🚀 go-pugleaf

Howard spoke at our Virtual Communities workshop in April and is now 
speaking in an IRC session this Thursday.

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 13:21:30 -0800
From:root@fununiv.com
To: bladex@bga.com
Subject: get round.txt

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 12:24:19 EST


Information about the Internet Roundtable Society

WHO'S COMING THIS MONTH?
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Our current schedule is:

(all shows air 10-11pm EDT, 7-8pm PDT, unless otherwise noted)


DECEMBER

Wednesday December 7, 1994    "Talkin 'bout a revolution - online communities"

Howard Rheingold
Executive Editor, HotWired
Author, "The Virtual Community"; Editor, "The Millenium Whole Earth Catalog"


Wednesday December 14, 1994
"Natural Disasters: Understanding and Avoiding Them"

Professor H. J. de Blij
Researcher, Smithsonian Institute
Co-author, "Nature on the Rampage"


Wednesday December 21, 1994
Topic TBA

Douglas Rushkoff
Author, "Media Virus: Hidden Agenda in Popular Culture", "The GenX Reader",
"Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace"



FUTURE INTERVIEWS

(date tba)

Dr. John Pridonoff
Director of the Hemlock Society


(date tba)
     with guest host Ambassador David Fischer
     President, The World Affairs Council of Northern California

     David Gergen
     Special Advisor to the Secretary of State



TRANSCRIPTS NOW AVAILABLE FOR THESE RECENT ROUNDTABLES:
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Wednesday November 2, 1994    "Individuals really can make a difference"

Frances Moore Lappe'
Co-founder: Center for Living Democracy
Author, "Diet for a Small Planet",  Co-author, "The Quickening of America"

Dr. Paul Martin Du Bois
Co-founder: Center for Living Democracy
Co-Author, "The Quickening of America"



Wednesday November 9, 1994    "How media imagery adversely affects women"

Ann Simonton
Founder/Director of Media Watch
Former Top Model



Wednesday November 16, 1994   "How I look for the interesting story"

Susan Stamberg
NPR Special Correspondent; inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame
Former Co-Host of "All Things Considered"


NOVEMBER

Tuesday November 22, 1994     "Some instructions on writing and life"
    with special guest host Sedge Thomson (Creator/Host of "West Coast Live")

Anne Lamott
Author,  "Bird by Bird", "Operating Instructions", "Hard Laughter"




WHERE TO GET OUR CALENDAR
-------------------------

Our calendar is listed on the society's World
Wide Web home page and our gopher site.

     WWW:    http://www.IRsociety.com
     GOPHER: gopher.IRsociety.com


You can also join the society's mailing list or request more information
by writing to membership services at staff@fununiv.com.


HOW DO I ATTEND?
----------------

These live scheduled events are made possible by the Internet Relay Chat
(IRC) Undernet network. The best way to get into IRC is to ask your
Internet service provider or system administrator how to run their IRC
client. Often this simply means typing "IRC" from your prompt. If there
is no IRC client available, you can telnet to one of the following IRC
clients, although you should expect more of a lag:

telnet exuokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu 6677       (Oklahoma   max. 30 users)
telnet exuokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu 7766       (Oklahoma   max. 30 users)
telnet sci.dixie.edu 6677                 (Utah       max. 8 users)
telnet caen.fr.eu.undernet.org 6677       (France     max. 5 users)
telnet obelix.wu-wien.ac.at 6969          (Austria    max. ? users)

If you would like to FTP client software for your machine:

ftp csa.bu.edu        (/pub/irc/clients)
ftp deathstar.resnet.upenn.edu   (/pub/irc/Clients)



ONCE YOU ARE IN IRC...


Assuming a show is starting within 15 minutes, or has already started,
now type:

/server Davis.CA.US.undernet.org 6667   (or other nearby server listed below)
/join #Podium

You can now listen to the guest speaker and interviewer.

For a list of additional Undernet IRC servers you can choose from, please
see appendix A.



HOW CAN I ASK THE GUEST QUESTIONS?

During the question and answer period (usually ten or fifteen minutes
into the show - the host will tell you), you can submit questions by typing:

     /msg #QUESTION Why does the govt ignore what's happening in Bosnia?

Remember to type the leading part (/msg #QUESTION) or we won't see it.

The Internet Roundtable Representative will select as many of the
submitted questions as possible.

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(appendix A sent in next message)