Heads In Space

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Close Enough to Pretend: Dead Heads on the Electronic Frontier Christian Crumlish Curator, Design Pattern Library, Yahoo! Board of Directors, Information Architecture Institute AB, Princeton University, 1986

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My slides from the panel called They Made a Fine Connection (on Dead Head online community with and without the band), a panel also including Professor Gary Burnett and Wired writer Steve Silberman, at the UMass Unbroken Chain symposium on the Grateful Dead in music, culture, and memory

Transcript of Heads In Space

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Close Enough to Pretend: Dead Heads on the Electronic Frontier

Christian CrumlishCurator, Design Pattern Library, Yahoo!Board of Directors, Information Architecture InstituteAB, Princeton University, 1986

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Heads in Space*

an overview

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* Dead Heads in cyberspace, that is.

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Deep Science

Bay Area, human potential, drugs and the personal computer

BBS culture - homesteadingJerry’s Breakfast / dead-flames

net.music.gdead

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Convergence

Insta-Setlists

The Well

Dead.Net (Central)

Communities

Tape Trading

Projects (FAQs, the NetHead t-shirt)

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Speaking of Projects

Enterzone (a blend: published and reprinted Robert Hunter, Steve Silberman, Nicholas Meriwether, Sarah Bruner, Jurgen Fauth, David Gans, Griffin Nicholson, Levi Asher, Christian Crumlish, Mike Swartzbeck, Obsideian Wind, GATEFOLD SLEEVE, David Pelovitz, M. Stillman, Delray Prong , Mitch Goldman, Torquemada Jones; as well as Frederick Barthelme, Scot Hacker, Gary Percesepe, John F. Simon, Jr., Jonathan Ames, )

Kind Veggie T-Shirt (Can You Further the Acid Test?)

The DeadBeat

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Jerry Got His Finger Back

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Hall Dancers

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Heads 2.0

BloggingWikis

Social NetworksSecond Life

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Where Are The Heads?rec.music.gdeadcirca Mar 19 1994 Subject: Re: Dead Allmans

Kenny Schachat wrote:

I saw some of the Allmans in the audience at several Presence shows around 69-71. They seemed just as blown away as the rest of us. There's no doubt that the Dead influenced them and I'm sure that the Dead heard them as well.

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Place and Presence

xian21370 (on AIM and Y!M)

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What Became of The Deadbeat?

DeadLettersPress.comUncle John’s BlogWikiTheFlood

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A Plug for a Grateful Dead Wiki

Wiki the Flood

http://thedeadbeat.com/theflood/