Electric Postcard References

Backward references

• Bukowski, Charles. Post Office: a novel. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
• Proulx, Annie. Postcards. New York: Touchstone, 1994.
• The United States Postal Service
• F.I.R.E. - the stamp alternative.
• Welty, Eudora. Why I live at the P.O. The Atlantic. Vol. 167, no. 4. (April 1941). Also in Collected Stories of Eudora Welty.
• William Faulkner's other career.

Sideways references

• Lumson, Charles. J. Sociobiological Futures for an On-Line Species: Electric Postcards in an epistlatory essay on electronic evolution.
• Prestige Postcard Service: "Nobody will ever learn where you *really* were".
• Electric Postcard Branch offices

Forward references

• We're one of the winners of GNN's Best of the Net awards. They had a big award ceremony in San Francisco (which the Cardmaster was unable to attend) and we now have this nice Web plaque.
• We were in Newsweek!
• Web Review ran this Interview with the Postmistress
• "Congratulations!", says Point, "Your home page has been rated among the top 5% of all sites on the Internet". This allows us to display the "prestigious Top 5% of the Web badge".
• Vibe online presented The Electric Postcard with an award.
• What's Hot and Cool on the Web says "sending and (more importantly, receiving) postcards is fun".
• Justin (of Justin's Links from the Underground) calls The Electric Postcard "an engaging post/e-mail crossover - made worthy by selections of postcards that are actually aesthetically pleasing!"
• We were Pick of the Week for BBS One.
• And we were NetWorks' Funky Site of the Day... on April Fool's Day.
• Art on the Net recommends that you "send your lover an awesome postcard via the WWW."
• Ever thrifty XOR says "So, you want to send a postcard, but don't have 20 cents? Check out The Electric Postcard service! "
• "An excellent marriage of the stuuning graphics the Web can display and the delivery mechanism of the Internet!" says UCSD's Science and Engineering Library. "Its more fun than it sounds!"
• Postcards are a holiday! At least, according to Yahoo. We are on the Holidays page, right up there with Mother's Day and Passover and Spring Break.
• And, also according to Yahoo, Postcards are Cool! (Though, unlike the Squashed Bug Zoo, we didn't get a little star next our name.)
• Great Sites for the Eyes is "dedicated to all the great sites on the World Wide Web". And here we are.
• The editor of Wave Reviews says "I enjoyed your electric postcard so much that I've decided to add it to my next issue." (Listed under "Useless but cool" and with a 2 star cool rating. Wonder what she'd say if she didn't like it?).
• Hot Chips, the prime time Australian TV show, says "This site is a lot of fun... A little gem from MIT's Media Lab".
• Although we've never been Cool Site of the Day, we were Cool Site of the Nite on Sept 23, 1995.
• The Center for the Easily Amused has listed Postcards as Random Silliness, but says "Come to think of it, perhaps it should be under 'Sites that Do Stuff', but the Random Silliness one gets more hit".
• We were Pat's Pick on the Pik-a-Pat page (in placid Putnam Valley)for the week of Oct 2.
• Digital Mainstream recommends that you "Send a postcard!".
• The Saskatoon Free Net Best Links page says that an Electric Postcard "looks like real postcard with a special Cyberspace touch".
• A link From Slovenia comes the question "Would u like to send your friend or your hon a postcard through Inet ?"
• The Hong Kong Club advises that you "be sure the one you are sending to have access to the World Wide Web".
• We were a Cool Site of the Week at Bangkok University
• Beakman & Jax put us in their list of Tremendous Places to go to on the Web.
• The nice Internet Consultants at Virtualynx made us the Coolynx of the Day on Oct 17.
• Sonnets.net explains that they linked to us because "we think you have a great idea and we want our potential users to know about the great stuff being done at MIT!"
• We've been put in The Playroom's Cool Room.
• EB's Stepping Stone describes us as "E Mail ... only cooler !".
• "CONGRATULATIONS!", screamed the email, "You made it! Your site is one of a select few, to be chosen as a link, on the award - winning site - Shannon's Bookmarks."
• Home Boys Webvertising, in their list of " The Off-Beat, The Wacky and The Way Kewl" says "Great idea! First came e-mail, now e-postcards! Check it out!". Indeed, they liked it so much they said we were "without a doubt" the Best Idea of 1995!
• We're Link of the Month (none of that fly-by-night "... of the Day" stuff here) at New Paradigm Productions....
• PC Magazine has listed us as one of the top 100 sites on the Web. They describe the process: "You pick a pretty postcard and write a message". This is listed under "Web Weirdness". We thought it seemed so mainstream. Regardless, we are delighted to add another award to our collection.
• We started 1996 off right, as Zuzu's Pick of the Week.
• Free Mars suggests you "send a card to your lover, get a card from a friend". (I'd prefer the other way around).
• Displaying a shrewd sense of the economics of net awards, Program One elected us to their Hall of Fame and requested that we include their logo. "This not only helping [sic] the Hall of Fame, but the more people see the logo, the more valuable the sites listed become, which you are one of."
• The McKinley Group says "we pride ourselves on our ability to recognize the best resources on the Net. Your site has been recognized as part of our rigorous review process, in which we consider three primary factors: depth of content, ease of exploration, and Net appeal".
• Herspace says ". Handy and clever--makes you wonder why you didn't think of it first. Then you're just glad it's there."
• Denise Caruso said, in the No-Jive Net Guide, that Electric Postcards are "fun to do and a nice surprise to receive".
• "Because something on your page is so outstandingly cool, I have made a link to you page from my own "Coolest Links" page.
• We were the "Shiitake Site of the Day" (why Shiitake?) for April 9. " It's rather comforting to see that in the storm of cultural digitization, someone out there cared enough to redefine the antiquated craft of letter writing. Just when you were ready to swear that MIT was home solely to robots and their creators, along comes a little tool that encourages human communication and might even make someone a gazillion bits away in cyberspace smile."
• We're in the Blue Web'n Learning Applications Library, "an honor reserved for the best instructional lessons, activities, projects, ... [etc. etc.] on the Web"
• We are one of AOL's Blue Plate Specials, which they say means we offer either "free services, useful info, or a shining example of webmastery."
• I found a link to the Electric Postcard on my junior high school's home page...
• "When you care enough to send the electronic best" says WebGuide.
• "You've Got Great Site, stop by and hear the review" on PRN Radio Network.
• Netbriefs, ever on the lookout for hints for the fun loving executive, says "Ain't the same ol' email you'll be sending this week. It's the Electric Postcard... But the most important thing, from our point of view, is that it's fun to do!"
• Cyphernomicon Contents
• "Congratulations! The editors of P.O.V. magazine have selected your site as one of the 100 top sites on the Web. It's our way of recognizing work of exceptional quality in a medium that offers endless choices." P.O.V. magazine is, according to its publicist, the "guy's online survival guide". Ladies, beware.
• "E-Mail, and Silicon Postcards" says: "Once again, those folks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab have come through... the Internet now supports postcards!".
• And here are all the links AltaVista has to The Electric Postcard!

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