Category: Writing

Surfing & Cruising by Bret Kelly One big happy group Have you noticed the explosion of “e—mail groups” on the Web lately?In the old days (pre-Web), they would have been considered a listserv, butI can’t remember the last time that I subscribed to a listserv, it seemed soclumsy. In case you didn’t know, a listserv…

Surfing & Cruising by Bret Kelly Searching for Cher-ware This is Cher’s biggestyear ever, with a massive album, huge single, new movie, a book and nowa concert tour with Cyndi Lauper (www.cyndilauper.com); I ’d say thislady has a few bucks to throw around. Also in the works, is a live Internet Video broadcast, reportedly coming“very…

  Surfing & Cruising     by Bret Kelly   Navigating the newsgroups I’ve talked a lot about the Web, covered IRC and touched on e—mail — the only thing left are the newsgroups. These are messages posted to a specific forum about a specific topic. For instance, can.motss is a newsgroup that contains exchanges that may…

  Surfing & Cruising by Bret Kelly God loves fags I avoid sites where the likes of me are not welcome, however the recent murder of yet another gay man prompted me to search some out for this arti- cle. My starting point was Hate Watch (www.hatewatch.org); an organization that began at Harvard University from…

Surfing & Cruising by Bret Kelly Bookmark this! As a designer, I spend about three to five hours a day on the Web; fixing my own stuff, checking out other designers’ work, gathering ideas or solving technical problems. As you can imagine I’ve seen a lot of sites in the past five years. I’ve downloaded…

Surfing & Cruising Make your own homo pages if you are accessing the Web with a dial up account, chances are yourInternet Service Provider ISP provides at least l MB’s of free personalWeb storage Globalserve. as an example. offers 2 MBs or space and anadditional 30OMBs of transfer per month. Not many seem to take…

  Surfing & Cruising Avoid being cyber stalked When I visit the Sun’s Canoe Web site (www.canoe.ca), I check the weather and the daily Sunshine Boy. I rarely read the articles that accom- pany the scandalous headlines, up until recently. Within a day of each other two items caught my eye. The first one, “Man…