November 14th, 1998
Transmission Theater, San Francisco |
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7:00 Opening Rabble Rouse
by betty ray
7:15 Pat Mahoney
www.greenwitch.com
Pat's start up Internet radio station is "way too arrogant to allow advertisers onto the site." Tune in and groove to his tales of online radio and why it's revolutionizing the airwaves.
interview by betty ray
7:30 Mariqua Kacmarek
www.urbansounds.com
Absolut Vodka wanted urbansounds.com to plaster a banner on their site. Urban Sounds' webmistress said "Absolut nyet." The saga of not selling out.
interview by robynn takayama
7:45 Noel Franus
www.gap-toothed.com
When Vince Lombardi was depicted without the gap between his teeth on a U.S. postage stamp, Noel was pissed. So he put a link to the postmaster at www.gap-toothed.com in protest. Pretty soon he had TV crews coming to his
house to meet the world's first Professional Diastematic.
interview by betty ray
8:00 John Halcyon Styn
www.prehensile.com, www.cockybastard.com Exposing your mind, body and soul online is not only good for you, it sometimes shuts up The Man. When John got a cease-and-desist from Fruit of the Loom for a parody called "Meat of the Loom," he used the power of the web to publicize his case. And won.
interview by molly ditmore
8:15 Bruce Falck
www.phoenix-pop.com
Starting your own business from the ground up requires a massive commitment. Bruce Falck (along with partner Simon Smith) started phoenix-pop productions on a shoestring. He is living proof that not only can it be done, but it's rewarding as hell.
interview by eddie codel
8:30 R.U. Sirius
www.the-revolution.org
Nauseated by the political system? So was Mr. Sirius, a long-time Bay Area tech culture writer and fringe-dweller. Rather than sit in coffee shops and bitch, the former cyber-crusader decided to start his own political party
instead.
interview by betty ray
8:45 Molly Steenson
"Riding the Chef's Knife to Happiness:
Cooking your Webzine."
9:00 Marisa Bowe
www.word.com
When Word died earlier this summer, there was a collective heave of horror from its fans. Was this the ominous nail in the coffin of smart, cool, profitable online content? Resurrected from the great pixel beyond by ZAP,
Word returned in October.
interview by ryan junell
9:30 Zing Demo
And now a word from one of our sponsors
9:35 Owen Thomas
www.ditherati.com
Don't fight corporate hyperbole-- revel in it! Owen Thomas culls piquant koans from the self-sustaining, under-baked quotes of the dithering
digerati who make this medium so over-inflated and full of shit.
interview by molly steenson
9:45 Julie Petersen
www.awaken.org, www.bianca.org
A founding grilled-cheese flipper for Bianca's Smut Shack and one of the original Hotwireds, Julie has been a consistent and vocal advocate for the soul of the web for as long as we've all been online. With her tingling testimonials and soulful storytelling, Julie is a catalyst for feeling emotions on the web.
interview by molly ditmore
10:00 Janelle Brown
www.maximag.com
Janelle Brown is one of the co-founders of Maximag -- a forum where women write about media, sex, culture, shoes and everything else that matters to a woman living amid the sea of meaningless contemporary iconography. She is
also the Technology Correspondent for Salon Magazine and yearns for more shoes than she can afford.
interview by molly ditmore
10:15 David Siegel
www.dsiegel.com
Founder of web shop Studio Verso and writer of the now-infamous "Creating Killer Websites," Dave has kept a highly-trafficked online journal for several years. From mildewed towels to packing just the right pants for Paris, Dave posts his neuroses for the world to see.
interviewed by eddie codel
10:30 Carl Steadman
Is he a brand? A human being? A pundit? A loud-mouthed puppet of The Man? A person in your First Degree? Who and what exactly IS Carl Steadman, and what has he done for personal publishers lately?
interview by betty ray
10:45 Drue Miller
www.drue.com, www.heygeekgirl.com
This Geek Girl brings you into the fold in her sites. Learn the posture and performance tricks that will make you a geek girl, or read the late-risers rights manifesto. Drue is a true San Francisco web geek, and she'll show you just how she does it.
interview by molly steenson
11:00 Derek Powazek
www.fray.com, www.kvetch.com, www.sfstories.com
Derek M. Powazek is a freelance web designer and consultant who lives in a turquoise house in San Francisco. In addition to client work, he's the creator of the award-winning site the {fray}, its real-life extension the {fray} organization -- and online bitch-dump Kvetch!. His most recent effort is SF Stories, which includes stories of his own and others from the sordid to the sublime.
interview by betty ray
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