Channel Cyberia
Channel Cyberia was a web project associated with the LM network and part of the internet firm Cyberia. Channel Cyberia was launched in May 1996.[1] It was sold to MSN, having failed to raise funding, by 1999. [2] LM associates commissioning editor Andrew Calcutt, Helen Searls and controller Keith Teare played leading parts.
According to David Webb, 'a former supporter of the RCP',
- The Cafe Cyberia/Easynet company was originally set up by/involving Keith Teare, an LM-er, and it is curious to note on my visits to the cafe how many LM-ers were working for the organisation, although I do not know if Teare is still involved. Andrew Calcutt was working on something or other there, Helen Searls was involved in Channel Cyberia, a 24-hour Internet site designed to have changing content to be like the news on the telly. I know because I bumped into her in the cafe and, as at the time I did not know how to do frames in HTML, she was able to tell me how she designed the homepage. Channel Cyberia was a wierd site, with articles by Mick Hume on football (against the nationalism in football) and discussion sections on Kenan Malik's book, The Meaning of Racism. By the way, I do not see anything sinister in setting things up and trying to do things, but if they are really arguing social transformation is not possible today, I do not see why I shouldn't detail what they have been up to. LM-ers tend to all do the same thing at once. Something might be tried, and then dropped with no explanation as to why it is not continuing.[3]
Resources
- Internet Archive of the Channel Cyberia website, 7 January 2001.
Notes
- ↑ "Can Café Cyberia make it as an internet channel?", Campaign website, accessed 6 Nov 2010
- ↑ "Internet startup culture", ZDnet website, accessed 6 Nov 2010
- ↑ David Webb RCP/LM front organisations Google Groups: alt.politics.socialism.trotsky (original URL: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.socialism.trotsky/msg/36a8b426db6ec720) Apr 8 1998, 7:00 am, accessed 25 November 2010
