[6] Letter to the Editor From: Jay Machado Subject: please subscribe me... ... to the Amateur Computerist. I was the editor of an e-zine back in the mid 90's called Bits and Bytes Online Edition: The Electronic Newsletter for Information Hunter-Gatherers. Back issues are here: http://radio.weblogs.com/0104156/stories/2002/07/31/ bitsAndBytes.html. I was interested (still am) in the convergence between technology and society. Got a little bit of attention; I was in the first edition or 2 of the Internet Yellow Pages, a piece mistakenly attributed to me was published in a book called "Internet Dreams", I got a couple of job offers, briefly worked with Christopher "Rageboy" Locke on a website for Internet World, blah blah blah. Time passed, and here we are. I will be reading your back issues over the weekend. Looks interesting though. These are critical times for preserving the freedoms we dream of enjoying on the net, when the net grows up. It's actually looking pretty bleak to me, but we will do what we can to keep the net fast, cheap, and out of control. Jay Machado this particular weblog: http://radio.weblogs.com/ 0104156 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reprinted from the Amateur Computerist Vol 11 No 2, May 1, 2003. The whole issue or a subscription is available for free via email. Send a request to jrh@ais.org or see http://www.ais.org/~jrh/acn/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------