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Baltimore - 18 October, 1999 - I have felt very much like a long-distance runner today, knowing full well that if I could complete this edition of the magazine in one marathon sitting my production schedule would be back on track.
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It's been a wild and wooly week at G21 World Headquarters.
It would have been interesting enough of my own life hadn't intruded to throw our production schedule into disarray. But that was not all:
First there was the note from the UTNE READER ONLINE informing us that our "MEMOIRS OF THE INFORMATION AGE" feature from last edition had been chosen as their Utne Web Watch Daily pick for Wednesday, 13 October.
This came hard on an e-mail from Troma Films asking us if we would like to be one of the featured sites on the DVD they will be releasing as part of the promotion effort for the new Tromaville.com Web community. Think "Toxic Avenger." I loved that film, as well as "Tromeo and Juliet" and "Surf Nazis Must Die!" How could a magazine which promotes satire the way we do resist?
Meanwhile, Rodya is popping Tylenols with codeine and trying to keep up.
That's when the e-mail arrives that Scotland's largest dead-tree daily, The Herald, is *also* featuring "MEMOIRS OF THE INFORMATION" in it's look at the future of e-commerce.
(At this point I began trying to remember WHO it was who told me that MOIA was a *lousy name* for an Internet column.
This is not the first time this has been the case. My pal Terry out in California predicted that no one would take to a feature called DAY ONE. It was our most popular column after only two months. Only after the introduction of MOIA has it dropped to number two.
I've grown used to people telling me that I don't understand the publishing business.)
When you are a small Web site, with only tens of thousands of readers --- as opposed to hundreds of thousands, or millions --- you value the kind of recognition we have gained this week.
FEED THE HUNGRY. You can help someone else in this world and IT WON'T COST YOU A DIME. If you simply remember to drop by The Hunger Site every day that you surf and click a simple button ONE LESS PERSON WILL GO HUNGRY. The food is distributed by the United Nations World Food Programme and paid for through the sponsorship of companies that care. Do your part.
ABOUT THIS ISSUE: One of the odd phenomena of editing and publishing for this many weeks is that you lose a sense of perspective on what you have produced in the past.
Last week's piece by MOIRA GUINNESS, on life in Borneo, provides a classic example of the quality of material --- and humorous material --- on life in another culture which gained us our reputation. This week's, also from 1996, by PALOMA ETIENNE is another example of how and why we gained our rep' as a global magazine.
From the very beginning, we have tried to bring you international perspectives on daily life. We shan't ever abandon that mandate.
Meanwhile, today's features continue to challenge and provoke. BOB POWERS brings you more of the music reviews which have gained us a following among Indie record companies and artists, and KEVIN CAREY looks at plutocracy with a jaundiced eye.
We think you'll be glad you're back.
LIFE OF ROD: I'm runnin this photo, contributed by my friend Scott Morin, again because I think it's a kick.
It is so perfectly appropos.
I'm a little disappointed that you guys missed the humor.
Oh well.
REMEMBER: Tell every single one of your friends about this Web site. Me mother thanks you, me father thanks you, me advertisers thank you.
Thanks for coming back this week."Work like you don't need the money,
"Love like you've never been hurt,
"Dance like no one is watching..."
Rod
This is another Web site made on a Macintosh.
EDITORIAL CORRECTIONS: Rod dropped the ball twice last week.I failed to provide the correct URL for our VOX POPULI feature in our pull-down menu meant to help you navigate our site. The correct URL should have been "http://www.g21.net/vp63.html"
I also missed, in MEMOIRS OF THE INFORMATION AGE, a typo misspelling the word "insightfully" for over 36 hours.
I apologize for the inconvenience these errors may have caused you.
Please feel free to make us aware of errors, typographical or otherwise, you find on this site. We are committed to providing a quality Web product. Thanks in advance.
ROD AMIS has published this magazine since 1990. It first appeared as a hardcopy 'Zine. In March, 1996, he launched it here on the Web. Rod was a Contributing Editor at Suite101.com, where he wrote the " 'Net Publishing" feature. His work has been featured in the San Francisco Bay Guardian Online, NRV8, and at WebLab's Reality Check site. Rod was also a contributing writer on technology for Faulkner Information Services.
Rod is now a columnist for the Andover News Network, where he writes on web design and development issues every Thursday. He is principal writer and Editor for IT Manager's Journal, where he reviews technology issues five days a week. His opinions on the Info Age began appearing on MethodFive's HYPER technology newsletter in March.
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