Reuters
"Television personality Hugh Downs plans to join iNEXTV Corp., a newly formed Internet video network, to develop online television shows, making him the latest high-profile TV newsman to embrace the new medium."
Who's the little teeny man, poppy?Gavin McNett on "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace"
"But then, if you look at the notion of "cyberspace" in rigorously historical terms, the idea that a person running a Web browser is somehow flying through an ethereal realm of pure data is just the flip side of the notion that if you open up the TV, you'll find little people dancing around inside."
Larry Wall
"These days it's popular to demonize Microsoft, but I think of Microsoft more as a spoiled child with a tendency to be a bully. Yes, they need to be disciplined, but they also need to be praised when they do something right. That might be more important in the long run than any amount of spanking."
Spider Robinson : Senator Socksdryer and the Two Million Dollar Boondoggle
I finally got my copy of Yeska's "Skafrocubanjazz"
Sizzling! see also: a good article from May 1998 in
LatinoLink.
Wired : Real Agents fro Virtual Models
"The Elite modeling agency has created a new division to manage the careers of computer-generated models and actresses." There's a passage in William Gibson's
Virtual Light where he talks about the feedback loop of cops learning how to be cops by watching shows like "Cops". For a while now I've been kind of worried that ( the collective ) we are living in a similar loop, learning how to deal with our the future is now syndrome by reading William Gibson books. They are good books, for sure, but I do *not* want to live in
the world he writes about.
John Katz : The End of the Amazon Era
"Jeff Bezos newly-revealed once-revolutionary website has been revealed: a tacky online K-Mart. You're as likely to see a Pokemon critter or digital camera as a book there these days. Is this what all those investors were counting on?" Duh.