Carl Malamud The medium is not the message

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Carl MalamudThe medium is not the message

• Dolly Singh
• 70-643
• Publishing on the WWW

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The Radio Host

• 1st Internet Talk Radio
• Geek of The Week
• interviews with Internet minds
• Archives
• audio file for the intelligent listener
• live or recorded, public radio programs
• Tech Nation, KPFAs Hells Bells, National Press
  Club luncheons

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Exploring the Internet

• Internet Multicasting Service
• there needs to be a public space on the
  Internet . . .
• Successes
• SEC, EDGAR data base
• Congressional Record
• PTO trademark data
• current ventures http//not.invisible.net/

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A Worlds Fair

• Internet World Exposition
• 1996
• entirely online, highly interactive
• 130 countries, 5 million visitors
• latest book, A Worlds Fair
• successful karaoke multicast

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Cyber Santa http//north.pole.org

• 1993
• santa_at_north.pole.org or
• elves_at_north.pole.org
• Santa is spammed
• Sun Microsystems promises donation
• each time someone used the internets world wide
  web electronic publishing resource to read about
  a specific charity.
• 25,000

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Serial Social Entrepreneur

• Non profit organizations
• 2 Silicon Valley companies
• 8 books
• Mappa Mundi Magazine
• MIT Media Laboratory