The defeat of the CDA means that site owners like us won't be
thrown in jail. However, you should be aware that sites are blocked for a variety
of reasons besides pornography. It is speech that is blocked, not porn.
In case you haven't noticed, the next big thing for investors
and the computer and Internet industries is online multiple-player games.
The problem is, of course, that business models matter more than content.
The problems involved with making 3D environments run fast
on PCs have not been solved, so expect this proliferation of weird solutions
to continue for a while.
Some of the best articles from the newsletter edited by Tony Bove
and Cheryl Rhodes from 1986 through 1994 -- the first newsletter about the topic
now known as multimedia, a.k.a. "new media" technologies.
The Graceful Duck offers a rant about interactive media conferences, with short
answers for all those conference topics (so that you don't have to attend).
Articles by Guest Writers
Writings on topics ranging from the Summer of Love to Jerry Garcia and Rick Griffin.
Elegy
for Jerry Garcia
A poem by Allen
Cohen written on Aug. 9, 1995. Jerry, may the four winds blow you safely home.