| 1. | Good afternoon! |
| 2. | Next week is the annual PC Forum conference in Tuscon, hosted by Esther Dyson, 511-3763@mcimail.com; and Jerry Michalski, spiff@panix.com. |
| 3. | I'm going! It'll be the first conference I've attended since starting DaveNet. Should be fun. |
| 4. | I want to try something different before going to this conference, it's an audience participation thing, so I hope, if you're going, that you'll participate. |
| 5. | First, I want to distribute a list of people attending, before we leave. So if you're going, please reply to this email message. |
| 6. | Second, it would be helpful to know what you want to accomplish at this conference. That way people will know, before-hand, if they need to talk to you, beyond the usual "how you doing?" courtesy schmooze. |
| 7. | So -- what do you want to learn about? Who do you want to meet? What do you have to sell? What do you need to buy? |
| 8. | If this works, I'll distribute the results on Friday, so if you get this after Friday, see you there! |
| 9. | Dave Winer |
| 10. | PS: I'm bringing my PowerBook with me. But no promises of a DaveNet piece from the show. I'm bringing my own schmoozing agenda with me. I hope to be busy! |
| 11. | PPS: Our website is moving. Note the new URL at the bottom of this message. When the move is completed I'll explain what we did. |
| 12. | PPPS: We're getting very close with the AutoWeb 1.0 beta. We're at version 1.0b6. Final candidate process starts soooon! I hope to lock down a totally feature-complete version before going to Tuscon, then see where the dust has settled when I get back. |
| 13. | PPPPS: Thanks to Aleksandar Totic, atotic@netscape.com, for showing us how to use Netscape 1.0N to get the source text of a web page. That eliminated the last known barrier to writing a "worm" script in Frontier. Steve Michel, michel@netcom.com, is working on the script I started back in December, the one that inspired my "A Week Without DaveNet" amusing rant. |