1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> 2 3<HTML> 4 5<HEAD> <TITLE> Bob Stepno's Index</TITLE> 6 </HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"><BLOCKQUOTE> 7 8<H1>Pages named 9 10<A HREF="http://www.stepno.com">Stepno</A></H1> 11 12<H3>Bob's 13 14<A HREF="http://pages.emerson.edu/faculty/bob_stepno">best 15bets</A>, 16 17<A HREF="bobpages.html">bytes (webstuff)</A>, 18 19<A HREF="boats">boats</A> & 20 21<A HREF="rbsmusic.html">banjos</A></H3> 22 23<UL> 24 25<LI><A HREF="notv2.html"> 26 27<IMG SRC="strobetv.gif" 28 29ALT="(Annoying picture of snowy TV screen; click to turn it off)" 30HEIGHT=50 WIDTH=75 ALIGN=LEFT></A>This is an archive of pages kept 31at blake.unc.edu and www.unc.edu/~rbstepno from 1994 to 1999, at 32which point they became "cobwebs," no longer kept up to date. In Fall 33'99 I 34became an assistant professor of journalism (and online journalism) at 35<a href="../ec">Emerson College</a> in Boston, while 36remaining 37a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 38School of Journalism and Mass Communication... 39which is where I started looking at 40the World Wide 41Web as a communication medium. That includes attempts by the slightly-old 42"500 channels and nothing worth watching" media 43to adapt to a digital world. (Click on the TV if you're annoyed by 44television or gratuitous Web graphics.) 45 46This page leads to others including 47<A HREF="bobpages.html">Webstuff</A> I've been involved with for school, for 48<A HREF="http://www.nando.net">money</A> 49<A HREF="res.html"><IMG SRC="1296BOBS.JPG" 50ALT="(Photo of my face, taken by Ed Cooper, Christmas 1997)" height=105 51width=75 ALIGN=RIGHT></a>or for 52<A HREF="rbsmusic.html">fun</A>, connections 53to some sites I find interesting or amusing, and links to Web 54<A href="tabletrickery.html">tips</a> and resources I find useful. 55Those are the <A HREF="http://pages.emerson.edu/faculty/bob_stepno">best 56bets</A> referred to in the menu above. 57 58<A HREF="res.html">My resume</A> (not that 59I'm actively looking for work or anything...) was my first HTML page, 60written in 1994 and updated a few times since then. 61It has links to places I've studied or worked (including "The 62nation's oldest newspaper of continuous publication" for you trivia 63fans), and to my decade-old master's project about hypertext. That HTML 64resume led to my job for three years at Nando.net's 65 66<A HREF="http://www.nando.net">Nando Times</A>, which I left to work for 67the <a href="http://research.unc.edu/grad/funding">Graduate School</a> at 68UNC-CH, and to teach <a 69href="http://www.unc.edu/courses/jomc050/july98bob/">summer school</a> 70in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Meanwhile, I tried a 71few more Web 72<a href="plated.html">bells</a> and <a href="reefer.html">whistles</a>, 73and to got some momentum going on the dissertation I still hope to finish. 74</LI> <p> 75 76<LI>I've been thinking a lot about newspapers and "new 77technology," including some 78 79<A HREF="graphic"><IMG SRC="baths.jpg" 80ALT="(A New York Graphic composograph of a wild party)" 81HSPACE=5 VSPACE=5 HEIGHT=90 WIDTH=130 ALIGN=LEFT></a>technology that has 82been around longer than you might think, particularly the virtual reality 83of 84<A HREF="graphic">manipulating 85photographs</A> to attract an audience. This picture of a celebrity-filled 86wild party on Broadway is more than 70 years old, and it's a fake. 87It was created by a newspaper art department using old-fashioned scissors 88and glue to illustrate a story about what one sensational writer called a 89"wine-bath orgy." I especially like the touch of having one of the 90revellers hiding his face from the camera. That picture made the front 91page in its day, probably sold a few papers, 92and fanned the flames of a controversy that helped put a Broadway big shot 93in prison... 94 95Imagine what the editors could have accomplished with Photoshop! (As I 96told my students this summer, the 97<a href="graphic/hubris.html">temptation</a> is 98certainly there for all of us.) Fortunately my own 99<a href="pix3.html">experience as a photographer</a> has been more 100conventional. 101 102<p> 103 104</LI> 105 106 107 108<LI>For the past few years I've paid part of the rent by writing about the 109Internet for 110<A HREF="http://www.soundingspub.com">Soundings</A> magazine, where I 111previously was
112a full-time staff writer and photographer. I did some research for the 113publisher about putting stories and advertising online a couple of years 114before the Web arrived. Now <I>Soundings</I> has a new publisher and has 115its marine classifieds on the Web. An archive of stories--including a 116series I started about the Internet--was online for a year or two, but 117didn't survive a recent transition in ownership of the company. With 118the editor's permission, I've preserved my first couple of 119<A HREF="boats">DataWaves</A> articles as 120samples of my work. In addition to <B>Navigating Cyberspace</B> and 121<B>Becoming a Virtual Community</B>, there's a selection of websites about 122boating, although some of them may be derelicts by now since I don't 123actively keep the page up to date. 124 125<p></LI> 126 127 128<LI>Away from computers, 129 130<A HREF="rbsmusic.html">folk music and contra dancing</A> are among my 131favorite things to do, so I collect related bookmarks. I was the first 132Webmaster 133for the <A HREF="http://rtpnet.org/~folk">Triangle Folk Music Society</A>, 134building its collection 135of music-related online resources. The Internet helped me get involved 136with starting the group, something I was invited to talk about at a <a 137href="folktalk.html">Conference on Urban 138Livability</a> in the spring of 1998.</LI><P> 139 140<LI>Here are my 141 142<A HREF="boblinks.html">Best Bets</A>,Web sites I use most often, or at 143least tell myself I ought to. I have scores of other 144<A HREF="bkmk/57bkmks.htm">old</A> and <a 145href="http://pages.emerson.edu/faculty/bob_stepno/overload">new 146bookmarks</a>, 147which I upload to the Web server from time to time, mostly for my own 148use.... They're not very organized or annotated. In fact, I may not have 149looked at some of them yet if they came from computers I shared with 150other users. 151 152<p></LI> 153 154 155<LI>Personal revelations on the Web: Evidence that I am an "early 156adopter," not only of technology... a few months before Hurricane 157Fran I was the first in my neighborhood with this kind of 158<A HREF="tree.html">arboreal adventure.</A> 159Writing this quick and dirty Web page saved me from telling the story over 160and over to friends in New England who aren't used to such big trees 161falling on them. 162 163Soon the whole town was catching up, thanks to 164<A HREF="http://sunsite.unc.edu/maggot/fran/">Fran.</A>(Campus 165hurricane-damage images by classmate Mark McCarthy at Sunsite.)</LI></UL> 166 167 168<HR WIDTH="100%"><P> 169 170<A NAME="bits"></A></P> 171 172<H3>Thoughts...</H3><P>I saw this quote (in the now-defunct 173online edition of a book titled <i> 174<!-- 175<"http://rilke.neo.com/Aether/gl.anonftp.html"> 176--> 177AetherMadness</i>) 178about FTP servers, and find it's also a useful way to think about the Web: 179</P><BLOCKQUOTE> 180 181<P><I>... like a library where they reshuffle the card catalog every day, 182where new books are shelved under old titles, where new titles are given 183to old books, where the staff is always changing, and where the total 184number of books grows with each visit. 185 </I></P></BLOCKQUOTE> 186 187<P>Final comment: 188 189Writing itself is <A HREF="champion.html">'magick'</A>, when you stop and 190think about it. Today we may be writing and reading hypertext, but pay 191attention to the text and resist the hype. </P></BLOCKQUOTE> 192 193<P> 194 195<HR>Comments or questions? 196 197<A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A></P> 198 199<P> 200 201Last revision 13 August, 2000</P></BODY></HTML> 202
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