Last updated 19-April-1996

Steve Cowan

(His home page du jour)

This is me with essential gear: Mac, MIDI stuff, and cat. Thanks to the miracles of modern technology, any dork with a camcorder and a VideoSpigot can do this.

Korg Wavestation Mailing List

If you are looking for the Wavestation Home Page, it's here.

OK, let's get on with it.

Web Creed?

Have you ever felt you are presented with too much information to gobble up all at once? The net will do that to you. I feel it's important that if a person is going to put a page up on the web, it should contain something more substantial than just links to other cool pages. It's so easy for casual net surfers to search about with Netscape for hours and hours, only to find they've been running in circles - put on a virtual wild goose chase for information that's not available from the internet.

Sure, it's fun to design a page and then post it for the entire world to see, in its glory. But imagine an entire World Wide Web of pages in which the only content is links to other cool pages. The only merit would be in the presentation. Everybody would display their pages a little differently - graphic maps that allow you to point to certain links, lists of links to access, search engines to seek out links to other links... sure, everybody could see everybody else's snazzy graphics, but I'd like to see the WWW become a valuable resource for all types of information - not just an ego-stroking hyperplayground.

Please. If you're planning on putting a page on the web, stop. Think about what you're trying to do. If everybody with web pages could actually post a little blurb about something they really know about (that somebody else might care about), and then index it on servers like Lycos and Yahoo, then the web would really blossom into something we can use.

So I request of you: If you have a WWW page of your own, take a look at it. Make sure it is actually contributing something to the world at large. If it isn't, do something about it. Add an essay about something that pisses you off. Add specific instructions about how to program your model of VCR. Add some statistics about the school you go to. Add some local background about your home town. Maybe you know something not many people know everything about - maybe you make great tiramisu, or breed rottweilers. Write about it!

I always welcome e-mail (at lost@astral.magic.ca).