HotFlash 1.33
HotFlash 1.33
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Hello, and welcome to the HotFlash, the weekly newsletter of HotWired
and WIRED magazine events and information - 9 December 1994.
In this issue:
o WIRED 3.01 - "It Zigs Where Others Zag"
o "Life With Father" Making Waves in NetSurf
o Art On The Net - Is It Ready for Prime Time?
o Justin Hall, Liz Dunn To Appear in Club Wired
NEWS OF THE WIRED
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WIRED 3.01 - "It Zigs where others Zag"
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To celebrate the beginning of its third year in print, WIRED sent Bruce
Sterling to Prague. In "Triumph of the Plastic People", Sterling shares
his sly insights on how cheap modems, Fidonet BBSes, desktop publishing,
and rock'n'roll helped "kick the desiccated guts out of the Communist
mummy" and ushered in the "Velvet Revolution" nearly six years ago.
Expect the unexpected from the January 1995 issue of WIRED 3.01. On
North American newsstands the week of 19 December.
"Life With Father" Making Waves In NetSurf
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You may have already heard about "Life With Father" - the Web-based art
of Joseph Squier that's making waves on the Net. HotWired Surf Team member
Jim Ure turned us on to this elegant minimalist storytelling experience,
and if you haven't seen it yourself, you should.
It's at Squire's web site called "the place":
http://gertrude.art.uiuc.edu/ludgate/the/place.html
Ure's own "Deconstruting Daddy" is a NetSurf article about Squire's
efforts, and can be found at:
http://www.hotwired.com/Signal/Surf/Place.ftr/index.html
Here's a sample of Ure's commentary:
"...in "Life with Father," Joseph Squier has hit upon something new.
Squier treats HTML as an artistic format, merging a sparse narrative
text with images created to reflect the emotional world of the words.
"Life with Father,"...could be described as an image-narrative, or a
digital photo-essay, although its filed under "stories" in "the place."
The HTML format lends the work a sense of coherence; links push the
reader on from page to page. Overall, the place exhibits a completeness
and integrity uncommon for gallery sites. Much more than a collection of
image files, it is a unified and unique entity."
Squire himself is participating in a discussion about Net art in the
NetSurf section of Threads (discussed below).
Art On The Net - Is It Ready for Prime Time?
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Art on the Net. Is it revolutionary or evolutionary? Highbrow or populist?
What makes it intrinsically better or worse than art in books or IRL
(In Real Life)? In the NetSurf discussion thread "Internet Art - What is
it?", the debate on where Web-based art is heading has taken on a healthy
dialectic of pragmatism and optimism.
In our NetSurf debate, Joseph Squier (ludgate) says, "Artists will soon
start to think about the Net as the medium [as well as] the context in
which their work is both delivered and experienced." Susan Mernit
(susanmernit) wonders, "...how far off from Cindy Sherman's photographs
are many of the home pages people have created for aspects of their
electronic selves. The net is not a space for low art, but a space that
permits many new types of creativity, just as it permits new forms of
commerce." While Felix Salmon (piper) says, "Wouldn't it be nice if you
all could tell your grandchildren that you were in at the beginning of
this Way New Medium? It is always easier, more pleasant, to be enthusiastic
and hopeful than not to be. But think of Fractal Art. And those stupid
stereogram things. Sometimes it's best to treat the hype with a pinch of salt."
Remember, the conversations in Threads are searchable via the Threads
Search Form at:
http://www.hotwired.com/Piazza/Threads/threadsearch.html.
It's where HotWired talks back.
Justin Hall, Liz Dunn To Appear in Club Wired
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"Links from the Underground" Webmaster
Justin Hall
Wednesday, 14 December 1994
3:00 p.m. PST
Weaving the Web
What a tangled Web we weave. As corporate America stakes its claim on the
Net and the general population begins to catch on, the Web has become
richer, denser, more substantial, and increasingly unnavigable. How do you
make the most of your Net surfing hours? How do you find what you're
looking for? How has the landscape changed over the past year? Justin Hall,
HotWired's resident Web-wandering guru offers tips and tricks for finding
the Net's best. Hall is the creator and curator of Justin's Links from the
Underground, a phenomenally successful Web site boasting pages and pages of
great links and original writing. Online since January 1994, Links from
the Underground now boasts about 20,000 hits per day. In his spare time,
Hall is an Editorial Assistant at HotWired, and one of these days, he'll
return to Swarthmore College, where he will be a wise-beyond-his-years
sophomore.
Late Byte
w/ Inventor Liz Dunn
Wednesday 14 December 1994
10:00 p.m. PST
Drink Tank
Which would you rather be, French or New Wave? If you had been born the
opposite sex, what job would you have now? Pontificate with the Late Byte
crew on these and other hypotheticals, as 27-year-old inventor Liz Dunn
debuts her philosophical drinking/thinking game, Drink Tank. Dunn's clever
and curious questions spark great debates, and reveal bizarre facets of
your personality and perspective. Dunn - who holds one of two degrees ever
granted in Mythology from UC-Berkeley - also invented the "redneck hookah"
beer hat and the Emigre typeface, "Marvelous." Her new, mind-expanding
game becomes available for purchase next month, but you can get a sneak
preview and some good belly laughs by grabbing a beverage of your choice
(or not) and playing along in the first-ever Late Byte Drink Tank. Until
then, ponder this: Who would win in a fight, Amanda from "Melrose Place"
or Nellie from "Little House on the Prairie"?
Thanks for reading, and stay Wired!
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HotFlash 1.34
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Hello, and welcome to the HotFlash, the weekly newsletter of HotWired
and WIRED magazine events and information - 16 December 1994.
In this issue:
o Quiet Americans - Original Fiction for The Web, Next Week in Serial
o Skip the Mall! NetSurf Has a Field Guide to Holiday Web Shopping
o Who Are The Dhol Blasters and Why Are They Eating My Brain?
o Eye Witness Production Manager, Programmer/WebHead Positions Open at
HotWired
o SFRaves List Founder Brian Behlendorf To Appear in Club Wired
NEWS OF THE WIRED
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Quiet Americans - Original Fiction for The Web, Next Week in Serial
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The serial novel, in print, has been a creative venue for writers as varied
as Charles Dickens, Armistead Maupin, and Tom Wolfe. Now HotWired presents
original serial fiction written for the Web. "Quiet Americans" is a modern-
day novel of manners, set in locations ranging from resurgent Vietnam to
sterile Sherman Oaks to the email ether of the Net itself. We won't spoil
the plot, but we can tell you that hallucinogens, sex, the movies, and a
golf swing figure prominently in the initial installments. Beyond that,
you'll have to discover for yourself. Episode One introduces us to E.B. and
Mike, a Cuchco shaman, and strange dreams of a Snickers bar.
Skip the Mall! NetSurf Has a Field Guide to Holiday Web Shopping
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As the fateful day approaches, the prospect of gift-buying looms large and
menacing on the horizon. What to buy for the relatives you barely know but
who send you that god-awful fruitcake every year? How to thank the hardcore
techie who rescued your work after that system crash? And what could you
possibly get your hyper-practical sister, who's never made an impulsive
purchase in her life? HotWired's NetSurf department has you covered. For
the first edition of our Field Guide to Holiday Shopping (Western Edition),
we identified 17 major personality types, and elbowed our way through
virtual malls until we came up with elegant - or at least appropriate -
online gifts for all of them. Vermont maple syrup, Brio train sets,
microprocessor earrings, and dozens of other gifts - all of which can be
viewed and ordered via the Web - are only a few keystrokes away.
Who Are The Dhol Blasters and Why Are They Eating My Brain?
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Bhangra Beat. It's the infectious combination of hip-hop and East Indian
rhythms and vocals. Of course, it began in Britain, where all improbable
cultural hybrids germinate. The Dhol Blasters are among the several
featured new artists in this week's Soundz, where you can sample a spicy
track from their CD "Bhangratulations."
Eye Witness Production Manager,
Programmer/WebHead Positions Open at HotWired
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HotWired has openings for an Eye Witness production manager and a
Programmer/WebHead.
The Eye Witness production manager will be familiar with a variety of Mac
movie, sound, and image production software, including Adobe Photoshop and
Premiere. You will work under the direction of the Eye Witness section
editor to gather, process, and format content under daily and weekly
deadlines, as well as establish and maintain technical contact with On The
Road contributors. Experience with Internet resources including the WWW,
FTP, and telnet essential. Familiarity with formatting text, images, and
sound for online distribution preferred. The ability to integrate and
troubleshoot cross-platform systems (Mac, DOS/Windows, Unix) is helpful.
Familiarity with FileMaker Pro, HTML, and Silicon Graphics workstations
are big pluses.
The Programmer/WebHead will have the following skills:
Required:
o Ability to program well in C, and modify existing large C programs.
o In-depth knowledge of World Wide Web technology: HTML, CGI, HTTP,
etc.
o Unix experience, preferably Irix and BSDI flavors.
Preferred:
o Experience with SQL, Perl, and network-based applications.
If you have the appropriate skills and you applied for a previously
advertised position with HotWired, we consider you a potential candidate -
so there's no need to re-apply. We hope to fill both positions by 1 January
1994. Send your resume (in ASCII or HTML only), before 21 December, to:
hotjobs@hotwired.com
Please reference the appropriate job title in the subject line of your email.
SFRaves List Founder Brian Behlendorf To Appear in Club Wired
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For years, San Francisco has nurtured one of the country's thriving
rave (or house party) scenes. The all-night, underground parties - whose
philosophy rests on the principles of Peace, Love, Unity and Respect -
invigorate the city's night life (and decorate its landscape with
meandering, hat-wearing teenagers who couldn't find the rave). In many
ways, these sporadic, not-quite-spontaneous underground parties are the
arrhythmic heartbeat of '90s urban youth culture. But where did they come
from? What keeps the culture alive and the community thriving? And how do
you find out about them anyway? If you're a denizen of this nocturnal
world, or if you've never quite understood why people would stay up all
night wearing big, silly hats, then check out Cafe Wired this Thursday, and
groove with our all-star cast: Brian Behlendorf, who founded and maintains
the SFRaves mailing list; and Nori Castillo, who planned many of SF's
biggest and best-known house parties, including The Gathering, Toontown,
Come-Unity, and Mr. Happy's Disco; not to mention Jen Walsh and Natalia
Anguiano, two of Wired's most active ravers.
Thanks for reading, and stay Wired!
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