format programming to the Museum’s permanent collection. The show’s content archived and discussed radio and television broadcasting from early years to present…
The party continued at the National Cristina Foundation (http://www.cristina.org) event at Hansen’s Brewery in mid-town. Seth Goldstein and Nicole Ferber of SiteSpecific (http://www.sitespecific.com) filled me in on this wonderful organization and their efforts to aid disabled people with computers and technology. Our new media gurus are getting quite classy as I spotted Howard Greenstein of…
IT ALL HAPPENS the same night for some reason, but I managed to get to two of Silicon Alley’s top new media events last night. (It was GR8T getting to see everyone). Starting out at Stephen King’s Virtual Growth Inc. (http://www.virtualgrowth.com) party was a revitalizing remix. “The Man” himself (my favorite virtual accountant Steve) says…
BUZZBUZZBUZZ! IT SEEMS everywhere you turn The Mining Company is in your face. Their “spam wear” (T-shirts), posters, and billboard trucks are everywhere. My most recent sighting was at the 19th Cyberchill meeting at alt.coffee on May 15. This free-form meeting was initially created in reaction to the “boring” Cybersuds. Hmm, yet another happy go-er…
That “homing” instinct has apparently been affecting a flock of us New Yorkers (original and transplants). Luckily, MetroHome, Inc. has come to the rescue. This group, headed up by Brigid Kelly, has created a site that provides up-to-date apartment listings and comprehensive city related housing information. The site has seen a lot of traffic from…
Wednesday, 5/7 I was the lucky guest of Myriad Agency and got a bird’s-eye view of what’s going on at this highly interesting company’s shop. Ciran Bossom, EVP, and I lunched on a yummy gourmet lunch from Olive’s in Soho as we discussed where Myriad is going (far!). I had a chance to hear an…
THE BALMY AIR, the murky waters of the Hudson, the aromatic fish smells of the docks, the stars in the sky, the great salsa band – what could make a night out on the town better?! Kudos to Jonathan Sarno and his WebCinema group in conjunction with Troma Films, for putting on a nice party…
A SOMEWHAT mysterious group of super minds and super women have something brewing. It includes some of New York’s top media minds and the initial meeting at Vintage for red wine and cupcakes! More to be uncovered later! (Appeared originally in @The Scene in the @NY newsletter)
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…