Archives for 2000

I think if I hear

October 17, 2000 by Michael Boyle

some quip like “Heh heh Gore said he invented the internet!” – or worse, some serious critic pointing to it as an indicator of some serious deficiency of his I’m going to hit the roof. Declan McCullough discusses it more in Wired News: The Mother of Gore’s Invention.

And while I was

October 16, 2000 by Michael Boyle

posting that, my friend Andy called me and invited me to the next conundrum press book launch, which will be his first launch of a perfect-bound book (as opposed to a handmade or otherwise bound book). It’s this Wednesday at 9 at Casa del Popolo on St-Laurent near Mont-Royal. Support local art!

I just got this

October 16, 2000 by Michael Boyle

email from Zeke, proprietor of Zeke’s Gallery:

Paintings by Marcus Hildebrandt
Vernissage: 10/20/2000 19h
L’Exposition continue jusqu’au 11/19/2000
“Friends, we need to talk. Look around – there are goats amongst us. They’ve traveled a long way from Upper Egypt and now they’re grazing at Zeke’s Gallery. Join the herd on October 20th, along with Monavici, Girl Friday, Edmund Fitzcaraldo, amongst others. Have a beer or seventeen – you just may get lucky and take one of them home.” – Marcus Hildebrandt

Now THIS

October 16, 2000 by Michael Boyle

I can get behind: la fondation Daniel Langlois for Art, Science, and Technology is opening a new research and documentation centre for art and new technologies. [via YULblog]

I did have a moment

October 16, 2000 by Michael Boyle

to go back to re-read The Web is like Canada though, which was kind of bugging me all weekend. And I agree with Aaron and Cameron that the article is a) a little trite in saying the web is “like Canada” and, b) it is a little muddled. It was one of those articles that I enjoyed on first reading but stuck with me as somehow incomplete, unfinished, unfocused. I think Ed put it best, referring to the judgement one must make about management in the web business (I paraphrase): “would they just as soon be selling potatoes, if there were money in it?” I know in my case, they wouldn’t, and hence even older non-technical people have a perfectly appropriate and interesting business plan with the web at its heart. For others – not so much. But I’ve spoken to a ton of “real web people” who don’t have the first clue either, at least in a commercial sense.