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NETWORKS AND COMMUNITY : May 14, 1994
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Networks and Community is devoted to encouraging
LOCAL resource creation & GLOBAL resource sharing.
The 18th report of 1994 is the 24th weekly survey.
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Coverage in this issue includes:
Global Community
News From The World
Timely Thoughts: A Call to Community, by Kevin Thomas Sullivan
Profile: Media Planet (a professional film industry destination)
Services: ThisIsCrazy List from Sylvia Caras
Help!!!
Classes & Meetings
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Global Community
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Slowly making headway through the huge pile of handouts
from the "Ties That Bind" Conference in Cupertino! As I read
through the well presented, thought provoking, informative
brochures, two things are happening to me. First, I am brought
back to the most energetic gathering of diverse folks that I
personally have attended (sheltered life, huh!) and second, I am
motivated by the energy of the participants (both at the conference
& online) to become more active in what I see as the most
important tool for effecting and affecting community available.
We are preaching to the already converted here on the net.
We need to bring in the melting pot to these discussions. Each
question that we ask begets more questions. We must start to
organize these thoughts and take action. Only then will we have an
effective tool to use to change the world. If you think about it,
we have at our potential disposal, in our homes and businesses, the
text capabilities to reach as many folks as CNN does with
television. One that, if used properly and distributed widely,
truly globalize our local communities.
*WE* must take the initiative to link our diverse systems
together, and righteously fight any loss of bandwidth taken from
us by commercial providers, the government and others that would
choke off this resource before it reaches its potential. We must
make access to the Internet by all a priority, equal in importance
to free speech! If we cede the ownership of the Internet to
private enterprise, they will control it, just as was done with
that OTHER medium, television. We let others dictate content that
appeals to the lowest common denominator.
We must bring our communities online, all of them. We must
form state and national organizations to assist in funding and
information gathering. If we fight to maintain ownership of this
medium, we will finally have the power to *REALLY* effect change.
To accomplish this, we must share our knowledge of and
excitement with the rest of our communities. Offer to teach a
class at your house or community center on how to use this tool.
Preach the gospel, follow it up with your actions, and show others
that the "INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY" can be just as simple to use as
the "INTERSTATE HIGHWAY".
-steve covington
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NEWS of the WIRED & WEIRD **** Received from various sources
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Forwarded by Gleason Sackman - InterNIC net-happenings moderator
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Subject: E-d-u-p-a-g-e 05/10/94 & 05/12/94 EDITED BY MYSELF
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SAN DIEGO TAKES THE INITIATIVE IN TELECOM
San Diego wants a broadband fiber network and it isn't waiting for
state and federal governments or "convergence" to make it happen. The city
is soliciting bids from telephone and cable companies, the local electrical
utility, universities and even the U.S. Navy. "We want to conjure up ways
in which we can use this technology in a way that makes sense in a business
context," says a city management assistant. (Multichannel News 5/9/94)
LAWYERS CAPITALIZE ON INTERNET FLAMING
Canter & Siegel, a husband-and-wife law firm that found itself
scorched by flame mail last month for advertising on the Internet, has
decided to launch a new service, Cybersell, to help other businesses do the
same thing. Cybersell will charge $500 for access to 6,000 news groups.
"People like Canter & Siegel are taking grotesque advantage of liberating
technology that supports the free and open exchange of ideas," says the
president of the Internet Company. Retorts Siegel, "Our fate has been that
we're making a lot of money. If a bunch of hysterics want to scream and
yell and make fools of themselves, then I don't feel they warrant respect."
(Wall Street Journal 5/9/94 B2)
THE SENSE OF A WOMAN
Women love the geometric video game Tetris, and game-makers are
dying to find out why. While 99% of the buyers for most other games are
male, 40% of Tetris buyers are female. One theory is the appeal of the
game's goal, which is to bring order to chaos, resulting in neat little
rows of geometric shapes. Women crave order, hypothesizes a sociologist
hired by Nintendo to unravel the riddle, and by beating the clock on the
game, a woman experiences a rush of endorphins -- "feel good" chemicals
produced by the body under stress. (Wall Street Journal 5/10/94 B1)
COMPUTER TV SHOWS
Ziff-Davis Publishing plans a series of four 30-minute television
programs about computers, to be aired in conjunction with 30-minute
high-tech shopping shows. The Personal Computing Show and Tech TV's
Computer Outlet will be produced by the Technology Information Network, a
joint venture of Ziff-Davis and Missing Link Communications. (Wall Street
Journal 5/10/94 B9)
WOMEN FAVOR E-MAIL OVER E-MALL
A survey conducted by an online publication reveals that more than
66% of the women surveyed log on to an electronic service at least once a
day and the same number spends at least $20 a month on online fees. Top on
their list is interacting with editors, writers and other readers, with
Internet access ranking second. Only 6% considered shopping, banking or
travel services a priority. (Tampa Tribune 5/9/94 B&F3)
INFO HIGHWAYS FOR THE FUTURE, POLICY FOR NOW
"Ten years from now you're still going to be looking at Dan Rather
and his successors," predicts Andrew Schwartzman of the Media Access
Project, who insists that policy makers should concentrate on traditional
reforms (e.g., the Fairness Doctrine and rules barring phone companies from
controlling information content on its wires), rather than be distracted by
future hype that will allow the information highway to be controlled by
three or four companies. (Common Cause Magazine Spring 94 p.17)
BATTLE WAGED OVER NSFNET CONTRACT
The National Science Foundation will spend $50 million on an
upgraded NSFNet backbone, and has selected MCI for the vBNS (very
high-speed backbone network services) portion of the project. Sprint is
raising objections, and the lawyers are preparing to do battle. Sprint
claims that NSFNet management had a too-cozy relationship with MCI during
the evaluation process, and that a National Science Board member also has a
possible conflict of interest with MCI. (Telecommunications 5/94 p.15)
POSSIBLE SHARED JURISDICTION OVER TELECOMMUNICATION
The Canadian federal government may delegate some of its power over
communications to the provinces following protests by Quebec over a recent
Supreme Court ruling that confirmed exclusive federal jurisdiction in this
area. (Toronto Star 5/12/94 A15)
ISDN COMING INTO ITS OWN
After many years of false starts, Integrated Services Digital
Network is developing into a viable choice for communications users. There
were more than 125,000 ISDN lines in service at the end of 1993, and the
number's expected to grow to 1 million by the end of 1997. "Pricing is
breeding ISDN," says the president of a telecommunications firm.
(Telecommunications 5/94 p.18)
FULL-MOTION VIDEO CHIPS
Texas-based Linden Technology has a new take on running full-motion
video over your PC. It's combined the memory and logic circuits on one
chip, enabling PCs to be built with the graphics capability of a fancy
workstation at one-third the cost, according to the company's president.
"The big chipmakers think we're crazy, but we see a $30 chip that can push
1,000 MIPS (millions of instructions per second)." (Business Week 5/16/94
p.91)
MASCULINE/FEMININE
Men typically imagine computer devices that can help them "conquer
the universe," says Jan Hawkins, director of the Center for Children &
Technology, whereas women want machines that meet people's needs, "the
perfect mother." The center's associate director, Cornelia Bruner, says if
everyone approached technology the way women do, "we wouldn't be pushing
envelopes... Most women, even those who are technologically sophisticated,
think of machines as a means to an end." (Newsweek 5/16/94 p.48)
****** From Niiregional Mailing list ******
Thought Internet readers would be interested in this News Release. A
full copy of Cullen's testimony from today's (May 12th) hearing is
available by Gopher and anonymous ftp at ba.com.
Eric Rabe
Bell Atlantic | Internet: rabe@ba.com
For Immediate Release May 12, 1994
Contacts: Eric Rabe 703-974-3036, <rabe@ba.com>
Shannon Fioravanti 703-974-5455
BELL ATLANTIC TELLS CONGRESS: IGNORE THE LONG DISTANCE MYTHS, LET ALL
TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDERS COMPETE
Washington, D.C. , May, 12 -- Bell Atlantic President James G. Cullen
today called on the United States Senate to look beyond the myths
perpetuated by the long distance telephone industry and craft
telecommunications reform legislation that "allows consumers to reap the
full benefits of competition."
Cullen, testifying on behalf of the seven Regional Bell Operating
Companies, pledged to the Senate Commerce Committee his willingness to
work out a compromise on S. 1822, The Communications Act of 1994. Cullen
asserted that simultaneously opening long distance markets as local
markets are opened to additional competition will lower telephone rates
and could create as many as 3.6 million new jobs over the next 10 years.
"To do anything less than opening both markets at the same time will
virtually preordain the winners and losers in this competitive
industry," Cullen said. "To do anything less will limit choices for
consumers."
Cullen added that if the local telephone companies like Bell Atlantic were
able to provide long distance service, consumers would have as many as
seven new choices for these long distance services. "The long distance
cartel remains closed," he said, "closed as the companies spread myths and
misinformation to keep competitors out of their markets."
Cullen suggested that telecommunications providers begin to talk seriously
about how they can work together in the best interest of the consumer. He
urged policy makers to focus on the realities of the marketplace and
create a compromise which opens all markets to competition.
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I met with Kevin at the "Ties That Bind" conference in Cupertino.
He is an Internet consultant and another great example of the type
of person that is selflessly working to "humanize" the Internet.
-steve covington
A CALL TO COMMUNITY
A Paper presented at the "Ties That Bind" Conference
by Kevin Thomas Sullivan
Are community networks going to become the "information
utilities" of our age? Maybe, though they will have to overcome
great hurdles to achieve that status. I see community networkers
not as aspiring utility operators, but as visionaries who can
provide leadership in helping us to rediscover intimate community,
which I believe to be a healthy condition. I see then, community
networks transending the utility paradigm, leaving it to other
organizations to provide "utility level" service to the community.
What is intimate community and why is it important?
Intimate community is about the process of building close, deep
and lasting relationships with other men and women. This is
something that we don't do very well in our fast paced, high
achieving culture. In fact, the way we use things like computers,
televisions, cars, even phones, isolates us from one another.
Should we just chuck technology and go back to an old nostalgic
way of being? I believe not. Forces often act in two balancing
directions even though we can see only one side at any given
time. Technology is certainly a power and we certainly have seen
one of its sides in a big way. Perhaps technology can be used to
help facilitate the building of intimate community.
How can community networks help in this process? I believe
that intimate community is best facilitated through personal
contact with other individuals who have a shared passion for
something, be it baseball, stamp collecting or even community
building. I want to see how community networks can be used to
help facilitate the process of bringing people together in ways
that enrich our relationships.
This way of thinking results in a subtle shift in point-of
-view. Community networks become community communications tools
instead of information providers.
Access to personal information becomes more important than
access to impersonal information.
Access to personal information of those within our
geographic community becomes more important than access to
personal information of those outside our geographic
community.
The concept of Personal Information Empowerment (PIE)
becomes important. That you control what, when, where
and with whom you share your personal information.
Providing simple, low cost access to local, personal
information becomes more important than providing complex
and expensive access to global impersonal information.
(This will be the job of the commercial information
providers.)
Finding ways to maximize access to local personal
information while minimizing the amount of time and
effort that people spend on the system, becomes important.
How do we put these ideas into practice? We have already
begun. We need to continue to accept the premise that we do not
have the answers, that we are unlikely to think of the answers in
the abstract, that the answers will come only through thought
combined with simple trial and error. We need to stay open and
flexible, encouraging multiple approaches, and avoiding approaches
that will require us think and act alike. We need to make our
platforms less stable, more flexible and smaller, so that many
different people in different communities can begin to experiment
with their own models. Taking more risks, but each risk smaller
and more manageable, and above all, listening to the results of our
experiments, honestly evaluating them and making changes.
As the community networking movement shifts to this
ground, we will find that many of our current obstacles will begin
to disappear. We will begin to appear less threatening to the
commercial information providers because we will be taking a
different, though hopefully complimentary, path. The vital energy
that we spend on our current technical and political struggles
will become less, because the scale of our projects, and their
information requirements, will remain small. We will be able to
focus our energies on the creative part of this process, generating
a series of experiments that begin to enrich our everyday life.
This is not an easy road. We will need support. We need
to continue making the community building community stronger, so
that these experiments can be shared and supported in gentle and
accepting ways. We must pay attention to the community that we
are creating today, and nourish its growth to sustain us in our
efforts.
I am convinced that out of these experiments will come a
powerful community building force that will have the potential to
transform community in our age.
** Copyright * May 3, 1994 * Kevin Thomas Sullivan
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HELP!!!
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I am interested in communities that have been involved
in the Healthy Community Movement and how telecommunications
has played a role in the development of those communities
and whether it has been used to exchange information
between communities.
John Godfreyson jgodfreyson@sd68.nanaimo.bc.ca
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Dear Net Citizen:
How do you put a price on free and open dialogue on the Net?
How much are you willing to spend to preserve the concept of roboust
and open debate that have become a part of the Internet's culture?
$100? $50? $20?
What if the cost of helping to preserve an open and robust Net was
no more than $1.29? That's right, less than the cost of a fast
food hamburger. Freedom on the Internet for only $1.29... cheap
at twice the price.
A joke? Hardly. The free and open speech, indeed the First Amendment
rights of the Internet -- rights we've all enjoyed for decades -- are now
being challenged in court.
CyberWire Dispatch, the well-respected online newswire written and
developed for the Internet community by journalist Brock Meeks, is
the subject of a libel suit. CyberWire Dispatch has been at the
forefront of bringing the Net community timely and insightful
articles.
This suit was highlighted in a _Wall St. Journal_ article (April
22, page B1). The subject of a Dispatch investigation is suing
Meeks for simply doing what journalists in the traditional print
medium have done since the founding of newspapers: Print the
facts and let the public decide the outcome.
Brock and the Cyperwire Dispatch are examples of the "bottom up"
journalism that charachterizes the Net, where anyone with a modem can
compete with the traditional press. Of course, most of us don't come
to the Net with a lawyer in tow, or the resources to defend a legal
action taken against us in courts located hundreds of miles from our
homes.
This libel action is one of the earliest cases of libel involving
alleged defamatory statements published over a computer network.
It raises the extremely important legal and policy issues. It's impact
may well determine how and to what extent anyone feels free to express
strong opinions on the Net, wihtout being put at risk of legal action.
It is crucial that Brock have a strong defense and that the principles
that come out of this case provide the maximum protection to the
exercise of free and open speech as possible.
CyberWire Dispatch is unique because it's distributed solely in
electronic form. A service for the Net community at large. And
all CyberWire Dispatch articles are free. Meeks neither charges
anyone for receiving them; he gets paid nothing to write them.
For all these efforts, he's being sued. And being sued by a
company with a large financial backing. Meeks, on the other hand,
has no such resources. His attorney, Bruce Sanford of Baker &
Hostetler is arguably the finest First Amendment lawyer in the
U.S.
And although he has agreed to represent Meeks at a reduced rate,
the cost of defending against this unmerited suit will not be
cheap.
We have formed this committee to lend our support in helping him
raise money for his legal defense. And all we're asking you to
send is $1.29. That's it. Why that price? The math is easy: $1
in an envelope with a 29 cent stamp applied.
Who can't afford $1.29 to help save the great freedoms we all
enjoy here today?
Can you send more? Of course. Any contributions will be
welcomed and accepted. Tax deductible donations also are
possible by following the instructions below.
All money sent for Meeks' legal defense fund will be go to that
purpose. All the administrative services for administering the
fund are being donated; 100% of your money goes to defer the
legal costs of this case.
You are encouraged to repost this message. But please, we urge
you to keep proper Net protocol in mind when reposting or cross
posting this message.
Thanks for your time. On behalf of Brock and for future
generations of electronic journalists, we appreciate your
contributions and support.
For Tax Deductible Donations:
Make Checks out to "Point Foundation" and clearly annotate on the check:
"For Legal Defense Fund."
Send those checks to:
Meeks Defense Fund
c/o Point Foundation
27 Gate Five Road
Sausalito, CA 94965
For those who don't care about the tax deductible status, send
contributions to:
Meeks Defense Fund
c/o IDI
901 15th St. NW
Suite 230
Washington, DC 20005
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Sender: Ed Bidinotto <Ed.Bidinotto@netstrategies.com> Subject:
CONFNA>New User Internet Seminar, 6/11/94, Denver
On Saturday June 11th, Internet Strategies will host a seminar in Denver
called The Internet Getting Started Seminar. This seminar is targeted to
the beginner who would like to get up to speed on using the Internet.
This seminar will cover the following topics:
- What the Internet is and how you can connect.
- Why you need access to this powerful global network.
- What tools are available to get worldwide information from the Net.
- How your business can benefit from this technology.
- What type of Internet connection is best for you.
- Where to get help with training and where to find additional resources.
Various Internet Experts: Live Internet Demonstrations
Saturday June 11th, Denver Marriott SE (I-25/Hampden), 9 am. - 4 pm.
Register by May 27. For information/registration, call (303) 863-9561
Cost: $89 includes lunch. Register by May 27th.
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Sender: OGUJGRA@DPC01.DPC.UMASSP.EDU Subject: Doing business on the
Net conference
How to do business on the Internet and other interactive media
Six practitioners tell how it really works, what it really costs
Montague, MA. This June, speakers from MONSANTO, SCHLUMBERGER, The
HARTFORD COURANT, and The MONTAGUE INSTITUTE will tell how they use the
Internet and other interactive information technologies in R&D,
marketing, and customer service. In addition, representatives from NEW
MEXICO TECHNET and the VERMONT HEALTH INFORMATION CONSORTIUM will
provide insights on how regional information networks are formed,
funded, and used by both private and public sector organizations.
Designed to address the practical issues of using the "information
superhighway" as it exists today, the program will appeal to business
executives and professionals, administrators of nonprofit agencies,
entrepreneurs, and economic development staff. Topics covered will
include interactive advertising, workgroup computing, use of information
networks to achieve competitive advantage, Internet resources for
business intelligence, and strategies for promoting Internet usage
within an organization.
The conference, "Gateways to Productivity," will held on the Amherst
campus of the University of Massachusetts from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm on
June 23, 1994. The event is a collaborative effort with support from
Western Massachusetts Electric Company, University Information Systems
(The President's Office, University of Massachusetts) and Continental
Cablevision. Cost is $65 person. Meals and lodging are available at
reasonable rates at the university Conference Center.
For more information, call Jean Graef at The Montague Institute
(413-367-0245) or send E-mail to OGUJGRA@dpc01.dpc.umassp.edu.
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