IN THIS VEIN, I stepped out of the digital world completely for an evening of real raw avant-guard theater at Columbia University’s Miller Theater on Friday, June 6. Held in conjunction with revolutionary theater figures Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki co-artistic directors of the Saratoga International Theater Institute (SITI), the evening’s performance “Small Lives/Big Dreams”…
HIBERNATING ON-LINE I checked out the live chat “Secrecy or social contract: The Worldwide Cryptography Debate” on June 5, hosted by the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information. The lineup included assistant director Stephen Messer, chat host Richard Field, chairman of the Electronic Commerce Payment Committee, ABA. The chat had many noteworthy panelists from a legal background….
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…
Related Links:Virtual Growth partyNational Cristina Foundation @ Hansen’s BreweryMining Company, CyberchillGRIT’s Inaugural BroadcastServerCast Communication’s Quiet SoireeRussian Webgirls 2nd Issue and Site designCalendar of Events May 30, 1997 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…
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…
ON MAY 21 GOULD Resources & Internet Telecommunications–that’s GRIT for short, partner–held an inaugural broadcast from The Museum of Television & Radio. 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 yearss to present Internet…
A QUIET SOIREE away from the bustle of New York was held at ServerCast Communication’s (http://www.servercast.net) offices overlooking the calming Hudson on May 16. Executive Vice President Peter Kirwan and I convened over “The Tub of Technology.” Usually filled with AOL disks (please send donations so they can fill it) this night the porcelain-lion-footed bathtub…
Hearty heart-felt Congratulations go out to Shelly and Joshua Masur on their newborn baby girl Julia Astrid Masur. All 7 lbs and 21 1/2 inches of her arrived last Sunday, June 1, at 7:36 a.m. You can check for yourself at her website, but Josh–the former WWWAC list mom–rightfully boasts, “She is simply the most…
UPCOMING EVENTS May 19 The newly formed WWWAC WebcastingSIG will have its first meeting on May 19, 6-8 p.m., at the Global Community Digital Sandbox/55 Broad St., 4th Floor. More info. May 29 Virtual Growth Incorporated in association with our neighbors Daedalus Technology Group is inviting clients and friends to The 1st Annual Spring Party….
IT’S SUMMERTIME and the livin’ is easy . . . Ruben Perez writes that all the information you need to have a great summer at the Jersey Shore is now available at the New Jersey Online’s official Shore ’97 web site (http://www.nj.com/shore) (Appeared originally in @The Scene in the @NY newsletter)