The Techno-Optimist Manifesto (32 minute read) We are told that technology is a threat to our livelihoods, but the truth is that our civilization is built on technology. Technology will help humans advance to a far superior way of living and being. Natural resource utilization has sharp limits, so the only perpetual source of growth is technology. Technological change increases the need for human work by broadening the scope of what humans can productively do.
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Domains at Bluehill
- Carmine2001.com
- Deliberate.com
- Vote.Rauterkus.com
- SportSurf.net
- FreeTeam.org
- Sunnyhill.org
Tuesday, May 05, 1998
ATI filings
See the Filings from Allegiant Yourself:
The official filings are to be found at the above page. However, these documents are in Word, WordPerfect and PDF formats. We've taken these documents and used cut-and-paste, with a bit of HTML mark-up to save everyone the pains of getting the documents transfered to be read on your system.Document Date: April 28, 1998
ALLEGIANT TECHNOLOGIES INC. 1500-609 Granville Street, Vancouver B.C. V7Y 1G5 Telephone: (604) 687-0888 Fax: (604) 687-0882 April 28, 1998 Trading Symbols: Vancouver Stock Exchange: AGH.U OTC Bulletin Board: ALGT
PRESS RELEASE
The Company has reached an agreement to sell all rights, title and interest in and to the Company's software products and technology marketed under the trade names "SuperCard", "Marionet" and "Flamethrower" to IncWell DMG, Ltd. of Arizona, U.S.A., an arms'-length private company controlled by Keith Shaw, for US$40,000. The sale is subject to shareholders and Vancouver Stock Exchange approval._______________________________
Bill McCartney, Director
The Vancouver Stock Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.
Document Date: May 5, 1998
ALLEGIANT TECHNOLOGIES INC.1500-609 Granville Street, Vancouver B.C. V7Y 1G5
Telephone: (604) 687-0888 Fax: (604) 687-0882
May 5, 1998
Trading Symbols: Vancouver Stock Exchange: AGH.U
OTC Bulletin Board: ALGT
PRESS RELEASE
The Company has arranged, subject to Vancouver Stock Exchange approval, to:borrow US$50,000 from a director of the Company. The Loan will be unsecured and payable on demand at any time after May 1, 1999 together with interest accrued at the rate of 10% per annum. The loan proceeds will be used for general working capital purposes.
amend the terms of an existing $100,000 secured Note payable to a director of the Company. The holder of the Note has agreed to waive default and interest payment provisions under the Note and to extend its term to May 1, 1999 after which time the Note together with accrued interest will be due and payable upon demand. The holder has also agreed that any proceeds received by the Company on the proposed sale of the Company's technology assets and inventory may be retained by the Company for general working capital purposes.
issue a maximum 150,000 common shares of the Company, after giving effect to a proposed four for one reverse split of the Company's common stock, as a bonus in consideration for the Loan and the amendment to the Note
_______________________________
Bill McCartney, Director
The Vancouver Stock Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.
Document Date: May 4, 1998
ALLEGIANT TECHNOLOGIES INC. 1500-609 Granville Street, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V7Y 1G5 Tel. (604) 687-0888 Fax (604) 687-0882 May 1, 1998 British Columbia Securities Commission 200- 865 Hornby Street Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H4 Attention: Anne McTeer, Statutory Filings Department Dear Madame,I am writing in response to your letter of inquiry dated April 30, 1998.
Year Ended December 31, 1997
Sales & Marketing expenses-$287,386
- Trade Show Expense = $ 60,321
- Advertising = 55,924
- Salaries & Wages = 171,141
- $287,386
Research & Development expenses-$231,260
- Technical consultants = $ 15,863
- Supplies = 3,308
- Engineering salaries = 212,089
- $231,260
This information is filed as an addition to the original submission of the Company's financial statements and FORM 61 for the year ended December 31, 1997 on SEDAR, project #82326.
Yours truly,
Bill McCartney
Sunday, April 26, 1998
Going out to hold meetings about the budding SportSurf.net
News Media Alert and Invitation
Please pass along this message and pointer to others who might be interested.
April 26, 1998 - updated
Contact: Mark Rauterkus
Publisher, SportSurf.Net 108 S. 12th Street Pittsburgh, PA 15203-1226 USA mrauterkus@SportSurf.Net Voice: 412-481-2540 - Eastern Time Daylight Only PLEASE Cell: 412-720-0108 - When on the roadE-books (Electronic Books) Technology Briefings and FREE SuperCard Concepts Visits Eastern US Cities
Open invitation. Everyone welcome to attend.
Past Tour Locations:
San Antonio, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Corolla, NCFuture Tour Locations:
PITTSBURGH, PA -- 1998: E-books present a fantastic solution to a wide audience of readers and content authors. Learn about E-books and discover why the FN E-book document type is well positioned to become a "killer-application" in 1998 and beyond. Furthermore, an in-depth discussions of the possible future acquisition and resulting setting FREE of the technical assets of SuperCard family of titles, is part of the agenda.
New York City, Long Island, Hartford, Boston and Corolla, NCFootNotes is an internet-linked, interactive multimedia electronic publishing, authoring and delivery system target to the education sector.
Students and teachers can use point-and-click methods to create documents that engage the internet. These web-linked E-books with pages, chapters, index, glossary, citation references give access unlimited multimedia files. The client-side E-books can grab files on any local disk, CD, Syquest, Zip or network. The E-books remove most mysteries of downloading any FTP file or http page. The E-books also live-link to the user's Browser for direct URL connection.
FootNotes E-books are extendable by the addition of home-grown or third party plug-in modules. Supplied modules include an HTML Publisher, eMailer, Launcher and Browser-Assistant.
The Books are lockable by the author and the free player allows for unlimited distribution. Registered users get to deploy the "Send to Bookshop" menu to automatically publish on the internet.
The latest release includes better email, LiveLinks to any browser and unlimited use of graphics as links.
Future releases, very speculative at this point, center upon the possible acquisition of the technical assets that are now being sold by Allegiant Technologies, Inc -- that include SuperCard. SuperCard makes the core foundation to the FN E-books platform. The S.S.S. Trust has been established to accept donations for the possible acquisition and freeing of the code base to SuperCard.
Independent publisher, Mark Rauterkus, of Pittsburgh, Pa. is touring to present information on E-books and the upcoming release of an academic E-book authoring tool, FootNotes Mac.
Rauterkus' book-imprint, Sports Support Syndicate, produced more than 100 titles in the past 10 years. "We've abandoned all book production and associated costs of paper, ink, storage, shipping and returns. The transition to strictly digital delivery has been a bumpy."
In 1989 the SSS released books with computer-disk supplements. Those E-books failed to gain marketplace acceptance. "Publishers and teachers with valuable lessons materials have living the saga of content positioning, hitting all the stops: CDs, web sites, email responders, e-zines, discussion groups, hybrids and shareware. We are gearing for DVDs as well. But, by far, the most elegant, most compelling, and most astonishing process and tool suite centers around FootNotes E-books."
The half-day events are being held to convey an understand and future vision for the E-book framework to early adapters and cutting-edge publishers. Authors, independent publishers, educational technology leaders in school districts, college professors, webmasters and multimedia producers should be interested in these tools and insights. Furthermore, Mac users who have used SuperCard and HyperCard should have keen interested in the advantages of these publishing format options.
The entire FootNotes on-line user manual is 44 pages in length. It is simple, interactive and extendable. Junior High classrooms can master these documents right from the start. Quizzes, homework assignments and lesson plans can all fit into FootNotes E-books. The E-books make sense for an academic setting.
The official new-product release date from the USA publisher was set to occur in March, 1989. However, a digital version of SuperCard could not be provided for the bundle as exected. So, the FootNotes E-book program has been made available, but without the fanfare of a first release, yet. Nonetheless, school site license options are available.
FootNotes Mac trial version is posted to the web and FTP site for free downloads. The trial version is free and allows for E-book authoring with a restricted number of pages.
Only the paid version of FootNotes entitles web authors to utilize the built-in posting to the publicly accessible internet bookshelves. The E-book contents can be exported into HTML and posted to the web. Or, E-books can be put onto the internet with a special FTP location set-up for each author and their E-book users.
A schedule of technology briefings includes:
Boston, Phili, New York, Hartford people should send an email message to Mark, mrauterkus@sportsurf.net.
These "work presentations" and discussions are part focus group, tutorial and consulting/feedback. The topic areas cover software development issues central to multimedia, RAD and software developmentIf you, or user-groups you know, are interested in meeting and spending a half-day of your time covering these topics with me this week --- please write.
The Phili meeting is going to be in Hatfield on Wed AM. (South of Allentown) The other meetings, Thurs, Fri. Sat. Monday the 30th, 1, 2, and 4th.
San Antonio, Tx., 2:00 pm, February 21, Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort
9800 Hyatt Resort Drive, San Antonio, Tx 78251 phone: 210-647-1234Local Host: Tommy Simmons, Employment Law Advisory Network, Inc.
www.hirenfire.com
Dallas, Tx., 7:00 pm, February 25, Univ. of Texas Dallas, Callier Center
1966 Inwood Road, Dallas, TX 75235Map to the Callier center on the SportSurf.Net/tour web page.
Located half mile north of InfoMart.
Exit I-35 at Inwood. Right onto Medical Center Drive. Center on Left.
Look for Green Awning for entry.
Host: Paul Dybala, dybala@audiologyinfo.com phone: 214-905-3041
Dallas Part 2: 11:30 am, February 26, Tony Romas, Addison, TX
Beltline Road and Addison - Tony Romas Restaurant 972-661-2671Local Host: Jeff Hoffman, jeff@timeleverresources.com
Time Lever Resources phone: 214-943-4522
Pittsburgh, Pa., 2:30 pm, March 6, Pittsburgh International Airport
Main Concourse, Air-Side, Fridays Restaurant, Fridays = 412-472-5160Special Visitor: Robert Abrams, rhabrams@cats.ucsc.edu
Local Host: Mark Rauterkus phone: 412-481-2540
Cleveland area, Mentor, Ohio, 1:00 pm, March 17, Performance Concepts Inc.
7855 Division Drive, Mentor, Ohio 44060 phone: 216-974-9550Host: www.pcioh.com
March 17 meeting is the date for the new product release.
Corolla, N.C., May 17, 1:00 pm.
Contact Mark Rauterkus, mrauterkus@SportSurf.NetBackground:
SportSurf.Net is teaming with academic programmer, Hugh Senior, Flexible Learning Company of the UK to promote, resell and support the FootNotes E-books. The hosting of the technology briefings are in preparation of the official USA release. The technology briefings include some focus group activities. There are no admission charges to attend the technology briefing, sans food and drinks.FootNotes Mac is a new commercial software title that is geared for the Educational vertical markets. FootNotes Mac is the first in a series of FN E-book products. Various white papers and information tours are forthcoming to be delivered on or before March 17.
K-12 Solution Bundle Expected! Probable titles include:
- SuperCard, www.Allegiant.Com
- FootNotes, www.SportSurf.Net/FootNotes
- WebAlias, www.Lakewoodsoftware.Com
- Life Map for Concept Mapping, www2.ucsc.edu/mlrg/clr-conceptmapping.html
- Cascading Style Sheets editor, http://interaction.in-progress.com
Thanks for your interest.
FAQs
I live near Philadelphia and may be interested in attending, but please fill me in a little more on the agenda. Is this SuperCard or FlameThrower or both?
Both
Is this you showing some of your work product,
Just a little bit -- as we talk about the possibilities of Killer Applications -- and FN E-Books come up in the talks.
Is this talking about the future of SC/FT based apps on the internet, or what?
Mainly the future.
Have you done these before?
Yes. 3 in Texas 2 months ago. Cleveland, Pgh.
Who has attended?
I've now met about 10 from the SuperCard list, and so. Some of my vendor partners and a couple authors have attended too. These are just small group meetings, but some have take some trips of some miles to attend and meet.
How have the meetings gone?
Very well. Great feedback. I realize objections. Lots of extra examples come out of them.
What are the objectives/goals for these meetings?
In part, to explain plans -- so to sharpen the saw when going to VCs (Venture Capital) in due time to help save the SC Assets.I'm the one, who for the past year nearly, has advocated putting $ up to buy SC and FT and such, and then putting the code into the FREE REALM. I call this FREE SC. Not no-charge -- but rather OPEN SOURCE Code. I've got a trust fund open now to collect money to make this occur.
I think some info on the meetings is on my www site about tour, alert.
And, some info on the FREE SC promise is on the site too, about /Allegiant and the trust.
Thursday, April 02, 1998
Tuesday, April 01, 1997
subscribers dashboard for mailing lists - code
Welcome Members of the E-Mail Marketing Digest
Subscribers' Dashboard Examples to Empty Locations
The following buttons show the various supported servers. The server matters as some discussion groups are hosted on Majordomo servers, while others are hosted on ListServ. There are plenty of others too. The commands for each server host are not the same. You'll need to know what type of list-server software is being utilized.These buttons are empty, so the end-user needs to type in not only his or her email address, but also the list address and the list name. The slightest typing error shows the unforgiving nature of the internet and the commands fail.
A better set-up puts hidden content inside the code so that the Subscribers Dashboard can open with various elements already in place.
Tip:
- Select the right server from the buttons below.
- When in doubt, view source on this HTML page (and others) to see how everything is accomplished.
- For long-term security reasons, this page is not going to be kept up on the net. Get this info now.
Create an HTML form like the following:
Make the following substitutions in the above code:
server
- One of the following:
- listserv
- listproc
- majordomo
- mlp
- smartlist
- subscribe
- This button's description
- Suggested Name: Subscribers Dashboard for the expanded name of the service.
- Avoid jargon and short names to lessen confusion.
err_address
- The address to which bounced messages should be sent.
- Use your full email address please.
list_addr
- The address of the list server.
- For example: Majordomo@SportSurf.Net
list_name
- The exact name of the mailing list.
Make Your Own Subscribers Dashboard for your favorite discussion groups
You can make your own subscribers dashboard without the need for your own web server. Use the SportSurf.Net server instead. Simply visit the SportSurf.Net site -- or -- build your own HTML form to kick-start the communications with the SportSurf.Net server. The HTML form can be a button place on a public or private HTML page. These instructions contain the specifics for that form. Once the dashboard is built, you don't have to remember and re-type remote server email addresses and user commands.- Use a text editor to cut-and-paste the code between the snips.
- Save the text into a new file. Create the file in an obvious place within your hard-disk drive's file directory.
- Name the file something like, "subskey.html."
- Make the necessary changes to the code. The section on this page tells you how to create the form. The form needs some advance knowledge so that it can remember the location and commands.
- Connect to the intenet and have your web browser open. You have to be able to visit other sites on the web.
- Within your web browser, use the pull-down menu and "open file" -- and select from your hard disk drive, "subskey.html."
Local Operations - because you have to master these various groups yourself.
Questions:
Please feel free to contact the List-Clerk, Mark Rauterkus, for additional help if needed.
Other Pointers
- Article #2
- MajorCool Interface at SportSurf.Net
- SportSurf.Net Home Page
- Smartbounce Home Page
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