Other Internet pioneers who acknowledge the impact McCarthy's ideas had on their own work include Ed Niehaus, Rick Boyce,[3] and Steve O'Keefe.
[5] In 1998, he sold his company E-Media (a term he coined and for which he owned the federal trademark) to an investment group that rolled it up into Nine Systems, which in turn was absorbed by Akamai Technologies.
He remains active in the Internet industry as an advisor, investor and entrepreneur operating under the name Amacord, Inc.[6] He worked as a consultant to NEC's Biglobe, Japan's largest online service, from 1996 to 2001.
Projects that came out of that conference include one of the first detailed studies of an election fraud to appear in any medium (the 1997 49er Stadium bond issue in San Francisco);[7] a virtual museum dedicated to recovering the forgotten story of one of San Francisco's most historically important neighborhoods (the Fillmore);[8] and documentation of the largest and most successful maritime evacuation in history (New York City on September 11, 2001.
)[9][10][11] McCarthy has also worked with challenged communities—Hudson, New York and New Orleans, Louisiana—to develop strategies to use the web to organize citizens and engage in public education and outreach.
He is quoted in an interview on July 9, 2007, with Wes Unruh, of Alterati.com, describing traditional news reporting as "so incredibly inept," and asserting that "...for that small percentage of people that really wants to know, the Internet's been a blessing and I think it will be very persistent.
"[25] Speaking specifically of BrasscheckTV.com he said "I'm putting the videos into context and giving people background on the significance of what they're actually seeing..."[26] In 1999, McCarthy collaborated with filmmaker Rick Goldsmith to create an online archive[27] of the work of American investigative journalist George Seldes (1890–1995) in support of Goldsmith's Academy Award-nominated film Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press.
His firm did the stonework for the chapel at West Point, Keating Hall at Fordham University, and the Peace Plaza of the United Nations, as well as numerous public works projects during the Robert Moses era.