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Friday, January 30, 1998
An old link, but pretty funny. Worthy of another look. The first chapter of John Grisham's new novel, "The Street Lawyer" will be delivered via email to those who request it. Cool. Bob Garfield's review of the Superbowl Ads. Did you know that Razorfish and Avalanche merged? Expect cool things. Tuesday, January 27, 1998Salon reviews Tufte's books. A review of a review. OneWordReview: Astounding! New! A new feature on CamWorld: OneWordReview. Daniel Donnelly, the author of the awesome In Your Face has a new book out. Anyone have this yet? If so, what are your impressions? Mac OS 8.1 is available for download. Monday, January 26, 1998A fascinating book: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte. Number 8 on Amazon's 1997 Bestsellers! MacShelf has a new newsletter available via email. [Book reviews] Jakob Nielsen is an expert in the field of Usability Engineering. Here's his "hotlist." He runs the very informative site: UseIt.com Sunday, January 25, 1998Updated Media List. Saturday, January 24, 1998Rebecca L. Eisenberg's Net Skink column in the San Francisco Examiner has good advice for online writers. Want to meet lots and lots of journalists? Just click here. Wednesday, January 21, 1998CamRant: Random Thoughts About Advertising Tuesday, January 20, 1998Are you near Columbia, MO? KFMZ will be doing a live interview with me at 8:10 AM CST, on Wednesday. Here's an unfortunate example of how the Internet can be portrayed as a bad thing, and be used for truly illegal actions. Are you a disgruntled employee? I'm still trying to decide if I am or not. The Keirsey Temperament Sorter. [Test your personality] Monday, January 19, 1998 Updated Media List. Joke Wall Paper, for those who like to laugh. A good point made by Greg Knauss on Michael Sippey's Stating the Obvious. Both are sites that I've been reading for a long time. Yes, I'm available for freelance web design projects. Email me for more info. Trying to install Unix onto a laptop? Here's a good starting point. Saturday, January 17, 1998CamRant: Three Types of People Friday, January 16, 1998Welcome. You've discovered the site that's causing all the ruckus. If you came here because you read about me in your newspaper or heard about me on the radio, please email me letting me know where. Be sure to check it against my list of media sources who have talked about me or run one of the AP stories. Cool! Here's a quick write-up in Norwegian taken directly from the AP story. 10 More Ways To Fire Cameron Barrett. [Feel free to mail me your own additions to this list] If you want to interview me, you can email me requesting my phone number. Here's the national AP story, as posted on CNN [Interactive]. The national AP story is also running on Pointcast, I'm told. Thursday, January 15, 1998Tune in to WMAQ in Chicago at 4:25 P.M. CST to hear a live interview with me. [This didn't happen. The interview was scheduled, and they never called. Hmmmm.] A few more TV news people have called and emailed. We'll see where this goes. Here's yet another article about me. Also about some other folks who went through some similar stuff. The Traverse City Record Eagle did a front page story, using the Associated Press article that ran on the State wire. I'll link the national version of this story as soon as it's online. Newsradio WSGW 790 in Saginaw, MI did a whole hour about "Internet Firing" on the Cameron Knowles show, yesterday. [I'm going to convert the tape to RealAudio soon]. Read what Lizz (Sexychyck from the NY Times article) has to say about the AP stories and her response. Here's my rant. Wednesday, January 14, 1998CamRant! Media Blitz My brother and I actually had this conversation. Feedback for November/December 1997. Feedback starting January 12, 1998. Tuesday, January 13, 1998CNN is looking into doing a show about this new social phenomenon. Apparently, they talked about me on the Judy Jarvis Show today. I'm looking for a RealAudio broadcast of the show. Anyone know of one? (The tsradio.com site isn't updated yet). I'm expecting a lot more vistors today and tomorrow as the AP story hits the wire today and should be picked up by many of the smaller newspapers around the country. JobHunt '98: I have an interview in Chicago tomorrow and a phone interview with one of the top interactive advertising agencies in the country on Friday. Wish me luck. Do you like satire? The most common response from the NY Times article is "Holy shit!" or a variation of it, like "Holy shit, Cam!" I'll be compiling a page of responses and opinions soon. Keep sending in those opinions. cameron@michweb.net Another site that is in my "visit daily" Bookmarks list. Monday, January 12, 1998The Associated Press plans to run a story about my situation. CBS This Morning! called and said they were interested and then called again and said that they dropped the story. WCBS Radio in New York just called me. They should be airing a tape of a phone call interview this morning. The NY Times has published an article about what happened to me at my last job. Please feel free to contact me if you'd like additional information or if you want to interview me. My email address is cameron@michweb.net. I'm still job-hunting. Here's a link to my resume. Here's someone who was hired (not fired) because of the fiction she published on the web. She's a twin too! Here's a page with links to lots of GREAT writing. Anyone who writes for a living should bookmark this page. Another page with daily links to news stories and other fascinating stories on the web. Wednesday, January 7, 1998CamRant! Funerals, Jehovah's Wintesses & Foriegn College Students What is a vigilante web site? Is this one? Or how about this? Here's a Yahoo link to a lot of these types of sites. Does my site qualify? A short article about vigilante sites and their domain names. The NY Times plans to run a story about my situation in next Monday's Business/Technology section. I'll link to it as soon as it's on the net. Friday, January 2, 1998New! I have a rants section. Expect frequent new rants. First up: Happy New Year! |
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