Re: AIUM-Boston & other paradigms
From: Esther Dyson (edyson@edventure.com)
Fri Mar 27 11:00:04 1998
Thanks for the mention! Enjoy your own community!
Yours,
Esther Dyson
At 11.14 pm 3/21/98 -0600, Terry J DuBose wrote:
>All the news and not news. It's all gossip anyway.
>
>7K visits! OK, what does that mean? Say compared to the OBGYN.net or the
>Women's Health side? We don't seem to have as much discussion as there
>is on the other sites, so are people just dropping in and looking at the
>pretty pictures and not committing? Nothing wrong with that, but I would
>be interested in some sort of understanding... I don't know 7K from 70K
>or 700K when it comes to the http://wwweb. After all we are talking World
>Wide... what 5 billion+ folks? If you would be willing to post monthly
>numbers for the site, I am willing to crunch out some graphs so we can
>watch it grow... as it surely will.
>
>Now, buttons on the side? You mean like those peddle-pushers around high
>school in the 1950's? Those were some "hot" buttons! But I guess you
>are talking about some easier way of navigating around the community,
>right? I have an image in my mind, but am afraid that until I see the
>virtual-copy, to be confused with the hard-copy, I won't know if my image
>is your image. On ward... through the fog!
>
>Notice that I said "community". That's the paradigm... I'm reading Ester
>Dyson's RELEASE 2.0. A must read for anyone with a lick of sense and any
>idea that something is going on here... there... now someone tell me...
>just where are we?
>
>I'll massage the message again tomorrow, same time, same place.
>
>Marshall McKluen (sp?) said: "The medium is the message." He was a
>little off... the message is the message, the medium is the massage.
>Peace, Terry J. DuBose
>The Chair (not to be confused with Chairman Meow, AKA Mousy Tongue, my
>late, great kitty)
>--
>
>On Sat, 21 Mar 1998 21:50:34 -0600 Roberta Speyer
><roberta.speyer@obgyn.net> writes:
>><snip>
>>Send in the reports Terry! We all like to know what we're missing.
>>Have you met any the OBGYN.netters yet?
>>Any good gossip to tell us?
>>
>>Here's a news flash from HQ: Ultrasound at OBGYN.net
>>is becoming one of the
>>most popular specialty sections on OBGYN.net.
>>It had a whopping 7K plus visits in the firs 3 months of existence.
>>This is WAY above our projections.
>>
>>I'm working on plans to put ultrasound@obgyn.net
>>in frames so we can have buttons on the side that hot link to
>>the informal case studies and the Case
>>Of The Month, Image Gallery, links, etc... I think this
>>will be a big help. What do you all think?
>>>Wishing I was there!
>>Roberta
>>
>>Roberta F. Speyer
>>Publisher, OBGYN.net
>>http://www.obgyn.net
>>roberta.speyer@obgyn.net
>>
>
>Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
>
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