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I review movies and report on movie news in the Columbus area. Have been
on line for over ten years.  Write for Columbus Free Press, Delaware Gazette.
Reviewed for WCBE for four years.  Let me know.

 digital damon taylor (taylor.189@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
: Hi, how ya doin'? 

: Damon Taylor here with a few ideas or you to consider...

: Reply to me at taylor.189@osu.edu, dataylor@freenet.columbus.oh.us, please.

:         My friend Joe, for those of you not familiar with my circle of friends, has been working on some
: gaming software for a few months now. He was working at CompuServe for more than one year
: before this, spending most of his time in their programming divison.

:         When we went to the press screening of "Tank Girl" (agh! bad movie!), he mentioned that we
: could soon start up our own *permanent* Web site -- not attached to OSU. The mitigating factors
: were finances (imagine!) and hardware. He's looking to leasing space with Netcom, and this site
: would have a dual purpose: Advertise the House Of Moy product line, and be a forum/information
: post for Web crawlers.

:         My charge, such as it was, is to derive content for this site. We're looking for two main things:
: Topics that are of interest to central Ohio's *obviously* net.active population, and things that would
: be able to attract advertisers (and not just computer/electronics interests -- think music stores,
: student groups, art galleries, etc).

:         So, I say: Photo (and other art) displays, 'Net-related news and views (I think I would feel
: much more comfortable writing to an online audience instead of going on my screeds about the 'Net
: to the general OSu pop'n, not knowing if people even have an idea of what I'm babbling about),
: music reviews and news (here's where we throw in ties to mw_raves, ele mental, aum, and so on --
: I'd like to see heavy ties to the electrotechno underground), special-interest (or-no-point-at-all)
: forums with the ability to post messages, a weekly feature about why "The Empire Strikes Back" is
: the jewel of the Star Wars trilogy (with reader input, of course), gaming (video) articles, info on how
: to track down quality independent film at cheap prices ( a kind of "roving reporter" style thing, news
: flashes about low sticker prices for laserdiscs at Media Play and such)...

:         Whew. Obviously this is stuff that's coming *right* off the top of my head. Joe just talked to
: me this evening and said that there's a "nanomiracle" in the making, and that this could come to be
: sooner than we expected. So we really need to get some ideas, contributions, and advertising in
: motion. Ideas?! C'mon, I know you've got them...

:                 Damon
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