The WELL: inkwell.vue.91: Howard Rheingold - The Virtual Community, second edition

#184: alans psychedelic breakfast (sd) Sun 31 Dec 00 00:08

Sun, 31 Dec 2000 00:08:00 PST

AND lots of us read large chunks of the many and varied topics on the well months or years after they have been posted. in computer topics for example you can almost watch things develop by reading through the comments.

sometimes folks remove some or all of their comments from the well. this can leave lots of holes in the story but, people 'own their own words' here so that is just life. [Read entire topic]

#183: John Payne (satyr) Thu 7 Dec 00 18:28

Thu, 07 Dec 2000 18:28:00 PST

<scribbled by satyr> [Read entire topic]

#182: Gordon Taylor (warfrat) Thu 7 Dec 00 08:41

Thu, 07 Dec 2000 08:41:00 PST

"scribble" is a command to erase a post. [Read entire topic]

#181: Thomas Armagost (silly) Thu 7 Dec 00 01:06

Thu, 07 Dec 2000 01:06:00 PST

Inclusion of a graphic can really alter the appearance of a message.

\<img src="http://www.pe.net/~sputnik/images/toonshew.gif">

Ed Stastny has informed me that Jon Van Oast deserves credit as one of SITO's founders. A Very Important Geek. His URL is... <http://scribble.com/>! Would some WELLbeing please explain to all of those legions of lurkers out there in cyberspace why the word 'scribble' is unduly significant hereabouts? [Read entire topic]

#180: Thomas Armagost (silly) Mon 4 Dec 00 14:29

Mon, 04 Dec 2000 14:29:00 PST

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The faces on the mock ads are permutations of an "avatar" that a nameless commercial artist had created for Electric Minds.

Although I quit eMinds last year, I'm still distorting images using Adobe Photoshop, as these portraits of presidential candidates that I posted to Gridcosm attest. <http://www.well.com/user/silly/vote.html> [Read entire topic]

#179: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Mon 4 Dec 00 05:42

Mon, 04 Dec 2000 05:42:00 PST

SITO's great. Coincidentally, I wrote a piece about Bob Anderson, a SITO regular, for Electric Minds: http://www.abbedon.com/electricminds/html/wwj_austin_1928.html [Read entire topic]

#178: Thomas Armagost (silly) Mon 4 Dec 00 03:58

Mon, 04 Dec 2000 03:58:00 PST

Re: <41>

Still here, Howard? Lurking, perhaps?

I joined Electric Minds just a few months prior to your departure. The "glory days" had ended long before my arrival there. eMinds gave me the ability to seamlessly incorporate graphics such as animated .GIFs into messages. For example, I created this mock ad and posted it to eMinds back in 1997.

\<img src="http://www.pe.net/~sputnik/images/ads.gif">

Recently, I discovered an active noncommercial virtual community for digital artists that predates eMinds. Ironic. Took me six and a half years to find it. <http://www.sito.org/cgi-bin/gridcosm/gridcosm?level=top> Collaboration is the name of the game. [Read entire topic]

#177: Howard Rheingold (hlr) Sat 4 Nov 00 10:11

Sat, 04 Nov 2000 10:11:00 PST

They have to be published, first. In my limited experience, publishers are reluctant to support them. But I don't want to pretend to be a publishing expert. [Read entire topic]

#176: Brian Slesinsky (bslesins) Fri 3 Nov 00 22:05

Fri, 03 Nov 2000 22:05:00 PST

I remember reading a while back that Amazon was helping the sales of midlist books. Did that not happen? [Read entire topic]

#175: Linda Castellani (castle) Fri 3 Nov 00 12:07

Fri, 03 Nov 2000 12:07:00 PST

And let me add my thanks, also! Please feel free to stick around if additional thoughts should occur to you that you'd like to communicate. [Read entire topic]