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"Rick Walker/Loop.pooL" wrote: > I just read an amazing statistic that made me appreciate our chances of > making a mark in the world > with this community of ours. > > In the year 2000 there were 30 million computers connected to the World >Wide > Web > > In the year 2005 it is estimated that there will be an estimated >population > of 1 billion people on line. > > It's a wave everyone and even though some of us have been surfing it >since > 1991 when the WWW was first started (although not > me, as I'm a relative four year old newbie) it's a wave that hasn't even > begun to crest. > > I don't know why, but this made giddily happy tonight. > > It's time to reach out to the world! It's time to start inviting >some > of the wonderful people that we communicate with > everyday on line here to come from far away and perform in our respective > communities. > > In the beginning, these performances will not pay for > themselves.............We'll need to be wonderfully generous hosts and >put > people up and get gigs and publicity for them and buy them a beer for >there > efforts and not be paid for ours...............................yet! > It doesn't matter...............what matters is the > connection...................what matters is the community that we are > building. What matters is the music, first and foremost. > > Bless this style-less, instrument non-specific, genre-less, creative and > generous community. > > Let's surf the international loop. > > I'm off to buy a digital wetsuit. > > Surf's up! > > R. Rick, I'll glady be the New Jersey representative. Good to have you back Rick. John www.johnmazzarella.com