[9597] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Gore on CompuServe and C-SPAN (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Makulowich)
Thu Jan 13 15:27:43 1994
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 15:24:32 -0500 (EST)
From: John Makulowich <verbwork@access.digex.net>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Cc: vic sussman <vic@access.digex.net>
nb: I post this note at the request of vic sussman, US News & World
Report. Please reply to him directly with any comments, questions, etc.
vic@access.digex.net
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Vice-President Al Gore will be appearing live today, January 13, in a
CompuServe conference presented by U.S. News & World Report. This is the
first time a Vice-President (or President, for that matter) has ever met
the general public via computer conferencing. Gore will answer questions
posted by CIS members. These questions will be live and spontaneous,
without the seven second tape delay commonly used in talk radio.
The conference will be held in CompuServe's Convention Center, which holds
300 people. The historic nature of this meeting, however, has prompted CIS
to add two computers, making space available for an additional 600 people,
As I write, all 900 slots are filled, making this this the most heavily
attended live computer-mediated conference ever held.
The conference will also be carried live on television by C-SPAN. Full
transcripts of the conference will be posted on the Internet by the White
House. U.S. News & World Report will also post the transcript in its forum
library on CompuServe (GO UNW-81) The conference begins at 5 p.m. eastern
standard time, concluding at approximately 5:45 p.m.
Vic Sussman
Senior Editor (covering cyberspace issues)
U.S. News & World Report
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Vic Sussman : "Lines of light ranged in the nonspace
U.S. News & World Report : of the mind, clusters and constellations of
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