RE: [-empyre-] Re:[-empyre-]:An Avatar Manifesto::final

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Gregory Little wrote:

> Alan wrote:
>
> >I think it might become more accurate to say that there are no sides,
> perhaps only mobius
> >flows -
>
> Actually, I like this...I think I get what you mean.  but what is an
> "nn/antiorp/etc"
>
> Greg
>
nn/antiorp/integer is an 'emanation' or group of people or woman, Netacha
Nevanovna, online, speaking a great deal on the syndicate list now, some-
times on 7-11 etc.

She's - if it is a she, no one is sure - is the software author of the
hacker software nato55, which is one of the online real-time premier video
editing/manipulation programs. The manual is written in her own
'language,' which like mez', owes somewhat to hackerese. She's been able
to keep her identity a secret; even some of the people I know who have
done work for her don't know who she is. When she speaks at a conference,
she appears as a young woman, but there have been a number of different
women, apparently, who speak in her guise.

I edited an issue of the American Book Review (ABR) on 'codework,' and a
few of the people focused on her work. I think in many ways she's the most
interesting person/a online -

You can probably find out more through google - Alan