mysterynyc Posted February 4 Report Share Posted February 4 from Ryanbros.com:"...It turns out that McConnel has been feuding with his partner Oona since almost the beginning. The disagreement had become increasingly bitter, with law suits threatened, and the possibility of compromise lost somewhere along the way. McConnel who has done all of the programming work and paid the hosting bills felt he had no choice but to shut the site down. “I’ve been handcuffed,†he said recently. But he plans to start all over again..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcid21 Posted February 4 Report Share Posted February 4 if you're gonna post the article, post the whole thing.... 02 February 2004<Oliver Ryan> Naughty Booth No MoreThe history of New York City’s nightlife over the last 100 years or so is punctuated by a succession of mythical clubs: the Savoy Ballroom, the Cotton Club, the Stork Club, the original Palladium (birthplace of salsa), Roseland, Electric Circus, Studio 54, Paradise Garage, Limelight…. The most recent epochal club was Twilo, struck down in its youth by the vice-obsessed Giuliani administration. An interesting thing happened when Twilo was shut down, however: its online message board stayed up. The Twilo “boards†had, by that Spring of 2001, become a virtual home for tens of thousands of clubbers from around the world.Brian McConnel was a Twilo regular and the engineer behind the Twilo boards. He runs a software development company called “Kageki,†which he says is a Japanese word that means “extremely intense, in a kind of aberrant way.…†It was McConnel along with his partner “Ooana†who launched NaughtyBooth.com, the online community that would eventually replace the Twilo boards, though this virtual migration was not without loss and drama. Most of Twilo’s large gay community passed on NaughtyBooth.com in favor of a forum set up by gay club promoter Rob Fernandez. Still others moved to ezdreamer.com, a forum set up somewhat earlier by a different branch of the Twilo community – a group who then accused McConnel and Ooana of backstabbing. In short, the utopian Twilo community splintered virtually as it had physically. The same happened again this week, but this time there is no physical club closing to blame. Sunday night, while most were watching the Super Bowl and without any prior warning, McConnell took NaughtyBooth.com offline. Regulars logging on to discuss Janet Jackson’s national boob-baring were greeted with a stark page which stated simply: “NAUGHTYBOOTH.com has shut down and ceased operations. Thank you for your great support of the site and the wonderful community that was formed over the last three years. Thank you for making New York a better city to party in. Love, NaughtyBooth….â€For tens of thousands of regular readers, the shut down came – or will come -- as a shock. The NaughtyBooth has an international following and generated almost 150,000 page views on a normal weekday. Many of the city’s top djs, club owners, promoters, and even recording industry types were regulars.Almost immediately, discussion “threads†popped up on the many other message boards that constitute New York’s virtual clubland. It is an ecosystem that has exploded in recent years. In addition to dozens of general clubbing sites like ClubPlanet.com, there are sites dedicated to particular types of dance music, like deephouse.com or justsalsa.com, and sites for those of a particular ethnicity, such as clubzen.com (asian), or those with alternative sexual preferences like hx.com (gay) or maxphish.com (S&M); or even a combination of geography and personal style such as njguido.com (new Jersey “Guidosâ€â€¦.) On many of these, the demise of NaughtyBooth was the talk of town.It turns out that McConnel has been feuding with his partner Oona since almost the beginning. The disagreement had become increasingly bitter, with law suits threatened, and the possibility of compromise lost somewhere along the way. McConnel who has done all of the programming work and paid the hosting bills felt he had no choice but to shut the site down. “I’ve been handcuffed,†he said recently. But he plans to start all over again.And so there will be a new virtual migration and a new splintering and reforming of the nightlife community online. And, perhaps in the future, historians will mark the eras of New York’s nightlife not only by the opening and closing of new clubs, but also by the rise and fall of clubland’s virtual communities.</Oliver Ryan> <!--5:30 PM--> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysterynyc Posted February 4 Report Share Posted February 4 all that other stuff doesnt give the reason why NB closed down. it was just that one paragraph which explained it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnm71 Posted February 4 Report Share Posted February 4 that is a well written article on the subject... kudos... hopefully it will circulate the boards and hopefully a publisher will pick it up.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveraver Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 The people behind Naughtybooth have started a new site: Rhythmism.comyou can get more info here: http://www.rhythmism.com/about/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppanils Posted February 15 Author Report Share Posted February 15 Originally posted by daveraver The people behind Naughtybooth have started a new site: Rhythmism.comyou can get more info here: http://www.rhythmism.com/about/ rhythmism blows! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjr203 Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 Originally posted by bigpoppanils rhythmism blows! not as hard as your mother, trebek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyrevs1 Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 Originally posted by bigpoppanils rhythmism blows! you're banned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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