[-empyre-] Welcome to the new -empyre soft-skinned space interface

[Renate Ferro]

Dear -empyre subscribers:

It is with great pleasure that we announce that -empyre soft-skinned
space has a new interface on the Cornell library server. The web
address will remain

http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/

Since  2002 -empyre has been one of the foremost list serves featuring
current topics in new media art, technology and culture.

Many thanks to George Karalis, a Cornell University Senior College
Scholar,  who began redesigning the site about a year ago as part of a
web design class.  He became so invested in the site he has continued
to work on it over the past several months with great tenacity. There
were numerous occasions when he met with Renate to sort out decisions
about design, usability and inter-activity.  We are very thankful to
George for all of his hard work. .

Also thanks to Melissa Wallace, James Reidy, and Danielle Mericle from
the Cornell library web team for helped us test, troubleshoot and
upload this site. .

The site if you take a few minutes to go through has some new and
improved features:
1.  The Homepage has been redesigned so that subscribers can see what
the most up to date topics are by hovering over the new -empyre
graphic.  Text has been updated. Under what the history of empyre has
been updated.  Who lists our current active moderating team: Renate
Ferro, Tim Murray, Simon Biggs and Patrick Lichty.  Over the next year
Renate would like to nurture a couple of more moderators to the team.
A call will go out soon.

2.  Under Topics and Guests:  EVERY first introduction post will be
cataloged on this page.  All moderators will use the same template for
the first post every month.

3. Under discussions : This new message board interface provides an
alternative way to read and search the discussion.  It is a mirror of
the discussions. By hitting SEARCH above the box or following the link
at the top under archive you will notice that George has designed a
new and improved search capability.  While COFA still houses the
official archive it never had a good way to research contributors,
posts, etc across the years.  This new capability allows viewers to
just type a keyword or name and get all related posts from the ten
plus hears of discussions.  For researchers this feature will make
empyre a very usable archive.   The possible google ads that appear
right now WILL BE DELETED next week by the Cornell Library whose
not-for- profit status will enable google to take the ads down.  That
is in process now.

4.  The subscription link is now active as well as the unsubscibe.  Finally!

5.  The only thing that I am still working on is to arrange to have
Melinda Rackham redirect her original subtle site to the cornell
empyre site.  Right now if you do a google search for -empyre
soft-skinned space the old static historical site from 2006 comes up
hosted on Melinda's subtle site.

I will be introducing the February discussion shortly.  We will be
paying tribute to Beatrix da Costa and her work for the entire month.

Best Renate Ferro
-empyre- soft-skinned space
moderator

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Renate Ferro
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
Cornell University
Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office #420
Ithaca, NY  14853
Email:   <rtf9 at cornell.edu>
URL:  http://www.renateferro.net
      http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net
Lab:  http://www.tinkerfactory.net

Managing Co-moderator of -empyre- soft skinned space
http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyre




--

Renate Ferro
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
Cornell University
Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office #420
Ithaca, NY  14853
Email:   <rtf9 at cornell.edu>
URL:  http://www.renateferro.net
      http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net
Lab:  http://www.tinkerfactory.net

Managing Co-moderator of -empyre- soft skinned space
http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyre