*** It’s been eight years, but the International
Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences hosted their 8th Annual Webby Awards
online. From the personal, Best Personal Web Site: www.raku-gaki.com, to the professional Best
Television: PBS.org, judges like David Bowie, Vint Cerf,
Larry Ellison and yours truly voted on 30 categories. See them all at: http://www.webbyawards.com.
*** Charles Altschul, another judge in the Webbys, and whose stepsister is the former MTV v-jay Serena Altschul, was in town and on Saturday, May 15th over some sangria and paella I got a preview of his new series of panoramic photographs. If you're in New York this fall, you will be one of the lucky ones to view his Nature and Nudes. www.altschul.com
*** Charles Altschul, another judge in the Webbys, and whose stepsister is the former MTV v-jay Serena Altschul, was in town and on Saturday, May 15th over some sangria and paella I got a preview of his new series of panoramic photographs. If you're in New York this fall, you will be one of the lucky ones to view his Nature and Nudes. www.altschul.com
*** Prolific Paul Jones (http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/Vitae.html)
ventured forth with some inspiring news of innovations stemming from North
Carolina. If you haven’t heard about Bo and Sita Lozoff from their The Human Kindness
Foundation efforts, then you will now. First they started the Prison-Ashram
Project in 1973 (http://www.humankindness.org/project.html), which has been bringing
the concept of inspiring and encouraging prisoners and prison staff to
recognize their depth as human beings, and to behave accordingly. Their most recent campaign is to create a small biodiesel
plant, which will be staffed by the ex-cons who have been released to the
ashram. This old age, new age, local, international, small but direct
organization has had some dramatic results that goes to show if you think
global but act local, you can get things done! http://www.humankindness.org/
*** He went from a musical
club to a musical club network but he always had his hands in politics. And
now, our debonair Andrew Raisej is producing a conference examining the
implications of internet technology on politics. On Monday, May 24, 2004, netizens and
politizens alike will converge at the New School for the Personal Democracy
Forum (www.personaldemocracy.com).
Sociate.com’s Jerry Michalski is programming this bi-partisan forum, which
Rasiej (founder and executive producer of the Personal Democracy Forum) says,
“will highlight how new interactive, highly motivated, and personal
voter-to-voter relationships are remaking the rules of the electoral process, political
action, and communication." www.personaldemocracy.com
*** Yee-haw! My favorite
city, Austin, TX was voted the Best City for Relocating Families! See if your
town made it on the list compiled by Worldwide ERC (also known as the Employee
Relocation Council), Primacy Relocation and Sperling's BestPlaces. http://www.erc.org/. PS. It's also the hottest
town for WiFi! *note: I’ll still always love NYC though!
(http://www.iloveny.com/)
*** Okay guys, you wanna know
how to impress the ladies? You gotta be tough. As tough as nails! As tough as
iron! The newest extreme sport? Extreme Ironing. That’s right. No more excuses
that ironing is “women’s work.” Get out your ironing boards fellas and start
rock-climbing, kayaking, bicycling and obstacle-coursing with your trusty
Sears-special. It’s soon to be an Olympic sport and if you’re looking to try
out, check it out on Memorial Day at 44th and Broadway in Times Square where
the sport’s originator Phil Shaw will be ironing in a cherry picker.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/national/21iron.html
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Danielle
Cyr is now Associate Counsel to Intralinks, a technology ASP to the financial
community (www.intralinks.com). And in her “downtime” for the past 15 months
she has been Managing Director of KerryCore (young professionals) for John
Kerry for President.
Some of you may remember
my first (and best!) employee was an industrious young man on his way to
medical school. Well, as of Friday, May 14th it’s now Ankur Shah, M.D.! Ankur
is the brother of Sachin Shan, who’s project manager for Information Planning
&
Management Systems, a
consulting company in Sterling, VA. Ankur will begin his residency in
Pediatrics at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Women in Orlando,
Fla. And ladies, he's still single ;)
Congratulations to
Vikktoria Velasquez who went from Ms. Velasquez, consultant, to Mrs. Vikktoria
Velasquez Cooper, Director of The Center for Workforce Development at the YWCA.
Felicitations to Judy
Hernandez, a newly minted 3rd party recruiter at Adelantus, Inc.
judy.hernandez@adelantus.com
It’s
Deee-Liteful,
it’s deee-lovely, it’s D Magazine in
Dallas! And this is where the deee-groovy Julie Blacklidge is now working at dsceneonline.com, which
just launched a few months ago. And she’s happy to report that the Web business
is starting to pick up! They’re starting to get advertising dollars in and it
just keeps getting better!
Not only is Yvette DeBow
president of Women in New Media.org but, she’s also recently taken a new job as
Director of Marketing for the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corp.
Go Yvette!
CORRECTION
Emily Nuss is the new
culture editor at New York Magazine, not the editor at the New Yorker.
