FROM OUR MAILBAG 7/30 - 8/7/98:
FACTOIDS from an Alumnus
FROM Ron M., San Francisco, USA:
One fallout from my brush with Internet fame and moderate rather than low traffic, is that I have installed a webtrend program to look more carefully at my viewers.
A couple of things stand out:
66% of my viewers use Netscape
31% of my viewers use IE
89% of my viewers use Windows95
4% of my viewers us Windows98
6.5% use Mac systems of anykind
What interests me is the apparent lack of growth in IE share reflected in my viewers, especially in light of the bundling and monopolistic MS practices. IE growth appears stagnant in the mid-thirties.
Mac share is dwindling...
Fliss Has a Fan
FROM Jason G., Los Angeles, USA:
Enjoyed your Magic and Information Overload columns. Have you read a book called "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn? You might find it worthwhile ...
FLISS RESPONDS: Nice to hear from you, Jason. Thank God people are reading me! I haven't come across Daniel Quinn, but shall hunt it out once I've finished Proulx 'the Shipping News', which everyone is going mad about over here. Thanks for the recommendation. I've just started writing another piece in the same style as Magic and Information Overload - due Monday or Tuesday - but no clues on subject matter here - so I hope you like that, too ... Fliss.
K.O is what...?
FROM Lucas G. , Los Angeles, USA:
If I had realized I was writing for publication, perhaps I would have chosen my words more carefully ... ah, well, it's not as if my good buddy Kris Olson is going to think any less of me for failing to be bright and witty all the time.
Let me just state, unequivocally and for the record, that you are not to believe a word that KO writes. First of all, he harbors some illusion that Boston is destined for greatness in every sport (call it the Kennedy complex), and second of all, he's not nearly as good at Rotisserie as he thinks he is. This from the guy who led the league in 1990 wire-to-wire, then folded from first to fifth place in the span of a week -- but at least I acknowledge my deficiencies.
As a defender of the journalistic tradition, I thought you'd want to know ... and to prove what a reasonable guy I am, I'm even cc-ing Kris on this note.
Jason
ROD RESPONDS: Jason, it seems K.O. has friends all over the country. Though I would like to believe you, I must stand behind the veracity of K.O.'s columns.... even if he does live in Boston.
King of All Media...
FROM Steve S. [No City Provided], USA:
Thomas Hart is Da Man! Even when he doesn't do a dish, like this week, HE STILL DOES!
He is the best writer you've got on the G21. Don't lose him!
TABLOID HART RESPONDS: Steve, I couldn't agree with you more. I, personally, find the talent of my esteemed colleagues right up there and read their columns religiously, as should you, but I am The King of All Media. Howard Stern is just tryna usurp my crown!
Maybe so, But Matt Drudge gets Many, Many More Hits
FROM Melissa Y. [No City Provided], USA:
I like it's creativity I don't know how they come up with this stuff but I like it
Public Service Announcements?
FROM Darryl C., Hershey, PA, USA:
Subject: AFRICANS IN AMERICA TV SERIES
Africans In America TV Series
Public Broadcasting will soon air a new series, "AFRICANS IN AMERICA: America's Journey Through Slavery." This is described as "the first comprehensive television history of the international events leading to the growth of racial slavery in the United States."
Expected to draw more than 20 million viewers nationwide, the AFRICANS IN AMERICA series will air Monday, Oct. 19 through Thursday, Oct. 22, 1998 at 8:00 p.m. (EST) on PBS. The Fannie Mae Foundation sponsors the series as part of its education outreach efforts designed to reach African Americans. "The AFRICANS IN AMERICA series will be a unique educational opportunity for all Americans to learn more and understand this nation's complex history," said James A. Johnson, chairman of the Fannie Mae Foundation.
AFRICANS IN AMERICA will be presented in four 90-minute episodes. The series will take viewers on a journey from this country's earliest days as an English settlement, through its war for independence, to its rise as an international economic power before the Civil War. The series will show the dramatic impact of the struggle over slavery and freedom in shaping our country.
AFRICANS IN AMERICA is produced for PBS by WGBH Boston, and was filmed on location across twelve states and three continents. The series includes new scholarship by noted experts from around the United States and the world.
Episode One, Terrible Transformation (1607-1750), details the circumstances under which the first Africans arrived in America.
Episode Two, Revolution (1750-1805), highlights the increasing tension between the Colonists and England, with the Colonists pressing for freedom from the crown and their domestic policies.
Episode Three, Brotherly Love (1781-1834), follows the struggles of both freedmen and fugitive slaves, aided by the growing number of abolitionist societies as they challenged the new nation to live up to the ideals of the revolution.
Episode Four, Judgment Day (1831-1861), examines the denouement of the antebellum South and the final years before the Civil War.
Further details are available at: http://www.pbs.org/africansinamerica
FROM Rae B. [No City Provided], USA:
I'm suggesting http://www.angelfire.com/pa/melstuffpage for the [G21 Silver Surf] award
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