Word: casselle
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Back in 1994, when he first logged on to America Online, Dave Cassell was a struggling technical writer intoxicated by the potential of Net life. "I was bleary-eyed and buzzed about the future," he says. "I saw all of humanity coming online." Then one day our hero experienced some...
The world's largest online service also "supported" a large online anti-AOL club, especially out on the unvarnished stretches of the Net, where folks tend to be anti-censorship and anti-corporate. Cassell discovered them in a fledgling Usenet newsgroup called alt.aol-sucks that he turned into a personal...
While it was good for his business, Cassell took the news hard last week that the AOL empire was hardly crumbling--and was in fact sucking up 2 million CompuServe users and closing down another portal to the Net. "I'm in denial," he grouses. "CompuServe were the good guys...
Cassell made one of the few references to the political world outside the classroom when he said that the death penalty was "mainstream" nationally, but "outside the mainstream" at Harvard. It was one of the evening's few acknowledgements that the sharp disagreements of the panelists seem absent on the...
Meanwhile, opinion polls show strong public support for capital punishment. In the Law School forum, Cassell took this as the endorsement of "informed public opinion." After citing, among other things, complex statistics that supposedly illustrate the death penalty's deterent value, Cassell argued that "informed public opinion supports the death...